strong wind warnings

[Kathy Bowles]

Just been looking at the inshore weather for tonight and tomorrow

Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point
Strong wind warning 1623 Wed 30 Jan 0600 Thu 31 Jan
Southwesterly winds will reach force 7 to severe gale force 9, occasionally storm force 10, veering westerly later

Inshore waters forecast
24 hour forecast: 0001 Thu 31 Jan 0001 Fri 01 Feb
Wind Southwest veering northwest gale 8 to storm 10, perhaps violent storm 11 later.
Sea state High or very high.
Weather Rain at first, then squally wintry showers.
Visibility Moderate or poor

[Concise Oxford]

Slightly breezy then. Suggest we have a party to ride it out!

[canUsmellthat]

Well batwing "strong wind warnings" eh? Is this the forecast for the rest of the "SERIOUS SUBJECT - What does the future hold for Seil?" topic. If it is, you forgot to mention that the wind has been and will continue to be incredibly hot...

[longshanks]

the wind on luing
is quite a thing
the same on seil
is much more real
there goes Ting (a-ling)

[starburst]

Batten down the hatches folks.
And nobody's going to be able to get off Easdale Island for a day or two, are they
Maybe it will have just disappeared into the Atlantic when we wake up in the morning, eh?
Maybe I'll just change topics now and vote against a fixed link.

[Seventhseil]

Howling gales in late January early Febuary......unusual isn't it

[longshanks]

Sedendaryseil worries:
"Howling gales in late January early Febuary......unusual isn't it"
You gotta point there.
Think I'll change my lightbulbs; that'll return us to our 'normal' winter weather (ie pre the invention of gorertex) of.....you guessed it; very wet, very windy and cold.
dear, oh dear, oh dear.
ps
what about thye weaather in China eh?
Too cold even for myself; so no shanking in Nanking tonight.

[NickB]

.

Howling gales in late January early Febuary......unusual isn't it

Not very . . . but I didn't see this as a GW thread LS & 7th, merely a warning to batten down the hatches. You are perhaps getting slightly obsessive . . . surely we can still talk about the weather without being accused of being climate change propagandists?

(I sincerely hope I never see 'sea state phenomenal' from the deck of Fairwinds though )

- NickB

[longshanks]

Shankers is suitably chastened Mr B; Will try to hammer this obsessiveness to a tree or summat. Hopefully 7th will feel similarly chastened; I fear a Swarm of B's if he isn't.

[Seventhseil]

er, I was being sarcastic, howling gales are the norm at this time of year, I see that big lorry carrier wot washed ashore in Blackpool, met with its "freak wave" 50 years to the day yon big ferry disaster that drowned 130 people in the Irish sea happened.....so weather now isn't much changed as compared to then.

[Swarm]

weather now isn't much changed as compared to then

If you mean that there has always been extreme weather then that is true.

Whether or not the frequency of extreme weather has increased is very much open for discussion. The repetitive flooding in parts of England and Wales would seem to be a new phenomenon.

Swarm

[canUsmellthat]

Stop building on flood plains methinks...

[longshanks]

Swarm (B) puzzles the drones:
"The repetitive flooding in parts of England and Wales would seem to be a new phenomenon."
The annual flooding of the Severn valley is nothing new. For millennia it was welcomed as it spread fertile silt across the flood plain
on which the locals were careful not to build.
What is new is the ubiquity of the media and the gullibilty of the dorks.
ps
When Royal Bank of Scotland shortly admit that they need £12.5 billion (as leaked by Citigroup analysts on Thursday) will Gordo The Great come to the rescue in the same way as he did for Northern Cockup or will it be down to Leck Salmon?
Off thread I know but it takes us away from GW as Mr B requested and gets us back into stormy waters.

[Minimum]

I'm probably a "dork" in longshanks' eyes, but shouldn't the precautionary prinicple be applied until we know for sure whether human activity is the cause of any global warning?

Check out these short video clips. I particularly like the last one - although I don't support physical abuse!

http://www.scholastic.com/actgreen/liveearth/

[Pentlandpirate]

Don't worry Minimum you're not alone. We're probably all dorks in Longshanks opinion.

Party Pants

[Eric the Viking]

Minimum - Sybil could save the environment by buying a lot less milk?

[Minimum]

Probably.

For all of us who are unsure about global warming and its causes perhaps its worth thinking about this suggestion:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ&feature=related

It was originally posted on the Seil Natural History Group website.

Food for thought?

[longshanks]

Minimouse slips in with:
"shouldn't the precautionary prinicple be applied until we know for sure whether human activity is the cause of global warming"
Blimey!
What on earth is the "precautionary principle" ?
Secondly: let's all be taxed to the hilt (until we squeeze perhaps?) for some kind of namby pamby geekish scare story.
Lets hope no-one here is gullible enough to believe that buying mercury based light bulbs will save the planet.
OMG !

[Minimum]

Far be it for me to get into any scietific debate but put simply the precautionary principle can be described as meaning that:

"a lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation".

Potentially, it means that harmful activities should only be undertaken if they can be convincingly demonstrated that they are not going to harm the environment.

[longshanks]

You what?