Isha Worry, Innit...

Yet another named storm - Isha - is currently about to make landfall here in the west - I guess first, as the Atlantic's where it's coming from - but we've already had a battering throughout most of the day and into the evening thus far. There's already been gusts of 100mph recorded at Capel Curig, between here and Betws-Y-Coed to the south - although it's fair to say that it is a windy and wet old place, anyway - but my estimation the worst so far here in Fairview Heights was around 80mph. Being told then that the worst is yet come, is of no great comfort at all: 100mph winds up here would have serious consequences.

But as with everything to do with forces of nature, you just have to sit back and wait and see what happens. Batten down the hatches, drink some wine and eat a hearty meal, then sleep on it and wait for morning to assess the damage. That we as a species are largely responsible for these freak climate conditions is also of little comfort, and the deliberately laissez-faire attitudes of governments of all stripes across the world, pursuing economic growth before planet, makes it all the more depressing still...