oldypigeonpopper Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) hello, IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY IN MOST CASES WITH LOCAL COUNCILS, with reference to Bobs post Edited February 18, 2020 by oldypigeonpopper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 22 hours ago, Penelope said: It's been so wet this winter that nothing has had a chance to dry out. My garden is so wet that I have thought of getting a water buffalo and taking up rice farming. There used to be a bloke milking buffalo at the end of our road when we were at llandrinio. He made the news in the 2000 floods for taking the calves in to the house and upstairs to get out of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discobob Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 meanwhile we are being preached to about minimizing our footprint by them - recycling everything etc.. 1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said: hello, IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY IN MOST CASES WITH LOCAL COUNCILS, with reference to Bobs post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Rim Fire said: Crickhowell storm Dennis You can see the pub by the bridge and the water in 84 was a foot higher. Still distressing but this has happened over the years and people just forget or think it will not happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 Been watching on TV previous floods but with the woman in the corner of the TV screen doing sign language, she was struggling with saying Cockermouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, B725 said: Been watching on TV previous floods but with the woman in the corner of the TV screen doing sign language, she was struggling with saying Cockermouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 39 minutes ago, Walker570 said: You can see the pub by the bridge and the water in 84 was a foot higher. Still distressing but this has happened over the years and people just forget or think it will not happen again. The latest pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Rim Fire said: The latest pic Terrible, but that's the USK for you and it comes up very quickly indeed. The late Head Keeper at Glanusk told me an incident where he was in Brecon one afternoon and there was one enormouse thunderstorm and water was roaring through the town. He knew he had two fishermen on the estate river in The Park and he drove as fast as he could back to warn them. He ran to the river and shouted at them to get out of the river which at that time was perfect. They fortunately did as they where told and looked at Stuart as though he was mad, but twenty minutes later the Usk was a raging torrent and there was a chance they would both have been swept away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 2 hours ago, B725 said: Been watching on TV previous floods but with the woman in the corner of the TV screen doing sign language, she was struggling with saying Cockermouth. 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 I can’t be bothered to look if I’m honest, but just wondered if anyone knew if we were actually getting more rainfall during UK winters than say.....50 or 60 years ago, or from records began? I just wondered if there was any correlation with directives to stop dredging culverts, becks, streams etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, Scully said: I can’t be bothered to look if I’m honest, but just wondered if anyone knew if we were actually getting more rainfall during UK winters than say.....50 or 60 years ago, or from records began? Quite a lot here http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/documents/421974/1295957/Info+sheet+%2315.pdf/8b8457b7-7bd2-49fc-888a-9b3f6785a40e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 Ta. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) hello, growing up in the 1950s 1960s 1970s the seasons were more normal Spring/Summer/ Autumn Winter with the odd exception like snow in 1963 heatwave in 1955 flood in 1968 from what i can remember, they should forecast the weather with better results unless you take Michael Fish, a lady phoned in and said is there a storm coming!!!! not sure about global warming but there must be something happening, i hear theres a storm coming to the BBC name of TTTHHHUUUNNNBBBEEERRRGGG Edited February 18, 2020 by oldypigeonpopper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangerman Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 a travellers site has been cut of by the floods so there is one good thing about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, clangerman said: a travellers site has been cut of by the floods so there is one good thing about it Only cut off? Pity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpredder Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 On 18/02/2020 at 17:56, JohnfromUK said: Quite a lot here http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/documents/421974/1295957/Info+sheet+%2315.pdf/8b8457b7-7bd2-49fc-888a-9b3f6785a40e Thanks for that link. I annotated the “heavy” precipitation days charts for summer and winter in an attempt to show some of the country’s major flood events, but did not see any obvious correlation. Certainly the severe floods in Lynmouth (1952) and East Anglia (1953) seem to have followed periods when the country as a whole had experienced fewer than normal “heavy” precipitation days. Perhaps these rainfall charts based on national averages don’t really tell us much. Actual flooding tend to be rather more local. Lynmouth and Glenridding (2015) flooded when very large quantities of rain fell within a day or so, on land that was either of inherently low permeability or else already saturated. The 1953 East Anglia floods were associated with exceptionally high tides, exacerbated by low atmospheric pressure and high winds, rather than heavy rainfall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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