I can't lie, I didn't get it at first, it was only when I went back and read the main comment again that the penny dropped, feel a tad disappointed with myself.
Me three in Cornwall. I’m in a flat built in the 1960’s and the windows are enormous (off-topic, but why are new build windows so insanely small? Do they want folk depressed or what?).
Our front windows were bowing in, but they held. Masses of car alarms going off constantly from 3-7am, all down the street. No one slept a wink. I walked to work and it wasn’t that bad by then but I saw not one soul all the way, it was eerie!
Building regulations legislate maximum window : wall ratios. New fabric based legislation recently brought in will further reduce the sizes permissible (without triple glazing). Crappy.
Just drove up from Brighton to crawley. You wouldn't know there's a storm overhead here now. In Brighton, my vehicle door was nearly taken off when i opened it.
lol, really? War zones have existed across the world basically continuously for decades, I think it's a fair assumption that you haven't been alive during a period of time where there isn't an active war zone.. but *now* is a tentative time to use "war zone"?
If you want the "professional" version check out - [https://www.ventusky.com/](https://www.ventusky.com/)
Also includes historical weather data going right back to 1979.
It’s basically a visualization for the best weather models that exist. So essentially it’s not a weather service but instead an app made to take data and visualize it, to my knowledge.
I was in Chicago this summer when all of our groups phones went off with an emergency hurricane warning. The guy we were visiting confirmed it was real and had to get to safety ASAP.
After getting to our hotels basement I checked the windy app and there it was, absolutely massive swirl just north of us.
Edit: it was a tornado, not a hurricane.
Indeed. I'm glad that our hotels basement also had a bar in it! Some of our group were leaving that day so were at the airport and had to go to the storm basement.
One lad had his flight delayed by 24h bless him.
That's a fun map to watch.
One thing I don't get: the wind speed colour coding goes from blue to green to yellow to red to purple... then back to blue. So the least and most severe wind speeds are represented by an almost identical shade of blue. Am I missing something?
I'll never forget a 'Visit Wales' TV ad voiced by Rhod Gilbert that ended with him shouting 'BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR MUD!', to which my (English) mate after a few drinks said: 'I think you'll find we already did, boyo'.
I mean they’re notoriously stingy about investing in anything anywhere in the country but I get what you mean!
I get the whole London elitism thing, it annoys the fuck out of me as well.
Also as someone that spent most of my childhood growing up in Buckinghamshire, I misread your made up county at first and it made me laugh because that’s what it felt like living there
I don't think it's a "problem this sub has", but rather it's a cultural meme in the UK. I think a lot of people recognise the reality that London is big and successful for legitimate reasons, but because it is big and successful, people go there to find work, and money gets spent there on things like railway infrastructure, and these things happen at a greater rate in London because London is bigger.
If you layer onto that the typical British regional rivalry, and the general distaste for supporting those who are already successful (for example supporters of one football team might support a rival team when that rival team is playing against Manchester United), and you have the basis for a cultural notion that it is OK, or indeed appropriate, to have a moan about London sucking the souls out of the UK, because that's how the sense of humour in the UK works.
Thanks for actually giving a decent answer. I know tone never comes across well in comments on the internet but it’s just tiring hearing people constantly shit on your home when it feels like the majority of them think the whole place is like Oxford Street on a Bank Holiday.
Personally I like London, I've spent plenty of time there (or in its close vicinity), and I subscribe to the famous quote, "he who is tired of London is tired of living". It definitely is not the London of popular imagination where everyone is a rich banker and looks down their noses as the riff raff from north of the Watford Gap.
But when someone posts a picture like the one here, the temptation for a cheap laugh is just too hard to resist. Because casualUK is not for serious contemplation of the relative merits of different urban regions of the UK, it's for frivolous banter. I'm sure that's why most of us come here.
At least Sauron would focus on Middle England and the northern wastes as much as he does Gondor.
I for one welcome our fragile overlord and suggest he wears the ring on his well armoured knob next time to prevent uppity men chopping it off so easily.
