Putting The Wind Up… (part 1)
I take a quick look at historic wind speed for UK & Ireland plus their waters in order to gain some perspective on all this named storm malarkey.
These days it’s the thing to name drop. Not celebrity or very important persons names as such, but names of storms. This year so far we’ve had storms Agnes (27 – 28 Sep), Babet (18 – 21 Oct) and Ciarán (currently underway) with Debi waiting in the wings somewhere (or should that be ‘winds’?). The Met Office never used to bother to name storms, preferrin…