Flooding in England

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Flooding in England - 16 Jun 07 - One of the wettest places in the country was
Edgbaston, Birmingham, where 86mm (3.4 inches) of rain fell in 24 hours, while
71mm (2.8 inches) fell on Bingley, West Yorkshire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news ... news.shtml

[P.K.]

More flooding today as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6228422.stm

[alan1961]

Yes PK i think you can forget summer in merry old England this year, even with such a strong atlantic/Azores high in position its still not having any influence in blocking these conveyor belt lows that keep spinning in

[Aquawind]

So is the entire country above normal in precip? How are temps? What the heck is going on over there? Has the early warm spring in Europe continued?

[P.K.]

Above average temps and precipitation so far this month yes. Only a max of 16.7C here today however.

CET: (Jun 1-23): 16.0°C (+2.1 degC)
E&W Rain: (Jun 1-23): 78.6mm (151 per cent)
E&W Sun: (Jun 1-23): 121.7hr ( 85 per cent)

http://www.climate-uk.com/

[alan1961]

Its alright having stats PK, try telling the little old ladies and gents that where having some kind of resemblence of summer

[alan1961]

So is the entire country above normal in precip? How are temps? What the heck is going on over there? Has the early warm spring in Europe continued?

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/avnpanel1.html

Take a look at this 9 day panel Aqua and you can see whats happening to western Europe, particularly the UK, one low after another rolling off the Atlantic and giving the UK a soggy summer so far, dosent look good for the start of July either

[P.K.]

Its alright having stats PK, try telling the little old ladies and gents that where having some kind of resemblence of summer

It hasn't been snowing.... hardly winter.

People complain about anything. I was on the Tube the other day and two people were complaining that the weather was "awful" just because it was a little cloudy!

[alan1961]

Its alright having stats PK, try telling the little old ladies and gents that where having some kind of resemblence of summer

It hasn't been snowing.... hardly winter.

People complain about anything. I was on the Tube the other day and two people were complaining that the weather was "awful" just because it was a little cloudy!

Well you know as well as i do PK that when people DONT have anything much to moan about the weather always gets it in the neck whatever its doing!

[P.K.]

This really isn't good.

Hundreds flee over dam burst fear

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in three villages in South Yorkshire amid fears a dam is about to burst after torrential rain.

Engineers are trying to reinforce the wall holding back the Ulley reservoir near Rotherham after cracks appeared.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6239782.stm

[alan1961]

Hope you didn't miss this Tornado in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, PK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/chec ... m=1&nbwm=1

[Gorky]

Hmm that one wasn't all that far from me Just a quick trip over the moors, although I wouldn't have liked the drive over. There was 4 inches of rain at Fylingdales over that 24 hour period. It's no wonder so much of the country is being flooded at the moment downstream from us. Some of the pictures from South Yorkshire are downright scary.

[P.K.]

That event has been reported to TORRO yes.

[Ptarmigan]

England is not a very wet place in terms of rain, even though it is green because it often comes in light and steady drizzle.

[alan1961]

England is not a very wet place in terms of rain, even though it is green because it often comes in light and steady drizzle.

Try telling that to the people this week Artic, we have our fare share of rain here and its not always light and drizzly ( case in point this week ), we have sunshine too which obviously helps out in the greenery of the country but that sunshine is in short supply just lately!

[Gorky]

Some images from the bbc website to show you how 'dry' this part of England is at the moment!







Scarborough escaped the worst, Being right on the coast helps I guess But with 4 inches of rain recorded at the nearest official stations to the North and South of us, it was pretty wet. I know a fair few people in vilages and towns just inland who were affected by these floods. We had 3 inches of rain only a week and a half ago in 1 day and i didn't think that would be topped so soon.

[alan1961]

This summers flooding and a relatively poor summer so far in the UK and parts of north west Europe may, i stress, may be due to an Artic oscillation, whether that has anything to do with the weak El Nino event of last winter is open to debate, but there has to be a reason behind the poor summer in these regions so far and an artic oscillation COULD be a cause. any theories on this would be welcome :wink

http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/patterns/arc ... ation.html

[P.K.]

Yet more flooding at end of last week.

Water runs out in flood-hit areas

Drinking water supplies have started to run out in some areas of England worst affected by the flooding.

Severn Trent Water says 150,000 homes are without water in Gloucestershire after a treatment works was flooded.

The company said another 200,000 people could eventually be cut off in Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham.

Power supplies to 500,000 people in Gloucestershire are also threatened and the RAF has been drafted in to protect a substation at risk of flooding.

Continues here.

[peabodyelephant]

Yet more flooding at end of last week.

Water runs out in flood-hit areas

Drinking water supplies have started to run out in some areas of England worst affected by the flooding.

Severn Trent Water says 150,000 homes are without water in Gloucestershire after a treatment works was flooded.

The company said another 200,000 people could eventually be cut off in Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham.

Power supplies to 500,000 people in Gloucestershire are also threatened and the RAF has been drafted in to protect a substation at risk of flooding.

Continues here.

that looks really real wet

[James]

Thankfully the power is back on now (though for how long is anybody's guess) but there's not going to be any water for a while...it's a complete shock, it's never been this bad here before.