Extreme weather pics in UK - amazing photos

[malaise]

https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/52a028a8e4b0acc591790cd5?INTCMP=mic_231815


my favorite - new waterfall


Gorgeous


mare and foal left out in todays high tide on loughour estuary- too sad

[herding cats]

1. Those poor horses!

The sunset (rise?) is stunning tho!

[dipsydoodle]

2. The horses were definately rescued by the RSPCA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals

[malaise]

3. I hope so

That is cruelty

[malaise]

4. That garden must have been beautiful in spring and summer

[herding cats]

8. Thank you for putting my mind to ease.

They looked so pitiful standing out there like that. I'm glad to know there's such a wonderful charity there designed for just such situations! I feel better knowing someone was there to take care of them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. before and after:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25639777

[malaise]

6. Freaking wow!!!

That was some storm

[countryjake]

9. OMG!

Solid rock washed away, just like that! Incredible!

[riderinthestorm]

7. Wow!

[countryjake]

10. Thanks for that link, malaise!

I wonder if that stone wall in the new waterfall pic was standing before the storm?

Those poor horses.

[malaise]

11. I think so

Check the owner's comment at the link with the photos

[KoKo]

12. Isn't this the second storm in just a few weeks?

Then there was the one that hit Eastern Scotland and the Netherlands with huge Tsunami like waves....

Bizarre... Thanks for the photos.

[malaise]

13. Yes and they're expecting more

Meanwhile Australia is burning up with heat, but remember there is no global warming because the USA is cold.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Possible cause here

and expected to continue for a while too .

For Europe it is normal to get storms at this time of year. Extra tropical cyclones, as they are known, are created by cold polar air meeting hot tropical air, spinning up powerful storms. “There is always a large temperature contrast between these two air masses between October and March, which produces a constant conveyor belt of storms,” says Milan Simic, managing director of AIR Worldwide, a risk modelling company.

But this year the warm air mass sitting over the North Atlantic appears to be extra warm. “Back in the summer warm air from the Sahara moved over the Atlantic Ocean and prevented the formation of North Atlantic hurricanes,” explains Simic.

And that lingering warmth may be partly responsible for the weather patterns we are seeing now. On both sides of the North Atlantic the weather conditions are reflecting the clash between warm and cold air, producing a string of storms for the UK, the Toronto ice storm just before Christmas and severe snow in the north-eastern United States right now.

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It feels exceptional, and it is tempting to blame global warming, but it could also be that our memories are failing us, and that this kind of weather isn’t so unusual after all. “I'm sure all of this has happened before - but we've got used to some dry and snowy winters recently,” says Roger Brugge, a meteorologist at Reading University.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2014/jan/03/why-is-the-british-weather-so-bad-right-now

[KoKo]

15. Nice read...

Our own Dr. Jeff Masters whose been pretty good with the Climate Science has explained the Jet Stream diversion this year for some of our US Weather. He also has done extensive work on shifting air currents and jet stream due to the Arctic ice melting patterns.

Since I'm an US East Coaster...we share the Atlantic with you. And, I live in a Hurricane Watch area so it was interesting to see the low incidence of hurricane activity this year after so many active years. Our local Meteorology has referred to "a disturbance" which sits off the Southeast Coast for most of this past year. It's an air stream of unstable air that blocks our usual west to east coast jet stream flows and tends to drift Westward sometimes causing flooding rains. It's always visible in the radar/satellite imagery and is an unusual feature.

[malaise]

17. More pics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534511/UK-weather-50ft-waves-hit-coast-1-6inches-rain-fall-sodden-ground-today.html

[malaise]

16. Thanks