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Here are some pictures I took of yesterday's floods: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95346693@N00/...57600937975327/

Looking at the latest radar it seems that the rain is developing and swinging round, now currently in Wales? Could it visit us here again? I hope not. Here are some photos I took of yesterday's flooding. I couldn't upload them to NW because with the 1-at-a-time upload it takes forever: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95346693@N00/...57600937975327/

Great pics Jane! Looks pretty severe down there. I visited Tirley and Apperley this morning on my bike to see how bad the floods were. I was going to go over to Tewkesbury but there wasn't time and I thought more people will go there and take pictures than to Tirley! Well a large expanse of fields and countryside was flooded and there were a couple of houses flooded on the A4019 around the Uckington/Knightsbridge area (on the way). The worst flooding was off the side just approaching the M5 turnoff on that road, where it seemed that many houses in the area were flooded (I'll check the map and find out where). EDIT: Here's where and I've circled the worst flooded bit: It looks as though the flood waters had receded in Tirley but it must've been bad; foul-smelling silt was coating the road and subsequently covered me and my bike! A pretty miserable ride to be honest - icky weather and it was drizzling heavily / moderate rain most of the way. I had a quick look at the River Chelt on PE way on the way back and it has receded A LOT since yesterday - when I looked yesterday it was about 1-2ft from road level. Now, it's receded about 5-6ft... almost back to the stream it always used to be! I did take some pictures, i'll upload later.

"Cheltenham witnessed its worst deluge for more than 30 years.More than 6cm of rain fell on the town between 9am and 3pm, and the Environment Agency reckoned the total rainfall over the 24-hour period could be more than 18cm." EIGHTEEN!!!! 180mm B) exaggeration? possibly but based on the flooding we had it's not impossible

It's just drizzling in Cheltenham now

Lots of roads closed around here: East: Park Road, Chipping Campden. A417 Fairford to Lechlade closed; A361 Burford to Lechlade (Oxfordshire closed) West: Corn Dean Lane, Winchcombe; A48, Westbury Central: Hayden Lane, Staverton; A38 Berkeley Gloucester City: The Quay and Lower Quay Street; Bamfurlong Lane Cheltenham Borough: New Barn Lane (Junction with New Barn Close), Prestbury The following roads have severe flooding, but are still passable with care: A417 Kinsgmeadow roundabout to preston toll bar - becoming difficult, passable with care. Kingshill area of Cirencester - very difficult B4081 Aston Road, Chipping Campden St Lawrence Rd, Avening Jubillee Rd Pike Cottage, Mickleton Bourton to Stow Road The Knoll, Kempsford, Fairford B463 to Mickleton, B4077 Upper Swell A429 Stowe to Morton Western Sub Edge Hill, Willersley, Fosse Way A419 Hoffman's Bridge Knights Way, Newtown, Tewkesbury Marlpitt Lane, Priors Norton Market Lane, Greet Treddington outside Mill Farm Barn Red Hart Car Park, Blaisdon Lane, Blaisdon Road from Gotherington, Gretton near to Stanley Turn Elton Lane, Elton, Newnham - Flaxley Road Quay Road, Ashleworth Clarence Rd, Tewkesbury Summers Rd, Winchcombe Castle St, Winchcombe Knights Way, Newtown Northwing, Shuthonger Manor, Shuthonger, Tewkesbury A48 between Lydney & Tidenham B4215 Kents Green Orange St, Newent Rising Sun Lane off Cleeve Hill, Woodmancote, Stockwell Lane, Sunset Lane Bushcombe Lane, Woodmancote Vineyard St, Winchcombe Longney and Epney Area Woodlands Avenue Woodside Lane, Kings Stanley Woodland Green, Upton St Leonards Iona Pitt Court, North Nibley Brookthorpe to Haresfield Road, Upton Lane Eagle Way Cole Avenue between BMW and Vauxhall Garages is impassable Bristol Road and M5 (North and South between 12 and 13) are both at a standstill because of volume of traffic St Oswald's Road - passable with care Priory Road - Blocked due to abandoned vehicles Priors Road Wallace House Car Park Joyner Road, Hesters Way Priors Road Evesham Road Pates Ave, St Marks Glebe Rd, Prestbury Willow Bank, Harp Hill, Charlton Kings Deep St, Prestbury Sarnies, Bennington St New Barn Close, Cheltenham

Cheltenham (with A40 Golden Valley flooding), Tetbury and Badgeworth in Gloucestershire all made headlines today in the telegraph!

Cheltenham pretty badly hit, if anyone's interested I'm just about to upload some pics onto facebook - it's just easier as I can upload everything at once faster. I'll show you the link when they're up. The unbelievable thing was that our flood defenses - those meant to cope with a 1 in 400 year flood - overflowed and caused chaos for the people living next to it and the A40! Also unbelievable pics of the Golden Valley from the BBC Gloucs site showing it under several inches of water. I should think we got at least 100mm rain, and 115mm at Brize Norton sounds about right; it's about 20mi from here. The River Severn'll be bad because there was a lot of rain in that area and it's all coming down from the North and everywhere which was raining into the night! ...So I'll be out to inspect that later.

dogs - not sure about golden valley... didn't go that far, only up to the roundabout just before the GCHQ... i gtg now cya

No; it is flooded but not so badly (about a foot deep) just by the GCHQ on the entrance to Cheltenham and at that section that I showed on the photographs... I was going to go further but when I got to that massive area of flooding I'd seen enough - it was pretty impassable, and with the flood defenses overflowing it would have risen quickly. I just hope noone's been hurt.

I think these four pictures sum up today perfectly. The first is a car which got stuck trying to go under a road bridge (ages ago - it'll be impassable now) The second... is the river Chelt where our newly installed flood defenses have just overflowed. The third is a friend's garden which was unbelievable. The fourth is the A40 between Sandford road roundabout and Hailes crossing where the overflowing defenses have completely washed out the road and caused gridlock and breakdowns. Everyone I have spoken to describes this as worse than the June floods (the barrier never overflowed then) and the worst they've ever seen.

Ive just been cycling and its rly bad ambulances, police cars, fire engines... everywhere everywhere is getting flooded

DOGS32!!! Our FLOOD DEFENSES HAVE JUST OVERFLOWED!!!!

WOW! All I can say is WOW The most torrential rain... despite having all my waterproofs they didn't work and I got soaked! water up to my knees (well probably deeper but that's as far as I went)... and the river Chelt (usually a stream) could have been the river Wye!!! It was about 15ft wide!!! two cars got stuck under the bridge as well. Pictures coming...

looks from the radar like the heaviest's just about to come! well i'm just getting waterproofed then im off... bye

Right. I'm off for a walk now to see if there's any flooding so far; i'll upload any pics that I get later. cya

More thunder...... and still the steady heavy rain

gradually getting heavier... radar shows it moving towards us more... thanks for your predictions! really raining properly in cheltenham now!

Do you think Cheltenham will be affected by the very heavy rain currently to the south-east? will it spread NW? thanks

Yes, new MetO report on storm totals and rain: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_...st_weather.html

FIRST THUNDER HERE IN CHELTENHAM!! Did u hear that dogs??

yes, just had a brief lull but the rain's intensifying again and it's pretty heavy

Bracknell's in Berkshire so I'd say that you do have a risk of getting caught in some storms/ heavy rain; at least I expect it won't be a completely dry journey. Wish I could help more but I'm not too sure

I'd now say it's heavy rain in Cheltenham... it's gradually been intensifying since early this morning and it's not showing any signs yet of letting up. I might go around town a bit later and see if there are any flood problems / get some pics