Battling the elements

Ruth looks at ways of dealing with the worst of weather

- Ruth

HERE we are in early winter and it already feels as though it has been grey, wet and windy for weeks.

The UK has been battered by savage winds and heavy rain since the clocks went back in late October and now there are reports that we are set to experience an el Nina event in 2021. Hurray!

This is the cooler, wetter version of the phenomenon known as El Nino and was last seen a decade ago. The current situation is developing in the Pacific ocean and could bring cooler, wetter weather to the UK through early 2021.

We don’t know what the weather will throw at us over the coming months – we may even get another Beast from the East, who knows? – but looking back at recent years there has been a preponderance of milder, but much stormier and wetter, winters.

Weather is becoming more extreme, as a result of global warming, so we need to be prepared.