Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Met Office's flood warning

The Observer claims that the Met Office had warned the government that because of El Nino (do they mean La Nina?) it would be much wetter than normal this summer. Does anyone remember that warning?

Searching the news archives, I found this on April 15th " The Met Office predicted last week that this summer would be warmer than usual, but said it could not judge how much rainfall there would be", this on April 13th, " He added: "In terms of rainfall, there doesn't appear to be any clear signal whether or not it's going to be wetter than normal. At the minute we're expecting an average level of rainfall, but there is a significant chance it will be warmer.""