Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world, on the internet, by

webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Thank you for returning to the show, I know I become a bit of a weather bore this year

because I tend to give you a weather report for my part of the UK just about every time

I start a show. Only because since last October we've been in the grip of weird weather,

being through the winter, an extraordinary hot spell that's lasted for about the last

six weeks. Now breaking with the back end of Hurricane Bertha that hit today, now I've

been talking about this on radio, we've been forecasting what may happen, the forecasters

couldn't be totally sure what today we found out. And literally where I live in London,

in the space of half an hour to 40 minutes I saw roads become rivers and rivulets that

people had to deal with. And I saw the downspouts from the eaves of houses turned into water

falls, just pouring out water. I was foolish enough just a little while ago to go out to

my local Tesco supermarket to get some food in and manage to get myself completely soaked

in the middle of this. Now over the years I really didn't believe I think some of the

reports I heard from far from parts of the world about flash flooding and how quickly

it can happen. Today I saw absolute evidence, it can, even in nice suburban places like this

with compared with other parts of the world, pretty good infrastructure, that kind of stuff

can happen. What is going on with our weather? It's a question I've asked probably 50 times

over the years here on the unexplained. Still no answer, the only answer we get seems to

be from the heavens and the latest twist in the weather saga. I'll keep you posted on all

of that. Thank you very much for your recent emails. I am going to do some shout outs in

the next edition of the show and had a lot of new listeners getting in touch. Please spread

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