UK Floods – JBA Flood Maps on Landmark Labs
New flood data provided by JBA Risk Management is now included on digital maps at Landmark Labs. Currently there is a sample dataset available for the town of Goring-by-Sea in…
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Floods and flooding in the United Kingdom
How the 2013 Storm Surge Changed England’s Eastern Coastline
In December 2013, parts of the UK experienced the biggest storm surge in 60 years. The East Anglian coastline was one of the hardest hit. Many may remember photos of…
2014 On Track for Hottest Year on Record as Higher Sea Temperatures Increase Flooding
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is…
UK Floods – List of Flood Defence Projects Announced
In a flurry of press releases sent out yesterday 02 December 2014, the UK Environment Agency announced a list of flood defence projects for England and Wales as part of…
UK Floods – Improved Flood Defences in Hull
After the announcement of improved flood alerts for residents of Hull, England, the Environment agency has also said that work on a £6.5 million ($10.2 million) project to improve flood…
UK Floods – Improved Flood warning System for Hull
The UK’s Environment Agency has developed the new system to provide quicker and more specific warnings to the public when they are at risk from river or coastal flooding using…
Improved Flood Warnings for South West England
Learning some of the lessons of the winter floods of 2013 and 2014, the UK’s Environment Agency has announced it has made significant improvements to its flood warning service for…
Somerset Levels Dredging Completed
The dredging of an 8km stretch of the Rivers Parrett and Tone in Somerset has now been completed. The dredging was one of the first actions of the 20 year…
UK National Flood Action Campaign – “Floods destroy – be prepared”
After the seemingly endless flooding of last winter, the UK Environment Agency has launched a 2 week national flood action campaign entitled ‘Floods destroy – be prepared’. The campaign is…
UK and Germany Storm Surge After Hurricane Gonzalo
Hurricane Gonzalo, or at least what is left of it, has caused storm surges and coastal flooding in parts of northern Europe over the last few days. Gonzalo has left…
Insurers say UK Needs Additional £500 million for Flood Defences
Just 2 weeks after the Lib Dems called for increased spending on flood control in the UK, earlier this week was the turn of the insurance industry. The Association of…
UK Floods – Lower Tame Flood Scheme
A large part of the flood protection project in Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK, has now been completed. The Lower Tame flood risk management scheme is made of of 4 parts. The…
UK’s Biggest Coastal Flood Management Scheme
UK’s biggest ever coastal realignment scheme at Steart, a joint project between WWT and Environment Agency, has been completed. The construction of Steart Marshes means the Environment Agency can continue…
Oxford’s Year of Weather Extremes
Below is a report by Alex Kirby of Climate News Network, setting out the research done by the Radcliffe Meteorological Station, based at Oxford University’s Green Templeton College and maintained…
UK Floods – Lib Dems Call for Increase in Flood Defence Spending
During their annual party conference, the Liberal Democrats in the UK backed a series of measures to deal with the increased flood risk faced by the country. The measures include:…
Chesil Beach Flood Defences
Emergency flood defence repair work to damage caused this year by a succession of winters storms on Chesil Beach in Portland, Dorset, was completed on 2 October 2014 by the…
