Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ophelia

even in london the sky has an orangey tint

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, October 16, 2017 1:10 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is weird

The minutiae of nomenclature can help you place the speaker very nicely indeed

British Isles is fine imo tho

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.

As an aside, has this started to change with Czechia?

my parents are confined to their Dublin hotel at the moment. The weird orange sky here in London is p cool.

Sounds like the sun/sky redness may have been exacerbated by forest fires in Portugal, in addition to Saharan dust.

Names are put back in circulation if the storms don't make landfall.

It's more like baseball numbers. They'll retire a hurricane name if it is particularly destructive. Needs to do more than make landfall.

Be careful up there everyone!

is everything ok in Derry-Londonderry?

(j/k)

looking forward to breathing the fresh london air

everything has gotten v dark and got a weird tone of sepia

"gone" of course

Interesting #london skyline this afternoon! #redsky #ophelia #sahara #dust #tropical #sky #uk #red pic.twitter.com/DyrsB4rePK

— PRIME Media Images (@PrimeMediaUK) October 16, 2017

gotta say this is making me feel a sense of unease, even as i rationally explain to myself why it's happening.

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.

xp
Exactly. I rationally know undying sol will win his battle with the great dragon, but i irrationally fear the dragon will consume undying sol forever.

lol

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

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

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!

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.

please don't ever make me go visit the Express web site again, thx

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.

seems simple to me, some people who have died in the apocalypse correctly feared it is the end of the world

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

urgh, i hate those things

this is what Brexit looks like, sorry chaps

nothing too hairy in Dublin today

three people have died elsewhere in the country though sadly

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.

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

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.

It got intense in Cork but only really between 12 and 3. Some power outages, trees felled

I love seeing you britishes get slighlty worked up about it. I don't feel so alone.

Us fuckin what now

Not fine?

I love seeing you britishes get slighlty worked up about it. I don't feel so alone.

3 people died in the hurricane today in ireland, not part of britain, a national emergency in a relatively tiny country.

Photo on the #Frontpage of tomorrow’s Irish Examiner #ophelia #StormOphelia pic.twitter.com/2mAl4hHv1X

— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) October 16, 2017

waht

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

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

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.