Good morning everyone 
Cloudy here, might get some rain later.
I hope everyone has a good day 
Another strange sporting event which also took place on Monday - gravy wresting 
BBC article with photos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-lancashire-66645681
@El Loro posted:Another strange sporting event which also took place on Monday - gravy wresting
BBC article with photos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-lancashire-66645681
Yuk yuk, donât fancy that much 
I was out walking and passed a young man pushing a buggy. The man greeted me by name and I didn't recognise him. So I asked and he told me his name and said who his parents are.
That explained why I didn't recognise him.
I last saw him with his father a long time ago, He would have been about 8 and didn't have a beard
@El Loro posted:I was out walking and passed a young man pushing a buggy. The man greeted me by name and I didn't recognise him. So I asked and he told me his name and said who his parents are.
That explained why I didn't recognise him.
I last saw him with his father a long time ago, He would have been about 8 and didn't have a beard
Iâm not surprised you didnât recognise him El.
@El Loro posted:Another strange sporting event which also took place on Monday - gravy wresting
BBC article with photos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-lancashire-66645681
wow bit yacky and extreme thank you EL
The very local weather station near here shows rainfall for August excluding today as 35.6 mm which is below average. Also has a bar chart showing daily totals for the previous 31 days. There is a rather spectacular error in that chart for the amount of rain which fell on Monday:
408.4 mm which is just over 16 inches
That would have been on the national news if that had happened and would have been the new record for the most rain in a day anywhere in the country.
The actual amount would have been more like 2 mm.
@El Loro posted:The very local weather station near here shows rainfall for August excluding today as 35.6 mm which is below average. Also has a bar chart showing daily totals for the previous 31 days. There is a rather spectacular error in that chart for the amount of rain which fell on Monday:
408.4 mm which is just over 16 inches
That would have been on the national news if that had happened and would have been the new record for the most rain in a day anywhere in the country.
The actual amount would have been more like 2 mm.
@El Loro posted:The very local weather station near here shows rainfall for August excluding today as 35.6 mm which is below average. Also has a bar chart showing daily totals for the previous 31 days. There is a rather spectacular error in that chart for the amount of rain which fell on Monday:
408.4 mm which is just over 16 inches
That would have been on the national news if that had happened and would have been the new record for the most rain in a day anywhere in the country.
The actual amount would have been more like 2 mm.
Do you think maybe they got the decimal point in the wrong place El
@slimfern posted:Do you think maybe they got the decimal point in the wrong place El
I don't think it would be that. I think Monday's rain was 0.8 mm rather than 408.4 mm. Though if you remove the 4 at the start and also at the end, then move the decimal point you get 0.8
@El Loro posted:I don't think it would be that. I think Monday's rain was 0.8 mm rather than 408.4 mm. Though if you remove the 4 at the start and also at the end, then move the decimal point you get 0.8
Our local Met office has posted that in the last 6hrs we've had 4.77mm and in the last 24hrs 13.1mm 
No doubt the river will break it's bank as usual 
Mind you, the ducks & swans don't seem to mind 
@slimfern posted:Our local Met office has posted that in the last 6hrs we've had 4.77mm and in the last 24hrs 13.1mm
No doubt the river will break it's bank as usual
Mind you, the ducks & swans don't seem to mind
May to July 2007 was Britain's wettest summer on record. Various places had been in the news due to floods.
On 19 July I looked at the weather forecasts and maps for the following day. I came to the conclusion that the 20th there were going to be serious flooding problems. I rang the local vicar to warn him though he thought I was scaremongering.
On the 20th when I got it it was pouring heavier than I had ever seen. And it kept on pouring down. Kept on and on and on for about 15 hours. Total amount of rain would have been somewhere between 126 and 142mm.
Became an international news story. As the flood waters came down into the rivers Severn and Avon (the Warwickshire one rather than the Bristol one), the rivers merge at Tewkesbury into one river. At Tewkesbury water works at Mythe was flooded leading to water going to peoples homes having to be turned off due to becoming contaminated.
Further down the Severn at Gloucester the major electricity substation was at serious threat of becoming flooded by the Severn overflowing. The army and volunteers managed to get flood defences up in time to stop that. It was a very close thing. If the substation had been flooded, then there would have been a mass evacuation, the biggest since WW2.
I never said anything to the vicar afterwards and neither did he about my scaremongering. However, the local church played the major part in providing support to the local community such as providing bottles of water in the early days before the bowsers were brought in. A group of people from the Moslem community in Birmingham came to the church one day bu coach with bottles of water they had collected.
@El Loro posted:May to July 2007 was Britain's wettest summer on record. Various places had been in the news due to floods.
On 19 July I looked at the weather forecasts and maps for the following day. I came to the conclusion that the 20th there were going to be serious flooding problems. I rang the local vicar to warn him though he thought I was scaremongering.
On the 20th when I got it it was pouring heavier than I had ever seen. And it kept on pouring down. Kept on and on and on for about 15 hours. Total amount of rain would have been somewhere between 126 and 142mm.
Became an international news story. As the flood waters came down into the rivers Severn and Avon (the Warwickshire one rather than the Bristol one), the rivers merge at Tewkesbury into one river. At Tewkesbury water works at Mythe was flooded leading to water going to peoples homes having to be turned off due to becoming contaminated.
Further down the Severn at Gloucester the major electricity substation was at serious threat of becoming flooded by the Severn overflowing. The army and volunteers managed to get flood defences up in time to stop that. It was a very close thing. If the substation had been flooded, then there would have been a mass evacuation, the biggest since WW2.I never said anything to the vicar afterwards and neither did he about my scaremongering. However, the local church played the major part in providing support to the local community such as providing bottles of water in the early days before the bowsers were brought in. A group of people from the Moslem community in Birmingham came to the church one day bu coach with bottles of water they had collected.
Co-operation between communities El. It should happen more often 
night EL slim moonsieee
@slimfern posted:So our next major storm will be known as 'Agnes'
That's right, Slim
There are a couple of singers who have called themselves Babet but the more recent one has been on The Voice of Holland. I think that's why the Netherlands weather people have chosen that name. Her real name is Babette van Vugt.
@El Loro posted:That's right, Slim
There are a couple of singers who have called themselves Babet but the more recent one has been on The Voice of Holland. I think that's why the Netherlands weather people have chosen that name. Her real name is Babette van Vugt.
A bit of a mouthful for your average english bod
night EL(love that storm information-how do they pick those names) slim moonsieee
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:night EL(love that storm information-how do they pick those names
Ros, The public from the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands can send in their suggestions for names.
Suggestions for future use can be made via the links mentioned in the FAQs section:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/w...k-storm-centre/index
@El Loro posted:Ros
Suggestions for future use can be made via the links mentioned in the FAQs section:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/w...k-storm-centre/index
Maybe we should write in for one named El Loro
@El Loro posted:Ros
Suggestions for future use can be made via the links mentioned in the FAQs section:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/w...k-storm-centre/index
wow thank you EL