Storm

Storm Austin passed along the south coast of the United Kingdom last Friday and brought some severe winds to northern France, southern England, as well as some very big swells in the English Channel.

Swells in the English Channel were reported at around 8 metres at various points throughout the storm as it came through.

Storm Bolu passed more to the north of the UK.

In fact, it passed to the north of the UK without actually passing over the United Kingdom.

However, its effect was felt right throughout the United Kingdom, severely in northern Scotland.

So, you know, that's a significant use of tug resources where we may need those resources elsewhere.

For those of you who haven't seen it, we have had a bit of a victim of these storms.

A cruise ship, Mein Schiff 3, suffered some significant damage whilst trying to sail from Bremerhaven during the second storm, Storm Bolu.

Well, more or less the whole country, certainly the south coast here.

We've got Storm, what is it called now? Boo Boo or something? No, that's the Flintstones, wasn't it? Fred Flintstone.

And what was his mate? No, Bam Bam was the baby.

It was Barney, wasn't it? Barney Rubble.

So yeah, it's absolutely lashing with rain now.

We are, whatever time we are, 10.35 Friday morning.

Storm Austin hasn't come in yet.

When this happens down here on the south coast of England, these things normally skirt round us.

It's still going to be quite breezy and there's going to be some more scattered blustery showers but maybe not as many and so but good spells of sunshine in between as well um but then as we get into bank holiday monday there's another low pressure system approaching now that's not a named storm at the moment it's it could bring some further rainfall and some maybe breezy conditions um but not quite stormy conditions at the moment and so we're in for more unsettled conditions than for bank holiday monday unfortunately

One of our listeners is just curious, Rebecca, where does the name Bulo come from?

So we named Storms as part of the Western Storm Naming Group.

So we collaborate with the UK Met Office and the Dutch Met Service.

So while Austin was a name that we put forward in Met Air, Bulo was put forward by our Dutch colleagues.

Of Carla Weather, follow him.

for the latest on Storm Austin.

And now we have Storm Bulo coming to the party to spoil the jazz for us at the weekend.

Hopefully it won't be too bad.

Thank you, Alan.

As told in an article for Strange Outdoors, second assistant keeper Thomas Marshall was said to have written the following logbook entries.

December 12th, Gale, North by Northwest, Sea Lash to Fury, Stormbound, 9pm, Never Seen Such a Storm, Everything Ship Shape, Ducat Irritable.

12 p.m. Storm still raging.

Wind steady.

So the athletic referred to it as an unnecessary night of nonsense and said this, they said, MLB treated fans and players like inventory, trapped in the rain until the books balanced.

The Storm didn't do this.

The league did.

The Storm showed up on time.

Oh, God.

We've done that at Nats Park before and been pissed off, but that's been for, like, random game in the summer.