Get Thee to a Nunnery!
@owlwings (43915)
Cambridge, England
October 16, 2017 10:06am CST
We don't get hurricanes in the UK very often, especially where I live. in the East of the country. However, the sky has turned an eerie yellow-gray and the wind is tearing at the tree outside my window.
Even thoiugh I'm maybe three or four hundred miles away from the centre of 'Ophelia', we are still seeing some dramatic effects. The colour of the sky is scary and, so I hear, due to the sand from the Sahara and ash and smoke from wild fires in Spain and Portugal being whipped high into the atmosphere by the fierce winds which spiral around the 'eye' of the storm.
Ireland, of course, is getting it much worse than us. One person has been killed when a tree fell on her car and another as he was trying to clear a fallen tree with a chainsaw. Hopefully there will be no more injuries or deaths!
Hurricanes and cyclones are the same thing. A really small area of very low pressure with huge winds circling round it and feeding into it to try to fill up the 'hole' in the atmosphere. You could call the eye of the storm a 'none-ery', I suppose, and that is where all that air is rushing to. What I have never understood is why that hole doesn't get filled up and where does all that wind go to if the hole doesn't get filled up?
I do wish this very strange and unsettling weather would go away! As Hamlet says to Ophelia "Get thee to a nunnery!"
Of course, you may think that I am mad (or at least, slightly touched) for suddenly appearing after several month's silence and reply "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown"! (Not that I have ever claimed a 'noble mind', of course!)
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@BarBaraPrz (45475)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Oct 17
I saw that Ireland was being lashed by remnants of Ophelia... and I thought: "A hurricane in Ireleand?!?"
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
16 Oct 17
Ireland, being to the West of the British Isles does get more Atlantic weather than the rest of us. I think that we last had anything approaching this storm quite a while ago, though. People seem to want to call it a hurricane but, really, it's nothing like they've had in the Gulf of Mexico or the Carribean or Florida.
You are on the Great Lakes and so have your own peculiar weather but I think we can all expect some rather spectacular and 'unusual' changes due to global warming in the next few years.
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@BarBaraPrz (45475)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Oct 17
@owlwings You are correct, sir. We have had some peculiar weather lately: hot one day, cold the next, then back to warm, rinse and repeat. Today we're on the cold cycle.
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@BarBaraPrz (45475)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Oct 17
@Marty1 It's supposed to be warmer today, and warmer still tomorrow and the rest of the week.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
17 Oct 17
Nice to see you ! This is indeed an eventful year when it comes to weather.
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Nov 17
Here in Southern CA, we don't get hurricanes . . . sometimes strong winds but pales in comparison. I've seen many sky colors due to smog and fires, oh but I cannot imagine an odd yellow gray. I have always been fascinated by that "eye of the storm" . . . nature has some pretty strange things up her sleeve . . . but living here and if I continue to live here, I may never experience any of it. I hope the weather has gotten better there!
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 Nov 17
Southern CA has its own hazards - heat waves, wild fires and the ever-present threat of earthquakes as well as smog in the LA and Redlands areas especially, I believe. If I had to live in America, however, I can think of plenty worse places to live than California!
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Nov 17
@owlwings I wonder if people who live in these known hazardous areas just get used to it to some degree? I've lived in this particular area pretty much all my life. We've lived and dealt with heat waves, wild fires, earthquakes and smog for years . . . it may sound horrific to those who don't live here (and to those who do but are not from here), but this is literally Southern CA living. However, we don't know hurricanes . . . and that would scare me plenty!
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
18 Dec 19
I have noticed the storms are getting ferocious everywhere now.
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@Chantiele (433)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
25 Oct 17
It appears that the storms are getting worse all over. Between earthquakes, hurricanes and tornados it is not looking good for any country. at least now they have the technology to warn people about whats coming so that so many lives are not lost during these acts of nature.
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@RasmaSandra (73326)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Oct 17
We too don't have natural disaster like that here in Latvia but when on occasion a bit wind and rain storm comes there is so much disaster it's really scary. I too hate that.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
19 Oct 17
It's the so-called "eye of the storm."
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
28 Oct 17
A little "Tropicala" is a good thing for those of you in the UK- certainly not the casualties but purely for the awesome experience. Canada doesn't really get them too often either!
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
30 Oct 17
@MarymargII It was! However, as the owner of the shed didn't want it, I salvaged the pieces and reconstructed it so that it was a little shorter and had a porch. Made a great playhouse for the kids!
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
30 Oct 17
@owlwings Well wow that would be a terrifying and unforgettable sight!
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