Hurricaine Bawbag

[Robert]

Scotland’s Hurricane Bawbag raises Twitter storm – the top reactions

Today’s severe weather in Scotland has attracted worldwide attention after being dubbed ‘Hurricane Bawbag’

"Bawbag" is a peculiarly Scottish way of saying "ball bag," meaning Scrotum.
It's almost exclusively used as an insult, as in: "Ah'll toe your erse, ya manky faced, wee bawbag!"

For the record, the winds are gusting up to 130mph in places and I was kicked out of my university this morning for safety reasons but I imagine this is more like a gentle breeze to the likes of Jim.

 

[metalman]

catagory 1 hurricane
winds 75–95 mph, 65–82 kts, 33–42 m/s

catagory 2 hurricane
winds 96–110 mph, 83–95 kts, 43–49 m/s

catagory 3 hurricane
winds 111–130 mph, 96–113 kts, 50–58 m/s

catagory 4 hurricane
winds 131–155 mph, 114–135 kts, 59–69 m/s

catagory 5 hurricane
winds >155 mph, >135 kts, > 70 m/s

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

 

[Robert]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's already a wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag

Hurricane Bawbag was the colloquial name given to a storm passing over areas of the United Kingdom, mainly Scotland, during the week beginning 5th of December 2011. The name "Hurricane Bawbag" was coined following discussion on Twitter, based on the vulgar Scottish vernacular "bawbag", meaning scrotum. On 8th December, winds reached up to 165mph[1]which resulted in closure of many roads, bridges, schools and businesses.

The 165mph wind speed is a little misleading - I believe this was up in the hills.
Around 85 mph here in the centre of Glasgow.

 

[robert l. bentham]

"Bawbag" is a peculiarly Scottish way of saying "ball bag," meaning Scrotum.
It's almost exclusively used as an insult, as in: "Ah'll toe your erse, ya manky faced, wee bawbag!"

For the record, the winds are gusting up to 130mph in places and I was kicked out of my university this morning for safety reasons but I imagine this is more like a gentle breeze to the likes of Jim.

i sprayed coffee out of my nose when i read this...

 

[cecilia]

except for the people without power, i guess this is quite amusing. How many Hurricanes has Scotland had?

 

[Karlos]

I think we're getting the, erm, tail end of bawbag down here

 

[cecilia]

"taint" ???

 

[Robert]

 

[cecilia]

NOW, you are just trying to kill us with laughter

 

[Robert]

Bawbag 2? Hurricane Fannybaws? Cyclone Bampot?

... the storm that hit Scotland this morning was officially worse than the one on December 8.

http://entertainment.stv.tv/opinion/292187-hurricane-2-the-bawbag-returns-or-does-it/

This bread lorry cowped next to my house this afternoon.

Trampoline videos have been making a reappearance too.

Not all fun and games though - two people dead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16385049

And last winter every one moaned about a wee bit of ice.

 

[redrumloa]

I will refrain from jokes. Stay safe.

 

[Robert]

I will refrain from jokes. Stay safe.

Thanks. It's a lot calmer now, albeit still very windy, which is nice as I'm away ten-pin-bowling in half an hour.

 

[the_leander]

Even down as far as yorkshire it was pretty bad, horizontal rain whilst on patrol is damned unpleasant to work through.

But to echo Red's words: Stay safe mate.

 

[Karlos]

My train journey from Hartlepool to Manchester yesterday encountered some poor weather but thankfully nothing quite as bad as that. Lots of horizontal rain, sleet and hailstones encountered at some god-forsaken-platform-in-the-middle-of-nowhere that I had to wait for a change at.

I had expected the train carriages to be a bit warmer, it seemed that the heater vents at the bottom were pumping out cold air. By the time I got to Manchester, I couldn't feel anything below my knees.