Martin Brown wrote:

On 15/08/2012 20:16, Norman wrote:
I see that there is still a yellow warning for heavy rain in force for the
North Midlands and the whole of the North of England, valid until midnight.
The warning was re-issued at 1707 this evening. It makes no sense. A glance
at the radar shows that the rain has already cleared all but the extreme NE
of England. It seems that the warning system doesn't include provision for
explicit cancellation of a warning or, if it does include such provision, it
isn't used. A warning for heavy rain this evening isn't particularly
helpful to Joe Public in this part of the country.

Do you think northerners don't deserve weather warnings or something?

The worst of the storm hit Teesside not long after 6pm and lasted for about
an hour - long enough to give a localised surface water flash flooding. About
an inch of rain fell driven with extreme force by strong gusts of wind enough
that water was bouncing out of my basic rain gauge and being lost. Suprised
there are not more trees down.

We had a Renault Espace with a blown engine bobbing up and down in the local
car trap on Tuesday last week. Serious rain is a problem here.

Main problem is with visibility and standing water on the trunk roads in
these sorts of conditions. They were right to issue the warning.

Regards,
Martin Brown


You miss my point, Martin. Most certainly, the warning was justified and the
severe weather did occur. The point I was making was that the warning was
allowed to remain in force for hours after the severe weather had moved out of
the area. The rain ceased here before 1700 BST yet the warning was re-issued at
1707 BST valid till 2359. We had a fine clear evening but with a yellow warning
for rain in force. The issue/cancellation of warnings didn't keep pace with the
way the weather situation was developing. It was a situation in which frequent
updating of the warnings would have been much more appropriate than the rather
static way in which they are actually presented.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.