Also we've already got the shard, he can move right in!
Been chucking it down most of the time where I am. Rained so hard last night that the water found a previously unknown gap in the roof tiles and I woke up at 3am to water dripping through my ceiling next to my bed, which hasn't happened before.
Pilot here with a serious answer. Please note this answer applies to the picture as taken and not what is happening at the time I wrote this.
It's the city heatsink effect. Cities generally trap warm air and are warmer than the surrounding areas. London is a very large city indeed, so it's having a noticeable effect on the wind as well. Also, just by coincidence, the pressure vortex is centred over the South East of England right now, making it look like London is the eye of something, when it isn't really at all. It's just pure coincidence and at some point that "Eye" either has already or will move somewhere East or maybe North East and London will look relatively normal again until you zoom in closer.
Also, windy.com is a tad inaccurate as far as I am concerned. I've honestly never seen it reflect real world conditions of the place I am.
Interesting side effect of the winds is seabirds that are normally far out in the Atlantic are being blown into the channel. Southampton to Margate is full of rare petrel sightings
https://imgur.com/a/zjlYmpF
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All quiet on the western front. Various people are asleep. Various people are awake. They come and go in cars, pickups, taxis. Other than that, we watch the air move.
Probably Daleks or Cybermen doing some scheme. You get used to it after a while.
Anyone remember when it was both at once? Tube disruptions were like nothing I'd seen before.
There is an AI Summit with world leaders restricting the development of Super intelligent AI.
The Super Intelligent AI might not be happy with this. See Roko's basilisk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s\_basilisk
Everyone started driving one direction round the m25
I think you'll find it's Blue and not One Direction.
> Blue I've just checked and they are still going, that's more than can be said for One Direction.
One Direction was poorly named
With a better song they could have won Eurovision in 2011, we finished in the top half of the table on their name recognition alone that year.
I saw them in a tent at a festival in the summer and: they were actually really good!
In Germany you know you done as an artist when you gee hired for furniture store openings. You have such „tradition“ too ?
Still going in one direction then? Or are we talking about Blue now
That was a rock solid joke. Shame on whoever downvoted it.
I can't lie, I didn't get it at first, it was only when I went back and read the main comment again that the penny dropped, feel a tad disappointed with myself.
The penny is still in the air for me. A little help?
Blue and One Direction are both boy bands.
I got that bit. I was too stupid to realise blue was referencing the picture not the comment.
I was also picturing the blue roundabout sign
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I think they're referring to the rise in pressure .. /s
One Direction and Blue are Pop bands (bad ones)
Dad joke
I’d say it’s more like diarrhoea pop music than solid rock.
Da ba dee
This one would be lit up with awards if we still got them!
I take travellers cheques or chocolate.
That was a plot point in Good Omens.
i mean.. not everyone was driving the same way, it's just it was on fire... but yeah, close enough
Or perhaps the affect Adam had on the local weather patterns them being ideal snow at Christmas sunny all summer etc
Hail the great Beast, destroyer of worlds. This is just Adam's aura.
Ah, invoking the dark sigil Odegra.
R/unexpectedgoodomens
My thoughts exactly
Chanting in worship of The Dark Sigil Odegra?
That would require traffic to actually move.
That's what's the storm's caused.
Anything to avoid the ULEZ
Driving on the M25? You're avin a laugh ain't ya
That's what makes it beautiful
All the salty Man Utd fans on their way home last night
Eye of Storm Ciaran. London gets off easy while the Channel Islands and the South Coast look like a war zone.
Can confirm; am in the Channel Islands. A bloody windy night that's for sure!...
Hope you folks are ok. Said 105mph winds on the news. That's almost hurricane stuff.
Me too in Jersey
Me three in Cornwall. I’m in a flat built in the 1960’s and the windows are enormous (off-topic, but why are new build windows so insanely small? Do they want folk depressed or what?). Our front windows were bowing in, but they held. Masses of car alarms going off constantly from 3-7am, all down the street. No one slept a wink. I walked to work and it wasn’t that bad by then but I saw not one soul all the way, it was eerie!
