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, thank you very much for all the emails that you've

been sending through and if I sound just a little bit throaty at the moment it's just

because there's a bit of a bug going round London at the moment everybody seems to have

it and I think it's just kind of affecting me slightly, maybe it's making me a little

bit more very white. I don't know but we'll persevere it's the beginning of December

it's beautiful day in London too I'm looking up out of a window here where I'm recording

this at a lovely clear blue late afternoon sky and the sun is hanging in the air at kind of

mid-level very low in the sky because it's December in the northern hemisphere that means

that it's wintertime and that's what happens but it's a beautiful day we've had some strange weather

I know I keep on saying that like a stuck record but we have you know we had that day of

30 degrees couple of days of 30 degrees back in October and during November we had some days of

17 degrees Celsius 63 Fahrenheit at the moment we've got temperatures around about 55 degrees

Fahrenheit which is what's doing the conversion I've done weather forecast on really a few years

13 Celsius and that's way warmer than December really ought to be so as I say

something is going on with our weather and it's having consequences too on the news yesterday in

the UK I reported that a lot of areas are headed for very very serious droughts as we go into 2012

because we've had such a dry year and because the forecasters are saying that it looks like we're

going into a dry winter the reservoirs here that store the water are not getting replenished

and it's all to do with the jet stream because the jet stream is taking the dampness and the rain

way north and that's meant recently that Glasgow Scotland and Belfast in Northern Ireland have had

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