Severity Level:

[Cookie]

when issuing a sever weather warning.

what would merit a 5 out of 5?

and how many times in recent years has it been done?

[Cookie]

anybody? 3 threads and I feel like im talking to myself!

[PB22]

Sorry Cookie, have only just seen this.

The severity level we tend to base on the expected weather and how frequently the expected event tends to happen, as well as the locations expected to affected. For example, a period of severe gales with gusts towards 80mph are far more common across northern Scotland than they are across southeastern England, so if such an event was to affect the southeast then the severity level would be higher here than it would otherwise be for the north.

For a 5/5 severity level, we would be looking at a rare event such as the 1987 cold and snow from the east, or the great storm of 1987 in the southeast.

To my knowledge, we have yet to issue a 5/5 severity level.

[Cookie]

thanks for getting back

interesting to know

Edited December 21, 2008 by cookie

[Cookie]

To my knowledge, we have yet to issue a 5/5 severity level. :lol:

gee wizz,

I didn't expect one to happen so soon!

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=...ype=alert;reg=7

[knightstorm]

To my knowledge, we have yet to issue a 5/5 severity level.

What about that big storm in Scotland a few years back? 2005 I think it was! Sureley that was a 5/5 severity level? with winds topping 120mph!