John Rodder
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first heard Dec 2012
last heard Dec 2012
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My name is John Rodder.
I'm a hydrologist.
It's been remarkable, 2012, and the first months of the year saw the drought, which had continued from 2010 onwards.
And it was a drought, a remarkable drought, covering quite a lot of the country.
And by March, it has intensified and was covering much of the southern half of the UK.
And then, of course,
Host pipe bans were introduced on the 5th of April across much of southern England.
And then within days then, it started to rain.
And it was an absolute deluge which turned the summer into the wettest for 100 years.
The rainfall for the month of April was 229% of average, which is an enormous amount of water.
It was 134 millimetres.
And floods replaced the drought
And in some places, well, there was even a hosepipe ban still on.
It was remarkable.
Turning back to the end of March, I estimated at that time there was a shortfall in the rainfall across the country of about 120 millimetres.
That was what was needed to bring us up to the sort of average figure for the time of year.
But in fact, the amount of rain in April and the succeeding months totaled about 600 millimetres.
So...
The shortfall of 120 was readily and rapidly made up by these large amounts of rain.
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