Climate change

[Bluenose]

The Thames - Big freeze of 1963 - not since then I think.

One of the few vivid memories I have as a child in the UK before we migrated to Aus, is of standing on the Thames during the '63 freeze and looking at all the barges that had been frozen in unexpectedly.  My father would not let me walk out to the middle of the river where there were some people having a bonfire on the ice, much to my regret at the time and I have never forgiven him. 


Sibling Bluenose

[Swatopluk]

There were a few occasions when the whole Baltic Sea froze over (the top layers are more or less fresh water). Don't know when this happened last.

[Griffin NoName]

New Thames barrier could be built. At last a glimmer of hope London might not be submerged without my having to write to my MP about it.

[Swatopluk]

It will also serve to keep some water in in sommer, I guess

[Griffin NoName]

It will also serve to keep some water in in sommer, I guess

Actually, I still have misgivings. The barrier(s) are downstream and prevent tidal influx overwhelming London. However the flooding this year was working it's way downstream from the source, swept through Oxfordshire and Berkshire and got as far as the stretch before mine. "They" don't seem to have noticed that rivers are duo-directional and letting more water out might be needed too

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

"They" never seem to notice simple things like that until it hits them in the face.

We had a freeze here this last winter. I live in a Mediterranean climate, and normally, we might get a little bit of frost, maybe twice a year. We nineteen straight days of hard frost. We normally warm up before April, it's been mid to late April these last two years, which is nice, but not good for the farms.

[Swatopluk]

It will also serve to keep some water in in sommer, I guess

Actually, I still have misgivings. The barrier(s) are downstream and prevent tidal influx overwhelming London. However the flooding this year was working it's way downstream from the source, swept through Oxfordshire and Berkshire and got as far as the stretch before mine. "They" don't seem to have noticed that rivers are duo-directional and letting more water out might be needed too

Has the Thames be straightened too? Over here that aggravated the problems with e.g. the Rhine or the Oder.

[Griffin NoName]

If it has been straightened, it wasn't very successful

[Alpaca]

Pfft. Thames. Doesn't compare to the mighty surges of the raging Hillsborough!

Oh, wait. Our river is pathetic.

[Sibling Chatty]

We just have The Arms of God River...

El Brazos de Dios, aka the Brazos River. Which feeds the lake. This one, that's MUCH bigger than the town.

http://www.texassportfishing.com/Region_2/Lake_Somerville.htm