He’s working from home and there’s an honour system in place in terms of looking at his phone.
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Since covid its been hybrid. Never go into the office on a Friday anyway so no difference to my day really tbh 
. Everyone has been told in an email today to WFH if you can tomorrow tho
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Pretty fast with the reply sham. I am a bit impressed tbf
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Fair play mate, keep well!
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@Calum and @shamrockgooner fingers crossed for you both with the storm. Potentially looks very bad tomorrow! I am pleased to be in a part of the country that looks likely to be relatively unaffected.
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114 in Ireland is insane tbh. this has to be a generational storm. Taster of what we might be getting in a few hours as it travels over the channel…
Good to see the worst is sticking by the coast and that the weather models have slowed the progression of the next storm and dropped the idea of a nasty sting jet event in the SE corner.
Hopefully no lives will be lost thanks to good communication, a safety first approach by train operators and people’s inclination to laugh off work on Fridays if at all possible.
@shamrockgooner is this Storm Euan or Storm Owen? My daughter has a name with a traditional Irish spelling, so I like to think I generally have a decent handle on this vs your average Englisher, but I’m torn here.
I know it was in lotr so I’ve technically seen it before but my first thought on seeing that was, what?
I immediately just said Owen/Eoin in my head but did find this after a search
Éowyn, pronounced 'A-yo-win ’ was among the Met Office’s submissions and likely derives from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy
Despite that if i met someone with that name I’d call them Eoin unless corrected.
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One of the presenters on the excellent weekly Met Office “Deep Dive” video said that the Irish Met Office named this one.
I like Irish named storms, reintroducing Gaelic to England because it’s a more traditional UK language than “English”.
Standard reporter standing at the sea during a storm on GMB
You all ok @shamrockgooner ? Looked very bad from all the footage
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We never get it too bad here in Dublin thankfully, its always the West Coast most affected (which makes sense). There is one tree down in this estate and that seems to be the worst of it here.
We have about 1.8m homes here in Ireland and roughly 400,000 of them are still without power.
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As a weather buff, I have to admit to being excited by extreme weather but it’s always a huge relief when something passes without serious injuries or deaths.
So glad you and those you love are all safe @shamrockgooner
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Oh FFS, February’s UK weather shaping up to be dominated by an area of blocking high pressure which means cold Easterlies at this time of the year.
I really hope we don’t have a 3rd successive cold Spring due to easterlies. These patterns can get stuck for months as they did in 2023 and 2024. This appears to agree with long-range climate predictions that the UK will be colder in winter and hotter in the summer, with less precipitation. If it happens 3 years on the bounce, we’re in trouble and so is the rest of the planet.
As for snow in the South East, it’s possible in the middle of Feb. Not unusual for this time of the year, I think the bigger issue will be some sharp frosts to come.
Tbh I much much prefer it single figure temperatures cold and dry over continuous rain and double figure temperatures
Yes. We’d have the benefit of more clearly defined seasons and we’d be much drier. But at our latitude that would mean it’s nice from June to August. Rather than now when we have a shot at warm weather between April and October.
It’s really weird and shows how complex our climate is that despite a planet-wide heat-up we get stuck in one of the handful of areas that could see average temperatures drop for most of the year.
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Still a bit chilly but we’re getting there chaps, no more of those dark dingy evenings!
Been great this last week, where was the prediction on that @Wivenswold 
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Was down there a couple hours ago enjoying a walk on my lunch break as it goes lol
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