TAKEN FROM THE DAILY STAR Nov 20th 2007
BRITAIN is braced for the "mother of all storms" this Christmas.
the extreme weather is set to cause travel chaos, disrupting the festive seasion.
The Christmas Catastrophe will see powerful gales and driving rain cause havoc over the holiday period.
Forecaster Piers Corbyn said : "There will be a major week-long damaging stormy spell affecting all parts of the country in the lead up to Christmas".
The Weather Action expert said it was set to be " A MOTHER OF STORMS, WHICH COVERS ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY"
NB - I have now looked in to Piers Corbyn and you'll be pleased to know that he isnt a mainstream weather forecaster - he also predicted that we'd all be dead 10 years ago , but according to Wikipedia he is known to be up to 70 % accurate - So who Knows?
What I do know is that if a hurricane hits The East Coast of England the storm surge could flood central London so if you're in London when they evacuate Great Yarmouth again be warned it could be coming straight for us!
To see what the damage to the Uk would be if a storm surge of 7m - 14m would do click on this link Flood Maps - if a hurricane hit as in the film "Flood" the storm sturge could be up to 40m high
MOTHER OF STORMS BY JOHN BARNES
Just in time for hurricane season, John Barnes brings us science fiction for meteorologists. Mother of Storms will probably be labelled as "a chilling ecological thriller!" but it's much more than that. A military--excuse me, peacekeeping--strike by the UN causes sudden, rapid global warming, which results in the birth of a superhurricane of unprecedented size, strength, and longevity. This storm spawns a number of daughter storms, which proceed to rampage around the planet, doing a pretty good job of bringing civilization to its knees. This book has flood, pestilence, and war; there's famine too, but it's mostly offstage. There's death and destruction of incomprehensible magnitude. Nations and coastlines crumble.
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