Wednesday, August 13, 2008

I'd rather be hot than wet

Whilst we bake in glorious sunshine, parts of Britain are on flood alert. Some areas had more than half the average monthly rainfall in just two hours yesterday. The Met Office said that in Norfolk 36mm of rain fell in 120 minutes and some southern coastal areas faced gusts of up to 60mph.

London and Cardiff are also edging closer to their monthly average and seven rivers were put on flood alert. The capital has already had 32.8mm of rainfall in the last 12 days — just under 10mm short of the monthly average of 42.6mm.

For Orihuela, the forecast is for the sunshine to continue until at least next Monday with temperatures hovering around the low 30s. People asked us why did we want to live here!

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