We are currently on a rainfall total of 45 mm from the last 45 minutes.

Serious amount. 

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Kitchen ceilings sprung a leak - weakness with the type of house we have

See you on the other side :-)

 

Well, that's the insurance claim in :-p

 

Delegated phoning the insurance to the wife, she's good at avoiding the trigger words which the call centre seem to be waiting for to shut down your claim... "You mentioned flat roof! We don't cover flat roofs!"... "But I just said it was next to a flat roof..." Phone goes dead

 

Sepa reporting some sites in Fife with 100mm+ for the last 36 hours, the bulk of which was all last night

Blimey. Serious rainfall amounts. Hope there's not too much damage. Just shows the power of nature.

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For those around this neck of the country, my untrained eye says things will get going for us during tomorrow afternoon. Once it starts it may well go on into a fair part of Friday as well. I am going to bring tomorrow’s plans forward as it may be ‘troublesome’ to venture out as we go on.

EDIT: Scrub that! Latest charts are showing activity starting earlier tomorrow morning now. Think its a case of watching the radar and choosing your moment to go out if you need to.

Some pictures and reports from Scotland on ‘events’ up there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53748192 

The first picture grabbed me with the cars strewn across the hospital car park. What that must have been like in full flow.
While there must have been quite a show, a lot of heartache and upheaval to go through up there.
Wonder who’s next!

This Facebook group's page gives an indication of the problems here this morning.

https://m.facebook.com/FubarNews/?ref=bookmarks&mt_nav=0 

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BREAKING: Major train derailment in Aberdeen. I wonder if ts be caused by a landslip?

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Lots of current thundery activity over S Brittany and offshore from Aberdeenshire, but the nearest recent strike I can see is over the N Sea, E of Newcastle.

http://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=ses;t=3;s=200;o=0;b=20.43;ts=0;y=54.8766;x=0.3571;z=7;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

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BREAKING: Major train derailment in Aberdeen. I wonder if ts be caused by a landslip?

Just seen this on Beeb. Huge number of emergency vehicles inc. helicopter at the scene. Oh dear. No mention of fatalities in that article but a related one mentions many cancellations due to flooding and shows flooded lines.

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The train derailment and fire looks very serious.

On the Scotrail twitter feed, some of the shots of flooding on the network are very sobering. There's also been a canal bank breach.

 https://twitter.com/i/status/1293457632766898178

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Told you it was a dramatic night up here. A lot of hardship and serious injuries. Quite sobering and makes me feel guilty for enjoying storms

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Large cloud developing overhead, you can even see it building in real time. But the BBC graphics suggest nothing much here until a blob moves through overnight and then more chance tomorrow

 

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Told you it was a dramatic night up here. A lot of hardship and serious injuries. Quite sobering and makes me feel guilty for enjoying storms

I know what you mean, Jerry. Personally, I wouldn't feel guitly about enjoying certain types of weather even when they can cause problems. We all have our own weather likes and dislikes and, more to the point, none of us has any control over how the weather behaves.

For me, thunderstorms are a bit like snow in the winter. Some people love it, some can't stand it. I can't stand thunderstorms if I'm being honest but this largely stems from being scared out of my wits by one in the summer of 1985 when I was just five years old. I do still like snow though even though I know full well hoe problematic it can be, especially instances such as the Beast from the East in 2018.

 

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showers popping up now down all over the middle slice of the shop

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After scorching heat all day so far, we have had a rapid build up of cloud and some good convection right above my head.

Berkshire - the desert providing the heat for storms further north, as ever!

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Seems like I’m about to be surrounded here clouds popping up north, south and west! Few rumbles already too no rain yet. 35.1c.

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Raining with huge wonderful blobs and distant thunder in Epsom.

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Berkshire - the desert providing the heat for storms further north, as ever!

We are sweating our arses off for the rest of the country. 

You might get something in the next hour or so though.

Raining with huge wonderful blobs and distant thunder in Epsom.

Yes I and my brother talking on whatapps about Epsom was 35C today and big drop to 23C already.  We  also watching our local temps here and keeping in touch with Epsom. They did very well in this heatwave.

That storm just south of Guildford is a beauty viewed from here in Portsmouth. More brewing west of it as whole northern horizon is exploded