The Environment Agency's Flooding pages have lots of useful information about flood risk, how to prepare for a flood, and about what they are doing to manage flooding. You can also access summaries of their Catchment Flood Management Plans - the one that covers Boscastle is the East Cornwall CFMP.
You might like to have a look at the Met Office's "Past weather events" pages too - useful stuff here about the meteorological conditions behind various interesting weather events as far back as 1990, but including Boscastle, the 2005 Carlisle and North Yorkshire floods, the 2007 floods that affected much of the country, and the Cumbria floods of 2009.
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Year 12 - Boscastle and the UK Floods of 2007
Boscastle
A reminder about some of the Boscastle-related links that we looked at last week (and some that we didn't):
Comprehensive coverage of the flood including a timeline and meteorological data from geographyalltheway.com
The findings of the Environment Agency's investigations into the flood.
GeoProjects KeyFile
And a Geogtastic6 post about Boscastle from last year.
UK Floods 2007
Some images showing the impacts of the flooding in Sheffield - thanks to Andy Pinks:
The main cause of the Boscastle flood was very heavy rainfall combined with the topography of the area causing a rapid increase in the discharge of the River Valency and the River Jordan... In the case of the floods that affected much of the UK in 2007, however, rainfall was higher than normal, but pluvial flooding - caused by surface runoff - is thought to have been a major element.
Thanks to GeoBlogs for this PowerPoint which looks at the causes, impacts and responses of the floods and some of the (very complex) issues involved:
This report from the Association of British Insurers makes some interesting points about planning and preparation for similar floods in the future, and it's worth having a read of this Guardian article about the problems of predicting pluvial flooding.
The Environment Agency's pages about the UK floods make for interesting reading ("Currently, surface water flooding is not part of our remit. We are responsible for issuing warnings for flooding from rivers and the sea only...") - and they also contain a variety of useful links, including to the Pitt Review.
The BBC Panorama programme Keeping Britain Dry doesn't seem to be available any more, but you can read the transcript, together with a whole host of links to news articles, images and video clips.
A reminder about some of the Boscastle-related links that we looked at last week (and some that we didn't):
Comprehensive coverage of the flood including a timeline and meteorological data from geographyalltheway.com
The findings of the Environment Agency's investigations into the flood.
GeoProjects KeyFile
And a Geogtastic6 post about Boscastle from last year.
UK Floods 2007
Some images showing the impacts of the flooding in Sheffield - thanks to Andy Pinks:
The main cause of the Boscastle flood was very heavy rainfall combined with the topography of the area causing a rapid increase in the discharge of the River Valency and the River Jordan... In the case of the floods that affected much of the UK in 2007, however, rainfall was higher than normal, but pluvial flooding - caused by surface runoff - is thought to have been a major element.
Thanks to GeoBlogs for this PowerPoint which looks at the causes, impacts and responses of the floods and some of the (very complex) issues involved:
This report from the Association of British Insurers makes some interesting points about planning and preparation for similar floods in the future, and it's worth having a read of this Guardian article about the problems of predicting pluvial flooding.
The Environment Agency's pages about the UK floods make for interesting reading ("Currently, surface water flooding is not part of our remit. We are responsible for issuing warnings for flooding from rivers and the sea only...") - and they also contain a variety of useful links, including to the Pitt Review.
The BBC Panorama programme Keeping Britain Dry doesn't seem to be available any more, but you can read the transcript, together with a whole host of links to news articles, images and video clips.
Friday, 4 April 2008
Weather Watching...
Forecasts of an "Arctic blast" this weekend... You should now be able to explain all about that!
There are some interesting satellite image sequences on the Met Office website - looking at these, together with the pressure charts and keeping an eye on what the weather's actually like will help you to make more sense of the work we've done over the past couple of weeks.
There are some interesting satellite image sequences on the Met Office website - looking at these, together with the pressure charts and keeping an eye on what the weather's actually like will help you to make more sense of the work we've done over the past couple of weeks.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
UK braced for storms and flooding....
This is from the front page of the Met Office website at the moment, together with advice to stay away from coastal areas between today and Wednesday...
According to this article from the BBC, the worst storm of the winter is on its way... Have a look at the pressure chart forecast and see if you can work out what's going on...
According to this article from the BBC, the worst storm of the winter is on its way... Have a look at the pressure chart forecast and see if you can work out what's going on...
Friday, 29 February 2008
Climatic Hazards and Change...
Start of a new unit today...
For those of you whose copies of the spec have mysteriously disappeared from your folders, a reminder that you can download it from the AQA website - pages 19-20 are the ones you need for the content of the physical part of the AS course.
We talked about the definitions of weather (atmospheric conditions on a short-term basis) and climate (average weather conditions over an extended period of time) - make sure that you are clear about the difference between the two - and extreme weather events (tropical revolving storms, tornadoes, floods, storm surges, etc.).
We also had a look at the ways in which weather and climate affect our lives - economically, socially, environmentally...
Finally, we started to look at the vertical stratification of the atmosphere:
It is well worth you having look at The Atmosphere on the Met Office website - lots of other useful bits and pieces on there as well.
Sunday, 18 November 2007
SNOW!!
How exciting!!! This was the view from my front door an hour or so ago...
Weather warnings are in place for parts of the Midlands, Wales and southwest England. Have a look at the Met Office website to find out more and see what you make of the pressure charts.
Weather warnings are in place for parts of the Midlands, Wales and southwest England. Have a look at the Met Office website to find out more and see what you make of the pressure charts.
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