By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
One of the areas worst affected by recent heavy rainfall has been Wainfleet in Lincolnshire:
High volume pumps are being used to lower water levels in a flooded Lincolnshire town.
More than 580 homes in and around Wainfleet were evacuated amid concerns about flood defences.
Dozens of people spent the night away from their homes in emergency centres.
The town flooded on Wednesday after two months’ worth of rain fell in two days and the banks of the River Steeping broke its banks.
The Environment Agency described the situation as "unprecedented" after 132mm (5.2in) of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday, with the Met Office predicting a further 20mm (0.79in) of rain during Saturday night and Sunday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48651254
Unprecedented?
Well, only if history began after 1960! In October that year, an almost incomprehensible 178mm of rain fell on Horncastle, a few miles south of Wainfleet, in just 3 hours.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-extremes/#?tab=climateExtremes
And this was not simply a rogue event. The month as a whole was exceptionally wet across southern England and Wales. And the meteorological set up was the same as last week, with low pressure stuck to the south of the UK:
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/digitalFile_8a897c4c-95d0-41f9-bf05-b25bc604ebf5/
Let us hope that the poor folk of Wainfleet soon see the floods recede. But they might consider how much worse things would be without those fossil fuelled pumps and helicopters, which have been working to reduce water levels.
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