Development & Analysis Of A UK Storm Indicator (part 1)
The Met Office introduced the named storm system in 2015. In this series I aim to establish a similar indicator that serves to extend analysis back in time
I’ve written a great deal about the named storm system; and of rain and wind in these cold, damp islands. The keen reader may wish to trawl back through the archives, and to assist with this I present the following hyperlinks to all published material of significance:
Storms in the UK are lovingly made with just two non-GMO ingredients: wind and rain. That’s it. Sometimes there is a lot of wind and little or no rain, and sometimes there is a lot of rain with little wind to speak of. In my book a storm should be defined as a low pressure atmospheric disturbance that is capable of whipping up winds that flatten your fence and bringing rain that thwarts idiots who drive at speed through floods …