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At least 51 people are feared to have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastern Spain on Tuesday, bringing flash floods that raged through towns and cut off roads and rail lines.


Fucking tragic, and we moan about the weather over here....

 

During last 12 hours the same storm Dana, just past over us in the south of Catalonia. Lots of thunder and lightening and a lot of rain, but didn't even get the dry river beds (barrancs) full of water, thank goodness. Shocking pictures and stories coming from our neighbours in Valencia. Not much that can be done now. These things are certainly getting more frequent in this area. Happen every year somewhere on this coastal area of Spain. The impact is more to do with where it hits than anything else. We've had 2 in the last 4 years. 

The problem with all these "once in a century" events is that governments - around the world, and of all shades - always act as if they've got 99 years left yet in which to "do something".

Thinking that doesn't take into account solar powered climate change.

I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about My Fair Lady

All (ALL) they need to do to manage climate change is build a fucking great parasol at the LaGrange 1 point. Open it when it gets too cold, close it (or parts of it) when it gets too hot.

Fuck all this extra "investment" in Green Technology, which is simply hastening the move of wealth from the masses into the accounts of the (chosen*) few.


* - No idea how they got chosen. Probably chose themselves initially and silenced all opposition until they got their way.

We've had one of those most mild, boring, uneventful summers here. 

Some change.

Exactly.

All forms of severe weather is what we can expect from climate change

I was in the south of France the last week and Friday and Saturday they had a terrible storm. 
I had to drive 2 hours to nice airport and 2hrs back on Saturday night because the cսnt hire car companies offices weren’t open for me to extend the car and it was the worst weather I’ve ever driven in. Was coming down so hard you couldn’t see the road properly in front of you. people were just pulling over on the side of the motorways. 

climate change eh?? 



 

We live in the Jalon Valley, luckily on high ground so managed to escape the worst of the weather, plenty of disruption on roads today but suns out so emergency services can get about to deal with things, another storm predicted for tomorrow. Heart goes out to the families who’ve lost someone.
 It’s one of those weather phenomena that you have to see to believe, literally hail bigger than golf balls.

We regularly get this 'gota fria' in the south of Spain (up to 300 litres of rain per square meter) but this was a particularly nasty one. I got caught  out in one episode about 10 years ago and it was scary. Nowadays I just stay in when it's like it and wait for it to blow over.