Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

[Guy Profumo]

Some of the names that won't be featuring in any forthcoming weather forecast in the near future -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34578310

The full list of names chosen (as storm names) for future selection are: Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.

[G-Man]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

So for whom did you write this thread?

[Guy Profumo]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

I'll be Stanley Matthews.

You can be Stan Mortensen.

[Ginger Yellow]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Meanwhile. the Weather Channel:

[Duncan Gardner]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Most of OTF will be devastated that the Beautiful South haven't been blown out to sea by Hurricane Housemartin's Indie landfill.

[Southport Zeb]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

So the first storm to be named has hit Scotland, storm Abigail.
The weather warning has been raised to Amber, presumably with potential to rise to Audrey.

[Guy Profumo]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Southport Zeb wrote: So the first storm to be named has hit Scotland, storm Abigail.
The weather warning has been raised to Amber, presumably with potential to rise to Audrey.

Ba-duum! Crash!

[Southport Zeb]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Guy Potger wrote:

So the first storm to be named has hit Scotland, storm Abigail.
The weather warning has been raised to Amber, presumably with potential to rise to Audrey.

Ba-duum! Crash!

You shouldn't have left your drum kit out in this wind

[Janik]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Storm Nigel? I mean, really.

[nmrfox]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

I can sense an Hobbesian level of wrongness at a storm named Phil.

[blameless]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

The Hebrideans will be pishing themselves laughing that weather they describe as "a wee bit draughty" has been given an official storm name.

[Guy Profumo]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Southport Zeb wrote:

So the first storm to be named has hit Scotland, storm Abigail.
The weather warning has been raised to Amber, presumably with potential to rise to Audrey.

Ba-duum! Crash!

You shouldn't have left your drum kit out in this wind

But even harder to play the trombone in this weather!

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

how are we supposed to take hurricane gertrude, or hurricane Nigel seriously?

[Crusoe]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Ginger Yellow wrote: Meanwhile. the Weather Channel:

Yolo?

I hope that has a classier meaning than the one I can think of.

[wittoner]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Well Goliath and Mars had better be good. Waylon doesn't carry such a weight of expectation.

[3 Colours Red]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

wittoner wrote: Waylon doesn't carry such a weight of expectation.

Insert obligatory Simpsons reference here.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

"Windy Wendy" is a sub-editor's dream.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote: how are we supposed to take hurricane gertrude, or hurricane Nigel seriously?

Hurricane Nigel is polite and works in accounting. He will occasionally pop around your house for a cup of tea.

[Guy Profumo]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Vulgarian Visigoth wrote:

how are we supposed to take hurricane gertrude, or hurricane Nigel seriously?

Hurricane Nigel is polite and works in accounting. He will occasionally pop around your house for a cup of tea.

It's Hurricanes Roger, Janice, Paul, Godfrey, and Douglas that you need to worry about!

Nah. Scratch Douglas. Make it Hurricane David!

[wittoner]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Crusoe wrote:

Meanwhile. the Weather Channel:

Yolo?

I hope that has a classier meaning than the one I can think of.

Hurricane Quo should be an easy one to prepare for. It'll repeat the formula of the previous dozen or so Hurricanes.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

wittoner wrote: Well Goliath and Mars had better be good. Waylon doesn't carry such a weight of expectation.

My expectation of Waylon is of a banjo player in Tennessee.

[hobbes]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

nmrfox wrote: I can sense an Hobbesian level of wrongness at a storm named Phil.

Too bloody right. It's Philip, not Phil.

[Fussbudget]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

Well it's a bit fucking weathery today, isn't it. Stay safe, everyone.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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Right now, I'm 30 feet from the atlantic. Thankfully the wind is blowing from a slightly different direction so the sea isn't smashing through the front wall, but we've basically all taken to our beds like Medieval European Peasants in the hope that when we wake the storm will be over.

The wind isn't too bad, it's only 75 miles per hour, which isn't even in the top three storms this year. The problem with this fucker is the four inches of rain it's supposed to dump on us in a 36 hour period. The average december rainfall in this part of Ireland is four inches, so as you can imagine, that's a hell of a lot of rain

[Third rate Leszno]

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue,Deborah, Annabel,

It's not looking too good for Keswick, already being described as worse than 2009 and there's about 12 hours more rain due yet. It's overtopped the post-2009 flood defences by the sounds of it.