Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)

[Summer Sun]

SOGGY BRITAIN FACES ANOTHER WASHOUT MONTH

http://www.express.c...r-washout-month

AND IT MIGHT JUST KEEP RAINING TILL SEPTEMBER

http://www.dailystar...till-September/

Two more weeks of pain before summer begins? Forecasters say drier weather is on the way... just in time for the Olympics

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1zakwjiFV

• Andy Murray delayed by rain at Wimbledon but he goes on to win in style
• Chaotic spell of showers and storms set to continue until mid-July
• Met Office says there are signs of drier weather on the horizon

Edited July 3, 2012 by Summer Sun

[Summer Sun]

WASHOUT BRITISH SUMMER COULD CAUSE RICKETS EPIDEMIC

http://www.dailystar...ckets-epidemic/

Brollies at the ready: A week's worth of rain expected to fall tomorrow as forecasters warn of another wet weekend

• Up to 20mm of rain - a quarter of July's total - could fall in some areas tomorrow
• Slow-moving storms will bring torrential rain to some regions, but others could be completely dry
• Met Office says weekend will be unsettled, with scattered showers moving across the UK
• Thunderstorms likely to hit the east and south west of the country before Sunday

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1zea6FRat

Half a month’s rain to fall in two hours But Olympics will be sunny ... honest

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4409353/Half-a-months-rain-to-fall-in-two-hours.html

[knocker]

Weather Eye: problematic predictions

The forecasters get it right more often than we give them credit for — so prepare for a rainy summer ahead

The Met Office’s long-range forecasts have been criticised for failing to predict the wash-outs this spring and summer, as well as missing the intense freeze of December 2010 (Opinion, July 2).

In fact, its predictions have been surprisingly accurate. The outlook made for May to July favoured wet weather, probably falling into the wettest of five categories used by the forecasters, and that has turned out to be true — unusually rainy, with plenty more downpours expected this month.

Earlier this year, in late January, the Met Office warned of dry conditions ahead — and it was proved right in the exceptional drought of March when water shortages became headline news. However, it did miss the turning point in April, when the rains crashed down and it turned into the wettest April on record in the UK.

Forecasting the weather months ahead is at the frontier of scientific knowledge, and predicting rainfall is especially difficult. So, to spot any sign of a wet summer is really quite impressive, and to get the occasional prediction wrong is a risk of all forecasting. And to say there was no warning of the Arctic freeze of December 2010 is possibly the greatest travesty of justice. That bitterly cold early winter was flagged up well in advance in October 2010 and warnings were given to the Government.

Perhaps the real reason for bashing the Met Office is that it has never been forgiven for trumpeting the “barbecue summer†of 2009, when glorious weather was promised and instead it poured with rain. Since then the Met Office has kept its long-range predictions out of the public spotlight, preferring to give specialised seasonal forecasts for organisations and companies. These predictions are couched in the language of statistics that can seem frustrating and waffly to many, and keeping them largely under wraps has also drawn criticism for leaving the public in the dark. All of which means that the Met Office can never hope to please all of the people all of the time.

http://www.thetimes....icle3465837.ece

Edited July 5, 2012 by knocker

[Coast]

It is unlikely to bring a smile to the lips of his dour regulars but a pub landlord in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales has launched an “unhappy hour†to reward the most miserable of the bunch with a free drink. The constant moaning of villagers over the bad weather, poor economy and lack of tourists has left publican Andy Smith crying into his beer.

His hostelry, The Buck Inn at Wrelton, near Pickering, should be among the businesses reaping the benefits of the hordes of visitors who usually flock to the Dales during the summer months. But the seemingly endless rain this year has left a nearby caravan site standing empty and dozens of holiday cottages vacant.

The Friday night moan-in is being billed as an “unhappy hour†but Andy reckons his depressed regulars have so much to get off their chests it could go on for twice that long.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/330810/Fed-up-Time-to-visit-pub-for-unhappy-hour

[Village]

The best thing they can do is tell us the truth.

That truth is that even having spent one billion pounds of tax payers money on a supercomputer in Exeter; they cannot ever expect to be able to predict our weather here one season ahead. Thats the hard facts of it.

They should be honest and say we still cannot forecast with any accuracy beyond ten days. I have proved over and over again that even I am better at it than they are, and I just use my own experience and brain. I predicted the floods this year one full month ahead of them while they were still predicting a drier than average April and summer ahead.

