The rain shower in the UK all last week, became record for more than two-centuries history of weather supervision over the United Kingdom, writes newspaper Guardian.
Bickering of rain have more than twice exceeded seasonal average indices. From May to July, 2007 at the island have spilled 382,4 millimeters of rainwater. The previous record has been established in 1789 when the quantity of precipitation has reached 349,1 millimeters.
For the past three months in Gloucestershire and the nearby counties precipitation have made 320 percent of standard precipitation. The bad weather has increased for three percent loading to a national power supply system of the UK .
Rains have caused flooding in 32 counties of the UK - from Devon up to Yorkshire. The water level has exceeded record parameters of 1914 , more than at 25 millimeters.
As Peter Stott , climatologist of British metrology center ,has declared rains of such intensity will be more and more frequent phenomenon on islands in the next two hundred years, because of global climatic changes. Thus each rain will be more intensive as the heated atmosphere can carry on more waters. English weather becomes similar to Japanese, and in the south of the UK will be established the climate similar to the continental Europe. By the end of XXI century, by forecasts of climatologist, rise in temperature in region will make from 2 to 8 degrees of Celsius. Meteorologists predict, that bad weather will hold on the British isles to the beginning of August, and in a southeast of the country still will spill more than 25 millimeters of rainwater.
The British emergency services on Wednesday, July, 25th, evacuated inhabitants of many houses in university grounds Oxford. The river Thames has overflow banks, which has begun as a result of the flooding ,the strongest for last 60 years in the UK. The water level raised during all night. According to police, the population of 250 houses is evacuated, people are sited in football stadium of Oxford. Partially is damaged electric devices, however ,as a whole, electro supply is not broken. Inhabitants of the cities located next to coast of The Thames, expect, that during day water can rise still over. In the Gloucestershire a county which most has suffered from flooding, up to 350 thousand person on the next two weeks have remained without water supply. The government has promised to give , as the help to the suffered areas 10 million £ in adding to 14 million £, in the beginning declared by prime minister Gordon Brown.
In Walham , area in the West of London, 500 thousand person have remained without light because of that water has approached too close to local electro substation, and that has appeared under threat of flooding. The city Tewkesbury has transformed to island, water has not reached only the abbey (of XII century) located on a height. There are human victims: one man was lost in the flooded basement, one teenager is registered as the missing person.
One of the largest power stations in the UK almost has not appeared flooded as a result of the flood of the river Severn caused by incessant rains.
According to the British authorities, the water level has stopped for a few centimeters up to a critical position. Saving services continue to pump out water, however attributes of that flooding will go on downturn, is not observed yet.
The substation in Walham provides with an electricity almost half million homes in Gloucestershire and in the south of the Wales.
In the central and southern England as a result of overflow of The Severn and The Avon some thousand houses are already flooded. If rains will proceed, The Thames also will overflow banks, and some areas of London and counties adjacent to capital will be flooded. As a result of flooding the essential damage is caused to road and rail network, and insurers estimate cost of insurance payments at a point of two millions £.
Meanwhile British, in a panic, makes reserve of potable water, food supplies and gasoline, and that has led to happening of deficiency of supplies in some settlements.