f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

When will the media stop generating stupid weather related sensationalist terms for what is commonly known as a storm?

Usually the Express is the worst, but the Mail and the BBC have gone all out with the "weather bomb' ...OMG we are all going to die" type of headlines this time!

Matteeboy

It's catchy, it sounds a bit sexy. They all love it!

Big seas and very strong winds here; the swell should reach "dimented" levels tomorrow.

JTaylor

Don't worry about it.

Tidgy

weather bomb is a defined term actualy, when the air pressure drops 24mb in less than 24 hours.

The express mind you has been forecasting the return of the ice age for the past 3 weeks,,,, lol

Blue by You

iTrader: (23)

Would you feel more comfortable with the correct technical terminology?
"Explosive cyclogenesis" isn't anything like as newsworthy

jonc

They could also add "Islamic meteorological weather event heading for UK" for greater effect.

Turbohot

I'm sure some people's brains instantly start to think Islam; that's when the BBC uses some obvious terms e.g. 'extreme' weather, weather 'atrocities' etc.

My son was about 4-5 when he asked me if dinosaurs lived in Bosnia. I could later work out why his tiny brain made connections between Bosnia and the dinosaurs, at the time.

Turbohot

I have to say that it has been eventful out there. My trees jammed with the winds all night and kept their spooky tune going. Still hearing it My bin was also toppled over like a fallen soldier, and after a pleasant night out at Pizza Express, I had to get out of the car to move it; in order to unblock my drive.

My house fence still stands unhurt, so I'm ok for now.

neil-h

This is the bit that annoys me, it reads like something that The Sun would write and yet it's a recognised meterological term.

^Qwerty^

Has the government slipped out some bad news on the quiet?

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

It's the terrorists I tells ya!

Tidgy

no, but the CIA is in the ****

Torquemada

Same as Tidgy said, there was a meteorologist on the news talking about this, apparently weather bomb is one of their terms and not the media's.

Although I do agree that the media does act like the apocalypse is coming.

I've been out and stocked up on toilet roll, water and al-Qaeda suppressant just in case though...

Blue by You

iTrader: (23)

Just think of the moola you could make with a copyright on that

Torquemada

It's in development 'durkaway(c)'

jonc

I have something similar, Koran Bang, "BANG and Al Qaeda is gone!"

Torquemada

haha!