Weatherwatch: UK needs fludders and drookit to describe changing climate

These Scottish words can help widen our vocabulary as extreme weather becomes more commonThe British are renowned for starting every polite conversation with a commentary on the weather, a way of breaking the ice in any social situation. With the climate changing to more extreme events it is perhaps time to widen the weather vocabulary to become more descriptive of what is happening.As autumn has begun the UK has been lashed by the tail end of a couple of Atlantic hurricanes that had weakened to become mere low pressures, but still potent enough to cause power cuts and some flooding. Continue reading...