TROOP CHURCH FELLOWSHIP MEETING
First monthly TC Fellowship meeting (TCFM) at Thiruvallur constituency. Nearly 17 members participated. A few plans were also made in the meeting. They are
- FRP level-1 classes for this constituency will be on 26th and 27th Jan 2024.
- Soldiers have committed to start Morning worship and online worship.
- Some have given names to attend BFF.
All Praise to God!
BFF (BE FORMED AND FORM)
Be Formed and Form (BFF) batch 757 was conducted in Palavakkam, Chennai from 12.01.2023 to 19.01.2024.
TROOP CHURCH TESTIMONIES
- Sol.Shrimita and Sol. Ramya joined the troop Church, both of them were suffering from fever and while attending the troop, God did a miracle they got complete relief from their fever. Glory to almighty God.
- Sol.Thilagavathy sister’s daughter got this award, after the 1 St week of troop church with her family members. Praise be to the Lord!
NAZARETH SCHOOL OF FAMILY BUILDING
Nazareth School of Family Building was conducted on 16/12/23 in Palavakkam Chennai.
PROPHECY NEWS
EXTREME UK FLOOD LEVELS ARE HAPPENING MUCH MORE OFTEN THAN THEY USED TO, ANALYSIS SHOWS
Heavy rain across southern Britain meant that most rivers in England swelled at the beginning of 2024, prompting widespread flooding.
The River Trent was among the most severely affected. Water levels at the Drakelow gauging station in the west Midlands reached 3.88 metres on January 4 – well above the previous record set less than four years earlier in February 2020.
Are floods growing larger and happening more often in the UK? There are two ways to answer this question. One is to consult computer models that project Earth’s climate in the future, and the other is to search the historical record.Climate projections are important but highly uncertain as they indicate a wide range of potential futures for any given river. Projections also only tell part of the story as they do not reflect the patterns of water use, changes to groundwater levels or to the urban environment that can decide flooding on a particular river.
That’s why we give equal importance to historical data, although we cannot project past changes directly into the future. Historical archives of river monitoring data can help us understand how the largest floods are changing on the River Trent.
For instance, how is the 50-year water level (the highest point a river would be expected to reach in 50 years on average) changing? On the River Trent at Drakelow, the 50-year water level has risen from about 3.46 metres in 1959 to 3.83 metres in 2024. This means the largest floods are indeed getting bigger.
How the January 2024 floods compare
The flood water level on the Trent at the start of January 2024 was actually higher than what scientists would consider a once-in-50-year event in today’s warmer climate.
Another way to understand how much floods have changed is to consider how often they happen today compared with the past. If we look at the 50-year level from 1959 (about 3.46 metres), how often would such a flood occur in today’s climate?
On the Trent, a 3.46-metre flood level would now be expected to occur every 9.38 years, on average, in 2024. This makes sense, considering there have already been six events in which the river level exceeded 3.5 metres since the 1980s. The historical data shows that extreme water levels are being reached more frequently on the Trent.
Our analysis of the Trent aligns with results from a previous study which looked at rivers across the rest of the UK. In many places, 50-year floods are now happening less than every ten years, on average.
This is partly due to climate change and also partly due to natural variations in the climate which see rivers cycle through spells of more and less flooding. The UK went through a “flood-poor” period in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and has been going through a “flood-rich” period since then.