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Happily retired Environment Agency Area Manager. A mix of climate, weather, rivers, nature, bike rides & photography. Fellow @Worcester_uni Trustee @The_HOEF
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The UK is getting wetter mainly due to more intense rainfall rather than more wet days.
When it rains, it rains harder.
Ordinary weather setups produce extraordinary amounts of rain.
Climate change in action.
And it will get worse.
Graph courtesy
@ed_hawkins
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No laughing matter but can’t believe the Mail actually published this!
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Just some more normal Summer weather in northern Italy this afternoon.
Eventually the penny will drop that this isn’t normal and is a direct result of heating the atmosphere.
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Go camping in Scotland they said.
It’ll be fun they said.
Via Carey Davies
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Iceland's the place to be tonight. See a volcano erupting and the Northern Lights at the same time!
http://t.co/7k7qVhjbCa
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As the waters recede on another monster flood, thousands of homes and businesses along the Severn and Wye remain dry thanks to flood defences.
They work.
But they’re not the answer to future flooding and are creating a false sense of security.
A (long!) 🧵
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Hopefully this sends a strong message.
A year prison sentence, banned from Directorship, £600k costs and required to restore damage.
The worst environmental damage I’ve ever seen and entirely intentional.
Well done
@EnvAgency
@NaturalEngland
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Bordeaux tonight.
Fire front is 3 kilometers long. 6,200 hectares already gone and 10,000 people have been evacuated.
A63 motorway on fire.
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Two of the mighty European waterways yesterday.
Rivers Loire & Rhine
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Acapulco
I’m not big on conspiracy theories but can’t quite get my head around the lack of news coverage & official statements.
It’s 2 days since the hurricane hit.
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Hells Bells!
Some more perfectly normal European Summer weather in Switzerland this afternoon
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225mm of rain fell in 2 hours in parts of Gujurat India today.
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Flash flooding in Devon.
20mm in an hour recorded a few miles away, probably more locally. No drainage systems are going to cope with those volumes of water.
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We’ve used our powers of entry at the River Lugg
#Herefordshire
incident
14 specialist officers from
@EnvAgency
@NaturalEngland
@ForestryComm
@WMerciaPolice
@HfdsCouncil
now on site gathering information & evidence.
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Horrendous pictures & video of huge amounts of sewage in the sea at St Agnes Cornwall.
Yet rainfall amounts and intensities look to be entirely normal for October. Exceptional circumstances?
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Murcia, southern Spain this afternoon.
90mm of rain reported to have fallen in an hour.
Red car demonstrates the power of fast moving flood water.
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Environment Agency workers strike for the first time in the Agency’s history.
Not at all surprised.
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Absolutely amazing pics of exhausted migrating birds hitching a lift on a ship in the Baltic Sea by Martin Grimm.
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Acapulco
One the the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall directly impacts a world famous city of 1 million people with almost no warning, killing dozens and causing billions of $ of damage.
Yet still barely a mention.
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Incredible pic of temporary flood barriers at Ironbridge holding back the River Severn.
You can see why there’s nervousness when they’re fully loaded or there’s a risk of overtopping.
Pic by
@Britt_W
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If you want an example of the value of hard flood defences, look no further than Upton.
Built in 2011 at a cost of £4.5m it’s protected homes and businesses from flooding over 50 times now.
Today some places would be under 5ft of water.
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A remarkable picture yesterday from
@sentinel_hub
@CopernicusEU
showing a parched NW Europe.
Easy to see parts of SW & NW England have that seen a bit more rain.
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Severn Bore at Minsterworth this morning
I know where to stand!
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Impressive pic of Maeslant barrier protecting Rotterdam against a 3m North Sea storm surge last night.
First time it’s been closed in anger since construction in 1997.
Pic via Adam Robinson.
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I’ve seen things today I would not have believed.
Large parts of my home town and village are underwater tonight.
This is not normal flooding, we are in uncharted territory.
So sorry for everyone who has flooded.
Back tomorrow.
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Personal news
After 22 years with the Agency I’ll be retiring (early I hasten to add) at the end of the year.
It’s been a rollercoaster!
Good (or bad maybe) news is I’ll keep this account going (suitably re-branded) on climate & environmental stuff. And my bike rides!
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This is great!
What a difference a high tide makes.
Thames at Twickenham
As sea levels rise this view will become even more impressive.
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How about maintaining your infrastructure. That would help.
Interesting timing of a tweet when you’re flooding Birmingham with millions of litres of drinking water.
Let’s look after our wonderful water 💧
We asked our people to share their favourite water saving tips. For more ways you can save water this summer, visit:
How do you save water? Share your favourite tips by commenting below.
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As usual, quite a few arm chair hydrologists delivering their opinions.
No flooding if we scrape out some ditches and do some dredging.
Yeah right.
And things are going to get a lot worse.
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For anyone unconvinced that rural land use makes a difference to runoff and pollution issues, heres the confluence of the Dulas Brook and River Dore at Pontrilas after 5mm of rain last night.
