UK - we may have a problem

Kieran_Burns
Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
edited September 2011 in Commuting chat
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/inter ... he-uk.html

Ummm.... Monday may be a little blustery

Who wants to cycle in a Hurricane? :shock:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    ah its ok its only going across Scotland......looks like we might be down on shortbread biscuits and iron bru for a while though, plus the Scots are use to windy conditions





    i love Scotland really xx
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    The EYE is going over Scotland - Hurricanes are quite big things apparently.

    Methinks the southern poofs may get a little ruffled, the further North you are, the more you may need sails....
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    Where were you in October 1987?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    Where were you in October 1987?

    I was split between my Dad's balls and Mum's ovaries...

    *ahem*
    _
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    Where were you in October 1987?

    I was split between my Dad's balls and Mum's ovaries...

    *ahem*

    :lol:
  • solosuperia
    solosuperia Posts: 333
    As an ex windsurfer I followed the weather patterns for a good few years.
    It is the standard behaviour for a hurricane to track towards the east coast of the States then to swing eastwards across Atlantic towards the UK losing power as it comes towards us.
    It will be a deep low and it will get windy, it is very hard to predict its course as it comes closer there are usually three options, west of Ireland and top of Scotland, up the Irish Channel and around Scotland, the third up the English Channel and off toward Holland and Scandinavia.
    As a windsurfer they were brilliant bringing high winds, anathema to me now!
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    Greg66.

    Yes it does. Over Scotland. In that Shite Roland Emmerich film. It froze Ian Holm.

    This is nothing to do with any of those things. If it gets to Scotland, it will be a storm. Nothing more.
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  • jam5ie76
    jam5ie76 Posts: 108
    mudcow007 wrote:
    ah its ok its only going across Scotland......looks like we might be down on shortbread biscuits and iron bru for a while though, plus the Scots are use to windy conditions





    i love Scotland really xx

    Its Irn Bru, you ignoramus! Just for that we're keeping the whiskey and the oil
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    Nah. This is just weather.
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    I worried about the effect this might have on my hair and skin. Can anyone recommend any products I might use?

    Not really - we've done that to death this week methinks.
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,922
    DDD, I know you are a bit younger than me, but do you not remember 1987?

    Granted we don't get them very often, but we're no strangers to wind.
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  • jam5ie76
    jam5ie76 Posts: 108
    edited September 2011
    Bring it on I say! I got spat out the bottom of my Glen at 60kph the other day :)

    The 24kph average going to work in the morning was painfully though!
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  • king_jeffers
    king_jeffers Posts: 694
    Greg66 wrote:
    Yes it does. Over Scotland. In that Shite Roland Emmerich film. It froze Ian Holm.

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! :cry:
  • Rigga
    Rigga Posts: 939
    Finally i might be able to beat my max speed of 43mph with knobblies on.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,477
    XC weather is saying 55 mph winds for NI next week.

    FWIW the weather was just as wet and blustery this week last year. The Ultracycling event 'The Race Around Ireland' was the same week last year and the riders faced horrendous conidtions for the first 3 days.......even by Irish standards.


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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    In October 87 three friends and I were standing on a flat roof of a warehouse and jumping into the air wearing long coats to see how far we could get blown. Yoof eh? :shock:
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    People are too quick to believe the hype around global warming and climate change, the effects are more subtle than you think they are. It only fuels the anti-climate change brigade if you point to global warming every time we have a storm!

    Sorry, pet peeve...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    notsoblue wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    People are too quick to believe the hype around global warming and climate change, the effects are more subtle than you think they are. It only fuels the anti-climate change brigade if you point to global warming every time we have a storm!

    Sorry, pet peeve...

    'Tis true.

    Take a look at the weather around 1000. A decade or two of appaulingly cold winters and wet summers.

    They all thought it was the beginning of the apocalypse.
    _
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    People are too quick to believe the hype around global warming and climate change, the effects are more subtle than you think they are. It only fuels the anti-climate change brigade if you point to global warming every time we have a storm!

    Sorry, pet peeve...

    'Tis true.

    Take a look at the weather around 1000. A decade or two of appaulingly cold winters and wet summers.

    They all thought it was the beginning of the apocalypse.

    The difference is that now all it takes is a week or two of snow.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    notsoblue wrote:

    The difference is that now all it takes is a week or two of snow.

    Or an earthquake*/hurricane. See Michelle Bachmann for proof.





    *Caused by global warming, obviously.
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  • WisePranker
    WisePranker Posts: 823
    Forecasters are hopeful the power of Hurricane Katia will diminish and may be downgraded to a tropical storm with sustained winds of up to 73mph by the time it hits the UK.

    It's got to be a made up story....Tropical storms in the UK???

    :lol:
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    notsoblue wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    The UK doesn't have hurricanes.

    If this ain't a combination of Global warming, climate change and the green house effect I don't know what is!

    People are too quick to believe the hype around global warming and climate change, the effects are more subtle than you think they are. It only fuels the anti-climate change brigade if you point to global warming every time we have a storm!

    Sorry, pet peeve...

    'Tis true.

    Take a look at the weather around 1000. A decade or two of appaulingly cold winters and wet summers.

    They all thought it was the beginning of the apocalypse.

    The difference is that now all it takes is a week or two of snow.

    Come on now - we live in a society where people get upset if their delivery takes more than two days to reach them. They are hardly going to be impressed at a global warming that takes more than two weeks to happen!
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    You know who I blame?
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    bails87 wrote:
    You know who I blame?
    Single parents?
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  • Rigga
    Rigga Posts: 939
    bails87 wrote:
    You know who I blame?

    Does it begin with W ?
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Greg66 wrote:
    In that Shite Roland Emmerich film. It froze Ian Holm.

    Oh, well that narrows things down.
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Rigga wrote:
    bails87 wrote:
    You know who I blame?

    Does it begin with W ?

    and ends iggle?

    i reckon its because Chuck Norris sneezed
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,816
    Just for the record we don't get hurricane's in the UK (apart from the battle of britain memorial flight - oops sorry topic), just hurricane force winds, as Michael Fish used in his 'defence' in 1987 to be a hurricane the water temp has to be over about 30C (can't remember exactly) and we don't get that in July let alone now......

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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    I remember Oct 87 vividly - my old man was wild with excitement. He's an aerial rigger and over the following weeks made a fair old sum.
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