Wet in the south of late?

[Christoph]

Is this climate change thing going to make the south wetter than the north? It’s been lovely in the north west of late which is a real change for us. Usually westerly after westerly at this time of year. Looks like the wet weather is now coming up from the Bay if Biscay. Hope it stays that way it might balance up house prices!

 

[Sundowners]

How far south are you talking about????------- in central Portugal it has hardly stopped raining for weeks, good news is it is not cold while raining,---- been raining today but 17 C out--- can live with that!!!!!

 

[ambulancekidd]

Is this climate change thing going to make the south wetter than the north? It’s been lovely in the north west of late which is a real change for us. Usually westerly after westerly at this time of year. Looks like the wet weather is now coming up from the Bay if Biscay. Hope it stays that way it might balance up house prices!

Things have been similar here in the south of Scotland, we're usually flooded out at this time of year which has became steadily worse, until now.
I have to say that it makes me feel a little bit smug as we've had it rammed down our throats about the "nice weather in the south of England" for years.
That said, I hate hearing of anyone's home being flooded, must be heartbreaking.

 

[Christoph]

Just the UK - the south coast particularly south east have had it really bad lately. Floods in areas not normally affected.

 

[DBK]

The thing is not to confuse "weather" with "climate". No single weather event can be explained by climate change. Only by looking over many years and trying to identify trends can an attempt be made. But more extremes are part of the climate change model, colder in one place but hotter somewhere else.

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[Lot lover]

Here on the Algarve it has been very wet and very windy recently. BUT things may be changing as we have had no rain for 24 hours and the sun appeared yesterday afternoon and again today.

 

[Jim]

We're OK in Sunny Sutton on Sea now we've sorted out the irrigation for the olive groves. They've promised rain in January though thank goodness.

 

[Spriddler]

Many of the flood-affected houses down South were built during the last 25 years or so on flood plains and after they have been flooded are virtually uninsurable. I suspect that many of them have lost substantial value.
I have walked my dogs 3 or 4 miles at a time twice a day for more than 30 years throughout the woods and farmland surrounding my village. I know the area intimately, in every season. Five years ago an estate of 160 four and five bed 'Executive' homes was built on farmland adjacent to the 150 yr old cricket/football pitch on the edge of the village. The first winter after the estate was completed the meandering 3m wide stream became permanently 10m wide, the surrounding land marshy, the pitches often unusable November to March and two of the bordering lanes now flood regularly after a couple of hours of rain.
Climate change maybe a factor, but housing development definitely is.

 

[Lot lover]

Another factor imho is the failure to dredge not just rivers and canals but all ditches as well.

 

[Spriddler]

Slightly off topic, my DIL is a fiercesome environmentalist who for her first twenty seven years lived in Sydney.
She says that the bush fires which have happened for millions of years (and have been largely necessary for the control and/or nourishment of flora and fauna) have had the devastating effects partly as a result of the Upwardly Mobile building 'country' houses outside of the city to enjoy the rural and less stressful lifestyle. Throughout history there have been raging bush fires but there were very few people living there.

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[Christoph]

Either way I wouldn’t wish flooding on anyone wherever they live.

 

[busby]

Another factor imho is the failure to dredge not just rivers and canals but all ditches as well.

They keep putting streams into pipes,,Pipes just move water from A to B open streams and ditches drain the land surrounding them..Should not interfere with nature..BUSBY

 

[Christoph]

Something has changed. We had the wettest two weeks we've ever had on the south coast in June this year. Been going there for 10 years and never had it so bad. My daughter and family have lived in Dorset for the last 10 years and they have definitely noticed weather patterns changing down there. We usually go back in September but didn't this year as we didn't trust it. Went to Anglesey instead and only had two days rain in a fortnight.

 

[rangi]

Slightly off topic, my DIL is a fiercesome environmentalist who for her first twenty seven years lived in Sydney.
She says that the bush fires which have happened for millions of years (and have been largely necessary for the control and/or nourishment of flora and fauna) have had the devastating effects partly as a result of the Upwardly Mobile building 'country' houses outside of the city to enjoy the rural and less stressful lifestyle. Throughout history there have been raging bush fires but there were very few people living there.

At one time, the Forestry would have work gangs raking up the leaf litter, and clearing small saplings tween the trees, in conjunction with controlled burn offs.
All that stopped with Paul Keating as PM. He withdrew the funding, told the NSW state government to pay themselves, they said it wasn't nessesary.

That was about 1990. result? Bushfires in 92 and even worse in 94. We came back from the Central Coast on the Freeway/Highway 1, at Hornsby we had fires both sides of the H/Way. (Hornsby is North Sydney)
When residents held working bees to clear the leaf litter the State Government threatened to prosecute, H&S and all that BS.

 

[rangi]

"Wet in the south" is an understatement!. Here in Cornwall we have had almost 6 weeks of rain, showers, and other shite weather, I swear to god I'm getting web feet (perhaps I should move to Norfolk?)

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[buttons]

Is this climate change thing going to make the south wetter than the north? It’s been lovely in the north west of late which is a real change for us. Usually westerly after westerly at this time of year. Looks like the wet weather is now coming up from the Bay if Biscay. Hope it stays that way it might balance up house prices!

Watford is about as south east as it gets. Just seen the Christmas forecast for this area. No snow over Christmas
but plenty of blue sky's and sunny weather. Little change here then..

 

[Reallyretired]

Watford is in the North, good heavens its even north of London. Definitely not SE England.?

 

[busbuddy]

round here they have a flood zone, it has flooded regularly for centuries but this year the roads through it have been shut off and on since early october......only a few riverside properties have been affected badly but its beginning to look like the affected areas might never drain
the canal, which runs through the zone as well, is starting to suffer major erosion due to the speed of the flood water

 

[Southdowners]

It’s very wet here in West Sussex. We’ve had torrential rain on and off for weeks so the ground is waterlogged. Any new rainfall has nowhere to go. We haven’t got bad floods in our immediate vicinity but there are some bloody big puddles!