9th October - Today's News: Flash Floods on Sunshine Coast
In Australia there's been flash flooding on the Sunshine Coast
Russia confirms that death rate rose by a quarter in heatwave
Malaysia log-jam threatens disaster in Sarawak
How to waste public money and make yourself look stupid: As another freezing winter looms, council hands out 2,000 spades and tells residents: 'Dig yourselves out when it snows'. Snowed in? Just ring up the council for a spade ........ Actually, the story has no doubt been taken out of context and it's simply an idea so that neighbours can help one another should bad weather take hold.
Of course, the sole basis for 'another freezing winter' is that PWS (no more weather experts than you or I) said so. And the sole reason PWS said so is because extreme forecasts of severe cold winters garner more publicity from the gutter press. And if you forecast extremes every year, sooner or later you'll be right. Which is why PWS also predict record breaking high temperatures every summer.
(Rather annoyingly, I think there probably will be some cold and snowy weather again this winter - I see no signs as yet of any return to the awful mild wet & windy weather that plagued the late 90s and early 2000s - but if that happens it will not mean PWS were right!!!)
Russia confirms that death rate rose by a quarter in heatwave
Malaysia log-jam threatens disaster in Sarawak
How to waste public money and make yourself look stupid: As another freezing winter looms, council hands out 2,000 spades and tells residents: 'Dig yourselves out when it snows'. Snowed in? Just ring up the council for a spade ........ Actually, the story has no doubt been taken out of context and it's simply an idea so that neighbours can help one another should bad weather take hold.
Of course, the sole basis for 'another freezing winter' is that PWS (no more weather experts than you or I) said so. And the sole reason PWS said so is because extreme forecasts of severe cold winters garner more publicity from the gutter press. And if you forecast extremes every year, sooner or later you'll be right. Which is why PWS also predict record breaking high temperatures every summer.
(Rather annoyingly, I think there probably will be some cold and snowy weather again this winter - I see no signs as yet of any return to the awful mild wet & windy weather that plagued the late 90s and early 2000s - but if that happens it will not mean PWS were right!!!)
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