UK weather - 60th successive day of rain. 10,000 stuck overnight on flooded motorway.

[Solly]

Any of you southerners got back home yet?

Don't think the media have got a grasp of how bad it is out there yet..

http://apolyton.net/forums/newthread.php?s=&action=newthread&forumid=147

Hundreds of travellers were stranded overnight after Friday's heavy rain and flash floods lashed England and Wales.
E-mails to the BBC News website told of families forced to spend the night on the M5 and roads in the Worcester area.

In Oxford, 150 sleeping bags were ordered as rail passengers were put up in a school.

Thousands of people with flooded homes spent the night in emergency centres. More rain is expected for Wales, central and northern England.

Many rail services have been cancelled, with no replacement bus service because roads have been closed. Police in the West Midlands advised people not to travel unless their journey was necessary.

[Agathon]

I think that God is finally getting around to dealing with you lot.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Agathon
I think that God is finally getting around to dealing with you lot.

Seems that way, our warmest day this year was in April!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Agathon
I think that God is finally getting around to dealing with you lot.

It's the same God that pops around every 10 years or so, and His name is El Nino.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


It's the same God that pops around every 10 years or so, and His name is El Nino.

Doesn't he have a little sister?

[lightblue]

This correlates to climate change models. The European monsoon is getting stronger as the seas warm up.

[Solly]

Originally posted by lightblue
This correlates to climate change models. The European monsoon is getting stronger as the seas warm up.

Climate change models suggest climate zones moving northwards. This summer we have had the weather Iceland ought to get due to a southerly-tracking jet stream. So we've had the climate zones moving southwards. This summer is in complete contrast to what climate models suggest we should have.

However, one season is not climate and we still can get this sort of variability. So just like last year's warmer summer was not evidence of climate change, neither is this evidence against it.

[BeBMan]

I'm always impressed seeing that we have so many climate experts here at poly

[Solly]

Originally posted by BeBro
I'm always impressed seeing that we have so many climate experts here at poly

My job necessitates more than a passing interest in the weather conditions . I work in utilities and we had one of our businest weeks at the end of June when a dam was thought due to break in south Yorkshire. It held out in the end but if that had gone it would have been catastrophic for all manner of infrastructure. Its region has several power stations.

Likewise we had an internal warning distributed at the end of March by our in-house meteorologist saying that a La Nina was expected and while the link between it and wet summers in the UK is weak, it is statistically significant.

We have just had the wettest May-June-July period on record.

[Dauphin]

Expect a hose pipe ban in August.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Expect a hose pipe ban in August.

"We don't want more water going into the ground"?

[Starchild]

See, now the floods matter. Because they're happening in the south. Anything above Birmingham I've got to check a map to see if it really exists or not.

[Solly]

Buildings starting to collapse

[Solly]

Not Venice..







A motorway..




Landslide

[Lancer]

Oregon has had an exceptionally rainy July this year. It never rains in July here, yet about half the days have had rain in them. Cold too! Yesterday's high here on the coast was in the high 50s.

I figure the odd UK and Oregon weather are a sure sign of something.