Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Next storm inbound!

 Field flooding, river and stream level’s haven’t recovered from the last storm. I hope you are as ready as can be? 

We have done our weekly shop, brought logs in, topped up paper and kindling. All washing was done in the last few days of durable weather. We can heat food and water on our emergency camping stove or the log burner and have battery operated lights just in case.

None of us can anticipate flooding but we will keep our fingers crossed. Every heavy shower we get is falling on sodden ground and causing small patches of flooding. We will close the window and door on the greenhouse and hope for the best. 

Predictions are being made about the drop in pressure being as bad as a 1954 storm. Wasn’t around for that but here is a link here.

World climate is at the beginning of an El NiƱo phase , here in the uk for winter, we may have colder than usual weather and/or experience high winds with lots and lots of rain:(

Monday, 23 October 2023

Our rainfall totalled ...

The storm delivered us enough rain to fill this candle jar:

It measures 5" tall by 3" inside and was 1/2" from the top. The two smaller storms we had a few days beforehand, delivered the same amount. That is a lot of rain. The back garden was flooded to half its length and one of our village roads was flooded to about 12"

All in all, we were very lucky.