Why can I do this time and time again? Not because I am cleverer than they are ....no ...I am just not relying on a piece of junk in Exeter. They are overeliant on computers now and thats their problem, they seem to worship the dumb thing because I dont believe they understand its limitations. Computers are dumb. They only do repetitive actions of what they are told to do by a cleverer entity; ie; a person.

Until they understand this point then they will continue to be embarrased by the synthetic predictions churned out by the junk at Exeter without explanation.

They may aswell just say; 'COMPUTER SAYS NO!'

[Summer Sun]

WILL IT EVER END? 90 FLOOD ALERTS ISSUED AS BRITAIN IS SET TO GET A MONTH OF RAIN IN A DAY

http://www.express.c...f-rain-in-a-day

Britain blanketed: Roads turn to rivers and flood warnings across the country as month's worth of rain set to fall in a day

• Environment Agency extends flood alerts to 98 and issues five full warnings
• Yorkshire, the North East, the Midlands and East Anglia are worst-hit
• Experts say risk of flooding is the highest yet this year
• Twisting funnel cloud spotted in the skies over Somerset
• Music festival in Leeds cancelled due to safety concerns over the weather

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1zrNntZrT

Brits drenched as July downpours put a dampner on summer

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4413442/Brits-drenched-as-July-downpours-put-a-dampner-on-summer.html

[Methuselah]

The best thing they can do is tell us the truth.

That truth is that even having spent one billion pounds of tax payers money on a supercomputer in Exeter; they cannot ever expect to be able to predict our weather here one season ahead. Thats the hard facts of it.

They should be honest and say we still cannot forecast with any accuracy beyond ten days. I have proved over and over again that even I am better at it than they are, and I just use my own experience and brain. I predicted the floods this year one full month ahead of them while they were still predicting a drier than average April and summer ahead.

Why can I do this time and time again? Not because I am cleverer than they are ....no ...I am just not relying on a piece of junk in Exeter. They are overeliant on computers now and thats their problem, they seem to worship the dumb thing because I dont believe they understand its limitations. Computers are dumb. They only do repetitive actions of what they are told to do by a cleverer entity; ie; a person.

Until they understand this point then they will continue to be embarrased by the synthetic predictions churned out by the junk at Exeter without explanation.

They may aswell just say; 'COMPUTER SAYS NO!'

A lot of assumptions in there...

[rob48]

The best thing they can do is tell us the truth.

That truth is that even having spent one billion pounds of tax payers money on a supercomputer in Exeter; they cannot ever expect to be able to predict our weather here one season ahead. Thats the hard facts of it.

They should be honest and say we still cannot forecast with any accuracy beyond ten days. I have proved over and over again that even I am better at it than they are, and I just use my own experience and brain. I predicted the floods this year one full month ahead of them while they were still predicting a drier than average April and summer ahead.

Why can I do this time and time again? Not because I am cleverer than they are ....no ...I am just not relying on a piece of junk in Exeter. They are overeliant on computers now and thats their problem, they seem to worship the dumb thing because I dont believe they understand its limitations. Computers are dumb. They only do repetitive actions of what they are told to do by a cleverer entity; ie; a person.

Until they understand this point then they will continue to be embarrased by the synthetic predictions churned out by the junk at Exeter without explanation.

They may aswell just say; 'COMPUTER SAYS NO!'

Agree with this, combined with their warmist agenda they are too prejuduced to forecast objectively.

[Methuselah]

Agree with this, combined with their warmist agenda they are too prejuduced to forecast objectively.

Please can we all refrain from stereotyping folks with words like 'warmist' and 'denier'?? Prejudice works both ways!

[syed2878]

@vilege i totaly agree also rob48 i think makes a valid point but of course the gw crue wont like those point at all.

[Methuselah]

@vilege i totaly agree also rob48 i think makes a valid point but of course the gw crue wont like those point at all.

Of course they make valid points, S2878. But, there are ways and the are 'ways' of making valid points...

[Village]

Agree with this, combined with their warmist agenda they are too prejuduced to forecast objectively.

syed2878, on 07 July 2012 - 20:41 , said:

@vilege i totaly agree also rob48 i think makes a valid point but of course the gw crue wont like those point at all.

Thanks for your support guys.

Its not just the Meto who is making this mistake, many industries have also believed the synthetic computer generated information and also failed. The Banking industry has done it. The insurance industry has done it. Airline pilots have done it and killed themselves and others.

