The Weather/Climate Thread

[Silurian]

On the coast a mile south of me before it got very windy on Friday.

Crazy Waves and Crazy Drivers At Meadfoot in Torquay, Devon .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKIWMPwRkxs


Torquay seafront on Friday afternoon.


Valentine's Day storms at Torquay, Devon, UK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5iIC2taIUc

 

[timtofly]

According to the news, the same low that caused havoc in the US continued across the Atlantic and was the cause of UK's woes. Will the US start sending winter Hurricanes across the pond?

 

[Joecoolyo]

According to the news, the same low that caused havoc in the US continued across the Atlantic and was the cause of UK's woes. Will the US start sending winter Hurricanes across the pond?

This has been going on for a very long time.

In fact, a lot of hurricanes that do form in the Atlantic and move north end up impacting Britain in some way. Of course, depending on the strength of the hurricane, and whether it can weather the transition to extra-tropical cyclone will mean the difference between a cloudy day and what is happening now.

 

[stfoskey12]

California is having the worst drought in 400 years. The south of Britain is having the worst flooding ever recorded.

I feel lucky being roughly half way between the two places and receiving roughly average rainfall.

 

[classical_hero]

California is having the worst drought in 400 years. The south of Britain is having the worst flooding ever recorded.

The flooding in Britain in some places could have been prevented by imply dredging the silt that builds up in rivers, like it was done, until green madness stopped it.

 

[stfoskey12]

I saw hail for the second time in my life today. Thankfully I was inside both times.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It might rain a bit in SoCal finally...

 

[classical_hero]

Same here in SW WA.

 

[stfoskey12]

The weather has been pretty typical lately where I live. Lots of heat and humidity (a bit worse than usual) with an occasional afternoon thunderstorm.
But something interesting might happen in the tropics with Invest 97L. I hear we could have an active hurricane season with the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Lexicus]

Epic thunderstorm here two weeks ago...torrential rain, hail, non-stop lightning and thunder.

 

[Zkribbler]

A typhoon skirted up the east coast of the Philippines. We got clouds, on and off winds, and some rain. The following blue sky was glorious!

 

[tetley]

Fort McMurray (Canada) got hammered by flooding. First forest fire, then flooding. They have all the luck.

The silver lining is, if your house is going to get struck by natural disaster twice, you might as well have them together, within 3 months of each other. So your already-burned house gets flooded, before you fix it.

 

[Bootstoots]

It is kind of hard for me not to see some sort of cosmic justice in Fort McMurray getting pounded by weather-related disasters.

 

[stfoskey12]

Fort McMurray (Canada) got hammered by flooding. First forest fire, then flooding. They have all the luck.

The silver lining is, if your house is going to get struck by natural disaster twice, you might as well have them together, within 3 months of each other. So your already-burned house gets flooded, before you fix it.

It's too bad they didn't get the flooding first. Then it maybe would have been too wet for a forest fire.

 

[stfoskey12]

I'm on vacation at the beach and it keeps raining. It only rains in the afternoon, but it's still annoying.
Meanwhile, Invest 97L has strengthened into Hurricane Earl.

 

[Zkribbler]

Really windy here last night. Really windy. I went on the internet to see if we'd had another typhoon pop up, like what happened a few years ago, but no. It was calm this morning, but now the wind's picking up again...really hard. My singing fence is howling.