From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
I must have slept through this hurricane a few days ago!
From the Express:
The UK is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Kirk, which is expected to bring brutal weather conditions, with winds reaching up to 70mph.
A shocking weather forecast from WX Charts shows the storm system sweeping in from the Atlantic, with peak gusts and rainfall threatening to cause widespread disruption on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
According to the charts, the storm will bring gale-force winds that could see peak gusts reaching up to 75mph across parts of the UK, particularly impacting coastal areas.
The South Coast will be worst hit as the ex-hurricane makes its way through the English Channel.
The latest weather charts, valid for 6am on Thursday, show intense wind fields expanding from the Atlantic, engulfing Ireland, Wales, and Scotland by noon.
In addition to strong winds, WX Charts reveal that large areas of the UK could see significant rainfall, with accumulations between 30-40mm over a 24-hour period. Southern parts of England could be hit with over 100mm on rain.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1957874/storm-tracker-map-hurricane-kirk-uk-weather-warning
As the storm system moves east, the winds will continue to build, battering much of the country, with gusts in excess of 62 mph predicted across central and northern parts of the UK.
70mph!
Bet you septics are all looking to move here right now.
My best wishes go out to all that have been in the path of the real thing recently.
Too strong for Wind to produce useful energy
I looked into this online and got bupkis.
Apparently went further south and hit France a bit.
Here ya go.
Flooding still impacting parts of France after Hurricane Kirk remnants lashed western Europe | The Courier Mail
As it was predicted to do the same day that the DE said it would hit the UK. I follow weather a bit. Ther are proper sources and weighted predictions to be had.
Why are they calling it Hurricane Kirk remnants? It’s no longer a hurricane, and hurricane is not an honorific that continues after diminution (unlike Senator, for example). Just more effort to frighten the rubes without any substance.
Looking at the image, they t strongly resembles someone in need of the little blue pill.
Probably simply petered out
Looks like what my spine feels like.
Whatever Kirk’s path and whatever its intensity, I will guess that Britain has yet to be hit by a storm that was as bad as the Great One of 1703.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_storm_of_1703……
“Contemporary observers recorded barometric readings down to 973 millibars (measured by William Derham in south Essex),[1] but it has been suggested that the storm deepened to 950 millibars over the Midlands.[2]
Retrospective analysis conjectures that the storm was comparable to a Category 2 hurricane.[3]”
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“On the Thames, some 700 ships were heaped together in the Pool of London, the section downstream from London Bridge. Huge waves on the Thames river sent water 6 feet (1.8 m) higher than had ever been recorded in London, destroying more than 5,000 homes along the river.[”
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“Between 8,000 and 15,000 people died overall. Some sources cite a figure between 10,000 and 30,000.[4] In total, around 300 Royal Navy ships anchored along the south coast were lost.[4]“
Etc., etc., etc….. I’ll hazard a guess that very few people in the British Isles today who are diehard climate alarm believers are even vaguely aware of what happened back in 1703. That was during the Little Ice Age which the alarmists usually don’t want to talk about.
The more often they hype something that does not come to pass, the quicker people will stop listening to them – the boy who cried wolf
https://youtu.be/SSOpeFO__r8
The Wolf cry I like
Aaah oooh The Werewolves of London
Firstly it’s a forecast horror headline from the Express, why bother mentioning it? It’s usually junk, everyone knows it’s usually junk.
Secondly, as Bnice points out and the BBC weather showed, the element of truth is that the stormy remnants, although originally supposed to reach the South, was later updated to miss and dog-leg the SE and hit the near continent instead.
We did get poor channel crossing conditions for a bit but as always all weather is chaotic and cannot be forecasted despite much historic and ludicrous UK expenditure on super-computers.
Anyone who reads the DE as regularly as I do – its better than Batman – knows that it is de rigeur to have on the same page ‘snow bombs’ ‘Saharan meltdowns’ ‘arctic blasts’ ‘hurricanes’ ‘historic flooding’ drought fears’, and ‘Meghan Markle fans rush in to’…. despite the fact that these so called predictions or news stories represent at best selective cherry picking and at worst are either pure journalistic creativity with no substance at all, or are paid for rehashes of PR or trade documents thinly disguised as news..
The only thing going for the Express is that its readers are in fact more intelligent than its journalists, and like a good laugh over their cornflakes, and, unlike the less sophisticated BBC listener or Guardian reader, they have learnt to totally disregard the veracity of any of its content whatsoever.
The good thing about the DE is like any low class hooker, they are for sale to anyone and everyone, from the Duchess of Sussex’s PR department, to renewable UK or Greenpeace, Ayatolla Khomeini or Vladimir Putin.
It’s content simply reflects who is spending money on lying to you, today. Which is in itself valuable meta-information.
It is unashamedly there to generate clicks to maintain its income from advertising, which of course I don’t see, using an ad blocker. Which us why more and more of its content is ‘advertorials’.
It has no shame whatsoever. Ther is no story it will not publish no matter how far from the truth, or the present day it is.
It naively thinks that its readership believe its shit, and buys its products. We don’t. We spend time trying to evade its woke filters in the still free comments, to bait Russian trolls who assure as that Ukraine will lose, tomorrow, and climate change shills who assure us that the world will end tomorrow if we don’t install solar panels
As I said, the only thing it has going for it, is that it isn’t the BBC
“The only thing going for the Express is that its readers are in fact more intelligent than its journalists, and like a good laugh over their cornflakes, and, unlike the less sophisticated BBC listener or Guardian reader, they have learnt to totally disregard the veracity of any of its content whatsoever.”
Well, I know two readers for whom that is, unfortunately, not true. They fall for its reporting hook, line and sinker.
A totally unremarkable autumn storm. Wet, what do you expect? and a bit windy. So boringly normal I slept through it.
The Express is notorious as being the worst UK MSM outlet for hyping outsized ‘extreme weather’ of all kinds. At least five years running they plugged a notorious grifter for claiming we were about to have a ‘monstrously cold/snowy winter’, none of which materialised.
If you are serious about weather, you never see the Daily Express as your source of information.