Met Office in the doghouse. Too busy hyping up warmer than normal Christmas weather in parts of England and Wales perhaps, in support of their woeful greenhouse gas obsessions, while snow was blocking the main road into and out of northern Scotland and trees were toppling onto power lines?
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The Met Office has pledged to review its weather alerts after people in Scotland claimed they were blindsided by the ferocity of Storm Gerrit, says The Telegraph.
Yellow warnings issued by the UK’s weather service had suggested a low chance of severe impacts from the storm, which has battered much of the country with 80mph winds, blizzards and heavy rain.
In the wake of travel chaos caused by snow, flooding and fallen trees, the Met Office has been challenged over whether amber alerts should have been issued.
David Duguid, the Conservative MP for Banff and Buchan, wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “The effect of the weather in north-east Scotland in last 24 hours has felt far more serious than ‘yellow’. Many of my constituents asking why this wasn’t amber.”
People in Fort Augustus, in the Highlands, echoed the concerns after the area was hit by heavy winds, causing power cuts and road closures because of fallen trees.
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Workers had faced 80mph winds
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said power had been restored to more than 40,000 customers but about 1,500 properties would be without electricity until Friday. The power company said its workers had faced 80mph winds in some coastal areas and some had been trapped for hours on the A9 which was closed at Drumochter in the Highlands due to snow.
Full article here.
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December 28, 2023 at 01:57PM
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