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Now Nick Miller looks back at this year's extreme weather, including | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
conditions that tested the world's best golfers, in Weather World. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Storms, science and the stories behind the weather making news. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Coming up, Cumbria under water again. | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
The floodwaters are up to their living room windows. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Can you believe these people have decided to stay indoors? | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
Events today appear unprecedented, even surpassing the 2005 | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
It is the second time we have gone through it. | :00:46. | :00:58. | |
Hard for the children, hard for the women. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
This reservoir has completely dried up. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
It goes to show how severe the blight is. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Making waves to prepare for a warmer, wetter future. | :01:22. | :01:42. | |
This time I am in Scotland at historic St Andrews, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
I will be meeting the people who try to make this course playable | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Heavy rain and strong winds have brought chaos to parts | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
of the country as hundreds of people are forced to flee from their homes. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
The weather pattern was all too familiar. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
For the third time in over a decade incessant rain slammed | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
We have got the highest tier of weather warning | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
And floodwaters inundating the towns and cities | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
After 13 hours of rain, nothing was going to stop this | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
The barriers are somewhere under here. | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
There is concern the nearby bridge is in a dangerous state. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
It is a bit scary with the houses being so high. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
But it is the sheer volume of water that did the damage as the UK | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
enjoyed its wettest 24 hours on record, with 341 millimetres | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
of rain falling in the Lake District. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
The events today surpassed the 2005 and 2009 floods. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
The amount of rainfall and water levels is vast and we are working | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
very hard to protect the properties and particularly the lives at risk. | :03:14. | :03:27. | |
That is a sofae going down the river. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
The situation there must be pretty awful. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
That water, at nine o'clock this morning, was just at the bottom | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Within half an hour it was rising rapidly. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
The floodwater is halfway up their living room windows. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
Can you believe that people have decided to stay indoors? | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
And from the Lake District the floodwaters swept | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Nearly 48 hours after a record-breaking deluge caused | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
these floods, Carlisle's roads looked like canals. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Thousands of homes have been ruined in the east of the city. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
After being stranded for two nights in the dark without power, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
the casualties were still coming this morning. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
The ones trying to tough it out finally gave in. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
And if you have lived here for more than ten years this is the second | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
I don't even know if I can speak because it is the second time | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
As the clean-up operation began, the community spirit kicked in. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
How important is it for you to do it? | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
I think it is very important, helping the community when there has | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
There is so much that needs to be done. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
But every home here has been flooded. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
To help families, the Government has promised ?50 million, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
This is what is left of Natalie's home. | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
She says her insurance will not cover the damage. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
So any help we could get would be greatly appreciated. | :05:08. | :05:21. | |
This is the Lake District village of Glenridding being flooded | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
for the second time in the same week, as more rain follows Storm | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
For the Brown family, who have owned this shop for 30 | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
It was not just northern England but Northern Ireland | :05:35. | :05:49. | |
Storm Desmond's impact felt far and wide. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
But it was Cumbria and the Lake District hit hardest. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
We were driving along the banks of the River Eden and we came | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Have a look at the destruction caused by the force of the water | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Many caravans have been smashed together and smashed | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
It is more akin to the sort of thing you would see in Tornado Alley | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
What is going wrong with our weather? | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
Scientists say the strong El Nino may have contributed to the stormy | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
start to winter and record winter rainfall may also be linked | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
The latest research says that under the same weather pattern an extended | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
period of rainfall is sometimes more likely because of the emissions | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
This is from Britain's first officially named storm, | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
What may look like snow is actually foam whipped up by strong winds. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Here we are at the famous St Andrews golf course. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
When they host the Open here, the best players come to take it on. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
But they are taking on the weather, too. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
An early morning deluge and a three-hour delay to play | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
As the floods were swept away, more bad weather was about to sweep in. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
We have another suspension in play this morning. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
The golfers have been out there for half an hour. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
But the winds are so strong, the balls are moving around | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Let's talk to someone who was here that we don't, | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
The wind picking up today but that weekend was wild? | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Even on the tournament days it was pretty windy. | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