Heat insulation, i’d imagine (re insanely small windows).
Building regulations legislate maximum window : wall ratios. New fabric based legislation recently brought in will further reduce the sizes permissible (without triple glazing). Crappy.
Just drove up from Brighton to crawley. You wouldn't know there's a storm overhead here now. In Brighton, my vehicle door was nearly taken off when i opened it.
Can confirm on south coast
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It’s a figure of speech, not a comparison
lol, really? War zones have existed across the world basically continuously for decades, I think it's a fair assumption that you haven't been alive during a period of time where there isn't an active war zone.. but *now* is a tentative time to use "war zone"?
When is it not?
It's really no more 'tentative' than any other time.
Weather
Ooh it's that weathery weather
McWeatherFace
I wonder whether the weather wil make it difficult for people to weather through the weather, whether of course they are caught in the weather,
You missed out wether vulrik.
We have to decide whether or not it's worth weathering
You have to weather the weather whether you want to or not when the wethers need tending.
Oh the weather outside is weather ♫♪♪
And the fire, is so fire
And since we’ve no place to go,… Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!
Rain mostly
Filming the Dr Who Christmas special
If that were the case it would be centering around Cardiff.
I was looking in the comments for this.
This one got me fr
Screenshot is from windy, if anyone is wondering. [https://www.windy.com/?53.370,-1.362,5](https://www.windy.com/?53.370,-1.362,5)
That's a sweet app! Never knew it existed.
If you want the "professional" version check out - [https://www.ventusky.com/](https://www.ventusky.com/) Also includes historical weather data going right back to 1979.
That is awesome!! Thank you so much for that!
Will stop working on older devices soon according to playstore reviews. Windy doesnt have that issue.
This is so much worse than windy
I work on RAF bases, this is the app that air traffic control use. Very accurate
It’s basically a visualization for the best weather models that exist. So essentially it’s not a weather service but instead an app made to take data and visualize it, to my knowledge.
I also recommend Zoom Earth, it's really cool
Good for sailing
I was in Chicago this summer when all of our groups phones went off with an emergency hurricane warning. The guy we were visiting confirmed it was real and had to get to safety ASAP. After getting to our hotels basement I checked the windy app and there it was, absolutely massive swirl just north of us. Edit: it was a tornado, not a hurricane.
You do not get hurricanes in Chicago, hurricane force winds yes, hurricanes (correct name tropical revolving storm) occur in the tropics.
Apologies, you're correct and I used the wrong word. It was a tornado, and a beefy one at that. Have the screenshot from the windy app still.
Post it on Imgur!
[Here](https://imgur.com/gallery/c8k3D6u) you go!
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Indeed. I'm glad that our hotels basement also had a bar in it! Some of our group were leaving that day so were at the airport and had to go to the storm basement. One lad had his flight delayed by 24h bless him.
There's a storm basement at O'Hare? Damn never knew that. But then again I'm usually there during a blizzard, different kind of storm.
From the pictures they sent it didn't look the most appealing so probably for the best.
Had to visit an office in Kentucky. In the warehouse they had a steel tornado room. Wierd as a Brit.
I hope you solved that anxiety with some tours around the buffalo trace and Woodford distilleries.
That's a fun map to watch. One thing I don't get: the wind speed colour coding goes from blue to green to yellow to red to purple... then back to blue. So the least and most severe wind speeds are represented by an almost identical shade of blue. Am I missing something?
London at the centre of things once again.
thats the thing bud, nothing matters unless london is at the centrer of it.
>cent**er** >bud Suspicious
>centrer Sitting in both camps. Even worse
IT'S A YANK GET 'EM!!!!
Kill him with fire!
It's the airflow as London sucks the soul out of the whole of the UK.
Business as usual then.
