So here we are on Goodwins caravan park , Trunch Lane, Chapel, booked in for 2 weeks with the Touring Caravan Club. Lovely site but theres one problem , its p in it down and b cold , now the power's just gone off , oh how i love caravaning!!!!
Summer !!!!!!!!
- Thread starter GrahamDerby
- Start date
If you make the choice to caravan in the wastelands and frozen areas north of Watford what can you really expect
We're basking in glorious sunshine and have been all week here in the righeous south where the sun nearly always shines
We've been gardning and weeding around the caravan and cutting our garden hedges for the past few days and topping up our sun tans
We're basking in glorious sunshine and have been all week here in the righeous south where the sun nearly always shines
its been qite nice here in south Wales , some nights have felt a bit cold , but today i am outside with just my shorts on sunbathing , forecast looks grim for Sunday though
The sun is shining in Scotland today but there is still a chill in the air. Still got the tan from our week in the Midlands though.
Drove home last night along the M5 to Wiltshire. Barely 8 degs, torrential rain, loads of spray and poor vision. And the house was freezing!
Know that feeling DD travelled up from Cornwall on Saturday although sunny temp plummeted!!! Want to go back as its too cold up here lol!!!
Parksy
Moderator
How did we get from winning the Battle of Britain and workers clocking in as normal the day after their families had been wiped out in the blitz to wimpish weather warnings?
If developers hadn't built housing estates on the flood plains of rivers there wouldn't be so many floods, but as usual the Biased Broadcasting Corporation will try to tell us that the sky has all gone wrong and it's all our fault and we will be saved only by paying exhorbitant green taxes and highway robbery rates of fuel duty because climate change is all man made in Britain by us.
It makes me seethe!
If developers hadn't built housing estates on the flood plains of rivers there wouldn't be so many floods, but as usual the Biased Broadcasting Corporation will try to tell us that the sky has all gone wrong and it's all our fault and we will be saved only by paying exhorbitant green taxes and highway robbery rates of fuel duty because climate change is all man made in Britain by us.
It makes me seethe!
Parksy said:How did we get from winning the Battle of Britain and workers clocking in as normal the day after their families had been wiped out in the blitz to wimpish weather warnings?
If developers hadn't built housing estates on the flood plains of rivers there wouldn't be so many floods, but as usual the Biased Broadcasting Corporation will try to tell us that the sky has all gone wrong and it's all our fault and we will be saved only by paying exhorbitant green taxes and highway robbery rates of fuel duty because climate change is all man made in Britain by us.
It makes me seethe!
I didn't notice them taxing Iceland for the pollution caused by their volcano? If anything that has probably upset the weatehr rather than the myth about cars etc.
The eruption in Eyjafjallajökull (glacier of Eyjafjöll) in 2010 was notable because the volcanic ash plumehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_column disrupted air travel in northern Europe for several weeks; however, Eyjafjallajökull is a minor volcano in
Icelandic terms. In the past, eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull have been
followed by eruption of the larger volcano Katlahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla_volcano, but following the 2010 eruption no signs of an imminent eruption of Katla were seen.
The eruption, in May 2011, at Grimsvotn under the Vatnajokull glacier sent thousands of tonnes of ash into the sky in a few days,
raising concerns of a repeat of the travel chaos seen across northern
Europe.
Seems Iceland are polluting the air far more than the combined countries of Europe.
It was only the other month when a news crew went to interview a theme park owner about the state of the weather & how takings had been down due to the awful summer weather.
The owner put the blame on smart phone weather apps,
at one time you would just have a look at the sky & set off for the day irrespective of if it rained or not, nowadays everybody seems to check things out before they set off ( I use two of the weather apps )
they are good if you want to decide when to take the awning down & pack it away nice & dry
http://uk.weather.com/partners-Mobile/Apps
The owner put the blame on smart phone weather apps,
http://uk.weather.com/partners-Mobile/Apps
make me seethe too parksy? wait all year for your two weeks holiday that you have to have booked 12mths in advance only to get there and find a quagmire of a site and endless patter of rain on the van roof, only to come home and find the sun shines on the day you return to work!!!Parksy said:How did we get from winning the Battle of Britain and workers clocking in as normal the day after their families had been wiped out in the blitz to wimpish weather warnings?
