Flash flooding in Somerset

[NorthantsSnow]

Feel free to move this mods as I wasn't sure where to post.

Somerset has been hit by flash floods this evening, with around half of the county affected according to Sky News.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1317581,00.html

Anyone on here live in the area?

[Cakie]

Currently on the news at the mo

We had very heavy showers earlier, 2 cm in less than 5 mins

[BornFromTheVoid]

Hope it's not too bad. Have lots of relatives living in Shepton Mallet, is that in the affected area?

[Wales123098]

Its been very bad and is continueing to rain across Glamorgan, South Wales where there is still servre weather warnings for certain areas. Tommorow looks like there could be headline news as thundestorms and heavy rain are expected to continue. Rivers and streams high in my area and might flood, last time we had a thunderstorm it was like a river coming down the mountain down the main road going into people houses.

[Phil UK]

Storms and flash flooding were expected owing to daytime heat showers, METO radar at 5pm looked VERY colourful but even the MO probably had this one underestimated.

Just hope that all are ok in the affected areas.

At around 7pm tonight in Solihull, a shower with rain coming down like stair rods hit my area, lasted about half an hour. Not expected at all but that warm front, owing with possible frontal trough IMO came further west than anticipated.

Phil.

[Marcus_surfer]

Still pouring down here, been some torrential downpours earlier

[jethro]

I'm from soggy Somerset, blimey was it soggy earlier, torrential rain for at least a couple of hours. Fortunately I live on the top of a very big hill but the other end of the village at the bottom was flooded out. It's about 6 miles from here to Shepton Mallet so I'd say they were definitely affected, had to go out abut 7.30, the roads were just water logged, some at least 6 inches deep, storm drains gushing upwards every where.

Slipknotsam; love the avatar , was lucky enough to visit The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors whilst in New York last year, love Alex Greys stuff.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Flooding appears to have been quite serious. It seems Crewkerne, Ilminster, Shepton Mallett and Wells were the worse affected.

Thanks Jethro! Love his stuff too and hope to visit the COSM one day myself. Have a couple of his books though like Transfigurations and Sacred Mirrors. His work on Tool videos is amazing.

[tinybill]

Wales Heavy Rain 1430 Fri 30 2200 Fri 30

South West England Heavy Rain 1430 Fri 30 2200 Fri 30

Heavy Rain 1500 Fri 30 2200 Fri 30

Early warnings of severe or extreme weather

These are issued when the Met Office has 60% or greater confidence that severe weather is expected in the next few days.

Risk of disruption Warning Valid from Valid to

No early warnings have been issued for the UK.

Advisory of severe or extreme weather

These advisories are issued by 1100 daily as routine and indicate confidence of expected severe or extreme weather. Early warnings and Flash Warnings supersede advisories when confidence levels are 60% or greater.

Risk of disruption Warning Valid

UK regions: South West England

Heavy Rain Fri 30 May

There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event in the 24 hour period. Heavy thundery showers are forecast to develop and may give localised totals of 25 to 40 mm in places, especially over hills.

Issued at: 1252 Fri 30 May

[tornadomanuk]

To be fair the news was probably 99% right - why - because it said Ilminster was one of areas worst affected, but we had no flooding issues as far as I can gather, yes we had the torrential rain, but no serious flooding unlike 5 miles down the road in Crewkerne. Thats a different story altogether.

[William of Walworth]

It was pretty bad just north of Yeovil on Thursday evening. The 'Sunrise Celebration' (!!) festival. our intended destination, was cancelled -- site under nearly a foot of water in places, I've seen some horrorshow pictures.

We escaped to Glastonbury for the weekend instead, and there were bad downpours there too all of Thursday evening, but less in the way of floods.

Frustratingly, Friday and Saturday were both mainly lovely!

[PersianPaladin]

I bet Gordon Brown raced towards it in a helicopter.

Shame the same cant be said for Hull, like last summer.