A foot of hail in Spain. Surely Bill McKibben will be on the case to find some connection to global warming/climate change/climate disruption. Watch the video.
h/t to Bishop Hill
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Warmistas are probably going “oh hail”….
Not much fun driving around in that stuff, especially as folks probably have their summer tires on, even in the higher elevations. A couple of years ago we had a bad hailstorm here where I live (we’re up on a hill) (don’t mention that song…) and it was really dodgy and slippery…better just to stay home on days like that.
Pamela Gray says:
July 5, 2014 at 1:46 pm
It has been better for almost everyone to have been born in the 20th or 21st centuries rather than the 14th or 15th. Ditto 16th, 17th & 18th. Even most of the 19th. Historians consider 1905 the first year in which the medical profession did more good than harm (although the surgeon who removed the arrow from Henry, Prince of Wales’ (future King Henry V) face after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 was remarkably skillful).
The last person known (by me) to have been executed for witchcraft in North America was Chief Leatherlips in 1810, but that was, as has so often been the case, really a political murder, based upon his opposition to Tecumseh’s Confederacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherlips
Perhaps those people in Spain could use some of that climate repellent spray.
Some extreme Eurasian hail events:
c. AD 850, India:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1476074/Giant-hail-killed-more-than-200-in-Himalayas.html
1141, 1697 & 1935, UK:
http://www.torro.org.uk/site/hail_extremes.php
1843, UK:
http://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/1843.htm
1888, India:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/orange-sized-hail-reported-in-india
Not that terrible strange of an event. Read Geoffrey Parker’s “Global Crisis” for a eye opening account of the bad weather around the world in the 17th Century.
BUT back in 2000, we were told that the children won’t know what snow is due to global warming …..
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Nice to see that Spanish motorists are just as inept as those in the Southern U.S.
Sorry, severe hail is not uncommon in Spain. Teruel region has the record for thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes. (According to a Spanish Met Man I know).
Viejecita says hail in Spain and cooler 70’s
Weather forecast today for Madrid is 22 max. THis has to be the coolest Ive seen for a July day in Madrid (although that’s only a total of 10 years over 3 different periods)