tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post5381437585933879361..comments2024-03-28T19:27:59.772+00:00Comments on A K Haart: When weather really was weatherA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-84388866055965456282022-08-07T20:31:03.061+01:002022-08-07T20:31:03.061+01:00DJ - I worked in the water industry in 1976 so I r...DJ - I worked in the water industry in 1976 so I remember it well. Lots of supply problems, algal blooms everywhere, lots of testing. Big cracks in our brown lawn at home and sunny weather which seemed as if it would go on forever. Then a drought minister was appointed and it all came to an end.<br /><br />Sobers - my parents also said winter 1946/7 was worse than 1962/3 and you are right, the North Sea storm surge of 1953 would certainly be blamed on climate change today.<br /><br />Sam - yes, we seem to be presented with disasters, emergencies and crises because they raise the profile of what bureaucrats do. As if it is mostly a PR profile-raising game to chase headlines all the time. The Met Office certainly seems addicted to it. <br /><br />Wiggia - I was down near Peterborough the other day and it is very dry round there. Not so bad where we are. Yes, appoint a minister of drought and the rains will come.<br /><br />James - it has been like that here too. Very pleasant all day, but no official warning from the Met Office, no red warning symbols, nothing. <br /><br />A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-24716485033051352552022-08-07T12:53:28.624+01:002022-08-07T12:53:28.624+01:00We have truly shocking conditions today, a danger ...We have truly shocking conditions today, a danger to life and limb. Raging gale of about 10mph, appallingly blue sky with patches of threatening white fluffy cumulus, and the sun has the temerity to beat down upon us and penetrate the windows. About 20C.<br /><br />I can't recall conditions like this since ... oh ... yesterday. Tomorrow too apparently. Shocking.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-30043376733411574592022-08-07T11:33:35.327+01:002022-08-07T11:33:35.327+01:00I had just started junior school in the 46/7 winte...I had just started junior school in the 46/7 winter and as was the way I walked the few hundred yards to the school and the snow came over the top of my wellies, would not happen today as I would be dropped off from Chelsea tractor.<br />'76, much is said about the '7 summer, the difference despite to fairly dry preceding winters was that it had a normal year up to June before it started so had a much bigger impact.<br /><br />With no rain in the foreseeable future this area being the driest region has not had any rain of consequence since the end of March and is on course for the driest year in the last recorded 100 years at this rate, driest spring driest July and a lawn that looks like the Gobi desert, must be time to appoint a minister of drought, it has always worked before.................wiggiatlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679399861131265080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-36354077455389250422022-08-07T10:01:00.245+01:002022-08-07T10:01:00.245+01:00Like DiscoveredJoys, I vividly remember the piled ...Like DiscoveredJoys, I vividly remember the piled up banks of grubby frozen snow in 1962-3, and walking to school through canyons of ice. But although I remember the heatwave of 1976 being mentioned on the news (for some reason the dead yellow grass in Greenwich Park featured quite a lot - probably because journalists could get there to take pictures) it didn't in the least inconvenience me. I was too busy having fun at University. <br /><br />As ever, the whole issue is about government and administrative expansion. Clearly they can't control the weather. But they can organise responses around disasters, emergencies, and crises. So, disasters, emergencies and crises are what we now get presented with. Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-50612951143164166662022-08-07T09:12:14.904+01:002022-08-07T09:12:14.904+01:00You can add the winter of 1946/7 to that list, my ...You can add the winter of 1946/7 to that list, my father (who would have been about 10 at the time) always spoke of it as one of the worst he had experienced. Also the North Sea storm surge of 1953, were it to occur today, would be considered of Biblical proportions, and of course the result of 'climate change'.Sobershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407417389022146963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-26958958728985341732022-08-07T08:59:59.939+01:002022-08-07T08:59:59.939+01:00I was there. Luckily there were fewer cars around ...I was there. Luckily there were fewer cars around in 1962-3 so snow could be moved and piled up in the gutter, and it stayed there for weeks. Curiously I have no specific memories of the 1976 heatwave, it was just weather.DiscoveredJoyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05300239909689336895noreply@blogger.com