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This even more just in - the weather thread
Barmymoo:
The temperature today is much cooler than it was earlier this week - getting down to 4c tonight, which is far warmer than we've had but still not what I'd call warm. My flat faces north and never gets any sun. And the central heating? Yeah, that broke. I wouldn't say I'm cold but chilly wouldn't be inaccurate. Why did this not happen when it was 20c and I had to have the window open?
Redball:
OK, I'll bring flannel PJs. As well as the longjohns.
Barmymoo:
Ugh weather. I got soaked to the skin cycling home - so much so that I had a shower as soon as I got in and am about to throw all my clothes in the washing machine. I nearly had to get off my bike and push at one point because I thought I was going to be blown into the canal. Welcome to England, Bob. Someone is trying to drown it.
Redball:
I had a similar thought on the bus: How much of the British Isles will be affected by rising sea levels.
pwhodges:
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/netherlands.shtml
With a 7m rise, the biggest effect would be that The Wash would stretch inland almost to Cambridge. Central London near the Thames would be flooded, especially on the South side of the river, and extensively through the East End.
I heard that the Thames Barrier (a closable dam in the Thames Estuary designed to prevent tidal surges from the North Sea reaching London) has problems because there isn't enough time for maintenance. It was designed (in the 70s, I think) to be closed a handful of times a year, but has been operated over 50 times in the past couple of months.
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