Winter 2023/24 - It's FREEZING!

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JonRGV250 said:
Local councils could try clearing all the blocked roadside drains that have the sort of flora growing out of them that would make Kew gardens jealous.
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I don’t think I’ve seen the council here clear roadside ditches in the last 30 years. Roads department has been completely gutted.
 
They did a half-arsed job of clearing out the drains, etc. after the first round of serious flooding here in 2023, and they've been silted up since - so anything more than mild rain and it quickly starts to build up :( which is probably a significant contribution to why we've had so many flooding events around where I am in the last couple of months or so and probably going to cost them more in road repairs needed than it would to have just maintained the drainage in the first place!
 
I just about remember when the councils had trucks with huge hoovers that used to vac out the roaside drains every month or so, but haven't seen one in years.
It baffles me why we see so many roads continually flooded.
It's a complete mystery
 
JonRGV250 said:
I just about remember when the councils had trucks with huge hoovers that used to vac out the roaside drains every month or so, but haven't seen one in years.
It baffles me why we see so many roads continually flooded.
It's a complete mystery
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Increased heavy downpours, due to... ;)
 
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We seem to get one of those trucks come once a year. Seen a few newish roads flooded here while the old roads they replaced are fine. Seems like crap design, knock any old rubbish out next to fields ready to build on.
 
sigma said:
Increased heavy downpours, due to... ;)
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Nobody trusts science any more but:


Here we investigate the change in risk of such extreme rainfall events in the UK in autumn using a new index R50mm_OND, representing the mean number of daily precipitation totals in excess of 50 mm in October–December each year.

Observations show that the frequency of extreme daily precipitation in the form of R50mm_OND has already increased by 60% (95% CI: 44–76) in the UK between the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries. R50mm_OND is projected to increase even further between 2019 and 2080, by 85% (95% CI: 73–97) according to a Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 scenario of anthropogenic emissions.


I'm sure some randoms on YT will debunk the above though.
 
sigma said:
I'm sure some randoms on YT will debunk the above though.
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Hard to find my specific posts on it now but I've been saying for awhile flooding is something we are potentially increasingly going to have to deal with for example:

Hurricane - Irma

And the looting starts. On the live stream I linked earlier. Unreal. :/
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Whether related to climate change or not, and personally I think a certain amount is due to cycles of weather patterns, it is something which is there in the data.
 
It has been close around here over recent times, but it seems to go down almost as quickly as it builds up, and starts subsiding just as it gets close to critical, so we are probably OK unless the rain is more sustained than it has been.

Looks like it will be dry for a few days though according to the GFS, with a chance of some colder spells (not the temperatures on the graph are the air mass above us and not ground level):

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Quite a significant rainfall spike on there, which I think is what we've just had, not actually something for the 5th.
 
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