Aaaaaaarrrggggghhhhh

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Twating metcheck.

Someone there knows when I am going on holiday and does things like this for a laugh.

Up until today the forcast for the week I am camping has been fabby, this morning three hundred mile and hour winds, what the actual jeffing jeff?

Last year they said it was going to snow.

In Norfolk.

In August.

Wankers.

WHAT???

I have never seen met check winds go pink before. Is that for real or is someone having a laugh?

It is a week away though so maybe in a few days it will have returned to balmy east anglian calmness.

It must be someone pissing about

those winds are over 12 on the beaufort scale

I think we would have heard if a tornado was expected in Norfolk wildy

Ha ha welcome to my world.

As a seasoned camper, I can honestly say that this is the norm. As soon as that tent goes in the boot, the weather takes a turn for the worse.

better pack your delta pegs though

Same here! Surely it's a mistake. Meant to be going to Aviemore for the Soulpad's inaugural outing. According to Met Check we arrive in winds of 2mph.....a couple of hours later we will be swept up Wizard of Oz style in gusts of over 220mph. And it get's worse from there.

Wizard of Oz weather

It's a mistake isn't it? There can't be a UK wide tornado. Surely?

Now I'm no OYBBK but I think someone must have pressed the wrong button here surely? Either that or we are in for one interesting weekend and my friends BBQ will be postponed.

Same for here, tee hee

I have said this before, but in my head, there is a nice little man who runs metcheck and every year his holiday conincides with mine and he leaves his teenage stoner son in charge to do the forcasting.

(huge inhale)

Heh heh heh, what does the pink button do?

Tornado stylee winds, cool.

What's black?

Heh heh armageddon, funny.

We didn't get the snow last year, so I imagine we won't be blown off the campsite this year.

Do not panic winefairy, metcheck (imo) is the most unreliable weather service ever, I tend to check it and presume the weather will be exactly opposite to the forcast.

Yesterday they predicted rain all day for where we live live, we had not a drop, I don't know why I look at it, I really don't, it is like a compulsion.

Can't be right, surely. Scarborough showing 200mph+ winds next weekend?

Where's OYBBK when we need her? If we can bring down an ancient newspaper surely we can get to the bottom of weird wind predictions?

Deadly gusts of wind have disapeared now .

• Son, what have I told you? Do not press the pink button.

• Jeeez, sorry dad.

Shame I was getting into my saving the world scenario!

Oh, the relief!! Although it was terrifying fun while it lasted!

I had visions of DH's first camping trip going disastrously wrong. I envisaged him rocking in a corner during the Wizard of Oz weather repeating "There's no place like home, there's no place like home!"

Rofl @ stoner dude with the pink wind button.

Glad things are looking more civilised for next week.

Metcheck uses an automated forecast without human input. When the computer model falls over (maybe failing to converge on an answer) it gives stupid results. its why I don't use metcheck :)

Thank you OYBBC [hgrin]

[hgrin] you are welcome :)

the wettest day in june, we were in our third night in our tent. it was the rainiest day in June since early c20th.

it isn't just the Met check people that have a stoner in charge.

I thought it was maybe something to do with St Swithin's day? (15th July, day before my birthday, if it rains on the 15th it'll rain for the rest of summer, basically.) I have pink wind (299 mph) from the 16th for our postcode. Thought maybe someone who works for Met Check is very, very superstitious.