If developers hadn't built housing estates on the flood plains of rivers there wouldn't be so many floods, but as usual the Biased Broadcasting Corporation will try to tell us that the sky has all gone wrong and it's all our fault and we will be saved only by paying exhorbitant green taxes and highway robbery rates of fuel duty because climate change is all man made in Britain by us.
It makes me seethe!
if things carry on this way it might be prudent to get shot of the van and buy another boat.
Parksy
Moderator
Now that you mention it Colin, the sun is always beating down when we are packing up to go home
I wonder if it's worth investing in a caraboat?
I wonder if it's worth investing in a caraboat?
Absolute nonsense this global warming thing, Okay so we may have accelerated things a little but we're just on the natural cycle of hot and cold that this planet has been through for millions of years. Yes at some point we'll die out but the only difference between us and the dinosaurs is we know it's happening. Hey ho that's life.
Hi all i`m just trying to plan out some future trips in van can someone tell me if we are going to the next ice age or tropical heat so i can pack long john`s or flip flops.
happy vanning
happy vanning
We've had local flooding issues (only a few inches and a couple of very old houses with threshold and floor level same level as garden level) and we've had news letters from the council warning home owners about keeping their drainage ditches on their properties clear and the perils of global warming.
We recently found out after some digging around that a lot of properties in the area were bordered by large drainage ditches until the 50's and 60's when the local council put small drainage pipes in them and then filled them in and put pavements on top. Ditches that remained were cleared every year by the local council work crews once or twice until about 1987 / 88 but that then stopped and the council gave up their responsibilty for the ditches. Some small housing estates that were built in the 60's and 70's never had soak aways put in. Water from the guttering of the numerous new builds were run in to underground pipes that go nowhere. Somebody in the council building control department never did their job, or one neighbour suggested they may even have turned a blind eye for on reason or another
But global warming is now the problem we're told
How many other areas have flood issues due to lack of planning department foresight or slap dash controls over building practices?
Summer has long gone. Rain due again today, and plenty of it!
We recently found out after some digging around that a lot of properties in the area were bordered by large drainage ditches until the 50's and 60's when the local council put small drainage pipes in them and then filled them in and put pavements on top. Ditches that remained were cleared every year by the local council work crews once or twice until about 1987 / 88 but that then stopped and the council gave up their responsibilty for the ditches. Some small housing estates that were built in the 60's and 70's never had soak aways put in. Water from the guttering of the numerous new builds were run in to underground pipes that go nowhere. Somebody in the council building control department never did their job, or one neighbour suggested they may even have turned a blind eye for on reason or another
But global warming is now the problem we're told
Summer has long gone. Rain due again today, and plenty of it!
hi, The reason there is so much fooding (we have had some locally) is because the ground is so wet and there is nowhere for it to go simple as that, it could be because of local issues like drains or houses built on natural flood areas or just the plain fact that most of the rain now goes straight down the drains and into the rivers /streams that cannot hold so much water, this exasibates the problems futher down stream, this must be true as the more rain we get the more flooding there is. when it dries up a bit and the ground dries out the problem dissapears even if there is a deluge later on,
question is why so much rain now and why was it so dry over the winter last couple of years ??? well it's down to the gulf stream over the last 3 years it has moved south between us and the channel so now we are north of it instead of south. this puts us within the anti cyclones of the artic and not as usual the cyclones of the south , during the summer (what there has been) all the hot air from europe .
