When we had a chance to talk to Ebola* this past Sunday, as parents do, we asked what he’d done all day. He nonchalantly said, “Nothing,” as the weather had been too crappy to do a thing. “Helluva storm,” he described it, so he stayed in.
As he’s a meteorologist, and we’ve always been a totally weather geek family, it didn’t set off any alarms. I mentioned I’d read one of the UK mets I follow had something about a ‘tornado’ in Wales and I thought that was wild. Ebola said yeah, they’re pretty rare in those parts, and that was that.
It turns out he was a master of understatement and had the North Atlantic version of a Cat 1 winter hurricane (named Storm Darragh) screaming overhead.
Classic. Kids, I tell ya.
So, things were rockin’ and rollin’ across the British Isles all weekend, with peak wind gusts of 96 mph recorded in some places and well into the upper 50s+ spread everywhere else.
On Friday, the UKMet office issued a rare “red warning” for the Welsh coast due to the anticipated strength of the winds from an inbound extra-tropical cyclone. That means “STAY HOME!!!” Additional warnings for the rest of the UK also went out due to high winds and…
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