On Oct 1, 3:49*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
Records are breakin in Britain as I speak, no easy feet with only a
keyboard to speak with, I assure you.

A Blocking Low is the sort of weather that is very unpleasant to the
natives after noon.

The nights are too hot and humid too.

More later.

Now is then:

Nine die in Italy downpours

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

ROME — Bridges were swept away and villages hit by mudslides and
floodwater in Italy's Tuscany and Liguria regions on Wednesday during
torrential downpours that killed nine, officials and reports said.

Up to 500 millimetres (20 inches) of rain fell in just a few hours
overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, according to weather reports.

Five people were reported missing.

The areas worst hit were the Spezia region and the picturesque Five
Lands tourist destination, where seven people -- including a first aid
worker -- died. Two bodies were also recovered from a mountainous part
of northern Tuscany.

A 50-year-old woman and an elderly couple from the village of
Borghetto were swept to their deaths in a river of mud, according to
authorities in La Spezia.

Another young woman was swept along for over a kilometre but was later
found exhausted and in a state of shock.

The situation was becoming serious, said the leader of Liguria's first
aid and rescue service, Renata Briano, "especially since we don't have
any news of what is happening in some isolated areas."

The director of Italy's first aid and rescue service, Franco
Gabrielli, said: "Right now the priority is getting to people before
nightfall."

Authorities were "working to get basic services back on as in some
areas

there was no electricity, water, gas and communications are
difficult," he said.

Among the lucky ones were two tourists who were found safe and sound
after having been reported missing from Vernazza, one of the five
villages that make up the Five Lands.

Inhabitants in Borgetto Vara and Brugnato were rescued by monks in a
nearby monastery who provided shelter to around 30 people, feeding
them and giving them dry clothes.

As further rain hampered rescue work, local authorities asked
residents not to go out or to use private cars.

"All this happened in just a few minutes, it's shocking," said a local
member of the civil protection agency at the site of a landslide which
devastated the town of Aulla, where 300 people took refuge overnight
in a gym.

The bad weather was expected to spread to the rest of Italy on
Wednesday, and Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno placed firemen and rescue
services on alert though the capital appeared mid morning to have
escaped the worst of the rain.

Five days ago Rome was paralysed by a violent storm that flooded the
city, halting public transport and forcing many Romans to stay
indoors.

Such a system also affects SW France in the Vaucluse region, IIRC. It
seems to have done a pretty good job everywhere else too.

http://www.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=floods

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Massive Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia. Not many dead.

A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, spewing hot smoke and ash
thousands of feet into the air. There were no immediate reports of
injuries or damage.

Mount Lokon, located on northern Sulawesi island, had been dormant for
years before rumbling back to life several months ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1032303.html