Post by sky on Jul 16, 2012 17:24:52 GMT 12
Says the country’s potato harvest has been affected.
“Just. Stop. Raining.”
“That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather.
(Excerpts) – The U.K. is slogging through some of the wettest conditions in recent history. Nearly
every day seems to bring showers, sprinkles, drizzles, or downpours.
The wettest conditions ON RECORD might be a better way to put it.
Area manager Martin Timmis said he was seeing flash floods almost every week as storms dumped more water on the already-saturated ground of a country not unused to wet weather.
“What’s unprecedented is that this is becoming a regular occurrence,” he said in a telephone interview. “The rain comes down and it’s got nowhere to go.”
The soggy scenario has been repeated around the U.K., with summer music festivals washed out, sporting events soaked, and spirits dampened by the non-stop precipitation.
Britain’s Meteorological Office says the jet stream has been stubbornly “guiding those systems straight to us” and leading to the wettest June on record.
In its editorial, The Times lamented … that the country’s potato harvest has been affected — pushing up the price of chips — or fries, to Americans.
“When the proverbial cheapness of chips comes under threat, The Times says enough is enough,” the editorial said.
apnews.myway.com/article/20120714/DA00PDC02.html
“Just. Stop. Raining.”
“That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather.
(Excerpts) – The U.K. is slogging through some of the wettest conditions in recent history. Nearly
every day seems to bring showers, sprinkles, drizzles, or downpours.
The wettest conditions ON RECORD might be a better way to put it.
Area manager Martin Timmis said he was seeing flash floods almost every week as storms dumped more water on the already-saturated ground of a country not unused to wet weather.
“What’s unprecedented is that this is becoming a regular occurrence,” he said in a telephone interview. “The rain comes down and it’s got nowhere to go.”
The soggy scenario has been repeated around the U.K., with summer music festivals washed out, sporting events soaked, and spirits dampened by the non-stop precipitation.
Britain’s Meteorological Office says the jet stream has been stubbornly “guiding those systems straight to us” and leading to the wettest June on record.
In its editorial, The Times lamented … that the country’s potato harvest has been affected — pushing up the price of chips — or fries, to Americans.
“When the proverbial cheapness of chips comes under threat, The Times says enough is enough,” the editorial said.
apnews.myway.com/article/20120714/DA00PDC02.html