Dorian Speakman" "dorian wrote:
Met Office have put out a warning of possible flooding for later this
week, and looking at the surface chart there seems some similarity
with the Easter 1998 floods for Northampton - converging fronts lying
east to west
though wet conditions previous to the downpours occured there.

Remember that well, the journey home from Bedford to Northampton took about
2 1/2 hours as each route I went down seemed blocked. At the time I lived
opposite an area that's now been built on.... it was a couple of feet under
the water back then.....