This may be of interest.
A good read is the Norfolk and Suffolk Weather Book which charts the vagaries of our weather across the decades. The popular view is that extreme weather events, such as those which some parts of the county experiences yesterday, are something new. When in fact they are nothing of the sort. Norwich has been flooded on more than one occasion. The 1912 flooding probably being the most significant. Back in 1843 the storm was so fierce that hail stones broke 700 panes of glass in a factory at Lakenham. In 1888 it snowed in July and was so mild in the December that roses were in flower, primroses were in abundance and strawberries were being picked on Christmas Day. Before we all go into panic mode history shows that coastal and fluvial flooding and coastal erosion have always been with us. It`s just that we now live in a world driven by social media and wall to wall news coverage that events, that we would have normally taken in our stride, are being given more significance than they deserve.Statistics: Posted by wendy — 28 Jun 2014, 17:36
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