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| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
I know. the gulf stream is coming straight at the uk, more namely wales/the midlands instead of bypassing us for iceland, and rain like this is majorly common at the moment. we've had close to 200% of the normal precipitation for may, june and now july. Fortunately for our house, we live on a hill, and while it's low-ish down on it, there's still a long way for the water to travel down, so we just get small puddles from what doesn't flow on. For some people, this is the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time their towns have flooded in this last 3 months. Our area is still forecast another 20-60mm overnight into tomorrow. I've never known a summer like it. We have isolated incidents every maybe 5 years but this has been pretty much nationwide. Don't think we've topped 23c here either, whereas 12 months ago we were in the 30s, approaching 100f |
yeah, same thing is going on in texas/oklahoma/louisiana too. almost the entire state of texas is no longer in a drought (that its been in for...like, what decades?) here in shreveport, we've gotten 33" of rain this year, and last year at this point we were at 22". so almost a foot more than last year; and we've been about 5 degrees below average too. (Again, last year we were hitting 100+ for 10 days in a row)....this year we've hit 95F only 4 times. |
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