Yuppers Clint, Manchester and The Greater Manchester area are sett in the Cheshire Plains Basin and surrounded by The Pennines and hills of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wales. So the moisture picked up from the Atlantic/Irish Sea then has to climb out the plains and dump as rain on the surrounding hills etc. that gives up plent…
Yuppers Clint, Manchester and The Greater Manchester area are sett in the Cheshire Plains Basin and surrounded by The Pennines and hills of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wales. So the moisture picked up from the Atlantic/Irish Sea then has to climb out the plains and dump as rain on the surrounding hills etc. that gives up plenty of rain and the runn off water flows down and we can easily flood if everywhere is already waterlogged. Prolonged heat/waves can dry out the peat ready to be a pyromaniacs heaven as well as discarded portable BBQ's, cigarette, matches and broken glass. I did see a news item that someone had been arrested in CA for allegedly starting one of the fires (harks back to your Keep Calm posting 😏 Enough now, I'm sounding like your teacher from school did.
You're a regular geographer and meteorologist, Doug! Thanks for the education. Sadly, I'm almost certain the guy is more than a suspect. Glad they caught him, but there are likely many others. With the whipping winds that happened...up to 100mph I hear days/nights ago...almost anything can set an entire neighborhood on fire. More winds expected next week. So everyone's recharging their batteries just in case there's another wave of this. My heart goes out to all who lost so much...and the exhausted firefighters and first responders who continue to get Mother Nature to take a chill pill. So much loss. So much to process.
Yuppers Clint, Manchester and The Greater Manchester area are sett in the Cheshire Plains Basin and surrounded by The Pennines and hills of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wales. So the moisture picked up from the Atlantic/Irish Sea then has to climb out the plains and dump as rain on the surrounding hills etc. that gives up plenty of rain and the runn off water flows down and we can easily flood if everywhere is already waterlogged. Prolonged heat/waves can dry out the peat ready to be a pyromaniacs heaven as well as discarded portable BBQ's, cigarette, matches and broken glass. I did see a news item that someone had been arrested in CA for allegedly starting one of the fires (harks back to your Keep Calm posting 😏 Enough now, I'm sounding like your teacher from school did.
You're a regular geographer and meteorologist, Doug! Thanks for the education. Sadly, I'm almost certain the guy is more than a suspect. Glad they caught him, but there are likely many others. With the whipping winds that happened...up to 100mph I hear days/nights ago...almost anything can set an entire neighborhood on fire. More winds expected next week. So everyone's recharging their batteries just in case there's another wave of this. My heart goes out to all who lost so much...and the exhausted firefighters and first responders who continue to get Mother Nature to take a chill pill. So much loss. So much to process.