Super Typhoon USAGI

[Claire ex-ax]

I don't think any of us Brits weren't prepared. It is just yet again another whimper that wouldn't have registered as anything more than a very blustery Autumn day back in Blighty. We Brits are hardy souls and preparing by watching beer and soccer testifies to our strength in the face of adversity. I

Real Brits call it 'football'. Be proud of your heritage and the game some idiot first banned in 1314, followed by dozens of bans by more idiots wearing crowns and others wearing frocks.

[Watercooler]

I don't think any of us Brits weren't prepared. It is just yet again another whimper that wouldn't have registered as anything more than a very blustery Autumn day back in Blighty. We Brits are hardy souls and preparing by watching beer and soccer testifies to our strength in the face of adversity. I

Hardy my ass. False bravado to cover up your ignorance more like it. If I recalled, typhoons don't land in UK. It'll be a different story if a Cat 5 storm hits the UK every now and then. So that would make you a real expert in typhoons would'nt it?

Repeat after me: This-was-not-a-direct-hit.

Never mind, I don't think you will ever understand. Brits (well...certain Brits) are incapable of typhoon comprehension.

You should stick to....well...football weather. Hehehe.

[bibbju]

If I recalled, typhoons don't land in UK. It'll be a different story if a Cat 5 storm hits the UK every now and then.

I'm sure you know this already but the term hurricane is used in the Atlantic region rather than typhoon. So it's correct to say that the UK has never experienced a typhoon. The UK does however experience hurricanes with winds up to 165mph. Of course being British, understatement rules so we tend to call these "big storms" or even "great storms" such as "the big storm of 2011" or "the great storm of 1987".

[TheBrit]

No great surprise to see another clueless WC comment

[Watercooler]

I'm sure you know this already but the term hurricane is used in the Atlantic region rather than typhoon. So it's correct to say that the UK has never experienced a typhoon. The UK does however experience hurricanes with winds up to 165mph. Of course being British, understatement rules so we tend to call these "big storms" or even "great storms" such as "the big storm of 2011" or "the great storm of 1987".

I don't doubt hurricane remnants can and have reached the British Isles. But not when the hurricane was in their "prime". And in any case, windstorms are over relatively unpopulated areas or low density areas. Hardly comparable to a tropical cyclone. Unlike Hong Kong.

[Watercooler]

No great surprise to see another clueless WC comment

No great surprise another troller has returned. Show me a cat5 typhoon in the UK then...wait you can't can you?

[d-28]

This is all very much a storm in a tea cup

[Watercooler]

This is all very much a storm in a tea cup

Hehehe, one thing I do like about the Brits is their tea. Speaking of which, ha, maybe you fellas should organized a "Typhoon Tea Drinking" activity...in a safe and secured spot of course.

[bibbju]

I don't doubt hurricane remnants can and have reached the British Isles. But not when the hurricane was in their "prime". And in any case, windstorms are over relatively unpopulated areas or low density areas. Hardly comparable to a tropical cyclone. Unlike Hong Kong.

Have a read about the great storm of 1987. 22 people died (18 in the UK, 4 in France). 15 million trees downed. Damage estimated at over a billion pounds. Power cut to all of South-East England and in some areas, lost for days. Even the BBC had to broadcast from an emergency location.

Bad enough for you???

[Watercooler]

Have a read about the great storm of 1987. 22 people died (18 in the UK, 4 in France). 15 million trees downed. Damage estimated at over a billion pounds. Power cut to all of South-East England and in some areas, lost for days. Even the BBC had to broadcast from an emergency location.

Bad enough for you???

Yes, very bad. Although that was not a "tropical" cyclone but a mid-latitude system created by frontal systems and differences in the horizontal gradient in temperature. In any case, such storms very seldom cause the level of destruction of the '87 storm, unlike a fully formed tropical cyclone caused by convection.

And in any case, such storms pale in comparsion to the destruction record typhoons have brought to Hong Kong.