BBC Laments The Lack Of Destructive And Lethal Storms This Winter

It’s now February and the climate catastrophists at the BBC have not so far been able to report on any really damaging storms which have hit the UK. All they’ve had so far is a very frosty, settled spell of weather back in December, which even the climastrologists have a hard time linking to global warming. But wet, wild and windy storms are different: climastrologists love them because people die and property is damaged and thus they can convey the general impression of a climate in dangerous convulsions, even though it is still technically impossible to attribute individual storms to climate change. Hence the BBC are a bit miffed as it’s all been so quiet on the UK extreme weather front.

By February, the UK would normally have had around three storms given names by the Met Office - just like Arwen, Barra and Callum. But so far this autumn and winter, there hasn't been a single one.

I feel for them, I really do. Climatastrophist journalists at the BBC sitting in their heated offices twiddling their thumbs, bereft of juicy extreme weather events to report on so they can ‘nudge’ the public into acceptance of insane emissions targets to ‘save the planet’. They’ve had it pretty good in previous years. This year - zilch, nada. Poor luvs. Must be so frustrating.

2015/16 was a real bumper year, as was 2013/14, but sadly that was in the prehistoric era before the Met Office started naming storms in order to pretend that the deep North Atlantic extratropical cyclones which have afflicted the UK from time immemorial were somehow equivalent to tropical Hurricanes. Those of us with longer memories remember the severe flooding in Somerset in 2013/14 caused by a succession of damaging (unnamed) winter storms plus the flooding in Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire in 2015/16, due to the same, but with names. We remember Dame Julia Slingo of the Met Office saying of the flooding of the Somerset levels, “all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change”. We remember Liz Truss (Remember her? Wasn’t she Prime Minister or something for about 5 minutes?) saying in 2015 that the pattern of winter flooding was what could be expected due to climate change. Oh yes, they made hay whilst the sun didn’t shine, whilst it pelted it down, but this winter has been a big disappointment so far.

The Beeb wishes it was 2022 again:

During February 2022, three storms were named within a week. Dudley, Eunice and Franklin impacted hundreds of thousands of homes.

The insurance payouts resulting from the three storms was close to £500 million, according to the Association of British Insurers.

Storm Eunice was one of the worst storms to hit the UK in 30 years, with rare red warnings issued across south Wales and southern England.

Eunice was also responsible for a new England wind gust record of 122mph at The Needles on the Isle of Wight.

This winter, it’s been slim pickings for the climate crisis fanatics, but the Beeb makes a pathetic, half-hearted attempt to link the cold snap and the current dearth of storms to climate change:

December's cold snap was due in part to what is known as a "blocking weather pattern". At the time, this pattern was over Western Europe, and preventing weather systems from reaching the UK.

The UK's lack of named storms this season is likely to be due to the position of the Polar jet stream, a ribbon of strong winds high in the atmosphere that create and drive weather systems across the Atlantic to northwest Europe.

The UK's cold snap may be partially due to the fact that a naturally occurring climate pattern called La Nina - which means large-scale cooling in the Pacific - is in its third consecutive year. This is known as a "triple-dip".

Experts believe that rising global temperatures mean that La Nina and El Nino - the opposite of La Nina - events will become stronger by 2030.

When in doubt, quote the ‘experts’.

In desperation, the BBC then makes these absurd statements:

How does climate change affect windstorms?

According to the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the link between climate change and extra-tropical cyclones - the storms that normally affect northwest Europe - is currently unclear.

They suggest that European windstorms have actually reduced in frequency over the last few decades.

However, it is widely accepted that when we do get storms, climate change is likely to make them more extreme with higher rainfall totals and potentially greater impacts.

So, what they are saying is that storms are becoming less frequent, but climate change is making them worse when they do happen! The ‘experts’ weren’t saying that when the UK was being slammed by multiple winter storms, year after year, causing extensive flooding. The BBC wasn’t saying it. In fact, just a month ago, the BBC was promoting a National Trust report on Britain’s ‘extreme weather year’ of 2022 which linked the quick succession of three named storms - Dudley, Eunice and Franklin - to climate change:

The National Trust has warned that extreme weather seen in the UK in 2022 has set a benchmark for what a typical year could be like from now on.

The charity said high temperatures, drought and back-to-back storms have created major challenges for nature.

In its annual review, it described such conditions as the "new normal".

It said this year was a "stark illustration" of the difficulties many UK species could face without more action to tackle climate change.

The weather extremes of 2022

In February, Storm Franklin became the third named storm to hit the UK in a week - following Dudley and Eunice - the first time this has happened since the storm naming system was introduced in 2015

This illustrates just how dishonest the ‘trusted news’ BBC is when reporting on weather and climate change. They will twist everything in order to claim there is a link to climate change, no matter what the weather in the UK is doing. Had it been very stormy this winter, they would have been peddling the usual climate change propaganda for sure, but it hasn’t, so they’ve cooked up some bizarre excuse for why it hasn’t, which involves climate change!

Postscript

The BBC might be in luck come mid February when the jet stream is forecast to strengthen and impact the northern part of the UK. So we might just see the first named storm of the season then. I’m sure they will be celebrating if there is a lot of storm damage, even loss of life.