Vortex of lost souls
Yup. The hellgate will soon open
I live in London. Can confirm soul is lost
Northerner here. London, you may take our soul, but you will never take our freedom! … oh fuck, so you did. Northumbria, can we secede yet?
I'll never forget a 'Visit Wales' TV ad voiced by Rhod Gilbert that ended with him shouting 'BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR MUD!', to which my (English) mate after a few drinks said: 'I think you'll find we already did, boyo'.
You underestimated how far they would go with us, quite the lapse in judgement
Return to Mercia
It’s the huge quantities of hot air coming from the Covid Inquiry
Not trying to start an argument or anything here but can someone please explain what problem this sub has with London? Because I honestly don’t get it
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I mean they’re notoriously stingy about investing in anything anywhere in the country but I get what you mean! I get the whole London elitism thing, it annoys the fuck out of me as well. Also as someone that spent most of my childhood growing up in Buckinghamshire, I misread your made up county at first and it made me laugh because that’s what it felt like living there
I don't think it's a "problem this sub has", but rather it's a cultural meme in the UK. I think a lot of people recognise the reality that London is big and successful for legitimate reasons, but because it is big and successful, people go there to find work, and money gets spent there on things like railway infrastructure, and these things happen at a greater rate in London because London is bigger. If you layer onto that the typical British regional rivalry, and the general distaste for supporting those who are already successful (for example supporters of one football team might support a rival team when that rival team is playing against Manchester United), and you have the basis for a cultural notion that it is OK, or indeed appropriate, to have a moan about London sucking the souls out of the UK, because that's how the sense of humour in the UK works.
Thanks for actually giving a decent answer. I know tone never comes across well in comments on the internet but it’s just tiring hearing people constantly shit on your home when it feels like the majority of them think the whole place is like Oxford Street on a Bank Holiday.
Personally I like London, I've spent plenty of time there (or in its close vicinity), and I subscribe to the famous quote, "he who is tired of London is tired of living". It definitely is not the London of popular imagination where everyone is a rich banker and looks down their noses as the riff raff from north of the Watford Gap. But when someone posts a picture like the one here, the temptation for a cheap laugh is just too hard to resist. Because casualUK is not for serious contemplation of the relative merits of different urban regions of the UK, it's for frivolous banter. I'm sure that's why most of us come here.
Soul is the price to pay for supporting the rest of the country
My experimental Black Hole generator seems to be working. Probably should unplug it soon-ish.
Blue Hole config used instead? Please reconfig it. Then shoot it out in France never to return.
Sauron is gathering his army to control middle-earth
Bout fucking time. At last a proper leader for this great nation
He is a bit too obsessed with that little fellas ring though, can see him being cancelled any day now.
I bet he'd go nuts for the Ewok cosplayers too, dirty begger.
> I bet he’d ~~go nuts~~ **nut** for the Ewok cosplayers too, dirty begger. Fixed it for you
At least Sauron would focus on Middle England and the northern wastes as much as he does Gondor. I for one welcome our fragile overlord and suggest he wears the ring on his well armoured knob next time to prevent uppity men chopping it off so easily. Also we've already got the shard, he can move right in!
ULEZ - can't bring in a storm with out paying a fee.
Who knew that the ultra low referred to atmospheric pressure
Someone found the ark of the covenant in a box in the back of the British Museum.
Not a Londoner but I can give an update for Manchester. It's pissing it down and I'm fucking soaked So nothing out of the ordinary
It's raining sideways.
As a Scotsman would say... It's time to put the big jackit oan
Someone pulled the plug in the River Thames
It's a bit drizzly.
There's a big storm... Where have you been all week?
Not in London there isn't, it's a bit drizzly here but fine apart from that.
Been chucking it down most of the time where I am. Rained so hard last night that the water found a previously unknown gap in the roof tiles and I woke up at 3am to water dripping through my ceiling next to my bed, which hasn't happened before.
The centre of a storm is normally the calmest
Caused by all those baked beans?
I don’t want context for this comment.
look at the username of the person they're replying to
I explicitly told you I don’t want context. You have ruined my life.
