ALEX making landfall in Ireland tonight

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Well he has made it across the pond to Europe.

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REMNANTS OF ALEX REACH UK

Weird weather 'set to continue'
MON AUG 9th 2004


The erratic weather that has been battering the UK this summer is set to continue into this week, forecasters have warned.
In the past 24 hours sunshine has turned to humid thundery showers with flash flooding in places.

The temperature, however, has remained stifling in some areas, with London not dropping below 22C overnighton SUnday - the eighth hottest on record.

Norfolk also suffered at 21C, and the rest of the UK never dropped below 17C.

"It was a very warm night with temperatures approximately 10 degrees above average," a PA Weather Centre spokeswoman said.

To bring us the summer we are longing for, the jet stream needs to pass to the north of the UK.

The grim conditions are in evidence as a system, including the remains of Hurricane Alex, which came across the Atlantic, hit the UK and continue to hover over the west.

BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish said Scotland and England's eastern counties could expect more heavy rainfalls on Monday night and into Tuesday.

"To bring us the summer we are longing for, the jet stream needs to pass to the north of the UK," said Mr Fish.

Glasgow has suffered the worst of the flooding after thundery showers brought 35mm of rainfall between 7pm and 7am.


Parts of Scotland have been the heaviest hit in the storms

Scottish Power reported almost 1,000 homes had lost electricity in the storms, mainly in rural areas of the country.

Clwyd in north Wales was also affected, with 28mm of rain, while Drumalbin in southern Scotland saw 29mm.

A Met Office spokesman said "prolonged and torrential rainfall" had also been reported in eastern England.

Weather experts say the band of rain, which swept in from the west, will continue to give Scotland and the north-east of England "a fair old battering".


But the rain is set to make everywhere feel cooler and fresher.

Flash flooding brought traffic to a standstill in the Midlands and other areas last week and closed down parts of the London Underground.

And the Environment Agency has warned that the tempestuous weather could get worse with global warming.

Last year, the temperature reached 38.5C in Kent on August 10 - the hottest since records began in 1659.

Six of the seven warmest years while records have been kept have occurred since 1990.

Without cutting emissions, the freakish nature of Britain's weather could get worse, the Agency warned.
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