Storm Callum is heading my way!
@NormanDarlo (1071)
Ireland
October 11, 2018 3:14pm CST
The Atlantic Ocean has just given Florida the hugely destructive Hurricane Michael, and now it has turned its attention eastward and is sending a big storm towards me in Ireland. It's called Storm Callum, and although not on the scale of the hurricanes that lash America, this storm is not to be sniffed at, with 130 kilometre winds and torrential rain expected tonight. Fingers crossed for me please!
PS Who names these weather phenomena? At the rate they are coming, there'll soon be no names left 
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
11 Oct 18
Yikes, stay safe Norman.
World Meteorological Organization develops a list of names that are assigned in alphabetical order to tropical storms as they are discovered in each hurricane season. Names can be repeated after an interval of six years, but the names of especially severe storms are permanently retired from use.
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
12 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo You are very welcome. I hope things are safe in your world. I think it does apply because the story I read about Callum said the two storms before it were named Ali and Bronagh so far this season.
Here is a link for you:
Ali will be the first storm to blow in across the UK and Ireland this winter, the new list of names for this year's strongest weather systems shows. Also on the list of storm names for
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
@KimJohnson @CarolDM Thanks for that info, Carol. I wonder whether that applies to our storms up here in the non-tropics. Ours don't seem to be following alpha order anyway: Ophelia last October, Emma in March, Hector in June, and now Callum 
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@KimJohnson (112)
• Oceanside, California
12 Oct 18
I didn't know that Carol. Hope your family was safe. I know they live around Pensacola?
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo He has lived in Ireland since somewhere round the late 1990s. We have been over 3 or 4 times. We love Ireland.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
Sorry to hear about the glasshouse - was it victim of a storm? I'd be very upset if I lost my one! Thanks for the wishes, Judy, there was no serious damage here in the southeast, nor I believe up in Meath. It was the west that bore the brunt. Is it Kiltale (rather than Kintale) they are in? The only Kintale I know of is far away in Donegal
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
13 Oct 18
@JudyEv Yeah, I think I know the place. My brother also lives in Meath. I hope your son is finding Ireland welcoming, whatever about the weather! Have you visited?
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
12 Oct 18
I hope the storm weakens and everyone will be safe!
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
Thanks, Hope. I heard of no serious injuries.
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@xFiacre (12598)
• Ireland
11 Oct 18
@normandarlo All's quiet so far up here. Hopefully the weather people are just being overly cautious.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
Well they were overly incorrect about the projected path, so we were spared the worst of it down here in the sunny southeast. Where is 'up here', Fiacre?
@xFiacre (12598)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo Belfast. Scarcely noticed Callum.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
@xFiacre Ah you were safely away from it, so.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
14 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo
I hope you do not get Storm Callum your way.
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@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
15 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo
am sorry that there were some fatalities.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
15 Oct 18
@Hannihar Every fatality is a cause of regret, but for a major storm, it is a relatively light toll.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
14 Oct 18
Thank you, Hanni. It passed by a little further away than feared, so nothing major happened here, although I heard of a couple fatalities in Britain.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
It was off our west coast in the above screenshot and it passed more to the north than expected, so most of the madness remained out at sea. Lucky us! Good to see you here, Gary!
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@garysibi (702)
• Chicago, Illinois
12 Oct 18
@NormanDarlo I just signed up today.
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@thedevilinme (3904)
• Northampton, England
11 Oct 18
Looks a juicy one . A few Galwaymens hairpieces will be blown away, so it is
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@KimJohnson (112)
• Oceanside, California
12 Oct 18
Keep your hat on stay safe and dry my friend. I have friends that were hit with Michael.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
12 Oct 18
I think some folks may still be without power in the southwest, but damage was confined to a few downed trees here in the east, and as far as I know, no serious injuries 
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