{"id":353806,"date":"2024-12-10T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=353806"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:08:51","slug":"storm-darragh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=353806","title":{"rendered":"Storm Darragh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet more dishonest reporting from the Met Office:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/about-us\/news-and-media\/media-centre\/weather-and-climate-news\/2024\/storm-darragh-brings-90mph-gusts-and-heavy-rain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As usual they are using wind speeds in extremely exposed locations, such as Capel Curig which is high up in Snowdonia, or one of their favourites, Aberdaron:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you may recall from last winter, Aberdaron sits on a 300ft\u00a0 cliff top at the end of the Llyn Peninsula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aberdaron is so exposed that it actually holds the record for the highest gust speed in N Wales, 112 mph in December 1997. This rather puts today\u2019s 92 mph in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office have only been using Aberdaron and Capel Curig for a few years, both opening in 1993. Pembrey Sands, another regular on the wind gust list was also opened in that same year. It is almost as if the Met Office wanted to make people believe winds were getting stronger!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of these sites have any relevance whatever to what is happening in the places where people actually live or the country as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It probably won\u2019t come as a surprise to you to learn that we had just the same weather exactly a hundred years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only difference was that in 1924 the Met Office reported winds at places such as Lerwick, Edinburgh and Shoebury, instead of on clifftops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And meanwhile the BBC went into full propaganda mode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around three million people in parts of Wales and south-west England have been sent an emergency alert from the government as Storm Darragh approaches the UK.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the largest use of the warning system yet and has been sent to the mobile phones of people in areas covered by the Met Office red weather warning for the storm.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alert made a loud siren-like sound when it was delivered to devices, even if they were set on silent, and lasted for around 10 seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The areas are forecast wind gusts of 90mph (144kmph) or more, the Met Office said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2dxlwz219ko.amp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, the areas were not forecast to have 90mph gusts. Clearly the Met Office and the BBC are in this together, intent on defrauding the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC\u2019s report ends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists say as the Earth\u2019s climate warms, extreme weather events will become more frequent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What relevance does this have to Storm Darragh, other than to scare the public?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the BBC refuse to tell viewers is that the storms of the 1980s and 90s were much more severe than anything seen since, which even the Met Office have been forced to admit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/climate\/maps-and-data\/about\/state-of-climate<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And the science is very clear on why \u2013 as the Arctic warms, there is a smaller differential between cold polar air and warm tropical air \u2013 hence less powerful and wet storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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