Today's Weather And General Chat

[Somerset Squall]

It's chaos out there. In a village called Fivehead near where I live, snowmelt coupled with heavy, persistant rainfall has caused a deep flood and and no less than 4 cars are stranded in the rapidly rising waters. There is no river nearby, the surface run off of melted snow and torrential rainfall is simply causing a river of water to run down the fields onto the road. People were clambering onto the car bonnets trying to get to safety, the flood was simply rising too fast! When I left, emergency services were helping people to safety and by this time waters were rising over the car bonnets. I have never seen a flood of that proportion in that location before, it was a very strange sight indeed.

As for my local river, it's already bursting it's banks and the Somerset levels are quickly going under. I think I may be cut off by floodwater for a few days going on at this rate.

And still, the rain is pouring.

Temp: 2.4C, falling

Dewpoint: 1.6C, steady

Windchill: -1.0C

Humidity: 84%, rising

Pressure: 977.2mb, falling

Wind: 10.4mph, from the east-northeast

Rain so far today: 33.0mm and rising

Edited February 9, 2009 by Somerset Squall

[Zenarcher]

Castlebay Isle Of Barra

Outdoor temp 2.8c

Outdoor humidity 75%

Pressure 995mb

Wind direction North

Wind speed 14mph

Gust 28mph

Cloud Height 1658ft

Wet Bulb 1.4c

Rain in last 24hours 0.0mm

Total rainfall This Month 8.5mm

Dew Point -1.2c

Wind Chill -8c

Weather Clear dry dark

Over The Last 24hours averages and extra details,

Temperature rose 5.7c

Pressure dropped 17mb

Humidity rose 4%

Average wind speed 6mph

Dewpoint rose 6.2c

Average wind direction South East

Moon age 14 days 100%

Sunrise and Sunset 8:09am - 5:21pm

Moonrise and Moonset 5:38pm - 7:58am

[TonyH]

Clear intervals and a slight frost last night. Cloudy/dull today, pretty cold, light winds (SE). Spells of mainly light rain and drizzle 0900-1700, bit of sleet later, then dry, then spells of light sleet and rain for the last 2 hours. Most of the snow cover has now gone.

Min: -0.6c @ 0300

Max: 3.9c @ 1200.

Rain yesterday: 0.5mm.

Rain since 0900: 7mm.

Currently: Light sleet and rain, fresh northerly breeze.

Temp: +1.4c (so close to snow!).

Pressure: 985mbar, rising slowly.

[Kent Snow]

8.5C, moderate rain, wind from the S/SW, 981mb.

[chapmanslade]

And still, the rain is pouring.

Yes and that 33mm has been added to by snow melt. We had 25cm of level snow here on Saturday morning (and more than that on the Mendips) and about half of that has gone equating to another 10mm plus. Considering the ground is saturated / frozen in places the flooding will be severe in the morning.

[Matt Taylor]

Currently 8.5 degrees after a high of 9.8C this evening, we have not seen double figures since December 23rd. The rain started at around 0530 and and pretty much died out now but todays rainfall total is a quite staggering 53mm which easily beats my previous record of 38.1mm!

We should end up with around 55mm for the day which gives us a total of 219mm in the last 24 days, and the previous 24 days yielded just 10mm!

Matt

[Marcus_surfer]

Wet wet wet. 1.4c Should be snow

[nrhforestry]

Raining here, Temp 3.8c, Wind S 4mph, Rainfall 0.8in, Pressure 985mb.

Covering of Snow this morning about 1 inch most of it thawed now but a good covering of snow on the Yorkshire Wolds.