#storm-impacts

#storm-impacts

Ten years ago this month, the Met Office began naming storms with Abigail, which (who?) was unremarkable, unless you lived in the Outer Hebrides, where the schools closed and the power shut down, so nobody could even go to the cinema. That's the thing about weather: it's very unevenly distributed. There's no way of getting those with the broadest shoulders to carry the heaviest weight.