We were ringing bells in Whitehaven in the middle of yet another storm. Here's a view from the church porch where I sat reading an article in Physics World about chaos theory. Weather is a chaotic system. It goes round and round but never quite repeating itself. It is cyclic in the sense that roughly the same sort of weather happens at roughly the same time each year. In Chaos Theory there are settled motions called Strange Attractors. Systems can flip between attractors. Maybe the awful spate of storms in the UK at the moment is one attractor. Something will need to dislodge the weather into another attractor, another pattern of weather.
