Hot air

Has the Met Office gone the same way as Toblerone in talking up smaller portions?

All day on Monday they warned on their website of a 60mph gale hitting my town between 7pm and into dawn the morning after, maintaining the pretence even when it’s plain ‘The greatest storm since 1987’ is struggling here to hit thirty for half a minute.

Has Hurricane Ophelia’s asthma inhaler ran out? There were stronger winds locally as a result of National Curry Week.

I suppose I ought to have known better when even Scotrail hadn’t the brass neck to use the weather as a pretext to delay and cancel the half of their daily train services for which they hadn’t already found excuses to do so.

MARK BOYLE Linn Park Gardens Johnstone, Renfrewshire