The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread

[FiF]

ARHarh said:

FiF said:

No snow here, Worcestershire, Severn rising rapidly again, Bewdley predicted by 6pm Tuesday to be back at peak level last week where it was inches from overtopping defences. Actually looking at predicted level slightly higher and still rising. Interesting 36 hours coming.

Meanwhile no horse racing

You have plenty more to come down the river yet. I live on the Shropshire Wales border near Oswestry, and it has just stopped raining. Everywhere is flooded far worse than yesterday. Yesterdays water will be with you today down in Bewdley. Todays will be with you tomorrow.

We can't take much more of this.

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

[Chocmonster]

Snow in Darlington and surrounding areas this morning although it's the very wet type and is melting already.

Charlie still enjoyed a walk in it though.

[ARHarh]

FiF said:

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

Not so much news more a warning, run for the hills

[MartG]

BigRusko said:

We've had a light sprinkling of the white stuff overnight (Gt Eccleston)
Only settled on the cars and it's now raining.

Just a bit of sleet at 5am here nearer the coast in Thornton

[Huntsman]

Isle of Wight coming right at you with an update.

Wind and rain.

Its like groundhog day.

[NGRhodes]

Good flurry of snow up to 8am in Bingley area, quickly turned to rain and combined with the above freezing ground temperatures the covering of snow turned slush by about 8:30. Only saw one car stuck on the steeper route out of our village, main roads were clear - it appears gritters didn't get round our village (even if they do, they only clear 1 road which is the bus route).

Edited by NGRhodes on Monday 24th February 11:36

Edited by NGRhodes on Monday 24th February 11:37

[Hub]

I put the bins out last night and it felt strange outside, until I realised it was because it was completely still. No wind!

Didn't last though and blowing madly again in the early hours and all of today.

[Puggit]

Sobering...

[vaud]

janesmith1950 said:

Had to walk the kids down to school alongside the A65 in the slush this morning. Then had to walk back down with some dry trousers for the eldest!

I got soaked as well... my youngest had never seen snow before so this morning was, at least for some, magical.

And then she realised that she was wet and cold and it became a bit "rubbish"

[p1stonhead]

Puggit said:

Sobering...

Brutal on the midlands and yorkshire

[Digga]

ARHarh said:

FiF said:

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

Not so much news more a warning, run for the hills

Was talking to a chap from Bewdley in our local on Saturday night. He reckoned the flood defences were built for a 5m rise in river levels and that last week's rain put it near 4.8m. The fear is this week's could overtop the barriers.

[anonymous-user]

p1stonhead said:

Brutal on the midlands and yorkshire

The Cumbria ones will be from December 2015. From memory it dropped about a foot of rain on Honister Pass in 24 hrs.

[FiF]

Digga said:

ARHarh said:

FiF said:

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

Not so much news more a warning, run for the hills

Was talking to a chap from Bewdley in our local on Saturday night. He reckoned the flood defences were built for a 5m rise in river levels and that last week's rain put it near 4.8m. The fear is this week's could overtop the barriers.

EA predicting 5.2 for Wednesday

[Shaw Tarse]

FiF said:

EA predicting 5.2 for Wednesday

[Digga]

FiF said:

Digga said:

ARHarh said:

FiF said:

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

Not so much news more a warning, run for the hills

Was talking to a chap from Bewdley in our local on Saturday night. He reckoned the flood defences were built for a 5m rise in river levels and that last week's rain put it near 4.8m. The fear is this week's could overtop the barriers.

EA predicting 5.2 for Wednesday

So that could do an awful lot of damage then?

Saw friend who works for EA over weekend too. They're working extremely hard right now. It's clear the EA is stuck between a rock and a hard place, in having a relatively small, fixed budget and also being powerless to stop local authorities building homes (which the LA gets central government incentives for) which impact on water runoff. In the push to build homes, there's no real oversight of the environmental impact and the EA can't even get the LAs to insist on stormwater management, let alone veto developments.

[FiF]

Digga said:

FiF said:

Digga said:

ARHarh said:

FiF said:

Thanks for that welcoming news. I think.

Not so much news more a warning, run for the hills

Was talking to a chap from Bewdley in our local on Saturday night. He reckoned the flood defences were built for a 5m rise in river levels and that last week's rain put it near 4.8m. The fear is this week's could overtop the barriers.

EA predicting 5.2 for Wednesday

So that could do an awful lot of damage then?

Saw friend who works for EA over weekend too. They're working extremely hard right now. It's clear the EA is stuck between a rock and a hard place, in having a relatively small, fixed budget and also being powerless to stop local authorities building homes (which the LA gets central government incentives for) which impact on water runoff. In the push to build homes, there's no real oversight of the environmental impact and the EA can't even get the LAs to insist on stormwater management, let alone veto developments.

I think the answer is who knows exactly in all honesty. Don't quote me on this but I *think* the 5m refers to the temporary flood barriers on Beales Corner, pic 1, the 'permanent' barriers on Severnside N and S can go higher. Pic 2

Beales Corner, last week got to within a few inches of the top of those.


Severnside South, much lower water levels



Picture taken today and report from local paper from few minutes ago.

https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/182573...

This pm have been down onto our bottom field, this is further downstream below Stourport. It's already rising fast, reckon it will start to flood tonight. Fortunately it will have to rise another 10 or more metres to even get within sight of the house so we're ok personally. Cottages alongside towpath will be stuffed, caravan sites ditto.

[warch]

The River Severn looked terrifically high at Buildwas an hour ago, as did the Teme which is a tributary of the Severn which runs through Tenbury and especially the Corve which runs into the Teme at Ludlow.

Never seen anything quite like this.

[ARHarh]

More to come as it appears they have opened the dam at lake vyrmry as they need to let some of the water through. This floods the countryside, but also sends a lot of water down the river vyrmry and then on in to the severn. This has blocked a lot of roads and its a bit difficult getting to welshpool

[Bill]

The met office seem to think it'll snow here (Purbecks on the south coast) tomorrow night! It won't settle though.

[FiF]

Latest flood guidance statement issued for Shropshire and Worcestershire. Quote "Not a normal Severn winter flood"