“Super Storm Hits Britain”–It Rained A Bit Yesterday!
By Paul Homewood
It’s still silly season unfortunately!
Apparently we just had a “Super Storm” yesterday.
There were certainly some thunderstorms, but nothing remotely unusual. It was so unremarkable that even the Met Office could not be bothered to mention it on their blog, something they regularly do when we get a bit of bad weather.
The highest rainfall recorded yesterday was only 21.4mm at Lambourn.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation
Meanwhile, the Mail also report on the latest piece of junk science:
Nobody has told them that English summers are not getting hotter anyway.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly
And if you are short of a scare story, you can always dredge up the well debunked one about the Great Barrier Reef:
Scientists say it is damaged beyond repair, even though they go on to say:
Corals can recover if the water temperature drops and the algae are able to recolonise them, but it can take a decade.
Next they’ll be blaming “Bear Eats Woman” on climate change!!!!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
MailOnline latest headline --Here’s one for the perpetual hand-wringers which I sometimes pull out: Yellowstone sits over a “hot spot” which blows on the average of every 600,000 years putting a couple of feet of ash over most of the US. We are at 640,000 and counting right now.
The Barrier Reef “story” was also regurgitated by the Independent today under the headline
Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved, Australian experts concede
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/great-barrier-reef-dying-coral-bleaching-global-warming-australia-climate-change-a7761351.html.
The GOOD news about the “Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved and is damaged beyond repair” story, is that that’ll be the last we ever read or hear about the issue.
Those scientists can never ever again claim (with credibility) there’ll be further damage to it.
“…that’ll be the last we ever read or hear about the issue”
You would think so, but Buffy the Slayer retired to have babies and therefore…
A medieval English king (I forget which one) reportedly said that “An English summer consists of three hot days and a thunderstorm.”
Variously attributed to the (early modern) Kings Charles II and George II. But probably apochryphal.
Must have been warmer then, we’re down to two + thunderstorm these days.
No mention of the actual water temperature. I wonder why not.
For anyone’s interest, we have been cruising the South Pacific and more recently the Australian east coast onto the Barrier Reef. We have seen coral tip damage throughout, but none of the locals we talked to thought it was anything unusual. The dive operators were still diving on abundant coral, and on our dives we never noticed any serious coral degradation. Whether it was different further north on the upper 3-400 miles I cannot say, but we gave friends diving daily in the Solomons now, without any reported coral damage.
Just saying!
For a country relying so heavily on solar electricity, this was a major problem. I hope that windmills helped.
Rely on solar? You’re joking, we have loads of gas turbines we rely on. Just don’t tell anyone.
About 2GW solar on Monday, and about the same for wind early on, which dropped off as the day went on – so, no, they were pretty useless too. About 15GW of gas and 8GW of nuclear when we really needed it.
“Every degree cuts 15 minutes of sleep a month”. Oh, my!
First, how does the Daily Fail think that the good folk in hotter climes manage (I live in Spain and sleep just fine).
Second, well, let’s see – 15 minutes a month, thirty days in a month, 15 minutes is 900 seconds, 30 into 900 goes – oh dear, a whole 30 seconds per night per degree. I must get to bed earlier . . .
Excellent point about sleep in warm climes.
My own experience is that I sleep better in warm countries, even without A/C once I have acclimatised: also have far more vivid dreams!
NOTHING will be capable of waking me up in 2050!
One of the best aides to my sleep in 8 years occurred about 3:40 am on the morning of November 9 (also my birthday) when I awoke, looked at my phone and saw: “Trump elected President.” It also served to lower my blood pressure and my overall outlook on life. I now smile and laugh a lot more. Another great aide to overall well-being is that I got rid of TV in 2014. I no longer have the 93% negative US media–unbiased as they tell us they are. Instead I watch full things from YouTube on my laptop. All of these things have contributed to overall better health.
Well my corner of Surrey didn’t get any rain other than a few spots – nothing torrential or the 1.5in the MetO were saying.
They forgot to interview Chicken Little.