Met office summer prediction?

Question

Far warmer than usual temps and wet

Should we be preparing form more flooding and events such as the heat wave in France that claimed over 15,000 lifes.

Do you accept the met office predictions and are you going to act on their predictions

Answer 1

5 years ago we had an unbelievable hot summer even the UK had temps of 30 c here on the Costa Blanca we had temps that reached 52c it was unbearable for two months and many lives were lost I really really hope we don't have another like that one, l  can only hope the met office are slightly wrong as usual.

Answer 2

Yeah? Er, lived in a town that flooded annually when I was a kid, me great aunt used to move everything upstairs once a year for a couple of months. Nothing changes, this has been happening for years, but should really not build houses on natural flood plains and are you sure a heatwave killed 15,000 french? Missed that then....er, don't go to Athens in august, though cos that may do for yer, honest..

Answer 3

The climate here in UK [the Island of Britain] is as it always has been.  Rain, storms, floods, earthquakes, baking hot desert sun, frequent showers in the months of June, July and August.  Heatwaves when you least expect them in silly months such as Octember and so forth.  Warm mild Christmases.  Freezing cold start to Spring with snow.

Usual thing then. . . .!

And no, I do not believe any weather forecast, especially one issued by tye Met-Office.  Here is a famous Met-Office civil servant giving us the forecast on the BBC the night before the raging storm which totally destroyed a million trees in the London are alone and God alone knows what damage elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqs1YXfdt...

My advice is just be prepared for the worst.  If anyone is unfortunate enough to be living in a flood plain which has not flooded for a century or so, please be advised that the river near you will eventually burst it's banks.  It will do this without warning in the middle of the night.

BEWARE - Britain has some of the most shocking weather in all of Europe.

I know, because I was there.  In the 1950s floods in East Anglia, whole towns and villages were left to their fate.  Who knows how many drowned or were simply washed out to sea.

EAST ANGLIA FLOODS

East Anglian Film Archive DVDs

For me, the DVD about the Floods of East Anglia is a particularly ... Norwich,

1950: there are bombsites, shops on every corner, red telephone boxes and ...

http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/LeisureAndCult... - Cached

Problems of erosion and threatened flooding of East Anglian

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Harwick & Holm Bank has removed over 100 million tons of sand since 1950. ...

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FOCAL

Floods of East Anglia 1912-1953. January 1953: the sea surges above the coast,

... Norwich, 1950: there are bombsites, rationing, shops on every corner, ...

http://www.focalint.org/eastanglia_oct07... - Cached

Let's Talk - East Anglia's best-loved magazine

6 Floods of East Anglia 1912-1953 January 1953: Freak weather has caused ...

Norwich, 1950: Bombsites, rationing, red telephone boxes and Austin Sevens. ...

http://www.letstalk24.co.uk/memorylane/F... - Cached

East Coast Floods WOODBRIDGE REPORTER 5 Feb 1953 on eBay, also ...

This is ONE of THREE East Anglian newspapers from early February 1953 reporting

on the disastrous East Coast floods of 31 January 1953. ...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/East-Coast-Floods-...

Answer 4

they never get it correct remember Michael fish