For England and Wales, there is 1 Severe Flood Warning for Cornwall which means danger to life, 244 Flood Warnings which means flooding is expected and immediate action is required and 268 Flood Alerts warning that flooding is possible and to be prepared for action.
The MET Office is warning that more rain would fall in the next few days and people in the worst affected areas are being moved to emergency shelters.
The MET has issued an Amber warning for the South West of England (Be prepared to protect yourself and your property) and a Yellow Warning for the rest of the country (Localised flooding).
Scary stuff and a miserable Christmas for many. 2012 will go down as the year that the changing climate really began to make an impact.
7 comments:
How do you distinguish between bad weather that is and isn't caused by global warming? Or is all bad weather now attributable to human forces?
And I'm sure Cornwall has it coming.
Depends how closely you have been following the whole climate change debate for the last few decades.
When the word unprecedented and record breaking is used as much as it has been over recent years, you know a change is happening.
good grief. i just did a comparison and the area with flood warmings is tiny - about the size of East Texas which gets similar flood warnings 5 or 6 times a year.
perspective lucy, perspective.
q
oh, and we get the same affect every 4 or 5 years due to El Nino's.
and we have not had any storms in the USA that are abnormal. neither have we had abnormal occurance of storms.
what we have is lots of people building homes and businesses where nobody ever lived. attributible to the population doubling and americans concentrating in cities and along the coasts.
q
I will pass on your sympathies to those in the affected areas.
instead please tell them to avoid living in flood plains...
q
"How do you distinguish between bad weather that is and isn't caused by global warming? Or is all bad weather now attributable to human forces?"
As far as I know, there is no possible way of attributing the weather on one day, or even week, to one particular input. However, the vast majority of climatologists (and who am I to argue with people who study this area every day of their lives) do believe that an increase in the amount of a particular input (or inputs) into the system, over a protracted period of time, makes certain kinds of weather more likely in the future.
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