Cumbria Flooding

Case Study: UK Floods
Cumbria
November 2009
Source: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/The-Papers---Newspaper-Front-Pages-

Key Questions
Where
did the floods happen?
did they happen?
did they occur?
impacts did the floods have?
was involved?
When
Why
What
Who

Where?
Cumbria

Where?

3. Warm ‘Conveyor’ stuck over Cumbria for 34 hours. Steady downpour maintained.
Why?
2. Warm air rises over the Cumbrian mountains, cools and condenses as heavy rain.
1. A 'conveyor' of warm, very moist sub-tropical air was carried towards Britain from south of the Azores.
4. Heavy rain enters region’s rivers.
5. Significant flooding at confluences of rivers in Cockermouth.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Record rainfall
316mm in 24 hrs!
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Empathising

Empathising
Create a thought bubble about what must have been going on in the mind of one of the victims of the floods.
How might you have coped in their situation?
William Wordsworth
1770-1860
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Cumbria Flooding

by Liz Smith on Nov 30, 2009

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