The Extraordinary UK Winter of 2013-14: a Timeline of Watery Chaos

[knocker]

 

Introduction

This is the first post on the exceptionally wet and stormy UK winter of 2013-14. So many severe weather events occurred that they almost seemed continuous a lot of the time. So, to begin with, a timeline is necessary in order for readers elsewhere around the world to appreciate its sheer relentlessness. In a follow-up post, we will take a look at the outbreak of politics that accompanied it, and the scientific debate regarding causes and the possible influence of climate change. But first, a little light entertainment in the form of the run-up to the season in the popular press.

 

http://www.skepticalscience.com/uk-winter-2013-14.html#.Uxnlpd6Z4hY.twitter

[MP-R]

Going through my records of the autumn/'winter' just gone, there's quite the list of storms:

 

Oct 28th

Nov 02nd/03rd

Dec 18th

Dec 23rd

Dec 27th

Jan 03rd

Jan 06th

Jan 25th

Feb 12th

Feb 14th/15th

 

Certainly one to remember... for all the wrong reasons!

[TonyH]

"100 Days of Snow"? Well that forecaster needs to give up weather forecasting for the rest of their life...

That 'forecaster' was the Daily Express!

[4wd]

Being from the activist SKS site I can guess what the conclusion will be.Have a look at this from Paul Homewood,  which points out that it was not that unusual.http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/07/in-the-uk-it-was-much-wetter-in-1929/It was really only bad luck that the same quite small area got hit repeatedly.Further north it has been wet but certainly not record breaking -  in rainfall or mildness.

Edited March 9, 2014 by 4wd

[knocker]

As per usual you manage to pollute the thread with your ideological claptrap. And then supply a link to the asylum.

 

This isn't what the thread was about but I'll just stick it in for reference and then back on topic.

 

27 February 2014 - Early Met Office statistics for Winter 2014 show that England and Wales has already had its wettest winter in almost 250 years.

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2014/early-winter-stats

Edited March 9, 2014 by knocker

[TonyH]

Being from the activist SKS site I can guess what the conclusion will be.Have a look at this from Paul Homewood,  which points out that it was not that unusual.http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/07/in-the-uk-it-was-much-wetter-in-1929/It was really only bad luck that the same quite small area got hit repeatedly.Further north it has been wet but certainly not record breaking -  in rainfall or mildness.

John Mason an activist really?

[knocker]

John Mason an activist really?

 

Quite. Very well respected and deservedly so.