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ClimateBalls in full swing
Why let the facts get in the way?
By Simon Keeling in Wombourne 20:00hrs 6/7/12
Temperature: 14.6C Weather: Cloudy
Yes we have had heavy rain over the past 12-hours, and it is terrible that homes have once again been flooded.
But we need to maintain a sense of perspective on this story.
Of course it has been wet, but the rainfall totals from the past 12-hours show heavy rain rather than anything exceptional.
What has happened is that the water table is now very high given the rainfall we have had since the end of April. That means that when rain falls it does not take much to flood.
That does not help much to know that if you are flooded, but that's just the way these things work.
This is NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. I have just heard a report on TV explaining that these events will get more frequent. Well, which is it that the pro-climate change lobby want; is it hot dry summers or warmer, wetter winters. They can't pick and choose, /'ooo today I'll take a wet day and claim it's global warming'/. This destroys any credibility and science that are involved in the subject.
No, we just have to accept that we are living through a wet summer. Come a drier spell of weather in a few weeks and this will all be forgotten (as were the droughts earlier in the year).
So let's leave the atmosphere to do what it does best; producing a marvellous spectacle of weather events for us to enjoy throughout the year, whether they be mundane or not we should just enjoy!
>> Comments on this story <<
Simon Keeling from Wombourne said on 2012-07-08 10:45:00
Grea images Ciaran, thanks for that pointer. Yes Gavin, nature balancing is a regular feature isn\'t it? Seems we forget about what has gone before .
Gavin from Northants said on 2012-07-07 04:17:00
I would say we have been pretty unlucky during this 08-12 dry period not to get at least one warm summer, though. However, theres nothing to say you can\'t get a good summer in a wet period. Summer 1994 was good and that was in the generally wet period from July 92-Feb 95.
Gavin from Northants said on 2012-07-07 04:10:00
Indeed Simon. All thats happening is the atmosphere/weather/nature is making up for whats gone before. Nature will always balance itself out. The drought from autumn 1974 to summer 1976 was followed by an exceptionally wet period from autumn 76 through to the summer of 78. The drought from November 88 to June 92 was followed by a very wet period from July 92 to February, which itself was followed by a drought from April 1995 to April 1997 which was then followed by a very wet peiod from June 1997 to December 2000 (peaking with the autumn 2000 floods) Anyone seeing a pattern here? We\'ve had a prlonged dry spell/drought really since around autumn 2008 actually. It broke in spring 2012 and now we can expect two or three years of generally wet weather (of course there will still be dry intervals, even occasional dry seasons) as nature does what it does best and evens itself out.
Ciaran from Dublin said on 2012-07-06 08:29:00
Talking of the spectacle of the weather have a you seen this movie of weather over Europe during June, 2012. Natural Colour RGB images are taken from EUMETSAT\'s Meteosat-9 satellite in geostationary orbit 36,000 km above the Earth. Hope you enjoyed the G. P. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU7S7GlOvD8&feature=player_embedded
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Simon Keeling from Wombourne says...
Grea images Ciaran, thanks for that pointer. Yes Gavin, nature balancing is a regular feature isn\'t it? Seems we forget about what has gone before .
Gavin from Northants says...
I would say we have been pretty unlucky during this 08-12 dry period not to get at least one warm summer, though. However, theres nothing to say you can\'t get a good summer in a wet period. Summer 1994 was good and that was in the generally wet period from July 92-Feb 95.
Gavin from Northants says...
Indeed Simon. All thats happening is the atmosphere/weather/nature is making up for whats gone before. Nature will always balance itself out. The drought from autumn 1974 to summer 1976 was followed by an exceptionally wet period from autumn 76 through to the summer of 78. The drought from November 88 to June 92 was followed by a very wet period from July 92 to February, which itself was followed by a drought from April 1995 to April 1997 which was then followed by a very wet peiod from June 1997 to December 2000 (peaking with the autumn 2000 floods) Anyone seeing a pattern here? We\'ve had a prlonged dry spell/drought really since around autumn 2008 actually. It broke in spring 2012 and now we can expect two or three years of generally wet weather (of course there will still be dry intervals, even occasional dry seasons) as nature does what it does best and evens itself out.
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