, Columnist
England Floods, Blame Indonesia
The
U.S. is freezing and the U.K. is flooded. Clearly, Indonesia is at fault. That's my layman's interpretation of a report this
week from the U.K.'s meteorological agency, the Met Office.
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The U.S. is freezing and the U.K. is flooded. Clearly, Indonesia is at fault. That, in any case, is my layman's interpretation of a report this week from the U.K.'s meteorological agency, the Met Office. It makes fascinating, if nerdy, reading that can be boiled down to a few basic conclusions:
* The extended, extreme weather on both sides of the Atlantic is connected in a kind of butterfly effect that began in the Pacific and ended in Europe.