Its time the Meto went back to the drawing board. I have done it and I can beat them hands down on longterm rainfall. Companies here in the City have limited me to only £10 per trade now because I took them to the cleaners. So its all aout using the computer to do the mundane work and then still doing the predicting oneself. The minute one starts believing in the computer predicting the future you may aswell add yourself to the idiot list.

[knocker]

So the many years developing numerical forecasting by hundreds, actually probably thousands, of very clever scientific brains worldwide, not just the METO, is dimissed out of hand and one or two amateaurs who think they can do better. Not only that but the years of expertise and experience of the senior forecasters at Exeter are also consigned to the rubbish tip. I have to say I find the arrogance of this, quite frankly, unbelievable. I can only but hope that this drivel atracts a very narrow audience.

Edited July 8, 2012 by knocker

[knocker]

I think the best idea Village is to look at analogues like the PDO, QBO, MEI and the AO and you then get a more accurate account of what is going on. The QBO I feel is the most reliable driver with the summer months and is having a major effect on the AO as well.

I have to say I'm impressed, and I take my hat off, by those who understand what the QBO is and the role it plays in the dynamics of the atmosphere. I've read a fair bit about it and I freely admit it's beyond me.

Even Mohanakumar concludes when discussing Planetary Wave Forcing:

Modeling studies could successfully simulate quantitatively the observed QBO, based on the present theory (Holton and Austin 1991). Still this theory fails to explain the complete phenomena of the formation and existence of QBO in the atmosphere.

K. Mohanakumar, "Stratosphere Troposphere Interactions".

Edited July 8, 2012 by knocker

[Methuselah]

So the many years developing numerical forecasting by hundreds, actually probably thousands, of very clever scientific brains worldwide, not just the METO, is dimissed out of hand and one or two amateaurs who think they can do better. Not only that but the years of expertise and experience of the senior forecasters at Exeter are also consigned to the rubbish tip. I have to say I find the arrogance of this, quite frankly, unbelievable. I can only but hope that this drivel atracts a very narrow audience.

Aye, that just about sums it up...

[Summer Sun]

WeatherOnline's outlook for August and September

Rain until September?

It really could!

Issued: Friday 8th June 2012

Duty forecasters: Simon Keeling & Captain Bob

*August*

Pressure begins to the rise to the west of the British Isles with a ridge topping across all areas, the westerly flow weakening as high pressure builds in, the weather settling at long last. There is still the indication that in the short term there is likely to be westerly flow across more northern areas, this carrying cloudier conditions and patchy rain at times, sunny breaks to sheltered eastern areas.

A weak anticyclone develops and settles over the UK to bring all areas at least a few days of settled and fine weather....this could be summer folks so make the most of whatever may be delivered here as there's no confidence on this pattern that it'll last. By mid-month high pressure will be weakening with low pressure to the west or northwest beginning to approach from the west, thickening cloud and patchy rain into western and north-western Britain on a freshening southerly of south-westerly breeze.

From mid-August onwards the pattern indicates that 'summer's gone'....the Atlantic becoming once more the focus for attention, a series of low pressure systems bringing rather unsettled and cool conditions into all areas of the UK, windy at times with gales in the north.

Some indications that a recovery in pressure may take hold across southern counties of England, this perhaps only reinforcing the westerly flow as low pressure will be maintained to the northwest and north, the emphasis still distinctly unsettled.

*September*

Still unsettled through the opening of September...but just as autumn begins....the weather settles as a large anticyclone develops and takes up station over the UK. Through until the beginning of the second week, high pressure looks as if it'll be in control, settled and fine, pleasantly warm in the autumnal sunshine and light winds, but distinctly chilly overnight under clear skies.

High pressure begins to draw back westward during mid-month, the pattern cooling and destabilising into showers of lengthier spells of rain from the west of northwest for a time before the conditions settle once more, the western anticyclone drifting eastwards into the near continent, warming for a time as a southerly establishes ahead of rain bearing Atlantic low pressure moving into western Britain

It looks as autumn arrives with a vengeance into the third week, wet and windy weather tracking into the UK with heavy rain and strong winds, the pattern taking on a much more unsettled scenario, limited drier and settled weather as high pressure is likely to transitory.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=206&FILE=sea&DAY=20120707

[Polar Maritime]

London faces Olympic washout

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-08/london-faces-olympic-washout/4116932

[Coast]

Hosepipe bans finally lifted after 'abnormally heavy rainfall'

The final four water companies with hosepipe bans have lifted them. South East Water, Sutton and East Surrey Water, Veolia Water Central and Veolia Water Southeast said the restrictions in place since April have ended after 'abnormally heavy rainfall'.

