Brits are being advised to build snowmen to try and stop snow melting at the same time and related flooding once temperatures start to rise this weekend. Source: AP
BRITONS are being advised to build snowmen as a way of preventing their homes from flooding as temperatures start to rise.
The strange advice comes from the UK Environment Agency which argues the pastime is no longer just a childish endeavour with temperatures tipped to swing from -13C to 13C this weekend.
It says that compacting the snow around your house will slow the rate that it melts.
Agency spokesman Roy Stokes told the UK Telegraph that the advice was particularly relevant for those people with flood-prone houses.
"Ideally if everybody built themselves a snowman that will slow the thaw down a bit," he said. "If you notice when people clear their drive the snow thaws away but the compacted piles stay which will give a balanced thaw, which would be helpful.
"We would rather it be a gradual thaw than a really quick one," he said. "If it does go to quick we are likely to see a few flood alerts."
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