and no I dont mean the EU. has been trapped south of the channel. while we have been getting the colder damp air form the north,
this will continue for as long as the gulf stream stays where it is, so get used to it,
the main question though is why the change, well thats down to the melting ice caps sending colder water down to the gulf of Mexico where the gulf stream starts and it has the effect of redirecting it closer to the equater the more cold water the futher south it goes, the more rain we get, in the winter it has the opposite effect as it the nothern air is colder than the south and contains less moisture as most of this falls as snow, so the winters are drier,
what is causing the the ice caps to melt is another question but they are, as no one could have forseen this 40years ago I doubt whether planning rules would have altered so as to accomodate the increased rain fall many cities could have benifitted from the building of storm drains but its too late now,
are our problems man made of course they are, one way or the other .
question is why so much rain now and why was it so dry over the winter last couple of years ??? well it's down to the gulf stream over the last 3 years it has moved south between us and the channel so now we are north of it instead of south. this puts us within the anti cyclones of the artic and not as usual the cyclones of the south , during the summer (what there has been) all the hot air from europe .
and no I dont mean the EU. has been trapped south of the channel. while we have been getting the colder damp air form the north,
this will continue for as long as the gulf stream stays where it is, so get used to it,
the main question though is why the change, well thats down to the melting ice caps sending colder water down to the gulf of Mexico where the gulf stream starts and it has the effect of redirecting it closer to the equater the more cold water the futher south it goes, the more rain we get, in the winter it has the opposite effect as it the nothern air is colder than the south and contains less moisture as most of this falls as snow, so the winters are drier,
what is causing the the ice caps to melt is another question but they are, as no one could have forseen this 40years ago I doubt whether planning rules would have altered so as to accomodate the increased rain fall many cities could have benifitted from the building of storm drains but its too late now,
are our problems man made of course they are, one way or the other .
You don't need to be a brain surgeon or planning master mind to work out that 20 + acres of nursery land that slowly soaks up rain fall and feeds local streams and is kept workable due to drainage ditches is going to end up as very wet land with flooding issues when built on.
How does anyone think rain water will get soaked up with the foundations for roads, homes and building and the concentration of rainfall from rooves and hard surfacing.
Lack of thought, common sense and greed have more to answer for than regular historic changes in weather patterns or jet stream gobbledegook and global warming hype
How does anyone think rain water will get soaked up with the foundations for roads, homes and building and the concentration of rainfall from rooves and hard surfacing.
Lack of thought, common sense and greed have more to answer for than regular historic changes in weather patterns or jet stream gobbledegook and global warming hype
that only applies to the type of rainfall not the ammout of rain fall, all I know is my mate maurice (the famer) has a 2 acre lake at the btm of the farm that is supposed to be a couple of fields of winter veg , and that in 70odd years that he and his father before him have farmed the land it has never flooded before,Gybe said:You don't need to be a brain surgeon or planning master mind to work out that 20 + acres of nursery land that slowly soaks up rain fall and feeds local streams and is kept workable due to drainage ditches is going to end up as very wet land with flooding issues when built on.
How does anyone think rain water will get soaked up with the foundations for roads, homes and building and the concentration of rainfall from rooves and hard surfacing.
Lack of thought, common sense and greed have more to answer for than regular historic changes in weather patterns or jet stream gobbledegook and global warming hype
come to think of it the last time I was there (sunday) I can't actually remember seeing any major roads, housing estates,or concrete jungles any where on his land or within 5 miles of it, maybe it's just the guttering on the farmhouse and barn that caused it to flood
I tell him it's his fault when I see him next weekend.
Was he there a hundred, two hundred or a thousand years ago? Weather changes and scientific research show that there have been regular changes in weather patterns. Areas that are now subjected to ice and snow have been very wet and tropical in the past at various times and vice versa
Developments areas, road building or changes to water ways and drainage many miles away may cause an undeveloped area to flood!
Developments areas, road building or changes to water ways and drainage many miles away may cause an undeveloped area to flood!
It's been like this since the begining of time, we can't control it, so you have to make the best of what we get, anyway snow will be on the way soon, this is the forcast for the Atlantic Jets Stream for next weekend with the wind coming via Iceland....
south wales can be realy good , but weve been there in some real gales, we have 2 sons that live near saundersfoot an go as often as we can.
Facebook
Twitter