bloody weather!

[Happy82]

So much for droughts, we're in Bridport/West Bay and it's a little bit wet!!

http://bridport.n0tice.com/report/5388/latest-floo...

[rs1952]

crazy about cars said:

Rain is nice, yes but not every single day during summer... I would at least expect to enjoy a good, sunny, warm, weekend in summer.

Call me a sad case if you like, but I keep rudimentary weather records for my neck of the woods. Whilst we have been a bit lacking in heatwaves this year so far, there gave been a few decent days with a temperature over 20 degrees C, in the West Country at least:

Day - Date - Max temp
Mon - 21-May-12 - 22
Tue - 22-May-12 - 23
Wed - 23-May-12 - 24
Thu - 24-May-12 - 24
Fri - 25-May-12 - 27
Sat - 26-May-12 - 27
Sun - 27-May-12 - 25
Mon - 28-May-12 - 22
Tue - 29-May-12 - 21
Wed - 30-May-12 - 24
Fri - 01-Jun-12 - 22
Sat - 02-Jun-12 - 20
Tue - 19-Jun-12 - 20
Wed - 20-Jun-12 - 21
Tue - 26-Jun-12 - 21
Wed - 27-Jun-12 - 21
Thu - 28-Jun-12 - 23
Fri - 29-Jun-12 - 20
Sat - 30-Jun-12 - 20
Thu - 05-Jul-12 - 20

That's 20 days out of 48. Not exactly Mediterranean temperatures but let's get this in perspective.


The days on which it has rained since 21 May were:

June 3, 5-8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 21 (not recorded between 21st and 26th as I was in Cyprus), July 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

That's 16 days in nearly 7 weeks. The ducks around here aren't saying its lovely weather


Or, in summary, in the last 48 days its been sunny and dry and 20 degrees or above on 20 days, and its rained on 16. The sun has broken through on some of those 16 days as well.

Apologies to Blue 62 that all this is "anecdotal" - my only supporting data is my spreadsheet, but I suspect the Met Office site would give you broadly similar figures

[superkartracer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18751198

Yep normal.

[dandarez]

You heard it here first...

from the end of this month the Jetstream will ensure good old Blighty has a heatwave, so warm it will be called an early Indian Summer. The wet weeks will soon be forgotten, as will all of the poor b*ggers who have been flooded out, all forgotten just like the floods of a few years back.

August will be the warmest since records began...
but since 'records began' only about 100 years ago, 'records began' really has f all significance.

The only thing of any significance is 'IT'S THE WEATHER!'

[superkartracer]

Good as i've got training to crack on with and this weather is fking me off.

[rs1952]

superkartracer said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18751198

Yep normal.

Picking up on this (which, if you haven't clicked the link is about the floods in Russia at the moment), and picking up on something that turbobloke said:

Prior to the Iron Curtain coming down, we'd not have heard about this or any other problem in the "People's Union of Democratic Socialist Paradises" between 1918 and 1990. Its probably only being featured now because a) the media have 24 hour news channels to fill and b) communications are so much better anyway.

Take Bangladesh (or East Pakistan as it once was). When the monsoon comes they have floods every year. It always happens. It was about as newsworthy as "sun rises in morning" when the story used to take 6 weeks to get here by boat prior to international phone lines. These days somebody gets swept downstream in that neck of the woods and its on Youtube within 10 minutes.

Just because we hear more of these stories these days doesn't, in itself, mean that the phenomenon is new. The speed of gathering news and the voracious appetites of the news media are what's changed.

[superkartracer]

Good point, but the Russians said never seen anything like it, at least we're not the only ones having st weather

Off to pub

[rs1952]

superkartracer said:

Off to pub

Joining you now

[dandarez]

superkartracer said:

Good point, but the Russians said never seen anything like it, at least we're not the only ones having st weather

Off to pub

'course they said they hadn't seen anything like it before, but if a few of them were aged 300 years old or more they would have!

rs1952 said:

superkartracer said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18751198

Yep normal.

Picking up on this (which, if you haven't clicked the link is about the floods in Russia at the moment), and picking up on something that turbobloke said:

Prior to the Iron Curtain coming down, we'd not have heard about this or any other problem in the "People's Union of Democratic Socialist Paradises" between 1918 and 1990. Its probably only being featured now because a) the media have 24 hour news channels to fill and b) communications are so much better anyway.

Take Bangladesh (or East Pakistan as it once was). When the monsoon comes they have floods every year. It always happens. It was about as newsworthy as "sun rises in morning" when the story used to take 6 weeks to get here by boat prior to international phone lines. These days somebody gets swept downstream in that neck of the woods and its on Youtube within 10 minutes.

Just because we hear more of these stories these days doesn't, in itself, mean that the phenomenon is new. The speed of gathering news and the voracious appetites of the news media are what's changed.

This! ^^^^^

As for this new phenomenon of unabated rainfall, here's a little reading referring to the Norfolk coast and widespread over the south and east of England -

Guess the years in question.

Instead of listening to global warming freaks, and green teachers who brainwash the young, read some old history books.

