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A period of "exceptional weather" bringing rain, wind and high tides is set to hit the UK, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has said.
The Environment Agency issued several severe flood warnings - indicating a danger to life - for south-west England, Gloucestershire and Wales.
Tidal flooding is expected in "numerous locations" on Friday due to large waves, high tides and strong winds.
Mr Paterson said ministers were working to ensure all agencies were prepared.
He was speaking after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, in which the UK's flood response was discussed.
Mr Paterson said the coast would be dangerous.
coolcatt
reply to post by AndyMayhew
I remember couple of weeks before xmas and the weather peeps telling us to get ready for the big freeze saying its gonna hit us hard.
Never come? Time will tell on this. I love how unprepared we are in the UK when we get snow for a couple of day's
coolcatt
reply to post by AndyMayhew
I remember couple of weeks before xmas and the weather peeps telling us to get ready for the big freeze saying its gonna hit us hard.
Never come? Time will tell on this. I love how unprepared we are in the UK when we get snow for a couple of day's
smurfy
coolcatt
reply to post by AndyMayhew
I remember couple of weeks before xmas and the weather peeps telling us to get ready for the big freeze saying its gonna hit us hard.
Never come? Time will tell on this. I love how unprepared we are in the UK when we get snow for a couple of day's
FFS, don't encourage them, their weather advertisments are bad enough ...BTW, it's blowing like mad, and precipitating profusely here in Nor'n Ireland, sometimes they mention us, sometimes not.
Cobaltic1978
smurfy
coolcatt
reply to post by AndyMayhew
I remember couple of weeks before xmas and the weather peeps telling us to get ready for the big freeze saying its gonna hit us hard.
Never come? Time will tell on this. I love how unprepared we are in the UK when we get snow for a couple of day's
FFS, don't encourage them, their weather advertisments are bad enough ...BTW, it's blowing like mad, and precipitating profusely here in Nor'n Ireland, sometimes they mention us, sometimes not.
I always listen out for the Union countries weather, hoping and praying it's always going to be worse than the South West of England. It often is, but not tonight!!
Basically more heavy rain, high seas and gales to come - so watch out folks!
As an aside, this run of unusual (though not exceptional) stormy weather has been laregly driven by the cold weather affecting North America: as air flows west to east across the northern hemisphere, it means very cold air coming across the relatively mild Atlantic. This temp contrast leads to cyclogenesis - the creation of low pressure systems (cyclones) - which wizz across the Atlantic until they hit Britain. So basically it's all the American's fault!
CretumOrbis
Nah, it's Mexico's fault. They haven't done a thing to plug up the volcano that's sitting off their coast pumping out water vapor. Half joking of course, it's in international waters! Seriously though, the volcano south of Baja has been the source of the precipitation falling on the US east coast for the past month or so. It seems there's some activity in the Atlantic too, further feeding the current storms, though not as intensely localized like the Baja volcano. (meaning, smaller eruptions spread out or simply from the hydrothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic rift)
Don't take my word for that, go look for yourself, seriously.
hopenotfeariswhatweneed
i wouldn't mind a bit of that cold weather right now,the mercury where i am in aus will hit around 39 degrees Celsius and that is bloody hot....
HelenConway
reply to post by AndyMayhew
Here we go again - come on please stop buying into the media hype.
Remember England / Britain is the place that cannot deal with
Autumn and the ' leave s on the line' [ trains come to a standstill]
1 inch of snow : schools close / hospital staff stay at home etc etc.
A bit of sun - panic, panic.
When we have hurricanes and typhoons like they have in the United States and Gulf of Mexico, fires like the Australians and floods like Bangladesh ... then we can panic and I will listen.
Please stop spreading this fear mongering.