Oh come come, we don't want a link to the Daily Expresso from you. We need a met officer's view as to why there is a depression forming in the south west approaches that is just gently going round in circles, about to deliver many hours of continuous rain, instead of whipping through like such feature usually do. Where's the jet-stream when you need it?
Mind you, it's rather fun:
The UK is about to be rocked by the most frenzied and chaotic start to summer EVER as monsoons and tornadoes rage in.
Ice stones the 'size of cricket balls' will cause devastation across the country in what forecasters fear could be the the worst hailstorms since a deadly 'supercell' led to hailstones leaving craters FIVE FEET deep across England 171 years ago.
Temperatures are expected to rocket to an incredible 91F (32.6C) by Saturday as a swathe of roasting hot air suddenly floods the British Isles.
Heavy and persistent downpours will start today with parts of the south on alert for extreme flash floods.
But the really dramatic weather will start on Friday night when two 'battling' weather systems will fight it out over Britain.
The resulting carnage will trigger tornadoes and fierce winds, enormous hailstorms and potentially DEADLY lightning strikes.
I'm looking forward to measuring the hailstone crater depths.
I'm not quite in that green bit; I'm in the first yellow bit. The weather's good at the moment but everyone' forecasting something dreadful very shortly.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Unsurprising news out today show that our storms at the beginning of this year were officially the worst on record, coupled with Ireland experiencing the wettest winter on record (again).
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
A round-up of climate-change-related stories from Asia.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
That image is (sadly) spectacular. You would think they'd be used to monsoons by now and not build in flood-prone areas, says he naively.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
biffvernon wrote:India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described the flooding as "a national disaster." A pity he doesn't believe in global warming.
Biff, you have a terrible propensity to blame everything on global warming. This region has annual problems with flooding - it is a characteristic of monsoon regions.
I note in the Reuters article, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/0 ... A920140907 that this is the worst flooding in the region for 60 years. Maybe you can tell me what you think caused the even worse flooding 60 years ago?
These floods are increasing in frequency as well as intensity.
Still, we mustn't expect an extra 30 billion+ tons of CO2 and related gases pumped into the atmosphere annually to have any effect whatsoever, must we?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Weather caused the floods sixty years ago, Snow, and if these floods were a "once in 60/100 years event" they would be weather as well. But when these once in 60/100 year events start happening every other year that is climate and it's changing.
I fellow MSc course member from CAT has been working in Pakistan for a number of years now with a flood relief team and they have been looking at ways to "harden" the local mud brick houses to make them more flood resistant because they are having to rebuild them every few years. They are not used to having to do this or the local vernacular would be wooden houses on stilts not mud brick. They are even going to the extreme of creating islands with tree root hardened edges to raise their houses and, almost as importantly, their sewage systems above the flood level.
snow hope wrote:Didn't think you could answer the question.
Ken explained my answer for you.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
