[IceFire]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4106569.stm

They say the gusts were to 130 kph.  Is that a typo?  I mean, I respect strong winds and I've been in strong winds and I know what 100 kph gusts feel like.  Seen them, seen them .  It just doesn't seem that strange to me really...the typical winter storm we get here goes from 80 to 100 kph gusts and summer thunderstorms can put us up there too.

Knocks a few trees down, drops a ton of rain or snow, and moves along.

Maybe they just don't see of wind storms?  Anyone have an opinion?

[WeatherOp]

Yeah, 80 mph allthough high, is not really that high. And nothing conpared to that 120 mph blast that hit the mountains  of Cal two days ago or Ivan(135mph) or Charley(145mph).

[Clave]

It is quite strong by European standards.  

The worst storm in the UK reached 150 kph which was very unusual - 13 people were killed and 15,000,000 trees knocked down.  According to records that was the strongest storm since 1703....

Most hurricanes don't some any where near Europe, and tornados are rare, so we have it pretty easy compared with Kansas or Florida for example....

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Clave
It is quite strong by European standards.  

The worst storm in the UK reached 150 kph which was very unusual - 13 people were killed and 15,000,000 trees knocked down.  According to records that was the strongest storm since 1703....

Most hurricanes don't some any where near Europe, and tornados are rare, so we have it pretty easy compared with Kansas or Florida for example....

I live in Southern Ontario...there's only been once ever a hurricane here which was pretty much a freakish occurance (before I was born).  The chances being next to nothing. But yeah, its nothing for a storm to come past packing 100 kph winds in the gusts.

I guess if you don't get the wind storms, you have trees that don't get weeded out as often.

Now 150 kph is starting to really push it too...thats what?  A low hurricane?

Just my perspective...gives me a little more of a viewpoint when I ask others

[WeatherOp]

Yeah, something like 95 mph, Well even tho I live in north Alabama Iv'e had to go thru 1 hurricane(Opal) and one tropical storm(Ivan). It gets scary when the winds outside sustaine at 80 mph. It makes the whining sound that will chill you to the bone.

[Genryu]

Nope, 130kph all right. Funny thing is that I live not 10km from Paris, and never felt a thing, though I think I was simply too sick to pay attention (freaking angina). And it's true that wind storms of this scale were near to nonexistent. I said were, since it's the second time in less than five years that a wind storm managed to stroll along the countryside.

[Setekh]

*hugs his temperate weather zone*

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Genryu
Nope, 130kph all right. Funny thing is that I live not 10km from Paris, and never felt a thing, though I think I was simply too sick to pay attention (freaking angina). And it's true that wind storms of this scale were near to nonexistent. I said were, since it's the second time in less than five years that a wind storm managed to stroll along the countryside.

Welcome to Canada

Wind storms aren't uncommon.  Which is why I just sort of questioned what the big deal is.  But if you say you've rarely had them until recently then I can see where this is coming from.

Interesting!!

[pyro-manic]

I think the fact that it just appeared at random and then disappeared again so quickly is the really odd thing about it...

[Unknown Target]

Wussies


I live in the carribbean, I get hurricanes almost annualy

[Clave]

You live in a timber frame house? good luck with that then....

There's no frigging way I'd live in a hurricane zone in anything less than a concrete bunker.

[Genryu]

Strangely enough, it seems that these freak storms are not THAT random, since it was exactly 4 years ago the last one came, only 10 days later. Guess Christmas will now be known as the storm season in france

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Clave
You live in a timber frame house? good luck with that then....

There's no frigging way I'd live in a hurricane zone in anything less than a concrete bunker.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? No one I know lives in a timber frame house, all the houses are made of solid concrete. We're slightly more advanced than Gilligan's island would have you believe

[Clave]

No, my bad, that may have come out wrong.  

I was thinking of the classic US house structure: Timber frame, hollow walls, aluminum siding, type thing - you know the ones you see on the news in Kansas, turned into a garbage heap in 10 seconds flat...

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Clave
No, my bad, that may have come out wrong.  

I was thinking of the classic US house structure: Timber frame, hollow walls, aluminum siding, type thing - you know the ones you see on the news in Kansas, turned into a garbage heap in 10 seconds flat...

Brick and concrete...thats the common type around here.  No wonder we can take a bit of wind.  Not that I'd want to see a tornado here...although that'd be neigh on impossible (torneado's dont much like hills and living next to a full blown escarpment does the trick).

Timber frame...yeah.  Not good for winds.