Can you ever prepare for wind that strong? | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
We can prepare for normal windy conditions like today. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
We have got a unit here called track man. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Today with the wind downwind, the ball travels further but moves | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
We have also got a function in the unit that we can normalise | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
It should have a relatively straight flight. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
We will aim towards the monument and we will look at | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
It travelled to the left-hand side like I mentioned. | :08:49. | :09:04. | |
If we look in the unit we can see the ball flight. | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
If we normalise here on the left-hand side, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
you can see how the shot was straight without the wind. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
You can have a go accounting for the St Andrews wind? | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Coming up later, we look at how they deal with rain here. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Sometimes it can rain so much, so hard, you cannot | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
I am rolling down some sort of creek in the middle of this weather. | :09:32. | :09:47. | |
Kerry Packer filming his personal flood drama in Texas. | :09:48. | :10:03. | |
A storm he is lucky to survive by climbing a tree. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
With weather like that you would think we have not to worry | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
But there is an expanding area of interest above our | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
I will find out all about it in a moment inside this observatory. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
There has been a lots to look up and wonder at in recent months, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
including the night in September the moon turned from silver to red. | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
Viewable by billions around the world, a super Moon lunar | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
In Europe, the highlight of the year was the solar eclipse seen | :10:33. | :10:51. | |
from the Faroe Islands, turning day into night. | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
Caught on camera in Norway in October. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Humpbacked whales swimming beneath the Aurora, or the Northern Lights. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
I have come inside the observatory to find Scotland's largest | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
All well and good if you want a close-up of the moon and stars. | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
But for a good handle on space weather, you need access to data | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
from satellites which you download onto a simple laptop. | :11:26. | :11:39. | |
Space weather is all about these huge explosions happening on the sun | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
and injecting huge clouds of energetic material, | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
particles travelling towards the Earth at high speeds. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Why do we care that it is coming our way? | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
All this energetic material interacts with the magnetic field | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
on satellites, and that disturbs communications. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Things like GPS, air traffic control and even just your Wi-Fi. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
I guess it is really useful to know it is coming our way | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
There is work being done here to get better at that? | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
All of these events on the sun are driven | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
You want to model the behaviour of the sun's magnetic field | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
so you can give people as much warning as possible to prepare | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Still to come... being done here. | :12:37. | :12:50. | |
A cliff becomes a waterfall again for the first time in living memory. | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
But it is the Mediterranean that has been the focus this year as hundreds | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
of thousands of migrants have crossed it into Europe. | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
Some have not made it, falling victim to high | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Strong winds batter the Greek island of Lesbos as more bodies | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Despite the bad weather, the boats kept coming, | :13:21. | :13:33. | |
their occupants helped ashore by volunteers. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Others were shocked, soaked and shivering. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
This constant flow of people may have slowed in the last 24 hours | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
But this shows women, children and men are prepared | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
to risk their lives whatever the weather. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Once into Europe, the onward journey for these people is becoming | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
increasingly difficult, as autumn and now winter | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
This is the scene from Macedonia in October. | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Abdullah and his family escaped from Syria. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Very hard for children, hard for women, hard | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
And for those that remain in Syria, winters can be harsh. | :14:19. | :14:32. | |
This was last winter with snow and freezing temperatures. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
This winter Damascus has had a record cold night. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
But it is heat and man's contribution to the warming | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
of the planet that could affect us all, say scientists. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
In the media, the ground turns to dust from three years of drought. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
2015 will likely be proclaimed the hottest year on record. | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
A warmer atmosphere can be a better one, too. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
I am here in the Netherlands to understand the force of a flood | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
The waves are travelling the length of this tank, 300 metres. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
That is what you need to create the world's largest artificial | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
waves, reaching a height of more than five metres. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Waves mimicking sea conditions can be made to order. | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
For any part of the world it can create a hurricane or a tsunami. | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
The fightback against flooding starts here. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
These man-made waves will help engineers design the very | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
If scientists are correct, our future could be | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
The prospect of a different future lead to this. | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
Nearly 200 nations making a landmark agreement in December to work | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
to limit global warming to less than two Celsius by the end | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Sometimes when you want to make a change, it is necessary to turn | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
It is not for the better but it is simply for the best. | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