'...the disastrous flooding was due to the almost continuous rain over the previous THREE YEARS!!, ???? to ????.
This rainfall was so heavy and so continuous that it caused the failure of farm crops and garden produce, drowned vast numbers of sheep and put large areas of land under water for many years to come.
The appalling weather continued until ???? when things, at last, began to improve, however, until then there could be no harvest.











did you get the years correct?
1284 to 1286 and 1294
Tad before 'records began'!

[loafer123]

Happy82 said:

So much for droughts, we're in Bridport/West Bay and it's a little bit wet!!

http://bridport.n0tice.com/report/5388/latest-floo...

The one bit of good news from those reports is that if the NT car park at Burton Bradstock has been washed away, there is a good chance that the champagne socialist hypocrite, Billy Bragg, whose mansion is next door, is now out at sea....

[dandarez]

I referred to 'green' teachers brainwashing the young.
Here is a response to the current inclement weather on a forum by one teacher with the username horseypie... god help his/her Year 6, he/she can't even string a sentence together correctly let alone put a full stop at the end of a sentence, but then adds a comma after Worcestershire!

That's called global warming - its a warning. Any idiots on here you can't see that should speak to my class of year 6 children who can explain it to you if it's too hard to understand
horseypie, Worcestershire,

[Blue62]

rs1952 said:

Call me a sad case if you like, but I keep rudimentary weather records for my neck of the woods. Whilst we have been a bit lacking in heatwaves this year so far, there gave been a few decent days with a temperature over 20 degrees C, in the West Country at least:

Day - Date - Max temp
Mon - 21-May-12 - 22
Tue - 22-May-12 - 23
Wed - 23-May-12 - 24
Thu - 24-May-12 - 24
Fri - 25-May-12 - 27
Sat - 26-May-12 - 27
Sun - 27-May-12 - 25
Mon - 28-May-12 - 22
Tue - 29-May-12 - 21
Wed - 30-May-12 - 24
Fri - 01-Jun-12 - 22
Sat - 02-Jun-12 - 20
Tue - 19-Jun-12 - 20
Wed - 20-Jun-12 - 21
Tue - 26-Jun-12 - 21
Wed - 27-Jun-12 - 21
Thu - 28-Jun-12 - 23
Fri - 29-Jun-12 - 20
Sat - 30-Jun-12 - 20
Thu - 05-Jul-12 - 20

That's 20 days out of 48. Not exactly Mediterranean temperatures but let's get this in perspective.


The days on which it has rained since 21 May were:

June 3, 5-8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 21 (not recorded between 21st and 26th as I was in Cyprus), July 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

That's 16 days in nearly 7 weeks. The ducks around here aren't saying its lovely weather


Or, in summary, in the last 48 days its been sunny and dry and 20 degrees or above on 20 days, and its rained on 16. The sun has broken through on some of those 16 days as well.

Apologies to Blue 62 that all this is "anecdotal" - my only supporting data is my spreadsheet, but I suspect the Met Office site would give you broadly similar figures

My infamous 'anecdotal' remark was in reference to your first post, I withdraw it. Now that you posted your stats here I realise what's going on, good on you!

[Happy82]

loafer123 said:

Happy82 said:

So much for droughts, we're in Bridport/West Bay and it's a little bit wet!!

http://bridport.n0tice.com/report/5388/latest-floo...

The one bit of good news from those reports is that if the NT car park at Burton Bradstock has been washed away, there is a good chance that the champagne socialist hypocrite, Billy Bragg, whose mansion is next door, is now out at sea....

Didn't know that tt was nearby, I'll go around and divert the floods :laugh;

[CBR JGWRR]

Borghetto said:

Our local water company Veolia Central still think's we're suffering a drought. Weather forecast is for a months rain tomorrow, but we can still not use hosepipes.

Edited by Borghetto on Thursday 5th July 20:36

FFS...

[Mr GrimNasty]

All perfectly normal. Nothing to worry about. Probably.

Klytus: Most effective, your majesty. Will you destroy this......... Earth?
Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while, ................. before annihilation. Whooo hhhrr hrhrhr wooooo hrrrrrrrr hahahaha

[Jimbo.]

CBR JGWRR said:

Borghetto said:

Our local water company Veolia Central still think's we're suffering a drought. Weather forecast is for a months rain tomorrow, but we can still not use hosepipes.

Edited by Borghetto on Thursday 5th July 20:36

FFS...

...in response to what? Veolia Water's hosepipe ban still being in place, or the author's ignorance of the fact that Veolia Water sources most of its water from groundwaters, which are still at low/very low levels...

[Funkateer]

The thread title and the current weather immediately made me think of this:

The Tale of Sir Lancelot

[TankRizzo]

dandarez said:

I referred to 'green' teachers brainwashing the young.
Here is a response to the current inclement weather on a forum by one teacher with the username horseypie... god help his/her Year 6, he/she can't even string a sentence together correctly let alone put a full stop at the end of a sentence, but then adds a comma after Worcestershire!

That's called global warming - its a warning. Any idiots on here you can't see that should speak to my class of year 6 children who can explain it to you if it's too hard to understand
horseypie, Worcestershire,

You've been reading the Mail's website dan, confess!

[kerplunk]

what a ,

[croyde]

Boiling here in the Bahamas but I have to come home tomorrow