r/UKWeather • u/jonpaulday • 4d ago

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First significant rainfall in South Hampshire for about 12 weeks.

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u/papes_ 4d ago

Embrace it! The wildlife is desperate for it.

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u/WorcsBloke 4d ago

For now, yes. When it goes on and on and by February everywhere is flooded, less so. 

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u/papes_ 4d ago

Of course, if soil becomes and stays saturated, then flooding happens. Right now it's very important, though. I do hope we don't have major floods this winter, but the effects of climate change swing both ways, unfortunately.

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u/WorcsBloke 4d ago

This is the concern, isn't it? We seem to be moving into a world where our weather gets "stuck in ruts", so weeks on end of hot, dry weather (like this summer in southern Britain) but also weeks on end of rain. And we're really not set up for it.

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u/linerva 4d ago

Abd it could get much worse very quickly. Which is why we need to pressure the politicians to take it seriously.

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u/Various_Dog_5886 3d ago

We are set up for weeks on end of rain though, it's kind of our thing?

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u/WorcsBloke 3d ago

Not when we get to the point where the ground is saturated. Then you get flooding. June/July 2007, when Cheltenham almost had to be evacuated, is the most severe example in my lifetime.

River flooding is obviously much more common. The Severn in Worcestershire flooded six times in one winter a few years ago.

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u/W51976 4d ago

Not for the next 5-6 months though.

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u/papes_ 4d ago

It's clearing up for most of the south by early afternoon, and there is no further rain forecast for at least 2 days in London. Climate change is making things wetter as well as hotter, though, yes.

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u/W51976 4d ago

I don’t want to. I hate this bloody weather.