Interesting coincidence weather wise - UK

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**Wolfstan**

I was walking the dog this morning and was passing the time dwelling on the great British past-time... the weather

Something was nagging me about it and it suddenly dawned on me at work. The Mulberry Harbours used at D-Day were destroyed in stormy weather.

I've just checked and they got hit by the worst summer storms in 40 years on the 19th June. I also remembered that D-Day happened on the 6th due to a break in the weather as it was unseasonably bad at that time. Kinda like the Jubilee weekend. Spooky or what

**Kilkrazy**

Australia has its land sharks and drop bears. Britain has summer bank holiday weather.

**Ribon Fox**

Ah, the Bank holidays. You know its one because A; it will be raining and B; there is always a Bond film on one of the channels

**Frazzled**

Kilkrazy wrote:Australia has its land sharks and drop bears. Britain has summer bank holiday weather.

We have the twelve hours after eating Mexican food...

**SagesStone**

I suppose our land sharks would be afraid of UK weather somewhat.

**SilverMK2**

It is a coincidence the UK has crap weather throughout its history? I thought it was just our weather

**Kilkrazy**

Why do you think the British set out to explore and conquer the rest of the globe?

**Ribon Fox**

Kilkrazy wrote:Why do you think the British set out to explore and conquer the rest of the globe?

So we could enjoy our favorite past time in foreign parts, talking about the weather

**youbedead**

Kilkrazy wrote:Why do you think the British set out to explore and conquer the rest of the globe?

To get curry, I mean once they found that they probably could have stopped.

**Albatross**

This is true. Once we lost India, we just sort of gave up. What's the point in a global empire if you can't even get a decent curry? That's why the Yanks are starting with the Middle East, getting the curry supply secured nice and early. The oil thing's just a smokescreen.

I have this on good information.