Calling All Weather Experts

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Eric Mc said:

My garden fence was blown down in about 1996 or 97.

So, recent years have been relatively calm compared to all that.

Of course 1996/7 may have been the year that the winds were no stronger, but the time when your fence finally rotted beyond breaking point

Doh - never thought of that.

[TransverseTight]

stevensdrs said:

Deforestation and having too many humans on the planet are the cause. The weather will not get any better until this is rectified. Any ideas?

Apparently about 150,000 people a day die. IF you dried them out first to season them they'd make a good fuel source. If that isn't enough to meet demand - there's plenty more people who are still alive, who could have an "accident".

[c7xlg]

I really don't think our weather (climate more technically) has change significantly. I'm in my mid (late!) 30s but remember as a kid summers where it was very hot all summer, and winters with feet of snow and having to dig the drive out so my dad could go to work. I remember floods and lots of rain and puddles everywhere.

Yes the last 2-3 winters we have had a good amount of snow. But that is fairly 'normal'. Yes we've had a few naff summers, but that 2003 was a scorcher, and we've just had 3 weeks of lovely weather.

But what this really shows, (as others have allueded to on this thread) is that 'memory' and 'personal' weather interpretations are a very unreliable and rubbish for comparing year on year.

[Mojocvh]

ash73 said:

I think the weather has been very unusual this year, a bitterly cold and very drawn-out winter followed by a couple of months now of very warm and sunny weather.

It's more how I remember it 30 years or so ago, whereas recent years have been less 'seasonal'; last year in particular, after a March mini heat-wave it just rained all summer.

yep it's been brilliant apart from getting soaked through 300' above ground at 22C yesterday!!