GFS yesterday and today has the main winds near the centre of the main
low , well out into the Atlantic, with only minor lows nearer the UK.
Too hasty in the storm-naming business this time?, usually the storm is
near enough on our doorstep before the give the next name to it.
Yes loads of strong easterly , but that is due to the Scandinavian high
, rather than that low , well off in the Atlantic, by Friday, assuming
GFS is not wlidly out of kilter.

On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 8:54:47 AM UTC, N_Cook wrote:
GFS yesterday and today has the main winds near the centre of the main
low , well out into the Atlantic, with only minor lows nearer the UK.
Too hasty in the storm-naming business this time?, usually the storm is
near enough on our doorstep before the give the next name to it.
Yes loads of strong easterly , but that is due to the Scandinavian high
, rather than that low , well off in the Atlantic, by Friday, assuming
GFS is not wlidly out of kilter.

The thing is it was so named because it was a storm out over the Canaries and Madeira that produced gale force + winds, was a bit vicious and cancelled flights.

From the Portuguese and Spaniards point of view they are are quite entitled to have it named.

Len
Wembury

In message , N_Cook
writes
GFS yesterday and today has the main winds near the centre of the main
low , well out into the Atlantic, with only minor lows nearer the UK.
Too hasty in the storm-naming business this time?, usually the storm is
near enough on our doorstep before the give the next name to it.
Yes loads of strong easterly , but that is due to the Scandinavian high
, rather than that low , well off in the Atlantic, by Friday, assuming
GFS is not wlidly out of kilter.

It was named by the Portuguese, and I suppose it's not far from THEIR
doorstep.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

On 27/02/18 10:24, John Hall wrote:
In message , N_Cook writes
GFS yesterday and today has the main winds near the centre of the main
low , well out into the Atlantic, with only minor lows nearer the UK.
Too hasty in the storm-naming business this time?, usually the storm
is near enough on our doorstep before the give the next name to it.
Yes loads of strong easterly , but that is due to the Scandinavian
high , rather than that low , well off in the Atlantic, by Friday,
assuming GFS is not wlidly out of kilter.

It was named by the Portuguese, and I suppose it's not far from THEIR
doorstep.

Yes, Carol pointed that out this morning.

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On 27/02/2018 11:37, Graham P Davis wrote:
On 27/02/18 10:24, John Hall wrote:
In message , N_Cook
writes
GFS yesterday and today has the main winds near the centre of the
main low , well out into the Atlantic, with only minor lows nearer
the UK.
Too hasty in the storm-naming business this time?, usually the storm
is near enough on our doorstep before the give the next name to it.
Yes loads of strong easterly , but that is due to the Scandinavian
high , rather than that low , well off in the Atlantic, by Friday,
assuming GFS is not wlidly out of kilter.

It was named by the Portuguese, and I suppose it's not far from THEIR
doorstep.

Yes, Carol pointed that out this morning.


With the junk-press jumping on Emma I'd forgotten "we'd" got to
Georgina. I see GFS 06Z run has brought the 55mph SW wind on the
southern flank of the low (I associate that to the low rather than the
widespread easterlies I associate with the Scandi-High) back near the
doorstep of Corwall, so Emma could still Hector the UK.