Storm Babet

[Fiona Robertson]

Just now, Metwatch said:

 

Thank you so much for that. I thought I was having a bit of deja vu, re Storm Aline.

[ANYWEATHER]

5 hours ago, Arctic Hare said:

Bewdley flood barriers 'haven’t gone up in time'

WWW.KIDDERMINSTERSHUTTLE.CO.UK

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Flood water from the River Severn is reaching close to Bewdley businesses on Severn Side. Former Environment Agency area manager Dave Throup said on…

Not a great piece of news from my town... turns out the flood barriers (which are very effective when they're up) were not in fact deployed here. "The rain across the West Midlands area has fallen further south and with much more intensity than our models predicted," is how the EA guy is quoted in the article. Scroll down a bit and there's also a statement from the town council saying there were plant equipment failures.

All in all, a bit of a disaster and the first time there's been flooding like that on the town side of the river since the flood barriers were first installed many years ago. They're great but only work if they're actually up, so I imagine people living there will want some proper answers about what went wrong and how it can be avoided in future.

The only problem with the barriers is that they displace the water further downstream and flood somebody else’s house

[Supacell]

Been out and about checking out the flooding situation, both in the car and on foot. Apparently the river level in Derby City centre reached record high levels with 3 severe flood warnings issued.

I personally have not seen the river so high in Derby, and I was there for the 2000 and 2007 floods. Belper was affected also but luckily didn't affect the town centre.

Some pictures from around here

The recreation ground in Belper

The A6 just south of Belper 

The River Derwent and the village of Duffield as seen from above on a small hill

The river in Derby City centre. There are about 4 or 5 steps down to the river behind the posts

People watching the river in Derby

I have some video to edit also.

Edited October 21, 2023 by Supacell

[Arctic Hare]

1 hour ago, ANYWEATHER said:

The only problem with the barriers is that they displace the water further downstream and flood somebody else’s house

They don't really seem to have that effect here, probably because just downstream of the town is low-lying undeveloped floodplain anyway.

[weatherobsuk]

Storm Babet: North Sea drilling platform Stena Spey loses anchors

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Stena Drilling says four anchors detached from Stena Spey which is 146 miles east of Aberdeen.

 

[pinball wizard]

Weds to today totals 

[The PIT]

12 minutes ago, pinball wizard said:

Weds to today totals 

Blimey we are in 4th place then.

[Terminal Moraine]

129.5 mm here over the same period.

[Shaunado]

Incredible North Sea waves at Peterhead during Babet... wow!

 

[SLEETY]

Decent snow-fall on the Cairngorms from the storm, which Met-Office failed to forecast, forecasting warm air moving in Saturday evening, which didn't happen, still below freezing at the summit. 

 

Another fail from the Met again

[*Stormforce~beka*]

1 hour ago, Shaunado said:

Incredible North Sea waves at Peterhead during Babet... wow!

 

That's a lot of water being thrown around!

[lassie23]

what's the next storm going to be called

[alexisj9]

2 hours ago, Shaunado said:

Incredible North Sea waves at Peterhead during Babet... wow!

 

That explains why some rivers we t up quick then came back down again.

They surged

[Sprites]

16 hours ago, pinball wizard said:

Weds to today totals 

Waterside seems to have been aptly named.

[matty40s]

River Trent at full chat just west of Nottingham.

 

[matty40s]

Shardlow is a village on an island between the Derwent and Trent, large floodbanks keep the Trent at bay. Yesterday, the pumps were working overtime to keep the water out.

 

[matty40s]

bit further down the Trent is where the River Soar joins from Leicester, and the Erewash Canal from North of Nottingham comes in too. The level here was critical on Sunday, within a couple of inches of topping the flood banks completely.

 

[matty40s]

 

[matty40s]

Unbelievable from Therese Coffey, the rain came from the wrong way which is why the floods were so bad....

 

[The PIT]

If the GFS is right for Sunday we could see 2007 style of flooding.

[Scuba steve]

2 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Unbelievable from Therese Coffey, the rain came from the wrong way which is why the floods were so bad....

 

Rain falls down ,high to low give the girl a fag and a brandy

[Methuselah]

17 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Unbelievable from Therese Coffey, the rain came from the wrong way which is why the floods were so bad....

 

But that's true; it did come from the wrong direction. Then, again, she needs to ask why. Global warming, perhaps?

[alexisj9]

18 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Unbelievable from Therese Coffey, the rain came from the wrong way which is why the floods were so bad....

 

Problem is, she's actually right, that much rain in east Scotland coming from the east is unheard of, same re flooded areas in east England, which are now also dealing with run off from high land, which is holding rivers at a high level. We were unprepared, and it had nothing to do with blocked drains and such, it was the shear amount of rain falling.

[Methuselah]

8 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Problem is, she's actually right, that much rain in east Scotland coming from the east is unheard of, same re flooded areas in east England, which are now also dealing with run off from high land, which is holding rivers at a high level. We were unprepared, and it had nothing to do with blocked drains and such, it was the shear amount of rain falling.

But when we were kids, we'd follow the lorry thingy, what cleared the gutters, all along the road. Whatever happened to them?

[matty40s]

23 minutes ago, Metwatch said:

Lovely footage, what drone are you using? Thinking of getting either the DJI Mini 2 or Mini 3 very soon either of those.

The Mini 3 Pro, easy to use, very quick to get going, and only 249g so inside the draconian rules. I was in a rush on Sunday so maybe didnt quite spend long enough taking more footage to splice together.