Yep, another named storm. Named storm number 10. Primarily an Ireland/Northern Ireland, Scotland, north Wales and northern England affair and does not look as severe as Isha.
Named by Met Éireann. Their warning starts tomorrow night.
The Met Office yellow warning for the northern half of Britain kicks in at 4pm tomorrow. I think it's possible amber warnings may be issued within that area for the early hours of Wednesday. We shall see.
Weather
Storm Jocelyn.
OhYouBadBadKitten · 22/01/2024 11:06
StopGo · 22/01/2024 11:33
Why so many storms? Are they actual separate storms and not just a continuing storm?
OhYouBadBadKitten · 22/01/2024 12:50
They are separate regions of deep pressure and hence separate storms. It is a particularly active year (in fact, the fastest getting to 10 named storms since 2015 when the Met Office began naming them). One also could argue that the storms in August were actually part of this seasons storms, rather than last.
The reason as to so many and so severe is complex, but essentially the jet stream is powerful and situated above us. We are in an El Nina year and the north atlantic surface sea temperature is anomalously warm. Last summer it was record breakingly high.
We seem over the past few years particularly to get stuck into prolonged weather patterns. Either the weather is very dry and stable for a long time, or it is very disturbed, with frequent storms.
StopGo · 22/01/2024 11:33
Why so many storms? Are they actual separate storms and not just a continuing storm?
Deathbyathousandcats · 22/01/2024 11:25
What a rough winter they’re having up there.
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