How was storm antoni for you?

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barely notice it

Didn't see it, lovely sunny afternoon in Aberdeen yesterday

Anyhow, why was it called a fancy name like antoni??

We had the yellow warning, then once we'd pitched the tent we got an amber warning which meant we were buggered.

It was lively on the Caen to Portsmouth ferry yesterday afternoon/evening

Was there a storm ?

Why call it anything at all and not just say 'severe weather on the way'?

Antoni is not a fancy name! The next one on the list is Betty. Unlikely that we will see Betty though as the new season begins at the beginning of September. A new list of names will be out.

I've explained when storms are named. The why is to raise profile of potentially particularly dangerous storms. It's also useful when referring back to previous notable storms. Before the naming system, they tended to gain popular names after the event. For instance, the Burns Night storm.

Ilfracombe.

I couldn't name you a 'previous notable storm' to save my life - bar the 1987 one and the 1991 one (which didn't have names). Isn't 'severe weather expected, this is why and where and how long its expected to last and numerous press articles enough 'profile raising'?

Clearly not MrsDanvers. Watch that video! Even with the warnings people didn't use common sense.
Do you not remember Eunice?

It's interesting that you remember the one in 1991 (storm Undine apparently!) but not the 1990 Burns Day storm.

Very heavy rain and high winds. Went to the seafront to have a look and winds were too strong to get out of the car. Was ok later in the day though.

Storm names are useful. In my job I have had to do a lot of work on issues that emerged after Storm Arwen and it is helpful to be able to type "Storm Arwen" in documents rather than "the large storm in November 2021 that affected Northern England and Scotland".

An advantage of living oop north didnt get as far as us

Very strong winds for a few hours. Then nowt.

Very stormy weather (rain you couldn't see through and heavy wind) where we were but late at night.

So much rain it lead to flooding (to the roof of the basement car park of an apartment block) in the city we live in - but we were not there this weekend.

We are camping on Eweleaze Farm, Dorset. We were up early re-pegging the tents as they tried to blow away, then during a late morning reprieve pegged down everything in sight ready for the afternoon gales. Got away with a couple of holes in our tents from poles gone astray. We were lucky though. There are quite a few tents in the bins round here. The perils of camping on a cliff!

I was crossing the channel and the first hour ( on the French side) was VERY rough - worst I’ve been in, but it was just ‘normal rough’ by the time we got to England. I wonder if the storm was a little further south than originally predicted.

A damp squib. Like the rest of the summer since June.

We were there last week, had to do an emergency take down of our gazebo!

Camping in the New Forest, our first time in a motorhome. So very very glad we weren't in a tent. Everyone was binning them and getting in their cars. Not fun at all.

Looking at the risk matrix is key. In the winter these winds would have been less of risk, because less people would be camping, playing in the sea, sailing, using marquees, large scale outside events etc - those people did need to be warned, and those activities were potentially dangerous hence the overall risk being ‘yellow’ (but still not amber or red). Sitting in your house wasn’t ever predicted to be risky.