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**Joshua Flynn** · (This post was last modified: 06-10-2011 02:04 PM by Joshua Flynn.)

tethys Wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthne...utumn.html

Drought declared as shortages set to last until autumn

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) said that Britain was split in two over the last four weeks with the wettest May on record in Scotland and the driest May for 100 years in England.

Well well well.

What bonus points do I get for guessing that one?

Although in light of this statement, my opinion for scotland has changed. Looks like they are going to see large amounts of flooding instead.

**Hefton Twang**

Joshua Flynn Wrote:

tethys Wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthne...utumn.html

Drought declared as shortages set to last until autumn

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) said that Britain was split in two over the last four weeks with the wettest May on record in Scotland and the driest May for 100 years in England.

Well well well.

What bonus points do I get for guessing that one?

Although in light of this statement, my opinion for scotland has changed. Looks like they are going to see large amounts of flooding instead.

It's basically all of England south of Watford Gap that is experiencing drought.

The Midlands and the North have plenty of water.

**Joshua Flynn**

Hefton Twang Wrote:

It's basically all of England south of Watford Gap that is experiencing drought.

The Midlands and the North have plenty of water.

BBC reporting hosepipe bans regardless.

It's a long term thing. You might see a reservoir full of water.

I see about 61,000,000 people guzzling and pouring that water [even wastefully] over the next few months.

If the ban enacts and includes farmers, then... heh...

Food shortage.

Why am I never surprised any more?

This human race is too predictable in it's level of incompetence I think I could write an AI program that makes better decisions.

**Hefton Twang**

Joshua Flynn Wrote:

Hefton Twang Wrote:
It's basically all of England south of Watford Gap that is experiencing drought.

The Midlands and the North have plenty of water.

BBC reporting hosepipe bans regardless.

It's a long term thing. You might see a reservoir full of water.

I see about 61,000,000 people guzzling and pouring that water [even wastefully] over the next few months.

If the ban enacts and includes farmers, then... heh...

Food shortage.

Why am I never surprised any more?

This human race is too predictable in it's level of incompetence I think I could write an AI program that makes better decisions.

Given that Kent and Essex are major food-producing areas of England, it would make sense to have some means of chanelling water from "oop" North to these areas, when needed.

**Joshua Flynn** · (This post was last modified: 06-10-2011 02:43 PM by Joshua Flynn.)

Hefton Twang Wrote:

Given that Kent and Essex are major food-producing areas of England, it would make sense to have some means of chanelling water from "oop" North to these areas, when needed.

This is a clever suggestion that, unfortunately, surpasses the government in terms of intelligence, and thus, sadly, will never be implemented except as a last ditch solution if the water was to reach such criticality as to render it moot.

Personally speaking I'd have implemented a house-hold [only] hose-pipe ban months ago and encouraged more rainwater storage to be built. Re-routable water is a long term solution that would take time, but would be good in the long term.

I mean, Britain has had water storages before so I don't understand why water collection wasn't encouraged to help ease water demands (at least even for watering the garden - it'd have a knock on effect if it was en-mass, more people using rainwater reserves rather than mains supply).

**tethys** · (This post was last modified: 08-01-2011 07:36 PM by tethys.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north...s-13731216

The summit of Snowdon under a white blanket of snow

The wintry scene, at the Snowdon Mountain Railway's terminus near Hafod Eryri, was photographed at 1300 BST on Friday - in the middle of June, days before the start of Wimbledon and just over a week before the summer solstice.

Update -

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/...36394.html

Coldest July in 50 years.

**tethys**

http://www.lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-UK-s...pid1752204

Update - UK's summer 'coolest since 1993' says Met Office

**Nyhee** · **Nyhee** . User ID: 49084 08-30-2011 10:05 PM **Posts: 3,579**

Very interesting, what does it mean? Something is screwing with the weather, or was it natural variances?

Weather is one area that is hard to diagnose as abnormal.

Thanks for the information.

Here in Arkansas, it wasn't the heat that was abnormal, though. What was abnormal is how before the sun came up, you could actually feel waves of heat going through the Earth and into your body. Now that was unusual. It is still going on.

**Richard Eldritch**

Don't we always have weird weather? I thought that was the point of Britain....

**tethys**

Nyhee7 Wrote:

Very interesting, what does it mean? Something is screwing with the weather, or was it natural variances?

Weather is one area that is hard to diagnose as abnormal.

Thanks for the information.

Here in Arkansas, it wasn't the heat that was abnormal, though. What was abnormal is how before the sun came up, you could actually feel waves of heat going through the Earth and into your body. Now that was unusual. It is still going on.

This is natural - Piers Corbyn of weather action (weather forecaster) puts forward the theory that extreme weather and earthquakes are linked and the cause is solar with lunar modulation.

**tethys**

Richard Eldritch Wrote:

Don't we always have weird weather? I thought that was the point of Britain....

Anything other than continuous rain is unusual!

**tethys**

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weathe...inues.html

Record UK temperature as October heatwave continues

The maximum daily temperature record for the UK as a whole for October has been broken with 29.5C recorded at Gravesend at 13:27 BST, according to the Met Office.

**tethys**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16003889

Met Office confirms UK autumn second warmest on record

The Met Office has confirmed that this autumn was the second warmest on record.

The mean temperature across the UK was 11.2C (52.2F), just below the record set in 2006 of 11.39C.

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tethys Wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16003889

Met Office confirms UK autumn second warmest on record

The Met Office has confirmed that this autumn was the second warmest on record.

The mean temperature across the UK was 11.2C (52.2F), just below the record set in 2006 of 11.39C.

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**Gemz**

Thought this might be relevant here.

The salmon that can't jump! Desperate rescue effort to save fish as low water levels prevent them from swimming upstream to breed.

Quote:They had already travelled 2,000 miles across the North Atlantic and were only days away from their winter spawning grounds.
But instead of leaping their way upstream, low river levels have left around 200 salmon stranded at the bottom of a steep weir for more than three weeks.
If they don’t manage to jump over it, the next generation will be in jeopardy – and there are another 800 fish battling their way up the river behind them.
Weather forecasters warned this week that the drought is likely to continue into next year if there is low rainfall this winter after one of the warmest Novembers for years.
Arid conditions have blighted central and eastern England since June following the lowest rainfall since records began 100 years ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...breed.html

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