Likely to make landful on the North Carolina shores, will skirt up to the Northeast, possibly deal a bit of a blow to Boston.
I'm guessing Bush is going to try and overcompensate and send out fare more resources than normal (Granted, D.C. might bear some of the brunt of this storm, most likely) to counteract the negative publicity he's gotten since Katrina; therefore showing the country that he CAN deal with, um, hurricanes.. the real terrorists.
― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
"A hurricane inside a nor'easter!" said the Weather Channel's Bryan Norcross excitedly.
http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/__Story_Inserts/graphics/__EMERGENCY_DISASTER/HURRICANES/SANDY/hurricane-sandy-time-map-500.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 October 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
I hope this proves false :$
RT @chadmyerscnn: After 26 years in TV weather and 2 years with NOAA, #Sandy may pose the greatest risk to human life that I have seen. Pls keep up.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 26 October 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
gulp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 October 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C1FfV1NMMjs/TgSKfE22cyI/AAAAAAAAAXA/vkaSLv8Yg5g/s1600/Billy-Joel-The-Downeaster-Al-192938.jpg
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Friday, 26 October 2012 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Myers links to this (hit FWD on right column).
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Friday, 26 October 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
So, they recycle the names it seems? Ex-hurricane Ophelia is giving us an eerie sky here in Oxford.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
even in london the sky has an orangey tint
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
there is something very unusual and alien in seeing a southern hemisphere type glow in autumn.
― calzino, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
Names are put back in circulation if the storms don't make landfall.
Didn't a hurricane hit England in 1987?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
The great storm - 30 years to the day!
― "The" Blink-182 (wins), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
Good old Michael Fish
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
In Featherstone the leaves are racing all over the place. There is one of those cranking noises that happens sometimes on a film just before a storm is coming
― anvil, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
BBC claiming that Storm Ophelia is 'hitting the British Isles'. Are they saying the same in Ireland I wonder?
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
In Northern Ireland, probably.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
the British Isles is the correct geographic name I suppose. BBC style guide has some p fucked up shit in it tho. They only stopped calling Ireland "The Irish Republic" a few years back. I used to complain about this all the time.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
Had to lol at a guy in the audience at the last Question Time, from Belfast, referring to the Free State.
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, October 16, 2017 1:10 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this is weird
― imago, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
The minutiae of nomenclature can help you place the speaker very nicely indeed
British Isles is fine imo tho
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
As an aside, has this started to change with Czechia?
― anvil, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
my parents are confined to their Dublin hotel at the moment. The weird orange sky here in London is p cool.
― André Ryu (Neil S), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
Sounds like the sun/sky redness may have been exacerbated by forest fires in Portugal, in addition to Saharan dust.
― nashwan, Monday, 16 October 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
It's more like baseball numbers. They'll retire a hurricane name if it is particularly destructive. Needs to do more than make landfall.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
Be careful up there everyone!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 16 October 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
is everything ok in Derry-Londonderry?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
(j/k)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
looking forward to breathing the fresh london air
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
everything has gotten v dark and got a weird tone of sepia
― André Ryu (Neil S), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
"gone" of course
― André Ryu (Neil S), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
Interesting #london skyline this afternoon! #redsky #ophelia #sahara #dust #tropical #sky #uk #red pic.twitter.com/DyrsB4rePK— PRIME Media Images (@PrimeMediaUK) October 16, 2017
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
gotta say this is making me feel a sense of unease, even as i rationally explain to myself why it's happening.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
Went out for a walk earlier this morning, before reading anything about all this sky colour stuff. Was a strange eerie silence about everything, warm as hell, all in yellow.
― Ste, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
xpExactly. I rationally know undying sol will win his battle with the great dragon, but i irrationally fear the dragon will consume undying sol forever.
― woof, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
lol
― imago, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
the express has apparently lost control of the concept of verb tense in its last-days excitement:
End of world: Why is the sky glowing a sickly YELLOW over Britain RIGHT NOW?BRITAIN has been shrouded in a warm glow as the sky turned yellow and the sun glowed red in what some people feared is the end of the world
― mark s, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
the rest of the piece is equally weird and (weirdest of all) it's not written by nathan rao, who has the apocalypse beat sewn up
― mark s, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
so you don't normally get those yellow/green evening skies during summer thunderstorms in the UK and Ireland? don't be scared, they're awesome!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
Why is the Express so obsessed with capitalising random stuff? Britain doesn't warrant caps in the first sentence, yet does in the second. Odd.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
please don't ever make me go visit the Express web site again, thx
― Ste, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
It's so dark in Brighton. It all feels quite metal.
BRITAIN has been shrouded in a warm glow as the sky turned yellow and the sun glowed red in what some people feared is the end of the world
This is astounding.
― emil.y, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
seems simple to me, some people who have died in the apocalypse correctly feared it is the end of the world
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
daily express just looking to maximise hits before extinction
it's on!
Sand hoppers are vacating the beach due to the high storm surge. #ExOphelia pic.twitter.com/xC3UMoEXfM— Dale Fort - FSC (@FSCDaleFort) October 16, 2017
― mark s, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
urgh, i hate those things
― Ste, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
this is what Brexit looks like, sorry chaps
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
nothing too hairy in Dublin today
three people have died elsewhere in the country though sadly
― Number None, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
It's sunny again.Saw that a few hours ago. So assume it isn't all over yet.But was quite noisy about an hour ago.Wiould still like to know how it compares to May 2011 and was it June 2005 both of which I went through in Mayo which is far more exposed i think. Certainly than sitting in this room.I was in a tent in 2005 that had supports taht didn't last the storm. & in a bender in 2011 that was shaking heavily. Thne had to go out and save a main tent's contents and try to use a toilet taht had wind blowing through it from below. I got some great photos that morning. Wonder if I still have them.
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
Did anyone notice a weirdness in the light yesterday? In my part of the country (east anglia) we had a weekend of unseasonably gorgeous weather with the exception of yesterday AM, when there was the same dim & imminent quality there is atm. This was roughly between 10 and 12. I nearly posted about it but couldn't think of an appropriate thread
― "The" Blink-182 (wins), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah we had it W.Yorkshire as well, but much later in the afternoon. I get that this storm has sucked up a load of sand + smoke that filters light towards the red end of the spectrum. I was googling earlier about why the sky often looks beautiful in southern hemisphere movies, the red sun and different colour light qualities to drab N Europe. I didn't get any satisfactory answer, just something about the moon is experienced the other way round and there is less ozone above Australia.
― calzino, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
It got intense in Cork but only really between 12 and 3. Some power outages, trees felled
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 16 October 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
I love seeing you britishes get slighlty worked up about it. I don't feel so alone.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Us fuckin what now
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
Not fine?
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Monday, 16 October 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
3 people died in the hurricane today in ireland, not part of britain, a national emergency in a relatively tiny country.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Photo on the #Frontpage of tomorrow’s Irish Examiner #ophelia #StormOphelia pic.twitter.com/2mAl4hHv1X— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) October 16, 2017
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
waht
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
the moon is experienced the other way round
i plan to use this^^^ to explain nearly everything from now on
ps condolences ireland, that sucks -- we just had weird sky for a few hours
― mark s, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
It's as blustery out there now as it's been all day but we seem to have escaped completely despite trees down all around the place within a few miles
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
london way windier tonight but still nothing major.
the air is horrible tho, dust and dry taste in back of my throat after getting in tonight.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link