By Paul Homewood
You can always rely on the Express to go hysterical when we get a bit of bad weather!
The facts are actually much more prosaic.
When the storm peaks this afternoon, virtually all of the country is looking at wind speeds of between 20 and 30 mph, putting it into the Fresh to Strong Breeze category. (I do believe it a bit silly that the scale should go from “strong breeze” to “near gale”. Strong winds would have been a more appropriate description! But it does indicate that, when the Beaufort Scale was drawn up, people did not regard a strong wind as anything to be concerned about)
The biggest problem will actually be the rainfall. The best graphic is this one from the Met Office:
The heaviest of the rain looks set to nit N Wales, so hopefully the Calder Valley will not be too badly hit this time.
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February 15, 2020 at 06:57AM
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