Houston, we have a problem! Well, strictly, it’s more a case of Environment Agency, we have a problem! No data from the Tilshead borehole has been reported since 08:45 on 13th February. It’s unclear whether the sensor has failed, power has been cut, or the means by which the sensor communicates with the outside world has been disrupted. The latter seems the most likely, especially with so much digging going on in the area installing fibre optic cables. When we have had disruptions in the past, we haven’t lost the data entirely and it has reappeared when the sensor is taken back on line. Fingers firmly crossed that this happens this time.
For the first part of the week, water levels fell slowly but steadily and the best guess is that the level is close to 99.00m AOD and that the Environment Agency will lift the Flood Warning for the groundwater near the River Till before midday on Tuesday. Water levels in the River Till have fallen dramatically over the week and the footpath from Church Cottage to Over the Hill is no longer flooded, but it is rather muddy and likely to remain so for a few weeks longer.
We have a dry few days ahead, with the possibility of a spot of rain towards the end of the week. The big plus is that we should see much milder temperatures over the week ahead. It should be positively balmy by Thursday. An Atlantic front will move in just in time to give us rain over the weekend and we may also see higher winds. We should expect a series of Atlantic fronts to move in during the early part of March, bringing more wet weather, but then things should dry up nicely towards mid-month.