Off Topic Weather Thread

You can build in a way which both protects homes from flooding and doesn’t increase the risk of flooding - but it is, of course, more expensive, and requires more land so water can be absorbed and stored in attenuation tanks to be released into drains when they can cope. For that you need green space around the houses. The current situation is ultimate stress test of the design of where I live. I’m pretty confident, and if it fails there are a choice of developers, architects and specialist water management consultancies to sue.

****ing hell, raining again and swans paddling over the wicket.

 

Horrible day yesterday with strong winds and loads of rain. But nowhere near as bad as north of Watford by the seems of it.
We appear to be getting through the storm alphabet as fast as the winds.

 

Have the covers been put on

 

End of days rain again here since around 4pm.
Never known so much rain.

 

Move to Scotland....we'll tell you all about it

 

Some light drizzle this evening but the water levels are going down here.

 

Where are you now?

 

I thought you said it was the same as every other year?

 

Stratford upon Avon. Think the heavy rain is meant to stay east and south of us by a bit this evening, Good job too, everything is saturated.

 

When was that?
I get frustrated by the media continually describing normal winter weather as an "event", but it's clear that climate change is causing more extreme weather at times.