Little less than an hour after I posted yesterday's note, it started to rain. It rained 16 mm in a few hours, and many of Oslo's main roads were flooded. The drive home normally takes 30 minutes, yesterday, it took an hour because of the traffic being redirected from the flooded roads. "There is no doubt that we are witnessing a climate change" a meteorologist said, "but we can't claim that this particular rainfall was part of it".
That comes of little comfort to the 50 000 people evacuated from Prague, the most beautiful city I know in the whole world. The medieval city centre will be flooded later today, as they had to open a dam that threatened to burst with all the rain. It comes as no comfort to the relatives and friends of the hundreds who have drowned in Russia at the borders of the Black Sea.
British meteorologists blaim the El Niño phenomenon. National Geographic has an exellent site on El Niño and La Niña, where you can read more about temperature and climate.
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