{"id":6123,"date":"2014-12-12T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T08:45:40","slug":"strong-winds-in-scotland-not-many-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/12\/12\/strong-winds-in-scotland-not-many-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Winds in Scotland \u2013 not many dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, despite warnings of biblical proportion from an\u00a0increasingly frit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\">Met Office<\/a>, there were no dead at all, and I did wonder whether that rather irked the media\u00a0outfits that had spent \u00a3zillions sending news teams to north-west Scotland to cover what only amounted to crashing waves, bending trees and stranded ferries \u2013 that is, a typical winter storm. \u00a0Hurricane Alec, it wasn't. \u00a0Channel 4 News even send a hapless character to Blackpool; a first, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I watched it all unfold, quartered safe in Wiltshire. \u00a0Thanks to Chris Townsend,\u00a0I was able to look\u00a0at the swirling air masses on-line\u00a0via\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.nullschool.net\">link<\/a> to a graphic of Earth wind and ocean currents. \u00a0If\u00a0you click on 'Earth' at the bottom left of the page\u00a0you can change a range of perspectives and parameters \u2013 and you can\u00a0rotate the\u00a0earth image\u00a0as well. \u00a0I wish\u00a0I'd had this when I was failing to learn much geography at school.<\/p>\n<p>As for the UK's prevailing westerly wind and weather, happily, until the laws of physics governing angular momentum are repealed, all this\u00a0will go on and on and on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, despite warnings of biblical proportion from an\u00a0increasingly frit\u00a0Met Office, there were no dead at all, and I did wonder whether that rather irked the media\u00a0outfits that had spent \u00a3zillions sending news teams to north-west Scotland to cover what...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}