First there is a hosepipe ban because of a drought, next minute everyone gets their sandbags ready because of floods are on the way but now it's turned into foam. The foam looks like snow and has covered a beach in Devon.
Many locals were baffled when they saw strange foam, it arrived on the south coast of England at the weekend. At first many people thought this werid weather was snow. But, this barmy spring weather was more like a bubble bath on the beach. Lots of childeren played in the creamy foam as it rose up to waist height at Seaton Bay.
What caused the foam?
It is thought that, bad weather including heavy rain, strong winds and choppy waters caused the foam to appear.
People from other weried news stories have been handed sandbags to protect their homes against flooding after heavy rain. At the same time, they have being warned no to use hosepipes because of drought fears!
Millions of people are still banned from using hosepipes to water their gardens. So I cannot understand why there are more than 40 flood alerts that have been put in place across Britain.
Trevor Bishop from the Environment Agency quoted: “It’s going to take more than a week or two of rain to undo the effects of nearly two years of below average rainfall,” he says. “The recent rain is good for farmers and gardeners. But, with dry soils, most of the rain will be soaked up, or, worse still, run off quickly if the surface is hard, causing flash floods. But it won’t reach down far enough to top up groundwater, which is what we really need.”
Don’t put away those gloves just yet, as forecasters are now saying we are facing the coldest May in 100 years.
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