The Great British Weather

Plus, the greatest tragedy of all

Lol, I went out this morning and strung mine up with yet more old washing line!

Yeah and the fun of luggage collection and passport control.

No pictures of the tree crushed prosche?

Lost my garden gate (well, I have it, just not attached to anything) and my wheelie bin has move a few metres. Other bin goes for a burton at the best of times so fully expect to find it the neighbours pond soon.

No fence on one side now. Balls.

Took one look outside the front door earlier and thought f**k that.

Yeah. Sorry for moaning. That’s tragic.

Luckily the wife is in Aus, else I’d have to tell her that her beloved Rupy has carked it...

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Thoughts and prayers..

My friend's bike...

I'm doing this wrong aren't I?

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Quick buff and it’ll be fine

All that mud has clearly corroded the frame.

The eastbound transatlantic flight time record has been broken three times in the past five years. It is the jet stream in the atmosphere that is getting faster, not the planes themselves.

As climate change continues to exert its grip on the jet stream, studies have shown that twice as many flights will experience very fast eastbound crossings in the years to come

Yesterday flights heading west from Europe were either cancelled or took 2hr 30mins longer

@andyp is having nightmares

I'm pretty heavy but even I've never done that to my bikes.

Looking bad in the Calder Valley.
https://twitter.com/Cromwell606/status/1226485576397918208

I go to Hebden pretty often and plenty of the shops and bars have marks where the water got to previously. The last set of bad floods there was only about 4 years ago.

Those containers act as if they own the road.

One more instalment, it seems, of the consequences of completely inadequate action on flooding in the last couple of decades.

I was just watching videos of flooding in Germany, along major rivers like the Rhine and the Mosel, where they're used to this and have excellent flood defences--very simple stackable metal panels made watertight with rubber strips between them. They go between upright posts that are set into ground anchors installed in the ground. A little water spills through and over, but not enough to cause problems. That said, there are other towns where that sort of mechanism apparently doesn't exist that did get badly flooded.

They have been putting flood defences in there but last time I went past, a little before Christmas, they were unfinished and still needed a fair bit doing.

The problem is upstream. The moors are used for grouse shooting and the way they are managed, through burning to ensure plenty of heather shoots for the grouse to eat, is not conducive to the moors acting in their natural role of holding a lot of water naturally.

And enjoy giant subsidies to mismanage the landscape.

At least in this case there's a trickle down effect to the local communities.

People get furious on twitter if the issue is raised and grouse-shooting fans sneer "I see you know nothing about the countryside"

'8% of a nation's land, burned by 0.0003% of its population, for the
creation of 0.008% of its jobs and under 0.005% of its economy, is a
destructive national embarrassment'.

https://twitter.com/FaradaySarah/status/1226480262797807617

red sky at night, shepherds delight
red sky in the morning, imminent arrival of amber warning rain and wind seasonal storm dennis

Looks like a soggy weekend. reschedules audax