This agreement should be the turning point in our story, a turning | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Climate change brings the possibility of bigger, | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
more frequent storms, and the prospect of | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
The UK and Scotland has a lot of coast that could erode. | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
One man interested in that is Tom from St Andrews University. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
This is one of many hundreds of sites around the coast | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
In the cliff face you can see some of the buildings. | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
You have to imagine a whole range year that has fallen into the sea. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
This is one of many hundreds ranging from prehistoric sites | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
to the remnants of the Second World War. | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
We are working with local communities to record some | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
This is accelerating because of bigger, | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
We hear stories from locals that there is more damage | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
We know that with any one single storm there is the potential | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
That is why we are asking people to keep their eyes and ears open | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
This could keep you busy for many years? | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
It means we have the chance of getting some fantastic | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
We are talking a lot about how we are influencing | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
What about natural weather variability? | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
One of the main aspects of that recently has been El Nino. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Seen from space, Patricia, the most powerful hurricane ever | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
recorded, heads towards Mexico in October. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
But Mexico was ready and lucky, as the storm made landfall | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
The severe flooding swept into the USA. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
It derailed this train in Texas as water engulfed the tracks. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Dramatic rooftop rescues in September as a tropical storm hit | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
Tens of thousands were left homeless. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
The power of the flood is there to say. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
Stronger tropical cyclones are one weather outcome from El Nino. | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
A natural occasional warming of the Pacific ocean. | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
This El Nino is one of the strongest we have seen. | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
The ripple effects have been seen around the world | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
China and Beijing's skyline in September, barely visible | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
The city had its first ever red alert for pollution. | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
El Nino means fewer weather systems to help clear and clean the air. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
In India, El Nino is blamed for a drier south-west monsoon. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
But the opposite in Chennai in December as the north-west | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
monsoon produced several days of rain and flooding. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
But in Africa El Nino is being blamed for a drought. | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Here in Ethiopia the rains have failed again, leaving parched earth, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
scrawny cattle and millions of people in need of food aid. | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
At this well things are getting desperate. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
People travelled here from miles around to give | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
But the water table has fallen to almost nothing. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
30, maybe 40 metres down, it is full of silt and mud. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
The worst drought since 1982, with millions facing water | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
Under normal circumstances I would be waist high in water. | :20:20. | :20:31. | |
This reservoir has completely dried up. | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
It goes to show how severe the drought is. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
I'm about to go where the public does not see. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
The slightly less glamorous side of things but very important. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Now we are looking at what happens to the rain. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
A lot of it falls and a lot of it finds its way from the course | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Some of that will find its way back onto the course | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
This controls the water that goes onto the golf course. | :21:02. | :21:13. | |
The water goes through these five pumps. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
A maximum capacity of 500 cubic metres of water. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
It goes through the pipe work and heads out through the wall | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
onto the golf courses to give us the irrigation we require. | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
At the Open Championship you had a deluge. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Yes, it caused us a wee problem as it came in such | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Sometimes when the weather arrives like it did you have | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
Before we go, here are a look at some of your weather pictures. | :21:49. | :22:29. | |
All of these photographs were taken by BBC Weather Watchers, | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
a new online club telling the story of the UK weather. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Simply sign up for a BBC ID and give yourself | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Add your home reporting location and away you go. | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
You can upload a photo of the weather. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
And even add rainfall amounts if you're feeling particularly | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
Sometimes even the worst weather can produce something breathtaking. | :22:55. | :23:09. | |
The same Storm Desmond that brought devastating floods to north-west | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
England brought life to this waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales, | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
thought to have been dry for centuries. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
That is something that none of us in the village have | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
A dust whirlwind in Australia, where this one was caught on camera | :23:24. | :23:39. | |
And finally, with winter now well under way, spare a thought | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
for the American groundhog, called upon by tradition each | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
February to predict whether spring might come early. | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
Last winter in Wisconsin this mayor got something he was not expecting, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
from Jimmy, now a hero among groundhogs. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
That is it from wet and windy St Andrews. | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Merry Christmas. Sadly very little good well from the weather over the | :24:13. | :24:47. | |
festive | :24:48. | :24:48. |