It is unusual for the Met Office to issue a red warning. It seems Eastern Scotland and North-East England could suffer 90MPH winds. Snow on mountains is likely, but blizzards are probably a more worrying problem for those who ignore weather reports.
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Untangled and put up outside. Lets hope the wind does not blow them away tonight!
WEATHER
Presumably the weather forecasters get their data from the same satellites and weather stations? Yet the forecast for Friday morning varies from 28% chance of rain BBC – to 80% METO. Temps about the same 5/6C. These predictions are for Sandford. Both predict high winds although the METO are 30-40mph whilst BBC is around 20mph. So we can forget the hyperbole here – it is winter folks, but nothing unusual – no Arctic blast or dusting off the toboggans at the moment.
WEATHER
WEATHER
What is going on? The Express and Star and Mirror have all reported expected snow and temps down to -10C by the end of the month. However the forecast for the South-West as far as I can read it, is cold nights with possible frosts, probably in rural areas, bright sunny or at least dull days with little precipitation.
106824
The number of domestic flights taken by ministers and civil servants last year – 293 per day! Who is hosting the summit on the climate change crisis – remind me! Why did anyone from the ONS need to fly domestically? Let alone 2055 of them. No wonder the government halved duty on domestic flights to £6.50 – a quick calculation makes that nearly £1 million saved!
HURRICANES, CYCLONES, TYPHOONS
Tropical Storm Wanda is probably the last of the season which has been one of the busiest on record, although most activity has avoided landfall, with the notable and destructive exceptions of Fred, Grace and Ida. 21 named storms were recorded this season which is the 3rd highest recorded.
COP26
COP26
This is exercising my mind ! The UK has done a good job so far in reducing CO2 emissions from energy production with natural gas replacing coal and wind and solar beginning to make a difference. However over 50% is still fossil fuel dependant so a lot more needs to be done. Transport has improved by 0.2% and buildings by 1.6%. Car transport should improve with more electric cars, but only if power production is sustainable. The governments policy on air and train transport is lamentable whilst the emissions caused by importing from abroad are (like most other countries) ignored. Farming has not been properly assessed.
WEATHER
Wet or what! Although warm for time of year it has been wet. Not in the usual autumn way of showers but intense storms on top of it. This area has had more thunder and lightning this year than I can remember for the last 5 or 6 years together. And we have another yellow rain warning for tonight/early tomorrow morning. Flood warnings across the south west and worse in Scotland. Perhaps storms for the next 2 weeks of COP26 would be good with the lack of investment by water companies resulting in sewage down the streets – it might make the so called ‘world leaders’ realise that shit happens, especially when economics becomes more important than environment.