Heavy rain/storms Friday 20th - Saturday 21st (pt2)

[Geordiesnow]

Daily mail headline tomorrow of mid-summer monsoon so typical of the media tut tut. I also sympathise whos been affected but in all fairness this has been a good call from the Met office of this event so credit where its due.

Edited July 20, 2007 by Geordiesnow

[Cookie]

Thats exactly what it sounds like PP. Puts the hairs on the back of your neck up.

dose the area where you live flood oftern?

[PersianPaladin]

Thats exactly what it sounds like PP. Puts the hairs on the back of your neck up.

Good God.

:huh:

[Terminal Moraine]

delighted with that report TM as probably it means the Don catchment has not had much more than here.

Yes, John, there must be a lot of people who'll be very relieved the rain area stayed further south. If we'd had the sort of totals recorded in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Worcestershire etc, I can barely imagine the chaos in Sheffield, Doncaster and Chesterfield to name but a few.

Still continuous light rain here but even if it continues all night I can't see it adding more than a few mm to the day's total.

T.M

[Nick F]

Time for a new thread for the rest of tonight/tomorrow so over here :huh: :

http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?showtopic=39471

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[Just Before Dawn]

dose the area where you live flood oftern?

No, well not until this year - last major flood event in Louth prior to two weeks ago was in 1981. Louth sits on the River Lud, which is a short river but has a large highland catchment in the Lincolnshire Wolds which means that the water doesn't have far to go to get into the main watercourses. Were also near the sea (within 10 miles) and when we get strong north-easterlies, the river quickly gets tide-locked, which means there's nowhere for the water to go.