The long dry Summer (at least it has been at my end of Kent) turned out to be a blessing in disguise by providing a buffer to this recent wet spell. Just hope we don't end up with a winter like the last one where once it rains it won't stop for weeks on end. 

At least the cracks have gone from my garden. The recent weather has sorted that out!
That’s the beauty so to speak Ian, we just don’t know what we are going to get. Perhaps this year, many rainy days may keep people inside which may help in the current circumstances and stop some infections.

11 flood warnings for England and Wales - surprised that's not worse given the totals of rainfall (and lots of less serious flood alerts) . Moatly from Oxford across to Gloucester https://www.floodalerts.com/ 

11 flood warnings for England and Wales - surprised that's not worse given the totals of rainfall (and lots of less serious flood alerts) . Moatly from Oxford across to Gloucester https://www.floodalerts.com/ 

Yes I think given how dry it’s been the ground has been able to take all that water as it’s been steady rain, but not torrential.

11 flood warnings for England and Wales - surprised that's not worse given the totals of rainfall (and lots of less serious flood alerts) . Moatly from Oxford across to Gloucester https://www.floodalerts.com/ 

Now we all know Oxfordshire has been pretty miserable all summer, especially with all that rain what with the moom'pocalypse. So i guess the ground was already rather saturated 😂 Whereas for the bulk of the south it's been very dry down here so the rain was just absorbed.

85mm here which is one of the largest three day totals since I've kept records. Amazing after missing all of the recent rain others got locally in the form of showers. It's about 2-3 months rainfall for here.

Turned out to be a very notable event, we’ll the 3rd did!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54561601

Aberdeen certainly did its bit with that