Three people have sadly died and countless others are facing severe disruption because of the unusual but certainly not ‘unprecedented’ (as some media outlets are suggesting) weather conditions associated with Storm Babet, which has mainly affected eastern Scotland and north east England, although flooding has been quite widespread across eastern and central England too (now Wales).
Sky News point out that Babet originally came in from the Atlantic, over Portugal and the Bay of Biscay, brought there by an unusual southerly jet stream track, where it picked up its supposedly 'unprecedented' moisture - due to warm seas/climate change. However, much of this rainfall was deposited over southern Europe and southern Britain and it was decidedly not unprecedented. When Babet was forced back into Scotland and north eastern England because of the jet stream configuration and the high pressure cell over Scandinavia, it picked up its moisture from the North Sea. THAT is what fell as very heavy and persistent rain in Scotland, as explained in this unusually informative video from the Met Office:
The unusual but not unprecedented configuration of the northern hemisphere jet stream accounted largely for the spring and summer heatwaves in southern Europe (with arson accounting for the wildfires), it accounts largely for the wild weather in Spain and Portugal and the serious flooding in eastern Scotland now, but the Nut Zero fraudsters insist on blaming man-made climate change for these events, citing in the former case the tiny rise in global mean surface temperature and in the latter case the small contribution to increased atmospheric moisture made possible by that tiny rise in global mean surface temperature. They are cultists and opportunist fraudsters who abuse science and logic in order to promote the cult-like belief in Thermageddon End Times.
Unbelievable. Who the hell does she think she is? 'Ms' Fletcher and her undoubtedly very generous wage packet and pension scheme can get themselves stuffed where the sun doesn't shine as far as I'm concerned. I will NEVER fit a useless, expensive heat pump in my house and I will burn wood only if necessary in order to keep warm.
Paul Homewood has an excellent post on Babet and Sky's attempt to pin it on climate change.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/sky-blame-babet-floods-on-climate-change/
Sky News point out that Babet originally came in from the Atlantic, over Portugal and the Bay of Biscay, brought there by an unusual southerly jet stream track, where it picked up its supposedly 'unprecedented' moisture - due to warm seas/climate change. However, much of this rainfall was deposited over southern Europe and southern Britain and it was decidedly not unprecedented. When Babet was forced back into Scotland and north eastern England because of the jet stream configuration and the high pressure cell over Scandinavia, it picked up its moisture from the North Sea. THAT is what fell as very heavy and persistent rain in Scotland, as explained in this unusually informative video from the Met Office:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4DgM85U8M&t=243s
Thanks Jaimie. Holding the Alarmists to account is always valuable.
The unusual but not unprecedented configuration of the northern hemisphere jet stream accounted largely for the spring and summer heatwaves in southern Europe (with arson accounting for the wildfires), it accounts largely for the wild weather in Spain and Portugal and the serious flooding in eastern Scotland now, but the Nut Zero fraudsters insist on blaming man-made climate change for these events, citing in the former case the tiny rise in global mean surface temperature and in the latter case the small contribution to increased atmospheric moisture made possible by that tiny rise in global mean surface temperature. They are cultists and opportunist fraudsters who abuse science and logic in order to promote the cult-like belief in Thermageddon End Times.
Unbelievable. Who the hell does she think she is? 'Ms' Fletcher and her undoubtedly very generous wage packet and pension scheme can get themselves stuffed where the sun doesn't shine as far as I'm concerned. I will NEVER fit a useless, expensive heat pump in my house and I will burn wood only if necessary in order to keep warm.