Sky News Headline; says: As hundreds of people spend the night in an emergency shelter in Oxford, there are fears of more flooding in the city and further along the Thames. Much of west Oxford was engulfed after tributaries to the Thames burst their banks and evacuated residents have been sent to Oxford United's Kassam Stadium. There are severe flood warnings in place for Oxford and Abingdon, and the Thameside towns of Wallingford and Henley have been warned to be prepared. Pangbourne, Purley and Mapledurham were also preparing for floods, as were Reading and Caversham.The flood peak is forecast to reach Marlow, Cookham, Datchet, Wraysbury, Staines, Laleham and Shepperton later in the week but with only limited flooding. Windsor, Eton and Maidenhead will be protected from the flood waters by the Jubilee and Cookham flood defences, said the Environment Agency.
I must dig my A level Geography notes out on 'the gulf stream' sometime. It appears there is something sadly wrong with its functioning
