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We had some surprise sunshine this afternoon but the rain is back with a vengeance now. The radar is quite impressive with rain over most of the country. The total volume of water falling onto the UK in the past two days must be quite something.
Are you getting hammered now?, I can see it on the radar. I am just on the edge, hope it stays away!
We are making up for that dry spell in September! Awful stuff, going to get wet again coming back from pub
Are you getting hammered now?, I can see it on the radar. I am just on the edge, hope it stays away!We are making up for that dry spell in September! Awful stuff, going to get wet again coming back from pub
Yes, another 6.0mm has fallen in less than 2 hours. My total since midnight is now 37.5mm, less than 1mm off my record - though because of the Easterly wind direction, this is an underreporting, probably more like 50mm.
Yep chucking it down but doesn’t seem as heavy as the radar suggests. This morning was heavier.
Here, it is just as heavy if not heavier than this morning. My rain gauge has recorded 3.6mm in the last 30 minutes (7.2mm/hour). Just equalled my station's all-time record of 38.4mm.
Three days of rain after a summer of hardly any rain in this part of the world is not making up for it. Having said that, it's an impressive radar return and a notable spell of weather. Hope you don't get too wet coming home from the pub. First world problems indeed.
Here in Edinburgh, the totals for this event so far as at 9pm tonight were now up to at least 29.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and at least 34.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.Furthermore, it is still chucking it down here as I write.Those are also our totals for this month so far which are already not all that far short of what we had during the whole of September.
lol! I don’t mind getting wet but I have a roof leak so I don’t want to have to spend another morning drying up. Yes, I know I need to get it fixed but I am selling up soon anyway so don’t want to spend any money on the house
Sold yet?
Fixing the roof could add a few £££ to the asking price otherwise, though I understand you not wanting to shell out for a house you're moving out of.
Sold yet? Fixing the roof could add a few £££ to the asking price otherwise, though I understand you not wanting to shell out for a house you're moving out of.
it will be knocked down anyway and turned into flats. Have been offered 1.5 million from multiple developers but haven’t yet signed. I have lived all my life in this house and it will be hard to see it demolished
Spectacular cloudscapes looking both nort ad south from the Dons this afternoon, cumulus to the south, stormwrack to the north
The total volume of water falling onto the UK in the past two days must be quite something.
If we assume that on average, rainfall over the last 2 days across the UK was 50mm. Based on the land area of the UK being approximately 242,500 sq km, that would mean that over 12 cubic kilometres of rain would have fallen over the UK.
My total since midnight is 43.2mm, since midnight yesterday 59.4mm. Having smashed my station's all-time daily record by nearly 5mm, can we make it to 50mm before midnight? It's looking close...
I noticed on the rainfall radar yesterday that there was a good deal of orographically-enhanced rainfall on the North Downs. I didn't notice it on the South Downs myself, but your report indicates that it did happen. Again, something a bit unusual caused by the direction of approach of the frontal system.
Pub* lunch in the area today, waitress describing yesterday afternoon as a'cloudburst'
* The Sportsman, Amberley - food and views from dining area both excellent
Lashing down again after a few hours of drippy dryness.Top of the leaderboard for this storm so far: Liscombe 93mm, Guernsey 87mm, Jersey 78mm, Rothamsted 71mm.
Heavy rain has returned to St Albans too. I'm surprised that nearby Rothamsted is already upto 71mm. Didn't think it had been that wet. Looking at the forecast through to Sunday evening I'm starting to wonder if we'll hit 125mm (5 inches) by then!?
Rain has returned here after a dry interlude this afternoon
The 2 day total for here in Kew is 55.4mm up till 22:00 tonight and it's still going
For this location not renowned for high rainfall totals this is only about the 8th occurrence of a 2 day total over 50mm in the last 60 years
(and just to add to a fairly unpleasant day the roof has started leaking !)