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 first edition of the unexplained

in 2016.

I don't know when you're going to hear this, maybe you'll hear this on the first of January,

perhaps a couple of days into the new year, but I wish you sincerely everything that

you would wish yourself in this year of 2016.

One thing that I am convinced of in my own life experience is that sometimes if you're

looking for a little miracle to happen, it can and all you've got to do is sincerely

want it.

So let's see what this year delivers.

I am going to make no predictions and I think if you're a regular listener, you'll know

why I won't.

Interesting Christmas period really very quiet, a lot of flooding, a lot of rain here in

the UK, also in other parts of the world.

I know you've had your own flooding problems in the US, but they're telling us here that

it's all to do with the trajectory of the jet stream being further north.

I think that's right, that it has been in recent years and that's brought us ridiculous

spring temperatures that mean that I'm sitting here now and I'm not complaining recording

this with no heating on and wearing a t-shirt.

I've got about 15 degrees here, maybe 16 in the place where I do my recordings.

So that's how life stands at the moment.

It is, as I record this, the final few hours of the year, the sun is beginning to go

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