A RECENT Hereford Times email news update informed me that: “There’s more bad weather on the way today, so we will be keeping you up to date with our live coverage.”

That day I had a lot of water splashed up by cars along my way to Breinton in addition to direct rainfall. Considerate motorists avoid roadside puddling wherever possible.

The monsoon period has definitely arrived, and with the Met Office online forecast for the day predicting upwards of 90 per cent chance of ‘precipitation until 5pm’, travel poverty is exacerbated.

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I was reminded of geography lessons I’d attended at U Westminster in the mid-1990s, where we were told that a reason flooding tended to be very severe in equatorial territories is that hard baked ground from summer sun does not allow the ground to absorb much moisture, and I would guess that while tarmac is not a good absorber of moisture, we have to realise that on green fields in Herefordshire at a time of global warming, there is also less water retention.

But maybe we could think of diversifying crop production accordingly, say, by introducing rice growing?

Might I suggest that monsoon conditions add considerably to arguments in favour of night service buses for Herefordshire, especially in the monsoon season?

ALAN WHEATLEY

Hereford