How Long will this damn drought gone on for???
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Originally Posted by: sunny coast
Drought? We wish!
Originally Posted by: moomin75
What do you reckon though David?
If there's talk in scientific circles of wild swings in the weather we'll be back to drought but much worse than 75/76?
Originally Posted by: Osprey
Natural variation...I'm sorry but it really is in my view.
I have a book which I am reading about Edwardian Britain (circa 1901-1910) and it's a collection of newspaper cuttings from that period.
There were plenty of particularly (exceptionally) wet periods, balanced out by long droughts and spells of exceptional heat.
Indeed, one of the newspaper cuttings talked of an Easter Day blizzard in April 1908, followed by a sodden winter (more rain than had fallen in 100 years), followed by a long drought, followed by exceptional heatwaves (temperatures in the shade of 98f).
The following winter, 20 degrees of frost in the ground by November, followed by torrential rain and floods.
This was in the early 1900s, and not exclusively limited to one year. This was prior to the mass introduction of the motor car, and there was no talk of climate change, just that Mother Nature will have her way to balance out the conditions of our temperate climate.
I'm sorry, but these wild swings in weather have been going on for generations, in fact, since the end of the last ice age (which some say is still receding), these wild swings occur, particularly on an island such as ours with a vast swathe of warm water to our west.
This is nothing unusual in our country, and at risk of getting on the AGW bandwagon, what we are seeing plain and simple is constant brainwashing from the authorities and the media that this is in some way unusual and all man made.
Absolute hogwash. I don't doubt for one minute that at some stage in the next 6 months we will have a long dry spell.
Twas ever thus!
Originally Posted by: David M Porter