It was the night of 24 November 2023. The first thing he heard, as he lay rigid with anxiety in his seaside home in Norfolk, was a ‘ringing sound’ that he worked out was a section of the concrete road between his house and the cliff edge being snapped off – followed by ‘an extraordinary sound like a schluuuup’.
As flooding in the UK has become a regular problem because of harsh storms caused by climate change, a climate change combat flood centre has been launched to train next-generation experts in
While rain this time of year isn’t unusual, it’s the intensity of the downpour that has set off alarm bells among experts. They suggest a combination of factors has led to the deluge in the countries. Here is a look.