Match postponed - climate change

[turnbull for england]

Interesting piece from Zurich, unfortunately Rovers get a mention  https://www.zurich.co.uk/media-centre/football-and-climate-change

[DearneValleyRover]

Just have to wear a raincoat and think we are in Wales

[ForsolongaRover]

When I was a boy the subsurface of much of the land about half a mile west of Ellers Drive, Stoops Road etc in Bessacarr where a lot of railway lines converge was basically water. Much of it is now occupied by housing. If you jumped up and down, the ground and the small trees on it would move. It was almost like a trampoline. I’ve never experienced anything like it anywhere else. What was odd was that there were no watercourses, it was all underground. It was a classic “Carr”.

I don’t know much about recent history, whether there has been any flooding in that vicinity, but you wonder whether this has been fully researched with due regard to local drainage systems or just based on topography, the fact that the Doncaster area is barely above sea level. As far as I am aware, local flooding has always been associated with areas bordering the major watercourses, the River Don and the South Yorkshire Navigation canal.

Insurance companies, one of which is the source of this “research”, are more inclined to load premiums on general information rather than being keen on really specific analysis of risk, so I am sceptical. Perhaps someone with local knowledge can elucidate?
 
Do the club’s own insurers load the present premiums based on this risk?

[roversdude]

The drainage seems excellent and has coped with everything thus far

[Reg of the Rovers]

I'd always assumed average rainfall was higher in the North-West due to Pennines, yet these are all Easterly teams with 'precipitation hazard'. I've never known us in recent history to have a waterlogged pitch, although I have seen Hillsborough under about 4 feet of water!

[ss1953]

Funny how my old geography lessons said that Donny was in a rain shadow area after the North Westerly wet winds dumped it all on Manchester then the Pennines.

Donny's problem is that it's so low in relation to sea level.

[selby]

  If anyone at Zurich reads this I will have a bet with them that more games are lost to frost and ice at Doncaster Rovers than any floods.

[ForsolongaRover]

Funny how my old geography lessons said that Donny was in a rain shadow area after the North Westerly wet winds dumped it all on Manchester then the Pennines.

Donny's problem is that it's so low in relation to sea level.

Exactly, but the flooding risk is surely greater where you've got an existing water course which overflows as has happened on the north/north western side of town. The West-East rain shadow still restricts rainfall generally more or less all the way down the eastern side of the country from York southwards. Flooding is surely at greatest risk when rivers cannot cope with the run-off from higher ground which is the Pennines in the case of the Don. I just can't remember there being any streams even, to the south-east of Bawtry Road.