Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stormdesmond, aggregated by home.social.
How the last Super El Niño hit London – and what it could mean for the capital this winter
The last “super” El Niño to hit London a decade ago brought devastating storms and freezing weather, with…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #CityofLondon #ElNino #Greenwich #LondonFireBrigade #MetOffice #PolarVortex #StormDesmond #StormKatie #storms #Weather
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/33356/
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/33356/ How the last Super El Niño hit London – and what it could mean for the capital this winter #CityOfLondon #ElNino #Greenwich #LondonFireBrigade #MetOffice #PolarVortex #StormDesmond #StormKatie #storms #Weather
How the last Super El Niño hit London – and what it could mean for the capital this winter
The last “super” El Niño to hit London a decade ago brought devastating storms and freezing weather, with…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #ElNiño #Greenwich #LondonFireBrigade #MetOffice #PolarVortex #StormDesmond #StormKatie #Storms #Weather
https://www.europesays.com/britain/135191/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/135191/ How the last Super El Niño hit London – and what it could mean for the capital this winter #ElNiño #Greenwich #London #LondonFireBrigade #MetOffice #PolarVortex #StormDesmond #StormKatie #Storms #Weather
How the last Super El Niño hit London – and what it could mean for the capital this winter
The last “super” El Niño to hit London a decade ago brought devastating storms and freezing weather, with…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #ElNiño #GreatBritain #Greenwich #london #LondonFireBrigade #MetOffice #polarvortex #StormDesmond #StormKatie
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1230007/
Ah, Teresa Mannion has retired from RTÉ? Naturally, this calls for a reprise (and remix) of her finest hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzx3MeYonT8
#TeresaMannion #RTÉ #RTÉNews #StormDesmond #Aimsir #MastoDaoine #Telly
"Don't make unnecessary journeys, don't take risks on treacherous roads."
Today is the tenth anniversary of #TeresaMannion's five minutes of global fame.
On 5th December 2015, Mannion broadcast live on RTÉ's Six One News from the promenade at #Salthill in #Galway as #StormDesmond raged. She got carried away, and the original clip went viral, followed by several remixes going viral too.
It's still fun ❤️ #RTE
#StormDesmond caused landslides which closed the main road, north-south, through Cumbria (A591) for months. Many trees in the pine forest surrounding Thirlmere were damaged.
#UnitedUtilities at the time had no requirement to prevent flooding, despite earlier serious flooding in the area, and were primarily focused on ensuring they preserved water in the reservoir to supply their customers.
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#Keswick’s newly installed flood defences were breached, and downstream hundreds of homes were flooded
The combination of the heavy rainfall through the autumn, heightened with #StormDesmond, and then in combination with the reservoir opening its overflow pipes caused massive disruption from the flooding, hundreds made homeless, and a massive £500 million cost to the economy.
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The Thirlmere reservoir, built in 1888 to supply Manchester (153km away) with water, is owned by the #UnitedUtilities a private water company and has an agreement to supply water to Manchester throughout the year.
At the time of #StormDesmond the reservoir was already at full capacity. It is reported that engineers were helicopted to the site to open ancient dam release valves, and the water pumping station was flooding.
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LONG POST ON #ELNINO / #FLOODING
As we hear of the effects of the #ClimateEmergency round the world, and see #flooding in #Norway I am reminded of #StormDesmond that hit #Cumbria between 5th & 6th Dec 2015. In 48 hours #Thirlmere in #LakeDistrict recorded 405mm of rainfall in combination with severe gales up to 81mph. This was an El Nino year.
It was the 4th major storm of the autumn. The ground and the lakes were already saturated.
The Day After Desmond, Dec 6th 2015
#HighForce #Teesdale #StormDesmond