London floods

“Where the heavy rain does fall could see between 20-30mm of rain within 1-2 hours.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-weather-flood-alerts-as-heatwave-brings-thunderstorms-b946702.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626793085-1

Apparently, in Germany they had 148l of water per square metre in 48 hours. Insane.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/16/climate-scientists-shocked-by-scale-of-floods-in-germany

If anything on that scale happened in London ...

Just had some made rain and hail in South Essex.
Roads flooded, neighbours garden is under water and the ice cubes hitting the windows were pretty hefty!

Suns out now.
Madness

(Oops, got confused and thought this was the Weather thread)

PS anyone leaving work now and cycling home, be super careful, it came down very hard and very fast.

fuck

http://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;ts=0;y=51.3778;x=-0.0728;z=9;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

follow the thunder and lightning live

swanley under a huge barrage of pings

They deserve it.

What an incredible map! Is the wave emanating the thunder moving at speed of sound?

Harsh

Nah lightspeed.

going to watch the crits at palace tonight (fingers crossed). should be a hell of a view of all of that to the east. Will post pics if I see any/don't get fried myself.

Don't hang about near the transmitter

I’m fine with the @pastry_bot wrath of Swanley; him and myself cycled through the little village of Schuld in 2012. Where it seems the enlightened inhabitants all and everybody left their houses and managed to survive the atrocious flood that destroyed this place in the Ahr valley and so many others.

That's brilliant! I've just been watching the thunder rolling in towards me as I sit in the garden, and the visuals really do arrive at the same time as the sound.

I've sacked off racing tonight cos knowing my luck, it'll piss down after 2 laps and be cancelled.

which means of course it will now stay dry...

Market Harborough's getting blasted.

Think a lot of people did this. Looked like a relatively relaxed group ride (i've never raced) with the smaller turn out.....

We went out into Kent last night, and Layhams was effectively a river as we rode up it. Never seen anything quite like it in this country.

Couldn’t believe that Palace happened last night when I found out this morning.

Apparently the E12 race was pretty damn hard...

Featherbed Lane cos #FuckLayhams

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Think it was proper eye of the storm stuff. Loads of people commuting from different bits of London came in drenched.

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Here's an article on gloomy forecasts for the whole of Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/catastrophic-floods-could-hit-europe-far-more-often-study-finds

Not that anything significant will really change. You'd have to stop the use of fossil fuels almost completely, prohibit most private car travel, ban the vast majority of flying, open up paved-over ground, outlaw animal husbandry and fishing, hugely reduce the use of computers, and rewild on a massive scale to get even remotely close to reversing the trend. Instead, there will be a bit of fig-leaf action that will lead absolutely nowhere.

Terrifying flooding in Zhengzhou in China. I don't want to post all sorts of things in this thread that are not London, but I thought this was relevant because of the flooding on the Tube there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/21/passengers-tell-of-horror-chinese-subway-floods-zhengzhou

A year’s worth of rain – 640mm (25.2in) – fell in three days. It broke daily and hourly records and government officials said it was a one-in-1,000-year event. The city’s weather bureau said more than 552mm of rain had fallen between 7pm on Monday and 7pm on Tuesday, including 202mm between 4pm and 5pm on Tuesday.

Terrifying

That is terrifying trapped in a tube carriage with water levels rising. Horrible.