Says the country’s potato harvest has been affected.
“Just. Stop. Raining.”
“That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather.
(Excerpts) – The U.K. is slogging through some of the wettest conditions in recent history. Nearly
every day seems to bring showers, sprinkles, drizzles, or downpours.
The wettest conditions ON RECORD might be a better way to put it.
Area manager Martin Timmis said he was seeing flash floods almost every week as storms dumped more water on the already-saturated ground of a country not unused to wet weather.
“What’s unprecedented is that this is becoming a regular occurrence,” he said in a telephone interview. “The rain comes down and it’s got nowhere to go.”
The soggy scenario has been repeated around the U.K., with summer music festivals washed out, sporting events soaked, and spirits dampened by the non-stop precipitation.
Britain’s Meteorological Office says the jet stream has been stubbornly “guiding those systems straight to us” and leading to the wettest June on record.
In its editorial, The Times lamented … that the country’s potato harvest has been affected — pushing up the price of chips — or fries, to Americans.
“When the proverbial cheapness of chips comes under threat, The Times says enough is enough,” the editorial said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120714/DA00PDC02.html
Thanks to Robert Stom, Bill Sellers and Laurel for this link
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Traditionally, if it rains on St.Swithin’s day, it heralds 40 days of further rain.
The Irish Times has an article about it and we had our 1st day of shower. 39 to go.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0716/1224320204385.html
And it was sunny yesterday (St. Swithin’s Day) – pissing down today.
Potato blight all over the allotments where we have ours.
DTB. No. This is happening as a result of a very quiet sun; when this occurs, the jest stream moves from North of the British Isles to South, resulting in a wet summer.
Nothing to do with CAGW, whatever the Climate Jihadis might want you to think.
Huh.
Is the UK the first country to experience REAL climate change because of natural cycles? It sure seems so. This cool, wet weather has been going on for a couple of years now.
Let’s hope the Olympics are not affected. Good luck!
Actually, for the first time in ages, I saw a BBC forecast for next week with the jet stream starting to track a little further to the north.
There is therefore a chance that a slowly ceasing of the rain, at least in more southern bits of Britain, may occur before the month of July is out.
The rain is definitely having an effect. The roots of some of my plants in the garden have rotted.
This doesn’t bode well for the farmers crops or for us.
relax guys, Peter Singleton of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has declared( yesterday in Scottish Sunday Hrrald) that there is now no natural weather and it’s all due to man. Normal service will be resumed after a prolonged period of procrastination to consider if his £100,000 salary merits an increase for such a wonderful insight.
I found exceedingly funny the recent pics of the Car Park for theOlympic water events being so flooded the Kayakers were swishing past the few cars that were up to their mid sections in water..
if this keeps up it might be the first? cancelled/delayed Olympics?
not a bad thing maybe after reading about G4s security( lack of some 10k staff) mayhem and the airports letting”watch list” entrants in without stopping em..
Well, look on the bright side – at least the wells aren’t running dry!
Unfortunately in the UK, the Meteorlogical Office is so biased even their medium term forcasts are way of the mark. We are continually told that the next few months are going to be warmer and drier than nromal because their modelling software is adding in temperature forcing that does not exist. the problems with water shortage has been a total disgrace and is the fault of the water companies ripping everyone off but not doing anything to take into account the rising population. THere are 20% more people in the UK since water privatisation but water storage has fallen due to money saving.
I live in south Wales and I’m used to wet summers
but nothing like we’re seeing at this time.I bought a tent 3 years ago (2009) and I seriously
haven’t had a chance to use it as the weather has
destroyed all opportunities to use it. our summer
sport is cricket and it relies on dry weather to
be played, it’s getting to the stage where hardly
any games are being played. does anyone know when
this jet stream is going to move north again and
give us a bit of a break? will it stay in place going into winter, if it does things can only get even worse.
Low solar activity causes this. We may have two decades of this, it seems. Or it may be the precursor to a longer period of cold weather. Regardless of the facts, it will be blamed on CAGW.
What happened to the statement?—If the rain had come as snow, there would be ?feet of snow. Fiddlin
Well Willard, if this pattern in the UK had occurred Dec-March instead of April-July, then we’d have had a lot of snow indeed. It’s got nothing to do with CO2 and is down to the Jet Stream positioning.
Erratum. For “jest” read “jet”
Bad potato harvest meanwhile the Midwest of the US has the expected drought to go with this pattern. Will we experience an 1840s redux … or a redux of earlier episodes that were even worse? Now is the time to top off the larder.