{"id":34982,"date":"2026-02-09T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34982"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:19:40","slug":"thames-spreads-further-across-abingdons-floodplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34982","title":{"rendered":"Water everywhere and the reservoirs are not full yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe level of the River Thames has continued to rise across the floodplain near Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020906.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday the weather was brighter with some sun and clear reflections. I was among the &#8216;flood tourists&#8217; out with phone cameras.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020909.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Thames Valley Croquet Club were able to play on the raised part of their green above the flooded area of Hales Meadow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe end of Nags Head Island was awash.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020908.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRye Farm Meadow was mostly underwater. At Abingdon Weir, the lock keeper has been busy &#8211; not only with his usual duties of flood control but also putting out warning signs to show that the weir path has had to close again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020902a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThese snowdrops are just above water.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/about-us\/performance\/reservoir-levels-and-rainfall-figures\">Thames Water performance web site<\/a> says that Farmoor Reservoir was 80% full at the end of January &#8211; below the average for that time of year. It looks like the rain is needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The level of the River Thames has continued to rise across the floodplain near Abingdon. Today the weather was brighter with some sun and clear reflections. I was among the &#8216;flood tourists&#8217; out with phone cameras. The Thames Valley Croquet Club were able to play on the raised part of their green above the flooded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}