Thursday briefing: overcast, 18°C and the official wires

The Dacorum Daily desk files this thursday briefing from official open data covering Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and the rest of the borough. It is original copy. We do not lift stories from other newspapers.

Open-Meteo’s latest model run for a point at the heart of the borough puts the temperature at 18°C, feeling like 17°C, with a day’s range of 17–22°C and wind around 9 km/h. Sky: overcast. This is not a Met Office forecast product.

4 UK-area weather warnings currently mention the East of England or London and the South East, so they can affect Dacorum. The desk summarises the alert, not the full official wording. Follow the Meteoalarm source before you travel.

The Environment Agency lists 4 flood messages within about 25km of the borough centroid. Named watercourses include Upper River Colne and Radlett Brook; Lower Lee tributaries; Silk Stream and the Deans, Edgware, Dollis, Mutton, Wembley and Wealdstone Brooks; River Pinn and Woodridings Stream. That radius reaches neighbouring catchments as well as the Gade and Bulbourne. Check Floodline 0345 988 1188 if you live on a floodplain.

police.uk’s lagged street-level extract maps 792 incidents across the four Dacorum neighbourhoods for 2026-06. Counts are snapped to nearby points and are not a live 999 feed. We do not identify victims.

Neighbourhood teams have 12 upcoming diary items on police.uk (farmers’ markets, beat surgeries, school visits). Those are engagement listings, not crime reports.

The national Planning Data API still lists Dacorum Borough Council as entity 101. For live applications use the council’s Public Access weekly list, which updates at 8am. We do not scrape the planning portal.

Stations serving the borough are Hemel Hempstead, Apsley, Berkhamsted, Tring and Kings Langley, on the West Coast Main Line into Euston. Without a Darwin key the desk publishes a heartbeat rather than invented delays. Check National Rail before you travel.

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