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That was then, @Snowangel-MK. Today? If you know, you know.

The stat I took from that Met analysis of February that it was so dull. In fact, the two most dull places were East Sussex and the very tip of Cornwall where my daughter and her family live!

Interesting. The wind seems to be swinging round to come more from the south and the worst of the rain might miss E Sussex and Kent today. It's lovely at the moment, so fingers crossed!

Mizzle's back

For the fellow Bexhill residents, take care on the beach. There are three storm outlets toward Cooden, one of which has been broken for years and is finally being replaced - with one that extends all of 15m further out. For those that don't know, storm drains are unfortunately not just for water - sewage often contaminates the waste water, and Bexhill beach and water is often unsafe. Yesterday the next drain along broke, and has scoured a vast trench in the beach - and yes, it's pouring sewage contaminated water.

People have been evacuated from their houses in St Leonards because of the flooding.

Yup. 7mm since 5am.

Indeed; they are either intensifying as they hit the coast or appear. One has just materialised off Eastbourne and has organised enough to drop a few big blobs on us.

Tom Quintavalle Thank you! <bows>

I went for a dog walk in a storm with no name... On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a flood on the lawn And the sky full of clouds The wind was up and the ground was soaked And the air was full of rain I've been been on a dog walk in a storm with no name It felt wet on my back yet again In the rainstorm you can't remember your name 'Cause your brain's turned to mush with the hammerin' rain...

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Confused! Lassie23 had snow for 5 days solid in London (unless she was on hols and teasing) and we have had terrible rain today with lots of surface flooding (just done a 120 mile round trip) and tomorrow is even worse. Why aren't these named storms?

So I was driving along the A27 this morning. I had got into the car at around 07:30 in drizzle. It was still drizzling and actually getting heavier as I approached Lewes with Radio 4 burbling at 07:57; Tomasz Schafernaker with the weather. He gaily announced it was a lovely fine morning, and specifically namechecked the south coast as dry. I looked around. I looked at the satnav. I confirmed I was within 2 miles of the south coast. I realised Meteo had now hit rock bottom; they couldn't even nowcast the weather correctly!

It rained when I was last in Doha, John. I was astonished to realise that none of the roads had any drainage and simply flooded! It all disappeared in a trice when the sun came out of course. Be very careful - we saw lots of minor collisions because the locals had no idea how to drive in flooded conditions.

Yes, the northwesterly flow over London is now reaching the south coast and starting to rotate it.

It's now coalescing into an active band that will sweep over most of Kent.

An intense patch of rain has just developed in the channel off Eastbourne and is making its way inland in the south westerlies tracking up to Maidstone, so anyithng in that path will get a soaking; we have had 4mm in under an hour.

I can't find that particular post, but other postings from that person look, um, what's the tactful word here? Deranged.

I HAVE SNOW! Yeah, OK it's an avalanche I saw in the French Alps last week.

Update on the beach. It's still there, although as may be expected with the storm surge, low tide is almost where high tide normally is, with big rollers pounding in.

Ah, that's a brilliant album, Tom. I have the vinyl original. So how was it down in the coast? It certainly got a bit breezy; I heard the wheely bin lids bang a couple of times but other than that we really didn't get much. It started getting blowy at around 16:00 but it was a little unusual in that we had just sustained wind, not particularly with gusts. Peak gust recorded at 05:27 was all of 21.4mph. It has stayed for about 14 hours and has only just settled a bit; currently around 6mph. Isha brought a lot of warm air with it, and I recorded 11.4 deg C at 5am! Lowest pressure was 991 hPa at 01:27. Could have been worse; I'll report back after the dog walk with the beach state as those winds will have driven high tides ashore.

It's pretty common to have storms at this time of year. I am driving to France on Tuesday, as I do each January, and in 2022 there was a storm overnight before I set off. There were a few trees down, and at 7 am I was dodging them quite happily. Suddenly, just before we got to Rye there was a huge bang from the passenger side of the car. I stopped, and the wing mirror was smashed. I saw nothing, so walked back a few metres with a torch. A branch had come down, and someone had thought it a good idea to cut it off sticking about a foot into the road at about perfect head height for a motorcyclist. My headlights (despite being some of the best available) hadn't picked out something that high up so we hit it instead; cost me a side window and a wing mirror - £1,200 as the wing mirror was very fancy with camera and warning lights!

I set ours up on a piece of ali tube used for TV aerials attached to the loggia. It could do with being a little further up still, but it's about 9m above the ground.

Here's the beach a few minutes ago this morning, looking towards Eastbourne. Grey and hazy, but bone dry.

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