sorry error.
Mea Culpa. Margaret.

I seemed to have posted as a guest.

I guess if the Met Office didn't issue warnings they would be criticised.
We were booked to go up to Scotland in October for a short stay, and lo and behold, they issued a warning of a storm hame which was Storm Amy. So we had to cancel.
My sister who we were going to visit said we made the right decision to cancel.

Today its just dull, non stop rain and windy. Nothing too alarming, but it's possible causing havoc on the roads, it's trees I worry about that can weaken in these conditions and come crashing down.

I guess if the Met Office didn't issue warnings they would be criticised.
We were booked to go up to Scotland in October for a short stay, and lo and behold, they issued a warning of a storm hame which was Storm Amy. So we had to cancel.
My sister who we were going to visit said we made the right decision to cancel.

Today its just dull, non stop rain and windy. Nothing too alarming, but its possible causing havoc on the roads, and its trees I worry about that can wearing in these conditions and come crashing down.

I can't say I've seen anything particularly extreme as yet. In fact, I was looking outside earlier and remembered being outside on the flight-line preparing aircraft for flight in far worse weather.

We get a few storms a year; I honestly think the Met Office are nannying us or trying to justify their own existence.

Oh, another point. Many floods are caused simply because the gulleys are no longer regularly cleaned and flushed.

Bet I still get out for my Friday game of dommies and pint.

Another Severe Storm alert for Friday. 14th.

Storm Claudia is set to bring widespread and disruptive rainfall across much of England and Wales from Friday into the early hours of Saturday, with the Met Office issuing amber warnings for heavy rain in parts of the country.

I missed the aurora, sadly.

No storms in my area, but it is raining.

Nothing this way, Margaret.

A few spots of rain and that was it. - The cat almost didn't bother coming in!

Thunderstorms tonight after our lovely heatwave.

With danger to life warning.

Did anyone manage to see the aurora borealis on friday ?
Unfortunately I missed it all, wish I could have seen the spectacular show.

Expect the global warming idiots to be out in force!

We will soon be hugging our hot water bottles! So I am enjoying the present heatwave, more like summer should have been.

Looks like it's going to be a sweaty few days.

I agree, Lex.
An American commentator did a funny take on this a while ago.
He imagines the con artists in a room imaging how they can get the global warming scam up and running.
'we need a gimmick' one says.
'I have an idea, why not show a polar bear on a broken piece of ice that is just floating away?'
'Brilliant, brilliant!' says the other, ' with that photo shopping we can scam millions!'

It's a bit of a myth that the whole planet's going to bake over the next century. Many areas (eg the Indian sub-continent) are experiencing increased rainfall. Antartica is actually experiencing increased ice formation, although it is also melting faster.

In this country, a lot of long-term forecasts predict the British Isles will get colder, due to the Gulf Stream collapsing. Some studies have already shown it is slowing down.

Greenland, and northern climes, may have warmed about 1200 years ago which is how the Vikings came to settle there, where hithertofor it had been too cold. But, if this is true, it seems the climate (which we must distinguish from the weather!) is on a thousand year cycle. We simply don't know whether there were such periods of warming in ancient times, but again this is very doubtful.
What is pure bunk is the crazy idea that the industrial Revolution increased global temperatures by about 2 degrees Celsius. CO2 has half life of 120 years (which is short lived compared with ghastly radioactive isotopes). Oxygen is stable (I think it only has one isotope) so whatever is produced by forests remains, whilst the CO2 is constantly decaying. And even fossil fuels have a vector to sunlight, so even if there were more heat/sun this would increase absorption/Photosynthesis of biosphere, thus more oxygen.