Storm Bert

[poliphilo]

 Comical proles in patronising mid-century British comedy sketches are called Bert. If you want to be cool you spell in with a "U".  But was Burt Reynolds ever cool? I think that's up for debate.

I guess Burt Lancaster was. Just about. Though it's not the first adjective that comes to mind.....

But anyway, it's a silly name for a storm. 

I look out the window and everything moveable is fluttering and waving as the invisible waves come powering in. And then there's that noise, rising and falling- something between a moan and a whistle that (as I've written before) is best represented by the French word "siffle".

Comments

[cmcmck]

Bert is apparently someone who works in the Irish weather services as they got to name this one.

[poliphilo]

Ah, the personal touch....