Looks like very heavy rainfall over the UK today & Saturday

[Solorize]

Experts are warning of floods in many parts of the UK,
with a month's rain due to fall in 24 hours. Mainly in the east
and north-east of England

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18722054

Just wish this would be over the SouthEast as we still have
a hosepipe ban in effect

[RayProudfoot]

I'm one of the 'lucky' stations that is in the firing line.

Perhaps we can use this thread to report rain amounts over the next 24 hours. It's just started raining now.

[Johnny25]

Been following the latest weather over on netweather tv (GFS model charts). Looks like rain (very heavy in places) for most of the weekend.

Warwick, so far, has missed the worse of the conditions. PWS is showing 8.4mm (started raining at 4am). Rain now starting to pick up again.

Just checked Weather Underground and parts of Norfolk are showing 57mm so far today!

Five weeks until I fly off on holiday to the southern Mediterranean Sun. Can't wait!!

[robynfali]

Been real bad this way, the circuit where i work which is about 10 miles away actually closed because of the amount of water on the track

[mcrossley]

Lets hope its blown through for tomorrow as I'm down your way Rob.

[robynfali]

Oh yeah mate? whereabouts.

Am back on track tomorrow, it's supposed to be a bit better, got VX220 Owners Club trackday which should be good

[RayProudfoot]

Not as bad as I thought it would be but with the inch of rain on Wednesday plus 0.84" today it's taken its toll on the garden.

Still, the lawn looks nice and green! Anyone know what plants will grow in a swamp?

Garden_06072012.jpg

BREAKING NEWS!!!! The sun has just reappeared!

[mcrossley]

Oh yeah mate? whereabouts.

Probably go over to the White Eagle for a jar and some grub with friends tomorrow night.

[robynfali]

Cracking place to eat, even our "royal" neighbours think so lol

[mcrossley]

I hear the Timpson's have opened a new place at Rhosneigr, may give that a try, or The Seacroft. Decisions, decisions!

[robynfali]

Oyster Catcher mate, very busy, sea croft a mate works at as a chef, eagle is also good. You could also try the lobster pot in church bay

[apenwith]

Hi
Someone suggested reporting rain here - 44mm over 24hrs in West Cornwall - Manual Rain Gauge
Alan

[Gina]

We had 3" (75mm) of rain in East Devon We are lucky to live up in the hills so no problem with rivers. Unless you count the mini river running through our sheds! No actual damage fortunately unlike many people in this area.

[Mapantz]

50.8mm fell here yesterday. 114mm in the first 7 days of July .. outstanding!

I would like to thank the HIRLAM model for being correct. The NAE and GFS models were showing heavy rain across the midlands and the north, but they were not showing the cyclonic flow as the low pressure took on cyclogensis.
The HIRLAM model showed the rain wrapping back around and giving more to the south west that further north. Lot's of people dismissed this, and it proved to be right!

NAE 12Z Friday

http://postimage.org/image/tlgh5llbf/

HIRLAM 12Z Friday

http://postimage.org/image/pqu6axy7p/

HIRLAM 03Z Saturday

http://postimage.org/image/iq66i5wfp/

HIRLAM 06Z Saturday

http://postimage.org/image/osdt8nkvp/

Might not mean much to a few of you, but as the Met Office use the NAE model frequently, they couldn't nail down anything in the south west until practically the night before.
The HIRLAM had this covered way before then.

[Solorize]

Yesterday we had a very heavy downpour:

http://youtu.be/5ddGL6sJwlA


Rainfall

Rainfall Yesterday: 11.4 mm

Rainfall Rate Max : 50.4 mm/hr at 19:42

High Hourly Rainfall: 7.2 mm at 19:46

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18764953

Finally now the hosepipe ban has been lifted for all other four remaining areas
just a shame now I have to wait a whole week to wash my car next weekend lol