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Very pleased that multiple charges have been brought against Price for works done to the River Lugg SSSI at Kingsland in December 2020.
In my 22 years at the Agency it’s the worst damage I’ve seen done to a protected site.
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That’s it, I’m done.
2 days rest, back Saturday
What I’ve seen over the last few days isn’t normal. It isn’t even the new normal. It’s going to get worse.
We need to adapt and respond. And fast.
So sorry for everyone who’s life has been turned upside down.
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One last time!
Thanks for all the good wishes. All much appreciated.
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Impossible to say for sure but the absolute shellacking the Tories have taken, combined with a huge increase in the green vote suggests that environmental issues and the Government’s abysmal performance in addressing them is really cutting through.
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This is a remarkable piece of work.
90 years of changes in landuse on a tiny corner of England. Extensively researched.
Multiply by thousands and you can understand the collapse of biodiversity and increased flash flooding.
By
@outhwaitegeorge
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A handy graphic to explain where bad weather in Spain & North Africa has resulted in tomato shortages.
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Parts of the Mediterranean are 7°C above normal.
7 bloody degrees!
Remember it takes more than 3000 times as much heat to warm water by 1°C than it does for air.
Graphic courtesy
@CopernicusEU
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Not very significant in the context of what’s happening at the moment but a bit of good news.
More than 400lb of fish rescued from receding floodwater on
#Worcester
racecourse.
We’ve been monitoring this & other locations for a while, waiting for the right moment.
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Synchronised apologising by the water companies, almost certainly as a result of Government pressure.
They’re now all very keen to increase investment.
Which we will all have to pay for.
Ofwat have been assuring us for years they have all the money they need.
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That’s a remarkable map!
Virtually all the UK covered by amber weather warnings.
Don’t think it’s happened before. They usually cover quite small, specific areas.
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All is not well in the Atlantic.
There will be wider consequences.
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Shift in Water companies position today.
Now accepting there’s a problem. Admitting they’ve caused it via inadequate infrastructure. Pushing for more investment so they can fix it. So they can put bills up.
@Feargal_Sharkey
explains why that’s cobblers.
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Interesting if true, that Tory MPs think it’s about communications and messaging rather than the huge increase in sewage entering rivers & seas that’s happened on their watch.
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The proposed nutrient neutrality amendment is simply staggering
2 says LAs must assume new houses will have no impact on protected rivers
3 tells them not to check
4 tells them to ignore anything that says otherwise
No MP in their right mind could vote for this?!
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Might be miserable here at the moment but spare a thought for the residents of Utqiagvik, Alaska who won’t see a sunrise for 65 days as polar night descends.
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I seem to have woken up in 1930s Germany.
'Our domestic courts will no longer be able to use any domestic or international law, including the Human Rights Act, to stop us removing illegal migrants'
Rishi Sunak says 'we will finally stop the boats' as he explains his new Rwanda Bill
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Land use changes have been dramatic in the last couple of generations.
My county used to have large expanses of wetlands, principally along river corridors. No more.
Combine these changes with more and heavier rainfall and it’s little surprise flooding is becoming much worse.
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Just rivers! Beautiful map shows just how extensive our river network is.
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Huge momentum building over the state of our rivers & seas.
Today’s cartoon in the Times which has initiated a large campaign today.
Instead of taking decisive action the Government continues to gaslight and dither.
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Staggering scale of flooding in central Greece today.
Death toll rising
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At 425 metres the Worcestershire Beacon in the Malvern Hills is the highest point until the Ural Mountains in Russia looking east.
Somehow seems very poignant tonight.
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Dozens of monthly heat records fell in France today. Even more incredible that it’s only early April.
Temperatures in Biarritz last night didn’t fall below 22.5°C beating not only the April record but also May & June’s!
Big trouble ahead.
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Great news that thanks to Hurculean efforts by our staff the temporary flood barriers at
#ironbridge
and
#Bewdley
have been fully assessed and repaired.
Ready for the expected Severn rises in coming days.
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I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but a Category 5 hurricane hitting a city of 1 million with virtually no warning is surely newsworthy
You wouldn’t think so. Maybe we’re getting used to such things
Billions of $ of damage, casualties unknown
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Actually one thing does beat the sound of a Merlin on a summer’s afternoon.
4 Merlins!
Hairs on the back of the neck moment.
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In a truly crowded field, Coffey will go down as one of the worst Environment Ministers ever.
Not just for her complete lack of achievement (many could claim that) but because she just didn’t care.
Thérèse Coffey is no longer environment secretary… she was not popular with farmers or environment groups. Can her replacement do better ?
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On the brink of a private company that supplies water to millions of homes and businesses going bust.
Their only solution is to raise bills to pay for infrastructure they’ve been paid to build and maintain for 30 years
If you’re not angry, you should be.
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I remember when the Water Framework Directive was adopted in 2003 the target for compliance was 2015, later extended to 2027.
