Weather warnings

Here in the Netherlands we have weather warnings.
Today, for example, it’s CODE YELLOW!
They’ve given “the storm” a name: “ Storm Ciarán.”
With wind surges… up to 100km’s an hour. But an average of 75km’s an hour.
And… there may be some rain as well.

Now, when I was a kid growing up in Scotland, that’s the sort of weather we’d still be out in, sunbathing on the beach.

Because it’s CODE YELLOW we’ve been warned to try to work from home.

In the 80’s, in the Netherlands, when we had to cycle to school, it didn’t matter if it was a bloody hurriane in freezing temperatures with trees blowing over and cows flying about… we had to go!

Okay… maybe I exaggerate… but the point is, our storms didn’t have names and codes.
If ever there was a code yellow, it probably meant that a nuclear cyclone was doing a Hiroshima somehow.

Where the hell does this giving windy weather “storm names” come from? And this coding? I mean if I’m supposed to stay off the roads with code yellow, what am I supposed to do in code red? Start praying or something?

Do other countries have these stupid code warnings for breezes?
I know the US gives storms names, but their storms blow away trailer parks and flood whole cities. I’d be giving them names too.

@shavixmir said
Here in the Netherlands we have weather warnings.
Today, for example, it’s CODE YELLOW!
They’ve given “the storm” a name: “ Storm Ciarán.”
With wind surges… up to 100km’s an hour. But an average of 75km’s an hour.
And… there may be some rain as well.

Now, when I was a kid growing up in Scotland, that’s the sort of weather we’d still be out in, sunbathing on the beach ...[text shortened]... ames, but their storms blow away trailer parks and flood whole cities. I’d be giving them names too.

Where the hell does this giving windy weather “storm names” come from? And this coding? I mean if I’m supposed to stay off the roads with code yellow, what am I supposed to do in code red? Start praying or something?

I'm afraid it's that way everywhere. I grew up in the 70's and remember my classmates and I walking to school with the snow up to our knees - and the weather wasn't a legitimate excuse for not showing up to school. Today we have the KIRO severe weather TV program my area, which is silly. The last severe weather Seattle had was the Columbus Day storm of 1962, a category 3 hurricane. Nothing like that since. Maybe the weather has entered the twisted world of political correctness, just like everything else these days. 🙄

@mchill said
Where the hell does this giving windy weather “storm names” come from? And this coding? I mean if I’m supposed to stay off the roads with code yellow, what am I supposed to do in code red? Start praying or something?

I'm afraid it's that way everywhere. I grew up in the 70's and remember my classmates and I walking to school with the snow up to our knees - and the weather w ...[text shortened]... has entered the twisted world of political correctness, just like everything else these days. 🙄

Yes! Snow and rain. And we didn’t have rain-proof trousers. So school was a steaming hell hole of shivering kids and drying wet clothes.

@shavixmir said
Here in the Netherlands we have weather warnings.
Today, for example, it’s CODE YELLOW!
They’ve given “the storm” a name: “ Storm Ciarán.”
With wind surges… up to 100km’s an hour. But an average of 75km’s an hour.
And… there may be some rain as well.

Now, when I was a kid growing up in Scotland, that’s the sort of weather we’d still be out in, sunbathing on the beach ...[text shortened]... ames, but their storms blow away trailer parks and flood whole cities. I’d be giving them names too.

That same breeze in Cornwall blew a car into the sea, I think you might be viewing your childhood through rose tinted glasses but I get the impression it’s the southern facing coastlines that are getting the worst of it.
Although 60 mile per hour winds are quite mild in terms of storm warnings so yellow sounds about right

@kevcvs57
When I were a lad we lived in a sceptic tank and were 14 to a bed 😂
I’m paraphrasing so no point in proof reading Monty python scripts

@kevcvs57 said
@kevcvs57
When I were a lad we lived in a sceptic tank and were 14 to a bed 😂

Luxory!

@shavixmir said
Luxory!

Lol try telling kids today, they think a hard day is having to get an Uber to school because their ma had an early morning pilate class.

@shavixmir said
Here in the Netherlands we have weather warnings.
Today, for example, it’s CODE YELLOW!
They’ve given “the storm” a name: “ Storm Ciarán.”
With wind surges… up to 100km’s an hour. But an average of 75km’s an hour.
And… there may be some rain as well.

Now, when I was a kid growing up in Scotland, that’s the sort of weather we’d still be out in, sunbathing on the beach ...[text shortened]... ames, but their storms blow away trailer parks and flood whole cities. I’d be giving them names too.

common man, it's additional info. You do with it what you want. Some people might want to close their windows or bring in their laundry that they left outside to dry. Some might want to cover up their cars in case of a hail warning


You turn off the alert and do what you want if you think it's alarmist or silly

@kevcvs57 said
@kevcvs57
When I were a lad we lived in a sceptic tank and were 14 to a bed 😂
I’m paraphrasing so no point in proof reading Monty python scripts

At least you had a bed…….and siblings.

@kevcvs57 said
@kevcvs57
When I were a lad we lived in a sceptic tank and were 14 to a bed 😂
I’m paraphrasing so no point in proof reading Monty python scripts

Oops, missed the TU on my too/small smart phone screen with my sausage finger. 😏

Apologies for the mistaken red thumb.

@averagejoe1 said
At least you had a bed…….and siblings.

I had to eat my siblings …

@moonbus said
I had to eat my siblings …

Oh, we could but dream of eating our siblings…

@shavixmir said
Oh, we could but dream of eating our siblings…

Well, when I say “siblings” I mean they were siblings to us. We used to trap them when they came in the night to gnaw at our bare toes.