Weather warnings Yellow. 1987 storm or a quiet breeze

[RushesToo]

So I have an orange warning from the met office, which means not changing of colours on trees - from a slight yellow to bare skeleton. Not how I like to see an autumn.

Quote sad so looked to see what it meant. Seems I can "not much" expect "total devastation" = yellow.
Nice little picture shown on the metoffice site:

Now it makes sense, there is a small chance that I will get an almighty storm this means yellow.
If I lived further south I would be an orange:

the same devastation if it hits, but more likely to find me.

Feeling relieved I am not in a red. I remember the 1987 one. Definitely a red.

 

[rob1]

Trouble is they cry wolf so often dont take much notice any more. Last amber alert was for 50/60 mm rain had12 in the end

 

[RushesToo]

These are on the how likely / how bad - you will get torrential rainfall but you might miss it - there will be people a few miles from you that were amber and got amber or worse got red.

I am so glad I don't live in the States - you get hurricane tracks tens / hundreds of miles wide, miss it and your fine, in the path and it's armageddon. I quite like the English weather [less so British] version - it might, just might get a bit wet and blow a bit.

Mostly our weather is in the yellow amber bit. Although it raises a thought - when it doesn't rain for 6 weeks, or does steadily for 6 weeks, we don't get a warning. Because it won't hurt people in the short term is my take. The colours only relate to the next 24 hours, not the long term effects which we are all still working round.