Britain battered by storms- two dead
source: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Britain_battered_by_storms_two_dead_999.html
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Winds of more than 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) swept in, closing the English Channel port of Dover for several hours and causing major disruption to train services across Britain and flights at Scottish airports.
A van driver in his 50s died after his stationary vehicle was crushed by a falling oak tree in Tunbridge Wells, a town southeast of London, police said.
A second man died after a chemical tanker was hit by a large wave in the Channel amid stormy conditions, coastguards said. A Navy helicopter evacuated the man, who was unconscious, from the vessel, but he died later in hospital.
The renowned Epsom racecourse, home of the English Derby in southeast England, was evacuated after part of the grandstand roof blew off, although there were no spectators there at the time.
Some of the worst weather was in Scotland, where at least 35 flights were cancelled at Glasgow airport and 40 at Edinburgh airport.
In Dunoon in western Scotland, five people were injured when high winds overturned caravans, while 15 people were rescued from a boat that was blown away as it was being repaired in a west coast shipyard.
Many train services that normally take passengers from England to Scotland were forced to halt their journeys in northern England due to the high winds, while bridges across Scotland were forced to close.
In Northern Ireland, 10,000 properties were left without electricity after fallen trees and severe winds damaged power lines.
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JanforGore
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Been noticing a change in winds in many places recently. I think Arctic ice melting may be part of why.
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JanforGore
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JanforGore:
How can one not notice unless they are not paying attention?
Just within the past month there have been unusually severe wind storms all around the northern hemisphere.
Looks like this might be the third year in a row the Arctic air pushes down into Eurasia and North America, producing another severe winter.
And of course if that happens people will see it as proof that global warming is a hoax.
This is a real conundrum! - 5 months ago
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JanforGore:
Very scientific Jan... you should have been a climate scientist.
Or wait, maybe it's Global Warming? RSS AMSU (that's satellite stuff) has just released its 2011 figures. 2011 was the 12th warmest out of 33 years.
2011 was cooler than all the years this century with the exception of 2008.
Global Warming isn't looking so hot this century, is it? - 5 months ago
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Gravity_Man
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JanforGore:
Perhaps you are emphasizing the wrong part of the cup. We're always having GREAT WEATHER HERE. The other day, when they called for High Winds? They failed to show, then they hit England instead.
We had one short blast during the night and that was all there was to it. Hours later London is getting 100 mph winds. This is not the first time this has happened. Last year when snow was predicted here it came towards us from the west, then suddenly darted south and dumped all over Georgia. Then it came back our way, and all the weather people said LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT, for no reason at all because it deflected 125 miles to the east of here.
We were surrounded by devastation. It might be easier to isolate what's going on HERE to give clues what's happening everywhere else. Of course the local weather people won't cooperate with such a study since they all have AN OBVIOUS AGENDA => they don't want anyone to know.
Just like they refuse to print newspaper articles about my engines.
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Gravity_Man
