mega storms uk next week

It's giving it hell out there atm, the main bridge out of the town is closed because a lorry's overturned on it so getting to work will be fun!
 
Currently looking out of the kitchen at work while on lunch watching rain actually fly sideways across the window and an elm tree in the field next door being blown to a 60 degree angle from mid-way upwards at times.

The train line between Cheltenham and Gloucester runs behind where I work and I can't even hear the trains roar past like I usually can because the wind is that loud.
 
You only need 74mph on the Beuford scale for it to be classed a hurricane I believe. The Met are warning of 90-100mph.

Anyone who remembers 1988 knows this is no joke.
 
XeNoN89 said:
74+ is hurricane force wind, but it doesn't mean it's an actual hurricane.
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Apparently it is when there are sustained winds of 74mph+, and wave heights are a factor too. Perhaps it isn't then, as they're talking of gusts 'up to' 100mph. They probably don't want to use the H word :p
 
Hades said:
Your tree?

I'm worried about mine as I have some massive ones right in my garden.
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Nah, it was quite a substantial tree in the back garden of the house that is next to where I work. Just checked it from a different angle and it may have just missed the house, but it has ruined a lot of their garden and pulled up some fencing.
 
el_dazza said:
Apparently it is when there are sustained winds of 74mph+, and wave heights are a factor too. Perhaps it isn't then, as they're talking of gusts 'up to' 100mph. They probably don't want to use the H word :p
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It's a common mistake, it doesn't help when papers etc start calling these storms hurricanes!

To be a hurricane it has to be a tropical depression, include an eye wall etc and have sustained winds at 74mph+.
 
Btone said:
all i know that i own a few meadows which has what is called a main drain running tue them (it about 3 meters wide and it deep) and for the last 5 winters they have flooded badly. this summer we got the DOE to clean it out (same as dredging) and repair the banks, guess what this winter it yet to flood. so if it works on this small scale why does it not work on a large scale like doing a whole river.
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That's actually done very little, other than moved the problem down river... The argument is to not to dredge and allow the water to escape quicker (causing more flooding down river) but to keep the water where it fell for longer. That means re planting the trees that have been felloled over the last couple of hundred years, UN-straightening the rivers and allowing the oxbow lakes and water meadows to take some of the water and filling in many of the drainage channels to stop the water entering rivers quicker.

Unfortunately farmers aren't too happy about it as it'll reduce their profits and subsidies. Farmers have to take some of the responsibility for what happens down stream of them, even if they weren't the ones that originally chopped the trees down or built the drainage channels. Unfortunately the EU subsidies system isn't fit for purpose at the moment and most farmers aren't going to sacrifice their living for people living down river.
 
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