Seven firms brought in the bans after two unusually dry winters. Thames Water, Anglian Water and Southern Water removed them last month – the wettest June on record.

Meanwhile, after a particularly wet weekend Britons are being told to brace themselves for plummeting temperatures this week.

Temperatures are set to fall as low as 15C (59F) in the south by Wednesday – 8C below the summer average. The north will see lows of 13C (55F), while parts of Scotland will shiver in 12C (54F) temperatures. ‘Rain across the north-east and southern Scotland will ease on Monday but feel cooler,’ a Met Office forecaster said. ‘It will be cold for July – particularly in the north.’

Over the weekend, a month of rain fell in just 24 hours with flood-hit communities left counting the costs. The Environment Agency issued more than 110 flood warnings across the country from the South West, where the River Axe burst its banks, to Upminster, in Essex.

In Weymouth, Dorset, a car park that will be used to transport park-and-ride spectators to the Olympic sailing events flooded. And in Somerset, several firefighters had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped by flood water while trying to rescue a flock of drowning sheep. More than 30,000 Formula One fans were told to stay away from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone after public car parks became quagmires. And the wet weather also affected the tense Wimbledon clash between Andy Murray and Roger Federer, where rain stopped play on a couple of occasions.

http://www.metro.co....l#ixzz207Rh65FH

[Coast]

Get ready for 10 more days of rain at least as forecasters blame shift in jet stream for terrible weather that has written off summer so far

Jet stream is further south than it should be for this time of year meaning Britain is under a blanket of low pressure News follows washout at Silverstone, roads turning to rivers in Devon and the Wimbledon final interrupted by downpours

Britain's soggy summer looks set to continue until at least the start of the Olympics with forecasters pointing the finger of blame at the jet stream for two months of torrential downpours. As the country endured another sodden week, following the wettest spring and early summer period since records began, it emerged that the wet weather will continue for another seven to 10 days. Matt Dobson, forecaster at MeteoGroup, said the main culprit was the jet stream, a fast wind that blows round the planet and moves our surface pressure systems.

‘Our weather is really stuck in a rut because the jet stream is further south than it should be at this time of the year – over France and northern Spain – and we are under a blanket of low pressure on the northern side of it,’ he said. ‘Although there will be some sunny interludes – with Monday not looking too bad – the weather will remain unsettled. ‘Tuesday and Thursday will see the worst of it, with thundery downpours on the way for Tuesday and heavy rain set to sweep through the country from the south-west on Thursday.’

This weekend, roads turned into rivers amid flooding in Devon, leaving many homes under water, racegoers at Silverstone were towed out of the mud and the Wimbledon final was interrupted by downpours. One driver died when his car left the road after a month’s worth of rain fell in just 24 hours in many parts of the country. Mr Dobson said despite the unsettled weather prevailing, today and tomorrow will be brighter. He said: 'Today we are looking at more scattered showers but it should be a little bit better than it has been over the past few days. Looking ahead it is a very unsettled week with no respite from the wet weather.

'There will be heavy downpours tomorrow and Thursday, particularly across England and Wales, and no sign of any sunny weather for the next 10 days.' Mr Dobson said scattered heavy showers were affecting east Wales and the West Midlands, with heavy thunderstorms over Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Heavy showers will hit London and the south coast today, and there will be a risk of thunderstorms over central and eastern England, he said.

The Environment Agency still has 89 flood alerts and 14 flood warnings in place, but the Met Office has no weather warnings currently issued for the UK. But there is one piece of good news - the incessant rain has finally spelled the end of the hosepipe ban. The final four water companies with bans announced they are lifting them with immediate effect. South East Water, Sutton and East Surrey Water, Veolia Water Central and Veolia Water Southeast said the restrictions that have been in place since early April have now ended following the 'abnormally heavy rainfall' that has deluged much of the country. A joint statement from the four companies said they were heavily dependent on ground water supplies but these have now recovered sufficiently to enable them to lift the bans.

