Here's the 12-hour accumulated rain total via the NW radar. You can see that the far SE has, for once, had a good soaking. The ground is still hard, though, with maybe 1mm of wet soil at the very top!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/rainoct.jpg 

The more local Southern Water measuring station at Chilgrove reports totals of 18mm for Sunday (reasonable) but 1020mm yesterday (some mistake there? 😮)

We're still in a hosepipe ban - not that I'll be needing one - and the reservoirs are still well below average so I'm happy for the GFS to be right this time. 

I suspect tonight and tomorrow will beat that though hopefully.

Yes, a couple of direct hits from the heavy core of the rain moving in from Benjamin means there was 40mm here in the space of 24 hours. Remarkably that means 10% of the year's rain so far (383mm) fell in just one day. The monthly total so far is 80.8mm.

You would expect everywhere to be a quagmire with that much but the ground is still solid. 

Meanwhile some guy in a Porsche decided to crash into two other cars in the rain on the main bridge off of Sheppey, meaning the western end of the Isle is gridlocked tonight!

EDIT: The annual rainfall is now 404mm, so a quarter of the year's rain has fallen in October.

Well it was my wettest day since mid April here with 13.1mm. No mention of anything on the BBC weather forecast other than a band of fragmented rain would pass through! So another unmentioned significant weather event for here and we are up to 55.2mm for the month making it the wettest month since January and 343mm YTD. 

Data For Recent Days

24 hour total up to 9 am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 3.6 mm

Monthly Data

Final Total for October 2025: 53.6 mm (64.8% of 1991-2020 October average)

Number of rain days during October 2025: 12 (92.3% of 1991-2020 October average)

Number of dry days during October 2025: 15

There are some months in the year (such as April) in which the total for October 2025 would have given us a wetter than average month, but October itself isn't such a month. According to the 1991-2020 averages, October should be our wettest month on average and the total for October 2025 doesn't even come close to reaching the 1991-2020 October average. As a result, October 2025 is yet another substantially drier than average month and it now seems as though we just get wetter than average months here any more.

Seasonal Data (as at 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) on Saturday 1 November 2025)

Total for this autumn so far: 99.8 mm (47.2% of 1991-2020 autumn average)

Number of rain days during this autumn: 24 (65.9% of 1991-2020 autumn average)

Number of dry days during this autumn: 29

Annual Data (as at 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) on Saturday 1 November 2025)

Total for this year so far: 461.8 mm (58.9% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 88 (64.0% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 168

Note

This data has been obtained from https://www.ogimet.com  in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.