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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by snow raven

    Instead of blaming flooding after rain (nothing out of the ordinary) or flooding after a thunder storm (again, looking back over the years, nothing out of the ordinary), let's think back 20 or more years when there was a regular road sweeper/machines that cleaned leaves and debris from clogging drains.  People employed at all the local parks and open spaces, making sure rivers and the like were clear from anything that could block flow and cause flooding. 

    Not forgetting the green spaces being built on without consideration of problems.

    I'm not saying that global warming isn't a thing, but let's be sensible when everything gets blamed on that, rather than general maintenance of our roads, drains and rivers.

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    4 minutes ago, Vortex3929 said:

    Hello SR. Goòd to see you posting in here 🙂Hope you are well. All very valid points you raise. In particular the lack of consideration to expansion of housing needs and not taking into consideration how to deal with the consequences of the lack of natural drainage to put it simply.

    And yes, this is fairly typical autumnal weather. But in relation to global warming (which further adds to your above points), the main word and possibly the most noteworthy in this case is 'global'. With the  apparent ever increasing global temperature, it is worth remembering higher temperatures will also hold higher water content (and I mean on a global scale, and to an extent on a natuonal or regional scale although perhaps not to the same extreme values as other areas would see)

    "Localised flooding" however should be a concern and warnings I feel were rightly issued to cover this. In my opinion when people blame global warming, they don't necessarily think of the the points you raised and only really have the news as a point of reference. So a less informed opinion (one sided so to speak) can only give a less informed decision on what we can place the blame. And when you are told the same thing constantly - some will come to terms with that being the root cause.

    Hope this makes sense.. I've waffled a bit

    Rain is getting heavier here.  Maybe it's because I grew up in an era before everything gets reported online, but I can honestly say, this weather is nothing out of the ordinary, and people should be questioning why they have floods now, and didn't 20 odd years ago when they had the same uneventful amount of rain.

    I'm just grateful I don't have many years left.

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    13 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

    I don't think anyone said this is from global warming, hurricane Lee moisture is what's pepping up the amount of rain though, why it's a double front, rather than a traditional cold front.

    So why the weather warnings about rain and flooding?

    The big elephant in the room when it comes to global warming is restricting how many children we can have.  If we carry on the way we are, with no limit, earth simply cannot cope.

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    I just don't get it.  This kind of weather keeps making the news, but it's just typical British weather.  Rain half the day, a couple of gusts of wind (literally nothing of note) and suddenly it's all because of global warming 🥱 

     Its apparently got nothing to do with the continuing expansion of births worldwide, continuing building of housing and expansion of cities on green land without consideration of drainage.  Not forgetting the lazy stupid prats that prefer fake grass to lawnmowing a few months in the summer. 

    I appreciate there is more to global warming issues than the above,  but surely to God, the main issue is not tackling the expanding reproduction of humans on a planet that simply cannot cope.  

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    Storms and Convective discussion - 1st August 2022 onwards

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    Just now, Harry said:

    After appearing relatively capped and calm looking, the sky here seems to be rapidly filling with Ac and some chunky AcCas in places (although hard to verify). Can also see  what appears to be anvils streaming in from the far SW skyline.

    Visually at least, it’s starting to look promising for our neck of the woods @snow raven

    Fingers crossed. I was starting to lose heart a bit!!

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