It said: 'The companies would all like to thank their customers for complying with the restrictions and supporting their plea to use water wisely. This has kept demand for water well below levels normally experienced at this time of year. 'Significant - or indeed any - recharge of underground resources at this time of year is most unusual but it follows the abnormally heavy rainfall experienced since spring which has finally brought to an end the severe drought after two dry winters.'

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman yesterday met flood victims in Devon, where a huge clean-up operation was under way after the area saw the worst of the bad weather. Ms Spelman spoke of the importance of flood prevention schemes during a visit to Ottery St Mary, near Exeter, which had a number of defences put in place after previous flooding.

One of the culverts she was taken to protected 60 nearby properties from water entering their homes. Resident Elizabeth Nickels, 62, who spoke to Ms Spelman about the flooding, said they had been incredibly lucky that the flood prevention scheme had been completed just weeks ago. She said: 'The water was coming off East Hill in absolute torrents and they were absolutely unable to get in and out of that part of the town. 'So we were so much luckier on this side of the town, I mean the defence worked, and thank goodness for it, when you think it’s only been finished a few weeks it was exactly at the right time.'

The Environment Secretary also spoke about how important social media had become as a way of warning residents as she thanked staff at the Met Office in Exeter for the work they have been doing to warn people about the bad weather. Philip and Nolwenn Luke told Ms Spelman that the Environment Agency’s early warning text message system had allowed them to move their car to safety before the floods hit.

Ms Spelman said she had been given assurances that all Olympic sites would be resilient to floods after flooding at a park-and-ride car park in Weymouth, Dorset, which will be used to transport spectators to sailing events. Elsewhere, firefighters had to be airlifted to safety by a coastguard helicopter when they became trapped by flood water while rescuing a flock of drowning sheep in Somerset, an RSPCA spokeswoman said. The animals were stranded by rising water near a railway line at Batemans Farm in Chard, but were eventually rescued by RSPCA inspectors using a boat.

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz207TJTuj5

[shedhead]

Dry, warm and sunny it is then!! http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/07/08/wet-windy-olympics-worst-summer-ever/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl10%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D116740

[knocker]

The word twoddle springs to mind.

How to give our rain clouds a silver lining

We have the technology to stop these damaging downpours. We should dare to use it

Living through this wretched summer is like being a stoic with a persistent ear infection. At first we think it will only last a short while, so we don’t worry about it. But the pain just gets worse. Finally, shivering, we reach guiltily for the medicine cabinet.

Yes, there really is a pot of pills that might possibly help us with the weather. And as, one by one, parts of the country succumb to deep floodwaters it is only a matter of time before we start asking, do we want to keep ourselves environmentally pure, or do we want to try to stop it raining?

The pills in this case are labelled “silver iodideâ€. When sprayed from an aeroplane — a process called cloud-seeding — tiny silver iodide particles provide a nucleus around which raindrops can form, causing precipitation earlier than it would otherwise have occurred. Although the effectiveness of the technology remains a matter of debate, those who have tried it have often claimed success, either by making it rain in areas afflicted by drought or by diverting rainfall from a place that has suffered too much.

The Chinese Government is a big advocate. Clouds were seeded to empty them of rain before they passed over the stadium during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Cloud-seeding was used to end months of drought around Beijing in 2009, resulting in a heavy snowfall. You don’t have to be an authoritarian state to use it, however. US ski resorts have used it to improve the slopes. Gulf states have used it to bring rain to desert areas. France has reduced hail damage to crops. Australia has increased rainfall in dry areas.

In Britain, too, we once used it but experiments ceased in the mid-1950s. While the Ministry of Defence was disappointed with the results, conspiracy theorists believed it was only too successful: it has been blamed — wrongly — for the devastating Lynmouth flood of 1952, when parts of the Devon town were washed away after exceptional rainfall. The MoD had been trying to seed clouds the day before, but on an east-bound cloud formation in Bedfordshire.

Could we make cloud-seeding work on the successive depressions that have raced across the Atlantic this summer before decelerating off Ireland and dumping their rain over the British Isles? We will have no idea unless we have a go. All I do know is that if we could persuade the clouds to dump at least some of their rain harmlessly 500 miles out into the Atlantic we could save an awful lot of damage to property, crops and our tourist industry.

Admittedly, spraying the Western Approaches with silver iodide particles isn’t quite with the environmental spirit of the times. We don’t like the idea of meddling with nature. We like to see foul weather and climate change as punishment for our environmental sins; any proposal to engineer our way out of storms would cause a thunderous eruption in the green lobby.

