Woooo! If you wonder why the British Isles are being pounded, look at this weather system:

[Are_grits_groceries]

@nycjim

Gonna get warshed clean away.

[MADem]

1. Poor IRELAND--they look like they are in the thick of it as well.

France looks like it's going to get some weather too.

[corksean]

8. Thankfully we're not doing too badly

I'm on the east coast near Dublin and the weather and flooding have been fairly minor. Cork (my home town) and the south coast have been amongst the worst affected areas but even that was nowhere like the damage they've suffered in the UK.

On the plus side we've finally started to discuss the possibility that climate change could have a major, long-term affect on the country, a realisation which was long overdue.

[postulater]

14. I'm imagining the cliffs on the west coast and how they must be getting blasted.

[MADem]

19. Stay safe!! nt

[The Second Stone]

20. Poor Ireland indeed you can't even see their outline in that

photo!

[theHandpuppet]

21. Only due to the lack of cloud cover

Looks like they're in better shape than England, Scotland and Wales.

[MMcGuire]

22. I was eating icecream outside today.

The weather seems to have missed me.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Was that yesterday's / last night's one ?

Another due Monday and a third later mid week.

Wasn't too bad by the time it reached me. My house is 170 years old and when the wind is really high the slate roof clatters.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Yesterday's. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Pray harder.

[postulater]

5. The shape of that looks like pure mathematics.

Can someone put an equation to it for us?

(Bill?

Bill?

Bill Nye?)

[rurallib]

6. Looks to me like an Ali uppercut

[postulater]

7. Or Popeye's arm.

[leftyohiolib]

9. octopus tentacle

[Helen Borg]

10. Here (very simple using a polar equation)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral

[postulater]

12. Nice. It's been a long time since I used my basic math.

Nature is amazing.

And I didn't see God mentioned in that article though math is pretty much the language that God would talk to us in.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. Could be a fractal.

Don't know the math.

[freshwest]

15. Thinking of a Fibonacci Fractal?

Repeat, repeat, repeat...

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. Yep.

Love them! Read about fractals and Mandelbrot when it came up. Taught the basic idea to my physics and earth science students. Fascinating.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. the pics I saw show rotation

Several Youtube pics from Brit tv show that hook turning into a rotating sotrm.
They talked about 70 to 80 mph winds...that is hurricane force..they are having wave after wave of winter hurricanes.!
Took me a few minutes to realize what I was looking at, since we equate hurricanes with warm weather.
Poor Britain..getting some repeatedly pounded by massive storms..yuk.

[NutmegYankee]

17. It's a classic extratropical cyclone.

Like all low pressure systems, it rotates counterclockwise*. When they occur off shore near New England, we call them Nor'easters.

* - In northern hemisphere. It's the opposite in the southern.

[malaise]

16. Frightening ideed

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