All this hot sun/massive downpour, Jekyll and Hyde nature is hugely confusing for me. Ad astra per aspera
Most famously was this hurricane that beloved weatherman Michael Fish told us wasn't going to happen. Ad astra per aspera
Yea, right. I spent the whole day with me Dad chainsawing up fallen trees after that one. A friend on the S Coast said that they were relatively lucky, the contents of all the houses in the street ended up in the garden at the top of the road. So everybody spent all day sorting out their stuff. keep to the Fen Causeway
It knocked trees down in Warwickshire too, all the way up in the Midlands. Half our garden had fallen down when we got back from holiday but luckily the house was fine.
That must have been a very neighbourly event, picking out belongings from another person's garden. How surreal. Ad astra per aspera
- Storm sweeps across East Flanders
Mon 16/07/07 - East Flanders was hit by heavy rain, hail and high winds on Monday morning. Trees were uprooted by the wind and several buildings were damaged by lightning.
Yup. There is a european monsoon. Normally it's sufficiently weak that we don't notice it amongst all the 'normal' weather that the UK gets, plus it generally only lasts long enough to muddy the fields at Glastonbury and ruin a few days of Wimbledon.
Every now and again, like this year, we have a strong one that lasts well beyond the summer soltstice which is the ultimate driver of the phenomenon. Climate Change might make the strong years more frequent or possibly it won't; figuring out how the regional scale systems will respond to increased warming is notoriously hard.
Regards Luke -- #include witty_sig.h
Don't let the weather fool you, Colman. Ad astra per aspera
