WHEN WILL THE HEAT STOP?

[PeterRS]

I thought of including this under the HOT SPOTS thread, but that's a different kind of heat!! The sad fact is that even with huge fires burning in North and some in South America, it is Europe that is heating up faster. We've seen previous year's videos of fires in Greece. They're back - and again close to Athens. Some of Turkey is on fire. Spain is now battling fires, one less than 36 kms from Madrid. Parts of it's neighbour Portugal is also in flames. In one week the south of France has seen as much destruction as in the whole of 2024. And that year saw twice as much as the year before. The French Prime Minister has called it "catastrophic on an unprecedented scale."

And still the world's leaders sit back and, led by the tyrant Trump, do almost nothing about global warming. In one breath he calls climate change "mythical," "non-existent", "an expensive hoax," while in another he states it is a very "serious subject". In 2009 he joined other business leaders by signing a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for legislation to combat climate change.  In 2012, though, in typical Trump fashion, he reversed course by claiming climate change is a hoax "created for an by the Chinese to make US manufacturing non-competitive!" 

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8ryvxlr6dlo

[PeterRS]

Sorry error

[vinapu]

wait until hurricane season starts

[PeterRS]

Hurricanes hardly ever hit Europe. In the US they are mostly driven in from the Atlantic and so it is those states and Caribbean Islands that suffer. But in the USA wildfires are mostly affecting the west. Again hurricanes rarely ever hit the west and Pacific Northwest. Praying for more rain may help in dousing some fires. But global warming is resulting in it falling much more heavily resulting in severe fooding. All this is going to get much worse until world leaders do their jobs and get to grips with global warming.

[Keithambrose]

3 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Hurricanes hardly ever hit Europe. In the US they are mostly driven in from the Atlantic and so it is those states and Caribbean Islands that suffer. But in the USA wildfires are mostly affecting the west. Again hurricanes rarely ever hit the west and Pacific Northwest. Praying for more rain may help in dousing some fires. But global warming is resulting in it falling much more heavily resulting in severe fooding. All this is going to get much worse until world leaders do their jobs and get to grips with global warming.

Even the so called hurricane in the South of England, in 1987, which caused much damage, and destroyed the reputation of Michael Fysh, was, strictly speaking , not a hurricane.

[PeterRS]

38 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

destroyed the reputation of Michael Fysh

Who?

[Keithambrose]

7 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

Who?

The BBC weather forecaster, who said, the previous evening, on TV,  that a viewer had rung up to say there would be a hurricane. He assured her that there would not be. Storm hit overnight. Following  morning, chaos, Kew Gardens lost a third of their trees, railway lines blocked, house next to us damaged roof, etc, etc, but, they said, not strictly a hurricane! Michael Fysh became a household name overnight!

[Riobard]

1 hour ago, Keithambrose said:

Even the so called hurricane in the South of England, in 1987, which caused much damage, and destroyed the reputation of Michael Fysh, was, strictly speaking , not a hurricane.

You? Strictly? 

[floridarob]

1 hour ago, Riobard said:

You? Strictly? 

You’re like Wi-Fi — always there, even when no one asked..... The conversation will survive, astonishingly, without your footnotes on every page 💩

At this point, your replies are less communication and more background radiation

[PeterRS]

6 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

The BBC weather forecaster, who said, the previous evening, on TV,  that a viewer had rung up to say there would be a hurricane. He assured her that there would not be. Storm hit overnight. Following  morning, chaos, Kew Gardens lost a third of their trees, railway lines blocked, house next to us damaged roof, etc, etc, but, they said, not strictly a hurricane! Michael Fysh became a household name overnight!

Thank you. I am sure that helps for those who do not live in the UK.

Mind you, I have never placed any faith in the BBC's website weather service. I was once in Taipei during September. The BBC claimed the weather in Taipei was warm and sunny. Sitting at my hotel desk, I could see outside a major typhoon under way with tree branches and shop signs flying around amid very high winds and torrential rain! The following day i went to the hot springs near Beitou. All were cl.osed as the typhoon had ripped up all the water pipes!

[vinapu]

5 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Thank you. I am sure that helps for those who do not live in the UK.

Mind you, I have never placed any faith in the BBC's website weather service. I was once in Taipei during September. The BBC claimed the weather in Taipei was warm and sunny. 

you mixed two news corporations with the same monikers , BBC forecasting weather in Taipei was Bullshit Broadcasting corporation not British as you wrongly assumed.

very recently I was actually very impressed with accuracy of forecasts. On Sunday our forecast showed rain staring on Tues around 4 pm.   Guess at what time rain arrived yesterday - it was 3.56

[PeterRS]

4 hours ago, vinapu said:

you mixed two news corporations with the same monikers , BBC forecasting weather in Taipei was Bullshit Broadcasting corporation not British as you wrongly assumed.

very recently I was actually very impressed with accuracy of forecasts. On Sunday our forecast showed rain staring on Tues around 4 pm.   Guess at what time rain arrived yesterday - it was 3.56

 I can see you were waiting watch in hand for the rain to start. Or did you set the alarm just to make sure it was on time LOL

[vinapu]

35 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

 I can see you were waiting watch in hand for the rain to start. Or did you set the alarm just to make sure it was on time LOL

neither , somebody was supposed to show up at 4 p.m. and checked time then noticed first drops of rain

[BjornAgain]

On 8/13/2025 at 2:54 PM, Keithambrose said:

Even the so called hurricane in the South of England, in 1987, which caused much damage, and destroyed the reputation of Michael Fysh, was, strictly speaking , not a hurricane.

For those Brits that want a reminder:-

I woke up the next morning after a somewhat large curry & lager session to find a large branch in my living room.

[Keithambrose]

2 hours ago, BjornAgain said:

For those Brits that want a reminder:-

I woke up the next morning after a somewhat large curry & lager session to find a large branch in my living room.

Thanks for the clip!

[Keithambrose]

1 minute ago, Keithambrose said:

Thanks for the clip!

Sorry I misspelled his name!

[vinapu]

3 hours ago, BjornAgain said:

I woke up the next morning after a somewhat large curry & lager session to find a large branch in my living room.

hope you had an axe so you could chop it and get fireplace ready