But just a question: if there were potentially catastrophic rain clouds heading for Britain and we knew we could do something to disperse them before they did their damage, would not a refusal to act be a failure in our duty of care to the people whose lives and livelihoods are under threat?

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3470623.ece

[Methuselah]

The word twoddle springs to mind.

http://www.thetimes....icle3470623.ece

Aye, knocker. Rubbish of the first order!

[Coast]

Britain braces for more rain and flooding chaos

Residents across the UK are bracing themselves for further flooding with heavy downpours predicted to heap more misery on rain-drenched areas of Britain. Large swathes of the country are expected to be lashed by spells of further rainfall in the coming days as the ground remains heavily saturated and river levels teeter close to bursting point following a prolonged spell of wet weather.

The Environment Agency (EA) has seven flood warnings and 36 flood alerts in place in England and said that more are likely to be issued in the coming hours. Pulses of heavy rain and showers are expected to hit most parts of the UK throughout today with some of the worst-hit areas experiencing local rainfall totals of up to 60mm, according to forecasters. Experts also predict the unsettled weather will last until at least Thursday with the threat of heavier, more prolonged rain on Thursday.

The Met Office has issued an amber warning of rain for the Midlands, while yellow warnings are in place in south west England, north west England and east Scotland. Met Office weather expert Michael Lawrence said: "Although the amounts are not that exceptional, river catchments are already very full and the ground is quite saturated so there could be problems." The national forecaster added: "Heavy rain is expected to break out early today and become more widespread through the morning before clearing away eastwards. However, some heavy showers or thunderstorms are expected to develop in places again during the afternoon.

"The public should be aware that large amounts of rainfall may bring a risk of surface water flooding, as well as general difficult driving conditions." Billy Payne, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said the Midlands, northern England and East Anglia would see the worse of the heavy, slow-moving bands of rain with rainfall totals of around 20-30mm expected. EA officials have urged communities up and down the UK to remain alert over the threat of flooding.

The agency parts of northern England and Dorset were facing a significant risk of surface water and river flooding, with the Midlands and East Anglia also at risk. In Dorset, particularly in the Christchurch and Bournemouth area, river levels continued to rise yesterday as a result of the weekend's rain. Residents at Iford mobile home park in Bournemouth spent the night in alternative accommodation after they were asked to evacuate their homes because of the high risk of flooding yesterday.

Meanwhile, Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, was hit by flash floods yesterday with the authorities warning locals to stay indoors. Parts of the town were also left impassible by car and the local library was evacuated following a sudden downpour that brought nearly a month's worth of rain, more than 40mm, in three hours. The deluge came as residents continued to clear up from last month's floods, which affected more than 500 homes and businesses in Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Mytholmroyd.

The A35 in Dorset was closed in both directions this morning between Monkeys Jump Roundabout in Dorchester and the Longland's Lane junction in Winterbourne Abbas, because of flooding. Parts of the A38 in Derbyshire were also closed due to floods.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-braces-for-more-rain-and-flooding-chaos-7931625.html

[Gray-Wolf]

We've certainly had enough in Calderdale!

The problem now is having a dry spell long enough to let the Moors above dry out to there usual summer conditions. with this 'sponge' full to overflowing and heavy shower is causing issues (as was illustrated quite well when Charlie visited last Fri and the rivers were near bursting again after an 'average' day of rain for hereabouts).

At least the wider public is being made aware of how lower ice levels in the Arctic can bring about the type of 'stuck weather patterns' we have all been experiencing over these past few years (across all seasons???).

Once folk also accept the atmosphere is also now able to hold more water (4% more than 30years ago?) then they might get a better handle on the changes we are seeing?

I feel it no longer a matter of 'how we got here' but a need to understand where 'Here' is so we can better prepare for future extremes of 'weather'.

[Summer Sun]

YET MORE FLOODS...AND EVEN FEARS OF FROST

http://www.express.c...-fears-of-frost

Nice day for a WET wedding: Happy couple take flooding in their stride as Britain braces for more after July rain total tops June

• After wettest June since records began July set to be worse after three times normal amount of rain fell in first eight days
• Summer washout to continue until at least Thursday
• Worst hit areas likely to experience up to 60mm of rain today
• Researchers find 50 per cent of all UK homes resorted to central heating over last four weeks
• The Hit Factory concert in Hyde Park, London, starring Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan cancelled due to poor weather

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz20EyOKmxI