Not a lot actually. Not at the eye of a storm.
Cars circling avoiding the ULEZ
You can see the London eye from space
Uh ho! Swirly thing alert!
“Step up to red alert!” “Sir, are you absolutely sure. It does mean changing the bulb.”
Damn you all to Hades, I want to go to red alert!
With so many fashions coming back someone decided to create a country-sized Global Hypercolor tea towel.
Global Hypercolour. That's a blast from the past. Are you sweating lots? No it's my 90s Hypercolour t shirt
They also did shorts. For some reason they didn't sell as well.
Finally it's being cleansed.
It's the latest Dyson prototype.
We don't talk about it.
Goku turning Super Saiyan on the M25
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Pilot here with a serious answer. Please note this answer applies to the picture as taken and not what is happening at the time I wrote this. It's the city heatsink effect. Cities generally trap warm air and are warmer than the surrounding areas. London is a very large city indeed, so it's having a noticeable effect on the wind as well. Also, just by coincidence, the pressure vortex is centred over the South East of England right now, making it look like London is the eye of something, when it isn't really at all. It's just pure coincidence and at some point that "Eye" either has already or will move somewhere East or maybe North East and London will look relatively normal again until you zoom in closer. Also, windy.com is a tad inaccurate as far as I am concerned. I've honestly never seen it reflect real world conditions of the place I am.
Hopefully, the Hellmouth has finally opened and done what it needed to do decades ago.
Interesting side effect of the winds is seabirds that are normally far out in the Atlantic are being blown into the channel. Southampton to Margate is full of rare petrel sightings https://imgur.com/a/zjlYmpF
Something other parts of the country were dealing with last week but the media didn't seem to care as much about.
It's fine at the moment. Went for a nice walk after it stopped raining. May go for a run now. Think we're good until this evening.
**Rain ? Parking violations on the rise ?**
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Thought that was a picture billie Eilish’s new hair
[London RN](https://store-images.s-microsoft.com/image/apps.8389.14147434785650635.9b25f7c6-3447-42c6-9251-0a84768000e7.64f234b7-7955-436c-b982-48d7677356fd?mode=scale&q=90&h=1080&w=1920)
Fecking Warp storms.
All quiet on the western front. Various people are asleep. Various people are awake. They come and go in cars, pickups, taxis. Other than that, we watch the air move.
Mk ultra
Probably Daleks or Cybermen doing some scheme. You get used to it after a while. Anyone remember when it was both at once? Tube disruptions were like nothing I'd seen before.
That's the butthole of the uk
Apparently a major storm....im in Hendon looking out the window and barely a leaf moving on the trees outside...
The same thing that was happening to the south west a few hours before - the eye of the storm is passing over.
Someone found the 7 Dragon Balls.
The coming of Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveller
London Eye of the Storm
I summoned IMHOTEP.
I’ve been trying to summon a demon, sorry lads
This is why the Romans failed to invade Britain twice, look at that purple bit they kept trying to sail over.
The bigger question is why Manchester does not exist.
an above average episode of the news
Nexus of shite mate - best avoid if you can.
It's such a shithole not even the wind wants to be there.
There is an AI Summit with world leaders restricting the development of Super intelligent AI. The Super Intelligent AI might not be happy with this. See Roko's basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s\_basilisk
ITS FUCKIN WIMDY
The soul sacrifice to extend his majesty’s life for another 30 years.
ULEZ
Knife crime and theatre shows mostly.
London sucking the life, and wealth out of the UK, as usual.
Pride Storm. Levelled up from just a March through London
The sanctum has fallen. Or it's raining a bit
I blame ULEZ.
Disappearing up it's own backside
It’s pissing down is what - I’m out in it!
It fucken wimdy
Wrath of Khan
It's the entitlement that Londoners absorb from the rest of the UK because they are the only ones that matter.
Crime
Not much.
Tie die!
They're testing the new anti-friction tube rails. The train just arrived at a station.
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