Banjo,
Unfortunately the words “global warming “ have become the norm when applied to the change in climatic conditions cause by human intervention.
It would have been better to fix on the words “ climate change”.
The effects, apart from a slow increase in average ambient temperature, are also an increased amounts of “extreme weather events”.
These can be periods of increased temperatures, decreased temperatures, periods of increased rain as well as periods of drought. Snow, wind and all other extreme weather events are to be expected.
The denialist industry have seized on the “global warming description to refute AGW.
I have seen and heard many people saying “how can we have global warming, it’s so cold”.

At it again sarnian, you've got the latest dogma from the warmest right. You know the stuff, climate change/disruption, covering up the fact that their "global warming" forecasts of never ending drought for Oz, & pommy kids never again seeing snow again were so wrong its funny.

Trouble is you don't pick up on the genuine research when it doesn't suit your dogma.

The latest is that a warming planet would have "LESS" extreme weather events. It appears that the driver of extreme weather is not temperature, but the difference in temperature between the tropics, & the polls. You lot tell us the polls are heating up quicker reducing that difference, so that would seem to agree with the reduction in cyclones these last decade & a half.

Trouble is mate, if you want to accept one lot of peer review you've got to take the rest. What a bother.

But mate, you can't have it all ways. You can't all change from tree rings to thermometers half way through an argument, & still have any credibility.

That rock you stubbed your to on may have got there by global warming, dropped by some receding glacier, & it's sat in wait for you all these rears. Well, this coming cool phase has been laying in wait for you, ever since you hitched your wagon to the CO2 driven AGW myth. Enjoy.

Ngaragul,
For those of us who don't know what the flood damage is at Cherbourg could you please let us know ? What's the population there ? As is normal there was nothing on the news about that town.