On Jun 15, 6:17*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

Is there a reason for you to top post?

Kate | wrote

Here we are just on the Dordogne and it's horrible,
cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week.

*It's usually really nice this time of year
and sometimes really, really hot.

There have been flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in this week.

France, like Poland in the last one, will get more flooding this
spell:

"DRAGUIGNAN, France — Heavy rains triggered flash floods in the
mountains above France's southern Cote d'Azur region on Tuesday,
killing seven people, while at least another eight were missing, a
local official said.

Water levels swiftly rose by several metres, preventing many from
fleeing to higher ground and forcing some to seek shelter on the roofs
of their homes.

Rescue services were focussing their efforts on helping hundreds of
people trapped in the vehicles, houses or on the roofs of their homes,
the secretary general for the Var region, Olivier de Mazieres told
AFP.

Helicopters had already airlifted some people to safety, he added.

Three people were killed in the town of Draguignan and a woman in Luc.
Her body was left to float in the water raging through the town as
rescue workers deemed the currents too strong to attempt a recovery.

The other victims died in Arcs, Muy and Roquebrune-sur-Argens, the
secretary general for the Var region, the sub-prefect of Draguignan,
Corinne Orzechowski, told AFP. Another eight people were missing, she
added."

http://news.google.com/news/search?p...=floods+france

*What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

Kate, the situation is blocked and I expect it to stay this way most of the
summer as indicated in my summer climatefest.

When the plug is pulled there will be earthquakes in one place after
another.

Well more accurately: "reports of earthquakes in one place after
another".

France and the continent can
expect a wetter than normal summer with plenty of thunderstorms.

What actually happens is more like the behaviour of the Saros. It
appears to have moved west of the last longitudes. Or not, as the case
may be.

(Astrometry is too far above me.)

Stay at home tourism? in the UK will be good this year, especially in the west like
Devon/Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, the Isle of Man and W Scotland.

WTF?

Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the Auvergne
and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. *It's usually really
nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot. There have been
flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in
this week.

2010/06/16

6.2 M. 03:58 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
5.1 M. 03:56 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
5.1 M. 03:38 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
5.0 M. 03:34 OFF THE COAST OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
7.0 M. 03:16 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
6.4 M. 03:06 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

Weatherlore Numero Uno:
Big storm : Big quake.

*What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

The high over Greenland dropped and recurved slightly and became
registered on the North Atlantic charts as cyclonic. Whether or not it
really was I can't say. I very much doubt anything the CRU has on it
will be enlightening.

The area is pauce in on-the-ground weather stations and any heat
sensitivity in satellites watching the area is open to inconclusivity.

Ditto for old records from almost everywhere else. There is no side by
side IR band rain-cheques.

As stated previously, to much acclaim from the faithful:
When it rains, it pours in different places with different effects.

That's what happened in Europe and North America.

"I" don't have any idea if the cap will be refitted but until the day
"we" do, we just have to weather the wear and tears. When I find out,
you may be sure I shall tell you about it.
I wouldn't be so certain

I saw a blip in the NEIC list yesterday but thought it too small to
comment on. Besides I only come here when I have a lot to say.
uk.sci.weather is full of climatologists and sci.geo.earthquakes is
full of dimmos.

One thing in all this is certain. Previous records will not show the
cause and effect. The data reveals "effect" but because of the steps
in between, is too far off the cause to be on the mark.