We were wondering whether the Thursday market yesterday might have been cancelled, due to the wind, as was the case on several occasions in past years.
Thankfully, however, it went ahead as planned, using the stalls erected by North Lincolnshire Council.
A spokesman for the local authority told Brigg Blog this morning (Friday, February 24): "We assessed it to make sure it was safe for traders and shoppers and, as the winds didn't seem as bad as forecast, we found it safe to go ahead."
Many twigs were blown off the trees in East Park, adjoining the Tintab shelter, near the Monument. And that means free fuel can be collected today by those with coal fires or wood-burning stoves, if they wish.
We can recall learning about the 19th century Beaufort Scale, almost half-a-century ago.
It is still used today to gauge wind strength.
Geoff "Shoddy" Jarvis, long-serving geography master at Brigg Grammar School, taught us well.
Beaufort Scale 8: "Fresh gale" - results in some twigs being broken from trees, which was clearly the case yesterday.
Beaufort Scale 9: "Strong/severe gale" - results in temporary signs and barricades being blown over.
Beaufort Scale 10: "Storm/whole gale" sees trees broken off or uprooted. A walk through parts of the town this morning didn't furnish any examples of such damage. Nor did Humberside Fire & Rescue Service report any incidents in Brigg yesterday resulting from Storm Doris.
My plastic down-pipe blew off....admittedly, I hadn't secured it the wall!
ReplyDeleteForce 12 is a hurricane/yphoon....but all sorts of natural and artificial features can affect both the basic wind speed and direction.
For example, moderate wind blowing between high rise buildings can increase speed to storm force (Re ventori effect)...and wind crossing a coast will invariably change its direction about 10 - 20 degrees...
My plastic down-pipe blew off....admittedly, I hadn't secured it the wall!
ReplyDeleteForce 12 is a hurricane/yphoon....but all sorts of natural and artificial features can affect both the basic wind speed and direction.
For example, moderate wind blowing between high rise buildings can increase speed to storm force (Re ventori effect)...and wind crossing a coast will invariably change its direction about 10 - 20 degrees...
I've told you about my experience in a Blackburn Beverley....a lumbering RAF transport aircraft....flying back from Cyprus to Malta, there was a very strong headwing....the airspeed was recorded as 120 knots, but progress over the Med was about 35 mph....we had to divert to an RAF station in north Africa before the fuel ran out.
ReplyDeleteAnd having mentioned the ventori effect, did you know that a gondola has one side that is more curved than the other side.
The gondalier propels the craft from a standing position, paddling over the right stern..in normal circumstances this would turn a craft to the left...but to compensate, the right side is curved more to produce a lower water pressure on the right side, thus sucking the gondola to the right and therefore, balancing thr effect of the gondolier's paddling...
Correction.....the gondola's asyemmetry - has significant curve bias on the right side, not left......built-in design to counter drag at the water line...
ReplyDeleteCorrection to Correction.....ignore...I was right the first time, as always!!!
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