Combining two posts from Paul Homewood’s website into one publish right here.
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t John Hughes
Did local weather change trigger the floods in 1954?
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Sky suppose that local weather change is making floods worse.
Possibly they may like to elucidate why flooding was so unhealthy within the Nineteen Fifties:
A trawl by the Met Workplace month-to-month climate studies of the time finds these references to extreme floods:
- Feb 1950 – Appreciable flooding in some districts.
- Nov 1951 – Extreme flooding in lots of elements of the nation
- Aug 1952 – Lynmouth floods
- Nov 1952 – Critical flooding in Sussex
- Jan 1953 – The Nice North Sea floods
- Might 1953 – Extreme storms introduced heavy rain and floods, significantly in West Scotland inflicting “a lot harm”
- June 1953 – Extreme thunderstorms introduced “exceptionally heavy rain” inflicting “extreme flooding and appreciable harm”
- July 1953 –Widespread thunderstorms significantly affected crops in West Midlands and Central Scotland, with native harm attributable to lightning and floods, with some lack of life.
- Aug 1954 – Appreciable flooding in some areas
- Oct 1954 – Extreme flooding in NW England, N Wales and S Scotland
- Nov 1954 – Critical floods in lots of elements of the nation
- March 1955- Critical floods within the Midlands
- July 1955 – File each day rainfall in Dorset led to extreme flooding there. (279mm at Martinstown remains to be the best each day complete for any station within the UK)
- Aug 1956 – Widespread flooding
- Oct 1957 – Floods in Wales and NW England, with 12.71 inch of rain recorded at Blaenau Ffestiniog in a four-day spell.
- Nov 1957 – Torrential rain led to floods in lots of areas, significantly the Midlands
- Sep 1958 – Widespread flooding in Wales
These are simply the key flood occasions. There can be many extra minor ones which by no means bought a point out within the month-to-month summaries.
