Can anyone verify the following statement :-

"Higher temperatures are also likely to reduce snowmelt in spring, which can
cause floods"

This was contained within a recent report from the Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology on the UK summer floods of 2007 - reported by Richard Black,
Environment Correspondent on the BBC News website of 11 March 2008.

Peter J

"Peter" wrote in message
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Can anyone verify the following statement :-

"Higher temperatures are also likely to reduce snowmelt in spring, which
can cause floods"

This was contained within a recent report from the Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology on the UK summer floods of 2007 - reported by Richard Black,
Environment Correspondent on the BBC News website of 11 March 2008.

Peter J

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It doesn't, but is it meant to say "Higher temperatures (in winter) are also
likely to reduce snowmelt in Spring (less snow to melt?), which can cause
floods."
Either that or "reduce" should have been"increase" ?
Dave

On Mar 11, 8:31 am, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Peter" wrote in message

... Can anyone verify the following statement :-

"Higher temperatures are also likely to reduce snowmelt in spring, which
can cause floods"

This was contained within a recent report from the Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology on the UK summer floods of 2007 - reported by Richard Black,
Environment Correspondent on the BBC News website of 11 March 2008.

Peter J

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It doesn't, but is it meant to say "Higher temperatures (in winter) are also
likely to reduce snowmelt in Spring (less snow to melt?), which can cause
floods."
Either that or "reduce" should have been"increase" ?
Dave

I think it should read "Higher temperatures are also likely to reduce
snowmelt in spring. Snowmet in spring can cause floods."

In article ,
Peter writes:
Can anyone verify the following statement :-

"Higher temperatures are also likely to reduce snowmelt in spring, which can
cause floods"

This was contained within a recent report from the Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology on the UK summer floods of 2007 - reported by Richard Black,
Environment Correspondent on the BBC News website of 11 March 2008.

Presumably they mean "higher temperatures in winter". But even in the
past I think it's been very rare for there to be enough snow melting
quickly enough for it to make a major contribution to flooding. It may
be more frequent in northern England and in Scotland, but from the
Midlands southward has there been a major event of that nature more
recently than March, 1947?
--
John Hall
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but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
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