Posted on 12/07/2015 2:47:43 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Tens of thousands of homes are without power after Storm Desmond caused severe flooding and travel disruption across northern England and parts of Scotland.
Police yesterday declared the storm a major incident, with hundreds of people forced to leave their homes.
Lifeboat crews and soldiers have been sent to help rescue stranded residents and tens of thousands of properties are without power in northern England and Scotland.
The rainfall is being described as extreme and unprecedented. Official estimates show a record 340 millimetres of rain fell in the Lake District and northern England in 24 hours.
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A severe winter storm, in the north? How amazing.
Gorebull raining. And it never rains in England/s
My daughter lives there. She says it is really miserable. I’d have a hard time telling the difference since the weather Leeds is always miserable when I visit there.
That's over 13 inches. A true gully washer.
It is amazing how much energy is transferred from water(aqueous atmosphere) to the air(gaseous atmosphere) from the evaporation process. A very small increase in water temperature results in huge amount of energy being transferred to drive a storm.
A miracle that is barely observed.
Storm Desmond -Twitter
It never rains quite like this. 340mm? Thats a months worth of rain in a day.
Storm Desmond. Now we are naming just any old storm? In two years will we have Squall MARTY? Computers will have to name the tornadoes. They are come and gone very quickly. Soon it will ba all too confusing and dust devils will have to be termed with 7 digit numbers. I guess giving a storm a name makes it more dramatic and the TV people can get all breathless in their panic induction techniques and maybe get 4 more people to watch their advertisements. I guess it helps push the Climate Change bogeyman. After all it is indubitable that the incidence of named storms has increased steadily in recent years.
There was a lot of hurricanes when I was a kid. The a dearth of them for about 2 decades. Then a bunch.
In 1900 Texas there was a storm that killed 12000 in Galveston Texas. Storms like Katrina didn't come close. Yet we blame Katrina and Sandy on global warming when a century ago storms were much worse and even worse in the 17 and 18th century where whole fleets of ships were sunk.
Indeed. However, for a storm with intensity at 1:100 year probability to recur within 5 years is a bit hard. Cumbria and the Lake District had one almost as severe in total rainfall, and equally severe in destructive effect, in 2010.
Globull(Shiite) warming...
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