New Zealand Local Weather Forum
Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: RobertHH on June 22, 2012, 07:21:40 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18539315
You will note the headline, floods, but if you read the main content of this story, you will get an entirely different picture of what has happened and is happening.
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Floods of people!
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There appears to be warning up north also:
-A severe weather warning issued for Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire with high risk of flooding.
-People in Manchester, Liverpool, the Wirral, Cheshire and Lancashire are said to in high alert and prepare for flooding.
-Heavy rainfall also forecast for central and north Wales.
Great Summer you are having Rob :(
Debs has just come back from over there. All her photos show her in thick jackets, scarfs and hats.
Thankfully she had better weather across in France and then down to Malaysia on her way home.
She is feeling the cold here though at present. Back on with the coats, scarfs and hats :)
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I thought our last summer was bad but it looks like your summer is even bader.
You have any rainfall totals Rob as this would be interesting to me.
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Floods of people was a very incisive comment :)
They have made a bit of a muck up of the parking arrangements and the screw up has caused a little more concern than they had bargained for.
My apologies to Debs for our lousy weather but she does at least have previous experience, so was no doubt appropriately attired.
Unfortunately the weather warnings continue and for some areas it will dump around 4 inches of rain over a very short period, so they are obviously concerned about flash flooding because the drainage systems can no cope.
Yes Mark, this summer is the worst in living memory; my living memory that is, but there are older people around who would no doubt dispute that. I have kept an approximate tally from the end of March to now and it amounts to 16 inches of rain in my locality so far, but had I known in advance that this weather was going to persist I would have kept a much better record, because I didn't bother to record anything less than 4 mm.
In the last 30 days we have not had a single 24 hour period without rainfall, so the ground is like a soggy sponge and squelches underfoot. I dare not hang around too long when feeding the fish or I would be in danger of joining them :)