The wettest summer....

Earlier this year, we were in one of the worst droughts for decades...
Then we experienced one of the wettest periods ever recorded. It was a crazy old summer (and early autumn), although the actual school-holiday section of it was rather good. We had some great sunshine down in Devon, along with some torrential rain. There was the blistering weekend when Cambridgeshire claimed the highest temperatures of the month, followed by some torrential storms which saw water pouring down the hill past our house like a river...

A useful report on the Wettest summer from the Met Office provides the background to this.

And just when we thought that we'd seen the last of the rain, we had the flooding in the NE and York during late September, which flooded the house of a friend of mine who was tweeting his efforts to save his furniture and other belongings...

I am just in the final stages of finishing off some resources for the Royal Meteorological Society which are well overdue, for which I'm a bit ashamed really, but they explore the connections with this summer and other geographical themes, particular food production...
Which means that with news stories about possible food rises once again they're going to be bang up to date in their content, even if not in the delivery...

Image: Alan Parkinson - the path to Mill Bay, Devon

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