The news is full of stories about how we are about to cop it at the hands of mother nature tonight. Travel warnings, flood warnings, its going to piss it down warnings etc.
Will this all turn out to be a storm in a teacup? Or are we all going to die?
Post your weather reports here over the next 24 hours or so and we will see if the weather man is a canute or not.
Mind you, my cheap Wilko's barometer is dropping like a stone. ![eeek:](https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/Smileys/default/icon_eek.gif)
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Christ TG, I reckon you work for Channel 4
'Batten down the hatches'
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Weather panic alert!! The worst storm of the winter is predicted to hit the UK. But I've a couple of worries about this. OK - it is a quiet news day at the moment, but does an approaching North Atlantic depression really merit the near-panic in coverage thus far?
Could all this have anything to do with the fact that it's likely to hit southern (media dominated) Britain? And am I alone in sensing a long-running cry-wolf mentality at work from the Met Office outwards?
There's a feeling that all such weather stories tend to be more violent in the predictions than the reality. Not long ago we had a ludicrous national media feeding frenzy for the North Sea surge.
And what happened? A couple of homes slightly damp around great Yarmouth. The Daily Express has led the charge in much of this obsessing about freaky weather which rarely, if ever, arrives.
My own theory is that the powers that be have never recovered from the psychological damage of the Great Storm a generation ago and have hyped up the warnings in a national mood of bottom-covering ever since.
Not saying it won't happen and that British transport will not grind to a halt at the first sign of a wind-affected twig - but impending doom? Believe it when you see it.
Sorry - got a bit carried away there.
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