The northeast of the capital, London, and even the city center were affected by heavy rains, flooding everywhere.
A series of heavy rains hit northeastern London in the United Kingdom and caused large areas of flooding. Some subway stations and highways need to be closed due to the disaster. At least two emergency rooms of hospitals were affected. Public appeals for help people to be transferred to other hospitals.
The London Fire Brigade (London Fire Brigade) stated that on Sunday (July 25) they received about 300 alarm calls in just a few hours, mainly involving flooding of the basement and roads. There is currently no news that the flood caused casualties.
At the time of the flooding, senior officials from 51 countries around the world are going online or in person to London to participate in a two-day meeting to draw up a negotiation framework for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26) to be held in November this year.
Road becomes canal
Under heavy rains, flooding occurred in many areas of the British capital, with the northeast being the most serious. In a large shopping mall in the town of Stratford where the main stadium of the London Olympics was located in 2012, managers and shopkeepers were busy cleaning up stagnant water.
Walthamstow bus passenger Chris Date photographed the road flooding the sidewalk. He described to the BBC: “That’s a canal, not a road.”
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The “canal” in the eyes of bus passenger Chris Date.
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Flooding mainly occurred in the northeast, but St. James’s Park in the city centre has the highest rainfall in all of London.
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In the Nine Elms district of London, a motorcycle driver drove across the road and flooded.
At least eight subway stations and one London Overground station were closed due to flooding, crossing the Blackwall Tunnel, the main road into the city, the A12 highway and the North Circular. Some road sections will also be closed.
The Transport for London (Transport for London) urged the public to pay attention to official road conditions. The Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary urged drivers not to move forward if they encounter water in the road ahead.
St James’s Park in central London recorded 41.6 millimetres of rain on Sunday, making it the “wetest” place in the country.
Steven Keates, a meteorologist at the British Meteorological Service, said that the rainstorm was caused by the recent heat wave in the surrounding area when the air was rising and cooling down with other air currents. Weather forecasters generally called for travelers preparing for summer vacation to guard against floods, Storms and strong winds.
The Environment Agency issued flood warnings to at least three areas in Greater London and three groups of areas in southern England, and 19 areas issued minor flooding warnings.
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Residents in Woodford, northeast London, set up temporary waterproof gates in front of their homes.
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Two ladies huddled under an umbrella on Parliament Square in Westminster Abbey, London.
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A cyclist waded through the water on Horse Guards Road in central London.
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Some cars and buses were unable to move due to the accumulation of water on the road.
climateCountdown to the Summit of Change
At the time of the flood, representatives of 51 countries are discussing how to develop a negotiation framework for limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Alok Sharma (Cen Haowen), the chairman of COP26 appointed by the United Kingdom, said: “We are everywhere in the world, in front of everyone’s home, and we clearly see the consequences when climate change goes out of control. I hope this This meeting can be an opportunity to plan the vision for the Glasgow COP26 final agreement and to form unity among the ministers responsible for realizing this vision.”
However, leaders around the world are under a lot of pressure on whether coal can fade out of the energy supply arena, so as to set more aggressive emission reduction targets, and promises to these targets may not necessarily win their own support.
Dr Sarah Ivory, a lecturer on climate change at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, told the BBC: “If they can’t get these plans approved by their parliament, they can only make promises to a certain extent. In other words, promises don’t matter. There are very complicated procedures behind these goals.”
The COP26 conference is about to usher in hundreds of days. It is expected that negotiators from 196 countries around the world and the European Union will participate in this conference to review and evaluate the progress made since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, and summarize the lessons of failure.