Is the amount of rain we've had bothering anyone else?

[pawsies]

Thankfully not in a flooded area but we are still getting a ridiculous amount of rainfall.
Our local river is overflowing and has flooded the adjacent banks.
I mean how long will it take to dry the ground out? Is this because of global warming/climate change?
How are the insurance companies even going to be able to make a start on repairs when we're still getting so much rain?

@frillyfarmer Sorry if I sounded unsympathetic I'm not . And I certainly don't have an "I'm all right Jack" attitude to anything. I was just pointing out that these are not EXTRAORDINARY weather conditions within these islands. They are just arriving in a slightly differently place than usual and their effects are being/have been exacerbated by years of turning great areas of the country into bloody big funnels. And you're right. Dredging is important.

Of course we need Welsh and English farms to do well and produce food. Given the fact that our current benighted government seems to be doing all in its power to stuff the shelves full of chlorinated chicken and other less than brilliant produce from the US we need you now more than ever.

@LifeIsAPotato

@annamie, totally off topic, but how long does it take you to walk 6 miles?! I just had a look on Google maps, 5.9 miles to my place of work would take me just under 2 hours!

Sorry it’s 3 miles each way so 6 miles in total. It takes 35-40 minutes each way.

You have my sympathy @frillyfarmer. We live in a rural community and everyone is so miserable about the weather.

I was just pointing out that these are not EXTRAORDINARY weather conditions within these islands

But they are. I can’t ever remember a winter this wet in my 61 years. I can't ever remember so many flood alerts and flood warnings. I have never seen so many burst rivers in the news before.

On way back from Edinburgh. A 5 hour drive and all the fields along the route were flooded to some extent

It's ghastly. I live in Cumbria, where it rains a lot of the time here anyway, but this is ridiculous. I'd love to be stuck indoors rather than out in it, but I have a large, energetic dog who doesn't care how wet it is outside.

I was coping quite well with winter up until new year but now I'm sick of the relentless rain, wind and cold. The kids can't get out and play, the yard needs doing, we have fence panels down and just need some nice weather now. No one can seriously say that the current weather is no different to a nice warm dry day surely?

But they are. I can’t ever remember a winter this wet in my 61 years. I can't ever remember so many flood alerts and flood warnings. I have never seen so many burst rivers in the news before.

The fact that more rivers are being reported as bursting is certainly down to more than just the amount of rainfall. A lack of dredging as frillyfarmer mentioned being one, houses being where there were none before - 'Field in the Middle of Nowhere Floods' is not a headline. '200 Houses Built in Wrong Place Underwater' is. Agencies don't post flood warnings for empty fields. They do for houses built on floodplains. And there's just so much more NEWS than there used to be. 24hours rolling christ we've got to fill the screens with something news. Not just a 15 minute slot after the Magic Roundabout with Kenneth Baker reading out government press releases then the Nine O'Clock and News At Ten going over the same ground with makbe some filmed footage - Film was expensive and time consuming. these days when everyone can upload footage from their phones of course there's more dramatic footage on the telly these days. I'm of an age as you and remember when everything wasn't shit too.

I was just pointing out that these are not EXTRAORDINARY weather conditions within these islands

I think you'll find that they are and will become increasingly more so. This is our future and we need to accept it and try and work out how the hell we're going to cope moving forward.

TheSandman I don't disagree that man's impact on the environment has created many of the problems. That said, we really have had unprecedented amounts of rain, certainly where I live in South Yorkshire, and if you care to watch any news item, there have been significantly higher levels of rainfall throughout most of the country. Why do you not believe the posters on here?

The road into and out of our village has been closed several times simply from run off from the fields (used for grazing livestock) - not flooded rivers and not due to building on flood plains.

I don't think you appreciate just how much more rain we have had.

What TheNextStorm said. With bells on.

Yes.

Who can I write to about this?

It's official. This has been the wettest February since records began.

www.itv.com/news/2020-02-29/uk-experiences-wettest-february-on-record-as-storm-jorge-hits/

But they are. I can’t ever remember a winter this wet in my 61 years. I can't ever remember so many flood alerts and flood warnings. I have never seen so many burst rivers in the news before

No, although early 2014 was pretty bad too. Not this bad though, and I am not sure we got the wind as well (can't remember anyway), just unrelenting rain.