Monsoon Wetting
The good folks at Hampstead Heath post monthly weather totals from the park, including rainfall totals. During our scorcher April, we got 5.5 millimeters of rain. May: 94 mm. June: 69 mm.
Doesn't seem like so much, I suppose ... but the daily persistence gets to be tiresome.
Doesn't seem like so much, I suppose ... but the daily persistence gets to be tiresome.
Labels: British life, weather
posted by Smitty Werbenmanjensen at 8:13 PM
8 Comments:
We've had huge downpours of rain every day for over a week here in the Houston area, along with street flooding and some rivers in central Texas are at flood stage. Do you have street flooding?
Street flooding? No. Whole town floodings? Yes.
Central Texas has whole towns flooding as well, places that have never flooded before. Luckily so far it's not so bad in our area. Is London flooding?
It kind of rained here yesterday. Well, it was windy with lightning and thunder. But I wanted to get in on the conversation, too.
Hmm, lightning and thunder. A tree right outside of my office building was hit by lightning yesterday and split in two. It made quite a loud cracking noise.
There evidently are thousands of Yorkeshirepeople and Midlands people still living in shelters and caravans because of the flooding.
As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be the restrictions on building in floodplains and floodways as there is in the U.S., possibly because the insurance industry here didn't do something nearly as scummy as shift all the flood risk onto the government.
Our homeowners insurance has now decided they will no longer insure us for windstorm damage, starting in October! So, now they don't cover floods or windstorms! We'll have to get our windstorm insurance through the government, too, and it will be about twice as expensive. I wonder if they cover fire damage in areas prone to wildfires?
No, insurers only take your money if they know they'll never have to pay out.
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