The Great British Weather

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I found this news pretty horrible:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/man-dies-after-bus-crash-in-finchley-a3130636.html

RIP.

Also, the language:

At the scene, a male pedestrian had been in collision with the side of a moving bus.

Why can't they just say 'he was blown against the side of a moving bus'? That appears to be a fact that was already known.

Provisional figures suggest more than 340mm of rain fell in 24 hours in the Lake District. The current record is 316.4mm of rain over the same time period at Seathwaite, Cumbria, in 2009.

storm desmond

'Extreme weather phenomena becoming more extreme' is, I think, the essence of 'climate change'. There's more released water in the system and more movement, which concentrates the outliers, which have, of course, always happened, just seemingly not as frequently as they do at the moment. I think I read something that analysed the frequency of Caribbean hurricanes and found it had increased.

Too hot. Got the windows open, in December, to try and cool down.

More heat means more water vapour means more energy carrying capacity in the atmosphere means more storms. Massively oversimplifying it, but that's roughly the causality.

13 degrees at 3am on the 17th of December. I just rode home in T shirt and jeans and was thinking I'd have been better in shorts.

shortest night tonight
evenings start getting longer and warmer from here on in !

shortest night tonight
evenings start getting longer and warmer from here on in !

Longest you tit

13 degrees at 3am on the 17th of December. I just rode home in T shirt and jeans and was thinking I'd have been better in shorts.

Every day when it's not raining.

@ ramsaye .... oh yeah !

also, so many umbrellas on refuse bins this afternoon

Weather is crazy for this time of year. 29 degrees and sunny.

Oh yeah, I'm on holiday.

Suckers!

Weather is crazy for this time of year. 29 degrees and sunny.

This is why I'm waiting until early April to go and enjoy real snow in the Cairngorms now.

Last year we went at the end of January and it was melting / snowing / thawing again...

Short sleeved shirt for wandering around the shops today. Most agreeable.

Pfff... We get that all year 'round...

Yeah they do here too.

And no, you don't.

I'm in the tropics, you ain't.

Subtropics FTW!

I like that it sometimes gets down to 21°c in the winter...

It is pissing down out there with howling winds. I am not going out today.

It is pissing down out there with howling winds. I went out. Tough but fantastic. One of my most enoyable days cycling all year :-D

Is it acceptable to use the toilet knowing that it will probably end up in someone I know's living room?

Went to sleep after my night shift thinking it'd be nice to ride into Manchester City Centre to work.

Woke to find that I'm fucking glad I live on a great big hill. Every river is at their highest ever levels and one of my local- ish pubs has been washed away.

Not even sure I'll be able to drive in!

Cut out the middle man, just shit on your neighbour's kitchen floor.

You near Bury then? Just popped back home to feed the cats, seems south Manchester is just the usual quite damp. The pictures of the Irwell look a bit scary though.

Rossendale. The drive in was uneventful tbh. Wet and windy but not the hell the news showed people near me were living.

scotland already approaching the wettest january ever and it's only the 6th !