Rob you take this all too seriously and by doing this you will not educate people by ranting at them

My view on a few experts on here is they don't help their cause by being "Stuck up" and OTT with their views

Quantum for example get pulled apart nearly every whip stitch but I've never noticed him to be up his own arse everytime

he explains things even though I don't agree with him all the time and his a coldy

I have kindly offered an explaination take it or leave it

It takes time

Just fed up with everything in life being dumbed down constantly. If you dare to mention an actual fact then apparently that is now "stuck up". Says it all really...

O/T but I wouldn't be at all surprised if 2014 does turn out the warmest, or at least one of the warmest, years on record in Britain.  Not as though we've gotten off to a cold start!

Yes, a warm CET is certainly not necessarily a reflection of a good summer. Year-round wet and windy dross (like the past two months but seasonally adjusted) would give us a pretty high CET. Let's not even go there please!

This is the media thread is it not? Surely ever bit of media about the weather regardles how crappy it is should be allowed or

are we going to have censorship or self censorship all the time

It is better to point out the misinfo without getting "hot"  under the collar with the poster

Your criticism of the article maybe well founded and I applaud this, but not in the manner in which you deliver it

I might add I get no credit having informed you today that another crap piece of journo is out there circulating the

twittesphere as well as the newsagents

Dare I say anything on these weather threads without members like you saying "Says it all really..."?

Just to jog your memory this is how you replied to me

"What a stupid article. 

You could have said "This is incorrect  or it's wrong

The writer totally misses the point that they are talking about El Niño making it the hottest year GLOBALLY and making it sound as if it's forecasters talking about our back yard. El Nino often leads to rubbish summers in the UK (see 1998).

Then I aplogised and and explained and that wasn't enough

I'm not having a go at you by pointing out that it's a stupid article. It is a stupid article , and I did explain why it's stupid. Don't take it personally, no offence intended. (Unless of course your name is Kashmira Gander and you wrote the stupid article  )

I let "It is a stupid article" go over my head

Then I said to you

Sorry Rob It was just a bit of fun. Explained further about someone sending me the tweet to cheer us up and so on

I get back from you

Maybe a bit of fun, but not if you are trying to get people to take climate science seriously.

and again after that...

"Says it all really"

From Twitter

Some good weather news… There are early signs of low pressure becoming more infrequent & less intense later next week. Stay tuned! #c4news

Found this on the twitterfeed

UK floods "quite probably" caused by climate change, hydrology expert Andrew McKenzie tells #c4news: http://bit.ly/1cx4i5B

Now I know what to expect when posting this sort of media

I'll  DUCK!

Great news.

In the meantime, I wonder how many mini-tornados and hurricanes we'll have to endure?

From reading between the lines it's only temporary , in the mean time we have thunder and lightning here in Trellech

I feel a power cut coming on...

We know it was windy but how many times have the reporters-in-wellies told us of 'Hurricane force winds' affecting an area.
That was a brief gust at Great Dunn Fell most likely, most of the places they are reporting from probably did not exceed 60mph.

Only if we have an El Nino.

O/T but I wouldn't be at all surprised if 2014 does turn out the warmest, or at least one of the warmest, years on record in Britain.  Not as though we've gotten off to a cold start!

Originally Posted by: idj20 

Only if we have an El Nino.

Originally Posted by: Charmhills 

1990 is a good example. That started off on a very wet and windy note which included the St Burns Day storm. That then lead to a brilliant Summer where temperatures stayed above 30 C somewhere over the UK for a fortnight, which included a 36 C at one time.

Never thought I'd say this, but for once I cannot wait for the blazing hot sunshine - and then some of us'll be grumbling about the heat and humidity.  I, for one, will appreciate it more from now on.

Originally Posted by: Essan 

But it also increases the risk of torrential rainfall events and general storminess in our part of the world as well as above average temps.

O/T but I wouldn't be at all surprised if 2014 does turn out the warmest, or at least one of the warmest, years on record in Britain.  Not as though we've gotten off to a cold start!

Originally Posted by: idj20 

Only if we have an El Nino.

Originally Posted by: Charmhills 

1990 is a good example. That started off on a very wet and windy note which included the St Burns Day storm. That then lead to a brilliant Summer where temperatures stayed above 30 C somewhere over the UK for a fortnight, which included a 36 C at one time.

Never thought I'd say this, but for once I cannot wait for the blazing hot sunshine - and then some of us'll be grumbling about the heat and humidity.  I, for one, will appreciate it more from now on.

Originally Posted by: Essan 

Indeed. I've spent the few dry spells in recent weeks clearing trees from a corner of the garden and plan to put a patio in once the ground has dried out a bit. I'd better get some bloody use out of it this summer!

So was 1990 an El Nino year? It doesn't come up on the lists of major ones. The biggest recently were 1982-83 (v good UK summer), 1997-98 (wet start but a decent and very dry August in the south) and 2009-2010 (again mixed but a warm June and July).

O/T but I wouldn't be at all surprised if 2014 does turn out the warmest, or at least one of the warmest, years on record in Britain.  Not as though we've gotten off to a cold start!

Originally Posted by: Charmhills 

Only if we have an El Nino.

Originally Posted by: idj20 

1990 is a good example. That started off on a very wet and windy note which included the St Burns Day storm. That then lead to a brilliant Summer where temperatures stayed above 30 C somewhere over the UK for a fortnight, which included a 36 C at one time.

Never thought I'd say this, but for once I cannot wait for the blazing hot sunshine - and then some of us'll be grumbling about the heat and humidity.  I, for one, will appreciate it more from now on.

Originally Posted by: Charmhills 

But it also increases the risk of torrential rainfall events and general storminess in our part of the world as well as above average temps.

Originally Posted by: Essan 

One thing about that is I would welcome the rain if the temps were in the 30's Drawbak is the danger of being struck by lightning

I see The Mirror is doing a good job of pointing out the storms in the Atlantic not heading our way, and missing the storm to the south which is.

John Hammond tweeting that Friday's storm at least and may be more intense than yesterday's then less unsettled next week as the jet buckles.

i saw that too.

3 stoms all to our north west.

Wehn the real storm is crossing the azores.

River Thames breaks records for water flows in January bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Storm Nation Special now

Sky 1 HD

Maybe i didnt hear what the metoffice lady said about climate change correctly , but i am pretty sure that she said that all weather from the 1950s is down to humans.Pretty bold statement.

Maybe some one can correct me.