On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 at 12:30:03, Dave Liquorice
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 09:38:08 +0100, Col wrote:

This isn't unprecedended or even exceptional, but it certainly is
unusual. You don't get flooding like that in most British summer
months.

When did half of Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury etc disappear under
water?

A slight exaggeration...

Thought that was in the British summer months.

The main flood was in July, but in fact there'd also been smaller floods
in the previous month.

The river Chelt had not flooded the centre of town since 1979, but that
summer it did so twice in 6 weeks!
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)