Batten Down The Hatches, Freya's On Her Way.

[Canary42]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/catch-bad-storm-freya-going-weekend-165047426.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews

[Buenchico]

Full version from the Met Office:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2019/storm-freya

[TonyV]

Seems we may miss it in the East Midlands

[wolf63]

The only Freya that I know is a Siamese cat, a very vocal cat.

[237SJ]

I don't know why they give us names for our storms - they are pretty pathetic compared to the ones in the rest of the world.

[Prudie]

I almost guiltily hope it is bad on Sunday. I have volunteered to litter pick and I'd rather do it on a day when it's not raining at all so hoping for a postponement.

[Tilly2]

I'd better fetch my washing in!

[237SJ]

I`m going on holiday on Sunday evening. I`m just hoping that my incoming aircraft doesn't have a problem getting in as we have an onward flight and we'll be shafted if anything goes wrong.

[Peter Pedant]

// The only Freya that I know is a Siamese cat, a very vocal cat.// wasnt it also one of the german radar systems during the war?

[sherrardk]

I’ve got a Freya - she’s more of a whirlwind than a storm.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Freya is here

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_radar//

the article is a little hard on Chain Home the british system - the German versions were always over-engineered but that doesnt mean they were better.

Chain Home was up and running double quig - and Watson Watt famously was NOT allowed in the control room. Not because they didnt want him to see what he had invented but they didnt want him to see a completely integrated working network with radar at the centre

[TonyV]

257 significant are always named starting with A then carrying on through the alphabet

[TonyV]

Here are the next names for this year, often used for people at sea.

https://beta.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2018/storm-names-2018-19

[237SJ]

Yes, I know and they do that in the Caribbean but it just seems (to me) that our storms are just that, storms. I don't know who decided to give them a name and big up their status.

[TonyV]

I guess so they are all talking about the same meteorological weather pattern?

[237SJ]

I don't remember anyone giving the storm of 1987 a name. It was just a storm. I guess things are different these days.

[Spicerack]

I blame Brexit.

[TonyV]

I remember it well, when I went downstairs and barometer was of scale, then when opening car door got taken out of my hand and this weather forecast the night before.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-19923565/great-storm-of-1987-michael-fish-s-white-lie

[TonyV]

Spice were we in common market in 1987?

[237SJ]

Yes, I do too. I had been clubbing in London and was staying (sleeping on the sofa) at a friend's house in Finchley after a late night out.

[TonyV]

I traveled into London the weekend after to visit friends and devastion was still there to be seen with trees down.