Why The Weather Is So Bad?
There is a detailed explanation here in the Daily Telegraph. The first paragraph says it all.
The reason the weather is so bad this month is that a so-called jet stream, which lowers air pressure and brings unsettled weather, has become stuck over southern England.
I think it is a case of up the anchors and tow the country south.
But then summers were like this in the 1950s and 1960s. And we survived!
On the other hand we didn’t get all this flooding. But that’s because idiots allowed houses to be built on flood plains.
Even the Olympic Park has been built on a drained swamp, but it has lots of rivers running through it.
Feeling Guilty
I hadn’t realised that the vicious floods at Boscastle had occurred on my birthday in 2004. I’ve been trying to think where I was, but can’t remember.
Perjhaps, I’m feeling guilty, whilst others were in so much peril.
The Anonymous Widower 