A Government Brexit bonus means we can now set our own.
2063 is frankly meaningless and an embarrassing admission of failure.
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Not only was February the wettest on record, it was so wet the Met Office had to create a new scale to show it!
This is not normal.
Uncharted territory.
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180mm of rain fell in Jeddah in 6 hours yesterday, eclipsing the previous record. Instantaneous rates of 900mm per hour were reported.
Average annual rainfall for Jeddah is around 50mm.
Saudi Arabia is amongst the laggards in tackling climate change
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Defra as tin eared as ever, obviously very sensitive about the legality of sewage discharges.
It’s absolutely clear most discharges are in breach of any permit conditions and are therefore illegal.
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Excellent simple demonstration of why dry summer thunderstorms can cause havoc.
In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of
@UniRdg_Met
shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a
#drought
can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods.
@R0b1et
@UniRdg_water
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Absolute stunner.
My favourite tree with my favourite hills in the background!
Flooded Powick Hams on Christmas Day.
By Heartfelt Images
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Quite rightly a lot of recent coverage of the difficulties farmers have been facing due to the recent deluge.
Unfortunately this is just the beginning.
Some thoughts
A 🧵
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Horrible combination of flooding and blizzard in Boston USA now.
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LIVE - These folk are the real heroes.
@EnvAgency
staff working through the night at
#Bewdley
operating flood defences as the Severn approaches its peak with the highest levels in 20 years.
For them it’s personal!
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Talk a lot about the risks of driving through floodwater.
Applies to cycling too!
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The country’s on its arse, millions are about to have to choose between heating and eating, the climate’s collapsing and there’s war on our doorstep.
But every news outlet is leading on a court case between 2 vacuous nonentities which affects nobody at all.
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This is very good.
Sliding historic map viewer. See today’s map against old ones.
You can even overlay today’s buildings and roads onto old maps.
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When I first started this social media lark I hoped one day I might get a couple of hundred followers.
30,000 is ridiculous!
Twitter (X!) has its issues but I still find it extremely useful and generally a positive experience.
Thanks to everyone who follows me.
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“Trust us on our record” says Therese
That’ll be 13 years of grand promises, decline and failure then.
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Today is the earliest sunset of the year.
So at least afternoons will stop getting darker.
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A few more of today’s remarkable traverse of the north Malverns.
Lived here all my life but never ceases to amaze.
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Tennis ball sized hail clattering Valencia this afternoon.
None of this stuff is normal by the way.
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Malverns looking absolutely magnificent this morning.
A common winter sight during my childhood, now a rare treat.
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One small (10 acres) wood in East Anglia is now holding back an additional 3 million litres of water thanks to a single family of beavers.
And they’ve done it in 5 years.
They are one of many solutions we know work but are reluctant to implement.
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Penny seems to be dropping with Tory backbenchers.
Not only have they been sold a pup and told to defend weakened sewage discharge control, they’re also about to allow most of the legislation to protect water quality to disappear at the end of the year.
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It’s impossible to convey just how much water there is now in the Severn floodplains south of
#Worcester
Mile upon mile of water.
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We should be concerned that a water company cannot fulfil its most basic obligation after a few weeks of dry and warm (far from exceptional) weather.
Availability of raw water shouldn’t be an issue as SE England still showing surplus for the year.
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Very proud to receive my honorary Fellowship of University of Worcester today at beautiful
@WorcCathedral
Many thanks to all at
@worcester_uni
for making it such a special occasion.
Congratulations to all the graduates who received their degrees today.
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If you left your motor in Severn Stoke car park it may be too late!
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Our rivers are on their backsides.
Pics over the last 24 hours from the Calder, Foss, Cam & Mole.
Different variations of low flows, high temperatures, urban runoff, sewage and agricultural pollution will be the cause.
No meaningful plan to do anything about it.
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UK rivers would struggle to cope with the pressures being exerted by climate change if they were in good condition.
They’re not. They’re over abstracted and heavily polluted, mainly by sewage and agriculture.
Without significant intervention they’ve got no chance.
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Those promised sunlit uplands get nearer every day.
Just don't flush your toilet when it's raining.
From Tory MP for Meon Valley newsletter!
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Garbage
The reality is years of neglect and deterioration - 12 of them under her Government
Likely just 6% of rivers will be in good health by 2027
Sewage dumping will continue till 2050
No viable plan to tackle agricultural pollution
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Hard to get you head round what’s happening
Until today the highest January temperature ever recorded in Poland was 13.8°C (in 1993).
Today it reached 18.9°C
Long standing temperature records should be exceeded by fractions of degrees, not more than 5!
Graphic
@ScottDuncanWX
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You know you're in a dodgy area when the crows wear electronic tags and carry a blade.
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British milk - £1.06 a litre
Water - £1.20 a litre
Whole chicken - £3.22
Cup of coffee - £3.36
Food can’t be sustainably produced for these prices.
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