For some time we have been warning that reduced Solar Flare output was likely to lead to extremely disturbed weather patterns in some parts of the world. Very shortly after this China was hit by some of the worst floods in living memory. These led to widespread disruption with around 2.5 million people forced to evacuate their homes, as well as causing at least 500 deaths.
Authorities believe that the intense flooding has yet to peak and are warning of potentially even more disastrous consequences in the days and weeks ahead.
Inevitably there were the usual murmurs of Climate Change being responsible, but the evidence suggests otherwise. In fact once again the culprit was quite simply a collision of winds with warmer air colliding with cooler winds from the north that produced particularly long and explosive downpours.
Stronger than usual monsoon rains also brought extensive flooding to large parts of India and Bangladesh.
For more information on the full severity of the Chinese flooding please turn to the following link:
Chinese floods.
In Greece meanwhile the intense heatwave that brought highly unpleasant conditions only around a week ago at last began to subside. But was this because the swirling clouds of carbon dioxide had spread their influence elsewhere or was there a more mundane explanation? Yes you guessed right - there is. Once again it comes down to a simple change of wind direction as a north westerly air flow brought more bearable conditions to the country.
Elsewhere Britain still struggled to live up to the name of summer, with a relatively indifferent spell of weather, that was at least a respite from the intense rain and flooding of the previous week. Once again this was hardly evidence of run away Global Warming, though we can well expect that despite this lousy weather official temperatures will still somehow be quoted as "warmer than average" Yeah right!!!
