It's round about that time of year when, after ten days or so of struggling around town like a drowned rat, I traditionally turn to the Met Office Long Range Weather Forecast to marvel, yet again, at its uncanny, almost psychic, predictive power...
"UK forecast for Summer 2008 (issued 3 April 2008)
Temperature
Mean temperatures are more likely to be above the 1971-2000 average. However, there is a slightly enhanced chance of cloudier and cooler spells.
Rainfall
Rainfall is more likely to be either near average or above average. The risk of exceptional rainfall, as seen last summer, is assessed as very low at this stage. "
...about as vague as a newspaper astrology column and still fucking wrong
One of these days it's going to dawn on someone that employing a bloke in Ireland to phone us up and tell us what's coming would probably be more accurate and definitely be more cost-effective
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7 comments:
I don't hear much talk about global warming these days... did the rain eat all the carbon?
I think you'll find that it's referred to as 'climate change' these days
Get with the program alex, any day to day/week to week/season to season change in any direction, in any degree, threatens our way of life and plays into the hands of our enemies.
Climate change falls into that wonderful and special category; of things that are not just real, but very real.
When you hear or read this phrase, stop everything and make your way to the nearest morlock bunker.
Now finish all your food and go to bed
When it rains like that, I just put up my suede hoodie! My suede hoodie laughs at chocolate teapots.
So the fluid-dynamics are getting more dynamic, now what would cause that I wonder?
What theory postulated this eventuality?
There was a time when folksy rhymes could predict the weather quite accurately.
Its rained like that in Scotland for the last month ffs. As usual. Not for viewers in Scotland until it bashes you lot in the fizzer.
22/08/2008 14:34
Met Office (Scotland)
(Met Office) Record rainfall figures for Central Scotland
Following on from a record-breaking wet summer in 2007, heavy rain this August has resulted in more floods in many areas of the Scotland.
Regions worst hit so far this August have been Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Fife where floods have severely affected road and rail transport.
Record August Rainfall in Scotland
Previous August Rainfall Record - Rainfall up to 10am 22 August
Salburgh midway 189.1mm(1992) - 229.2mm
Gogarbank 128.2 mm(2002) - 195mm
Strathallan Airfield 111.2mm (1992) - 180.6mm
Charterhall 127.2mm(2004) - 174.8mm
ENDS
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