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  1. Its currently snowing over the Pennines if that helps Webcams in North Pennines | Outdooractive WWW.OUTDOORACTIVE.COM Our webcams and live cams provide up-to-date data on the weather and conditions around the clock in North Pennines. ...
  2. In North West Kent we have just measured our hghest rainfall rate to date : 195.2mm / 20:29
  3. I wonder if the aurora is related to Sun Dogs? My son took these images today in South London :
  4. Snowing quite haevy here on the downs, it seems to be turning back into snow along the M25 Surrey / Kent
  5. I think the problem with comparing 1976 to this year is that we know how 1976 ended, the rains came. We simply don't have a crystal ball to see how this autumn and winter will play out.
  6. I seem to remember they bought in a genuine Indian Witch Doctor to do a 'Rain Dance' in 1976, don't think it worked but maybe worth another shot this time ?
  7. Hi Nick, here is an exert from the email I sent my MP yesterday, I worked for 20yrs in the water industry (5yrs for SES and 15yrs for Thames) from the late 80s to the late noughties. I worked throughout the privatisation period, and was part of many changes and improvements made "My experience is that the industry has been wholly dishonest since @1995 when all obvious savings were exhausted. The industry plays cat and mouse with the regulator, choosing to pay fines because it is cheaper than providing long term solutions. Risk assessments are carried out on 1 in 5 or 1 in 10yr drought events, so the companies know that they need to plan for these, but they don't. Maintenance procedures and standby capacity has been consistently reduced for cost saving purposes. Companies such as Thames Water report their own figures such as leakage to OFWAT and they are routinely misrepresented. This manipulation was so bad at Thames that we needed to create an entirely different system for calculating London's demand as the official system was rigged to the extent it did not represent the true numbers. In truth some of the smaller companies such as SES Water are a lot more honest as these were never part of the privatization process as they have always been private companies." You may also be interested to know that there has always been private water companies in the UK, here is a list of them: Affinity Water Bournemouth Water Bristol Water Cambridge Water Company Cholderton and District Water Company Essex and Suffolk Water Hartlepool Water Portsmouth Water SES Water South East Water South Staffordshire Water
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