This week in weather

For some reason, not yet discovered by man, my blog was removed from Blogger. So I am going to have to forget about April and wait until the end of May. If you wanted to know about the weather in April, then go and complain to the idiots at Blogger.

Although most of the weather in the UK was boring this week, this story most certainly is not. A girl in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales was struck by lightning while sitting on her windowsill watching a storm over her house. What she did not realize was that the metal part of her window was the highest point in the area. Lightning striked the window, and travelled down her arm and out through her foot. She did not even realize what had happened until a few minutes later her Father pointed out a lightning shaped mark on her shoulder and a mark on her foot where the lightning bolt had travelled out. Watch an interview with the girl here: 

Girl struck by lightning.

Now for extreme and interesting weather from around the world: There have been severe floods by the Mississippi river after huge snow melt and an unusually stormy winter and wet spring. The river reached 58.48 feet which breaks the record for the 58.04 feet set in 1937. However, many people have not been fazed by this and people in Natchez, Mississippi, even state that i is a draw for tourism, because people will want to come and see the historic event. The river height is expected to peak on the 21st of May.  

A an interesting fact from Britain this week is that MP's have said that the Uk needs a snow supremo to avoid another winter of chaos at airports. They also called for another 10M funding in order to improve the Metoffice' long-range forecasts. They have already started work for the coming winter. We will see if this winter will prove a chance for this funding to be exercised.