Global warming

[empip]

I wonder what the sensationalists would have made of winter 62/3?

A belt of rain over northern Scotland on 24 December turned to snow as it moved south, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938. The snow belt reached southern England on Boxing Day and became almost stationary. The following day, snow lay five centimetres deep in the Channel Islands and 30 cm deep in much of southern England.
A blizzard over south-west England and south Wales on 29 and 30 December brought snowdrifts 6 m deep. Villages were cut off, some for several days. Roads and railways were blocked. Telephone wires were brought down. Stocks of food ran low. Farmers couldn't reach their livestock. Thousands of sheep, ponies and cattle starved to death....From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, much of England was continuously under snow. Unlike the winter of 1947, however, 1962/63 was sunnier than average in most parts of the area affected, considerably so in some places.
Manchester's sunshine total for January was more than twice the average. Even in the south of England, where snow fell frequently, sunshine totals were above average in most places.
The most remarkable feature of the 1962/63 winter was not so much its snowiness as its coldness. The winter of 1947 was snowier than 1962/63, but not as cold...

I was in the thick of it !


West country floods of '68 ??
http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-great-flood-1968/

..Wednesday 10th July 1968 — Disaster Day. A date that lives vividly in the memories of those who experienced the Great Flood of ‘68.
Heavy rain had been falling for most of the day and by mid-evening, accompanied by thunder and lightning had reached torrential proportions in Bristol and North Somerset.
It was in fact, the worst rainstorm to hit the area in over half a century with more than five inches of rain falling in several districts in less than 24 hrs...

I was driving in it for a while !!
A pretty fair old lump of wet, frightening at the time but a real experience.

NB. 5" rain in less than 24hrs ... 506 tons per acre ... 324,000 tons per sq mile (big UK tons too)
127,000 tonnes per Km²
127 Kg per metre²
July - North of the Mendips..???

 

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Wish we could get some of that global warming up here in Scotland.

90% of my painting jobs is exterior work just now and it has been raining as long as i can remember.Last job I done was 3 days work took me 8 days workin in between in the showers etc.
Feckin so frustrating.You drive to someones house....get all your materials out....ladders up etc....dustsheets down....Then joy of joy the feckin rain starts.......argghhh!!!!



Ive spent 3 rainy afternoons this week playin on my sons nintendo Wii tho so it aint all bad

 

[Richardp]

memorys of the fastnet race, our roof took off, these days it would be part of global warming.

1979: Freak storm hits yacht race
Dozens of yachts have been lost and at least 15 people killed after a freak storm blew up in the Irish Sea during the Fastnet yacht race.
Hundreds of competitors have been left stranded and there have been several reports of bodies floating in the sea.

Rescuers from both sides of the Irish sea are working around the clock to answer distress calls from many of the 303 yachts taking part in the ocean race.

Naval helicopters from Culdrose have made dozens of sorties and have so far rescued about 100 people.

A Dutch warship and trawlers from France have also joined the rescue operation, which is the biggest ever launched in peace-time. A 20,000 mile (32,000 km) square area of sea is being searched for 150 yachts which are still missing.

Damaged boats have been escorted into harbours from south-west tip of Ireland to the Isles of Scilly

this was flipping August, height of summer holidays! you could go out days and weeks after and get your self a yacht, trouble was it was unside down and a tomb for the poor blighters inside.

This year's race began from Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Saturday 11 August on a sunny day in calm waters. The course takes the yachts westwards across the Irish Sea, around Fastnet Rock off the coast of the Republic of Ireland and back to Plymouth.

By yesterday lunch-time the weather conditions had deteriorated and some competitors talked of being hit by a "great fury" at sea.

Gale force winds whipped up mountainous waves and unpredictable tides caused chaos.

 

[empip]

The cruel sea ... But it ain't half beautiful ! A smidge or more in our blood surely?

 

[Richardp]

No arguments here Pip and speaking of the sea, here's a pic of the chap that had the apollo in his new rib with 550hp motor