Zoom back. I'd like to see a panoramic view of that same scene. I'd also like to know when and where that photo was taken. Day/Month and coordinates would be fine.
What is it with you Brits and your lousy, distorted memories? Or is it just a "memory of convenience" for some reason?
Aside from the fact that your lifetime does NOT make up the entirety of climatological history of Britain there's been plenty of bad weather in your past (it is England after all). Here's a list of someone's idea of the 10 worst storms in your checkered history.
And one of the many examples on this side of the pond Galveston, TX was wiped off the map by a really bad storm, all the way back in 1900 . . . there are tons more examples around the globe across recorded history. So go pedal your mis-information somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.
I know that it's been unseasonably cold and wet where I'm at, and has been for most of the summer. I don't think that means anything though as it supposedly takes a 30-year period to set a climate change trend . . .
....coming soon to a neighborhood near you!!!!!!!!!!!!
A derecho (/dəˈreɪtʃoʊ/, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], "straight") is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a land-based, fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.[1]
Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash floods. Convection-induced winds take on a bow echo (backward "C") form of squall line, forming in an area of wind divergence in upper levels of the troposphere, within a region of low-level warm air advection and rich low-level moisture. They travel quickly in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the wind is sustained and increases in strength behind the front, generally exceeding hurricane-force.
A warm-weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially during June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere, within areas of moderately strong instability and moderately strong vertical wind shear. They may occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as during the daylight hours.
WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH 