"Alan White" wrote in message
...
A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Here's an extract from yesterday's Mirror ["Flood Peril", October 14,
2003, p. 25].

Mirror SEVERE floods will be five times more common in Britain
Mirror by the end of the century, weather experts predicted yesterday.
Mirror
Mirror Global warming from could trigger "extreme rainfall" every
Mirror four to five years and leave those living in coastal areas
Mirror or by rivers at risk, they warned.
Mirror
Mirror In autumn 2000, freak rain hit York, Shrewsbury, and Lewes,
Mirror flooding homes and leaving roads under water.
Mirror
Mirror Met Office climate prediction expert Dr Richard Jones said:
Mirror "Such extreme winter rainfall will become ever more likely
Mirror over the next 100 years."
Mirror
Mirror Copyright 2003 MGN Ltd.

It seems that Dr Richard Jones of the Met Office is expecting rain

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.