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Spring 2012 the most extreme in US history -Dr Jeff Masters:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

What's truly remarkable is the margin the old record was broken by--spring 2012 temperatures were a full 1°F above the previous most extreme season, the winter of 1999 - 2000. All-time seasonal temperature records are very difficult to break, and are usually broken by only a tenth of a degree. To see the old record crushed by a full degree is a stunning and unparalleled event in U.S. meteorological history.

Meanwhile nearer home, rain accomplishes what hitler never managed to...
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9809086 ... d/?ref=twt

the cancellation was purely because of parking difficulties.

Wouldn't have happened in the days of the horse.

biffvernon wrote:

the cancellation was purely because of parking difficulties.

...

yeah, the fecking car-park was under water

It's the insistence by mass numbers of people on driving to these events that is causing the problems. Over the last few weeks there has been chaos at the Isle of Wight festival and Silverstone, and cancellations of the Scottish Game Fair and now the Yorkshire Show, all because of car park access.

If people arrived by bus there wouldn't be a problem. The poor woman from Silverstone was getting some stick from the BBC interviewer at the weekend for suggesting that people in cars stay away on the Saturday. The interviewer said that many people would have travelled the day before and stayed locally, and that it was now too late to tell them not to come. The spokesperson's response was to say "if they've stayed locally, they can walk in, plus there's a half-hourly bus from Northampton".

Many large scale outdoor events are only readily reached by car.

I visit the Great Dorset Steam Fair every year, and access needs a car, or in my case a taxi which is nearly as bad.
I usually stay in Tisbury, from which there is no bus to the site.
Public transport means an infrequent train to Salisbury, and then a very limited bus service to the fair.
The one time I tried it, the train was cancelled, the next one was late, I queued for over an hour for the bus, and then stood for a 2 hour bus journey.
Never again !

Fair comment, but I think as these events become more popular (especially the big ones, such as festivals), there should be an obligation to lay on shuttle buses from the nearest practical transport node.

I've just bbeen privvi to a lively discussion on FB about whether or not it is physically possible to cycle to the London Olympics

I'm very glad I'm not going!!

I can't spell "privy"

Another record falls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19187115

July was the hottest month the continental US has seen since records began, federal scientists have said.

Last month, the average temperature was 77.6F (25.3C), hotter than the old record from July 1936, during a period of severe drought known in the US as the Dust Bowl.

The last 12 months were the warmest since modern records began in 1895.

It was also more than 3F warmer than the average temperature in July during the 20th Century.

On the other hand, today is the 45th anniversary of the flash flood that took away 1/2 the village where we used to live (we weren't yet living there at the time).

The preacher got up and said it was all because some of the local lads-and-lasses had been, erm, May-timing out in the nearby woods (it was the Summer of Love, after all). And people believed him.

biffvernon wrote:Another record falls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19187115

July was the hottest month the continental US has seen since records began, federal scientists have said.

Last month, the average temperature was 77.6F (25.3C), hotter than the old record from July 1936, during a period of severe drought known in the US as the Dust Bowl.

The last 12 months were the warmest since modern records began in 1895.

It was also more than 3F warmer than the average temperature in July during the 20th Century.

Things are hotting up for Monsanto too.

Drought plus a plague of rootworms...

sounds like something oot the auld book! Perhaps that preacher was on to something

Now let's see, what has the USA ever done wrong?..

Another record broken:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/0 ... -recorded/

emordnilap wrote:

biffvernon wrote:Another record falls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19187115

July was the hottest month the continental US has seen since records began, federal scientists have said.

Last month, the average temperature was 77.6F (25.3C), hotter than the old record from July 1936, during a period of severe drought known in the US as the Dust Bowl.

The last 12 months were the warmest since modern records began in 1895.

It was also more than 3F warmer than the average temperature in July during the 20th Century.

Things are hotting up for Monsanto too.

A bloody GCSE level understanding of evolutionary theory could have told them this. If you start a war with the rest of life, in the end the rest of life wins.

Always.

The only way this is going is with everybody completely dependant on the likes of Monsanto to come out with the latest genetically modified weapon each year in an ongoing and never ending arms race. Which is, of course, just how they would like it to be.

Bastards.