BS: Winter Storm Mars

Subject: BS: Winter Storm Mars, 2016
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 04:30 PM

That's the name of the next named storm system. Sound ominous enough?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 05:24 PM

We're dealing with Imogen at the moment. Sounds like the roof might be off by morning! Scary winds in Cornwall right now and the worst is yet to come.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 05:28 PM

Imogen, eh?

Mars is supposed to have some hazardous winds as well....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 05:34 PM

Imogen Juju Kylie Lulu Mars Nigel Opal Pete Q

I would like to see the naming committee .

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 05:44 PM

Imogen here as well. Power was down for few hours but just came back on. The ninth major storm so far this winter.

Storm names for UK and Ireland this winter :

Abigail
Barney
Clodagh
Desmond
Eva
Frank
Gertrude
Henry
Imogen
Jake
Katie
Lawrence
Mary
Nigel
Orla
Phil
Rhonda
Steve
Tegan
Vernon
Wendy

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 06:23 PM

Yeah, I heard about Gertrude....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 04:46 AM

I would imagine that they'll run out of names soon and have to start repeating themselves. 'Imogen 2, 3, 4 etc.' perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 05:33 AM

Well we have about the same amount of water flowing down the hill across the top of the fields towards the Irwell as there was when we had the last lot of floods so be prepared down there!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 06:38 AM

What a wild night thanks to Imogen. I think Cornwall might be somewhere in Germany today. The tide's coming in this afternoon so I'll be off to see some big waves at Widemouth.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 08:36 PM

The waves were huge and scary, though they were blown out somewhat as they came up the beach due to the strength of the wind. We waited until later to go to have a look when the tide was right up and the sand wasn't blowing so much. The beach car park was six inches deep in foam that looked just like snow. The bank between Widemouth beach and the coast road is breached at one point and sand had drifted to about two feet deep on most of the road. Several people tried to drive uphill through it and got stuck. Getting out of the car was an option only if you didn't mind having your skin stripped off by the blowing sand. The main blow lasted for about fifteen hours. I'm guessing it was around force ten for much of that time. Not very ladylike, Imogen.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 08:52 PM

If the waves are so big, you did take your board down and do some serious surfin', right?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 09:06 PM

As I'm not dead, it's clear that I didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Feb 16 - 01:23 PM

Hmm....well it looks like a great day to go to Venus, perhaps I only need to take a sweater.

GfS

Subject: BS: Winter Storm Mars
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 16 - 01:30 PM

Catching our collective breath today. At least the snow was a light powder, and not the heavy wet heart-attack snow from a week ago.