Saturday, June 16, 2007

16 th June - unsettled Western Europe. Hot Eastern USA.

England was treated to some of the worst flooding for some time as winds spiralled around the British Isles, dumping almost a month's average rain in just one day.

But surely this must be a definite sign of Climate Change?

Wrong actually!! In fact experts say it was merely a more potent example of average early June conditions of the sort that habitually wipes out the first week at Wimbledon and turns the Glastonbury Festival into a quagmire.

So no climate change here then.

For more convincing global warming evidence there was a spell of sweltering conditions down the eastern coastline of the USA, with New York well into the 30's centigrade.

So global warming at last? Well not quite. As the attached map shows this hot spell was more due to warm winds coming up from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico. Once again a straight forward explanation that is evident to anyone.