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Storm Bucko

I remember a joke about some chap ringing the Met office and asking how much it would cost to have a hurricane named after his mother in law

It's always been a thing that storms and such, are named after people, but to me, there seems to be a lot more of them about. The news always seems to be awash with stories of the latest storm that is going to batter this and swamp that. I left home for work this morning and it was chucking it down. Storm Debby or Dora or something

To me though, it just seemed like normal winter weather. No batterings or swampings, just cold, windy and bloody wet

Maybe it's my memory that's at fault. Help me out here

It seems to me we're having the same bad weather we've always had, but the media is classing a lot more normal weather cycles as storms
It could be we've always had this many storms, nothing has changed and my memory is starting to fail me
It could also be that we're having a lot more storms due to climate change and we need to get rid of our cars, boilers and cookers. Just kidding, you know I don't believe that one

Owing to the fact that I'm only pushing 48, I would be more inclined to blame the media for inventing storms when it's really just normal bad weather, than I would be to blame my memory of the weather in years past

I don't know know though. The amount of times I forget why I'm upstairs...

7 Comments:

A K Haart said...

I don't think it's your memory at fault, it's the endless propaganda. It's windy here in Derbyshire, but this morning we drove to Matlock and there were hardly any twigs on the road, let alone small branches we've seen in the past.

It's insidious in the way it gets you thinking about storms even when locally it's just a windy day. We still get the Met Office yellow warnings though.

Bucko said...

Yes, the yellow warnings are another thing. We get them for pretty much anything these days, from a bit of wind to some nice sunshine
The disappointing thing is, a lot of these hyped up weather warnings are on GB News, the site that was supposed to be a bit more balanced

The Jannie said...

Yellow warnings? Yet another panicdemic to keep the sheeple trembling and make the Met Office look useful.

johnd2008 said...

I now live in the South Island of New Zealand and moved here from Cumbria. I was amazed to see a photo of waves breaking over the breakwater of Whitehaven Harbour
and labelled as extraordinary weather. That is exactly what happens every year when a southwesterly gale hits the Cumbrian coast. Lying, exaggerating bastards, all of them.

Bucko said...

Yes John / Jannie

I remember when we were told weather is not climate, but that's when it suited the doomsayers. Now any variation from the median is virtually a disaster

Stonyground said...

I recommend paying a visit to the Blog of Paul Homewood who works tirelessly to debunk the endless lies of the Climate Alarmists. You will see that your memory certainly isn't at fault as he often covers historical weather disasters which were definitely worse than they are nowadays. This is to be expected really as it has become slightly warmer in recent years and warmer weather tends to be more benign.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/

Bucko said...

Thanks. just checked it out and his latest post is about this very 'storm'.