People in Yorkshire warned about flooding this winter despite recent drought

Will Lang, the Met Office’s Head of Situational Awareness, said normal winter conditions are most likely between November and January.

“It would not be unusual if the wettest and stormiest part of the season with the greatest flood risk again came at the end of the season in February as it did last winter,” he added. According to the Met Office, February was the eighth wettest on record, as 152 per cent of the average rainfall fell.It comes as hundreds of millions of pounds are being spent on bolstering defences around Yorkshire, following the devastating floods caused by Storm Eva in December 2015 and the deluges which damaged thousands of properties when a month’s worth of rainfall fell in 24 hours, in November 2019.

Around £50m was spent on the first phase of Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, which provides protection for more than 3,000 homes and 500 businesses in the city.is now well underway on the second phase, which will cost around £105m and provide a one-in-a-200-year level of protection against flooding for communities along the River Aire, between Leeds and Apperley Bridge.

More than £40m was spent on the flood alleviation scheme in Mytholmroyd, which was devastated by its highest ever recorded flood on Boxing Day in 2015, work is being done on other schemes in other areas of the Calder Valley, including Hebden Bridge and Brighouse.

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