Flood Risk - Thursday 27th October

[ZONE 51]

Very heavy rains now moving in towards South/SW England, shown on the radar snap below, the weather system is likely to cause flooding in some places throughout today with run of water from higher ground and excess water into rivers creating a delayed flood effect, the flood risk is there and would be a risk after the rain has stopped.

What is a concern is some areas have already seen alot of rain and as shown on radar some very heavy and prolonged rains moving in.

NAE - 00z

Edited October 27, 2011 by ElectricSnowStorm

[Coast]

A number of flood warnings out this morning:

http://www.environme...oods/31618.aspx

A bit more intensive rain in the SW during the day:

[Cakie]

Torrential, persistent rain since early hours here. Going to be some flooding in local rivers with the a mount of rain we had earlier in the week

[Nick F]

BBC forecast expecting up to 50mm of rain to fall over SW England, especially over the Moors.

[Coast]

Torrential, persistent rain since early hours here. Going to be some flooding in local rivers with the a mount of rain we had earlier in the week

More on its way to you soon Cakie:

[wimblettben]

It is only drizzling here right now but I assume that much worse is to come going by those rainfall radars.

[Chris K]

Light-moderate rain so far all day here with the odd brief respite now and again lasting 5-10 mins. Worst of it looks like it'll be to the SW of here. The amount of traffic incidents around this area has been crazy and not looking forward to rush hour tonight...

[Mapantz]

23.2mm in the last 24hrs here. Wareham quay (River Frome) was flooded on the high tide this morning.

[Jane Louise]

Gosh! when will this rain ever stop! it's been raining since last night. I think our river will be okay though as there's no warnings out!

[Herefordweather]

Heavy rain all day here. Didn't expect it to be as heavy here.

[Coast]

Mind you, I have to worry when publications describe Cornwall, Devon, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea as being in the East of the country......

http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=103844

[Chris K]

Mind you, I have to worry when publications describe Cornwall, Devon, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea as being in the East of the country......

http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=103844

¬_¬ haha

This is first long rainy day I've seen for a while...my car looks cleaner, all the dusty sand has been rinsed off it! (Until it dries out tomorrow)

[Jane Louise]

MORE than a centimetre of rain fell on Gloucestershire this morning as the long dry spell finally came to an end.

A Met Office spokesman said 10.4mm of rain has fallen since midnight according to measurements taken at the Little Rissington weather station at around midday today.

While residents in South Devon were under a weather warning with up to 40mm of rain due to fall there, no warnings have been issued for Gloucestershire.

The spokesman said the rain in Gloucestershire was due to continue until later this evening stopping at some point between 9pm and midnight.

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Gloucestershire-weather-forecast-rain-continues/story-13678788-detail/story.html

[Mapantz]

Had a bit of a deluge here over the last hour. Bumped the total up nicely.

[Radiating Dendrite]

MORE than a centimetre of rain fell on Gloucestershire this morning as the long dry spell finally came to an end.

A Met Office spokesman said 10.4mm of rain has fallen since midnight according to measurements taken at the Little Rissington weather station at around midday today.

While residents in South Devon were under a weather warning with up to 40mm of rain due to fall there, no warnings have been issued for Gloucestershire.

The spokesman said the rain in Gloucestershire was due to continue until later this evening stopping at some point between 9pm and midnight.

http://www.thisisglo...tail/story.html

I agree with the MetO.

10mm of rain does not warrant a weather warning, maybe a advisory to traffic due to wet roads.

[picog]

Heavy rain all day here. Didn't expect it to be as heavy here.

Yet here just 15 miles or so away we have had only light rain — just 6 mm. I was hoping for a bit of a soaking.

[wimblettben]

It's only raining lightly here now and has made the ground wet and damp.

An extremely isolated event by the looks of it!

We certainly havn't had 50mm of rain here!

[lfcdude]

It's only raining lightly here now and has made the ground wet and damp.

An extremely isolated event by the looks of it!

We certainly havn't had 50mm of rain here!

i agree.. more like patchy light drizzle

[Evening thunder]

Had about 40mm here since yesterday afternoon so including heavy showers later yesterday evening. More than I was expecting and I slept though much of it in the night so it didn't seem quite such a big fall.

It looks as though there has been lots of surface water about on the roads and some streams and rivers quite high. Not near flooding though like they can with these totals despite the recent rain before this. I guess this is because of the dry autumn and year before this and the fact the rain was quite drawn out although there were heavy bursts.

I would say it was worth the yellow advisory in this area though.

[Bobby]

Had 25mm from the rain today, a previous 40mm over past 2-3 days also so quite a wet a few days.

Edited October 27, 2011 by Barb-

[ZONE 51]

A recent radar snap shows a break from the rains, some showers near south coast heading inland now.(23.30BST)

Rains from today look to have eased, please keep watch of the flood risk from rivers at this site - http://www.environme...oods/31618.aspx

Edited October 27, 2011 by ElectricSnowStorm

[ZONE 51]

LATEST FLOOD ALERTS ARE:

(00:25 on 28 Oct 2011 This information is updated every 15 minutes)-

Flood Alert

Weymouth Harbour

15:11 on 27 Oct 2011

Location: the tidal stretch of the River Wey

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Flood Alert

Christchurch Harbour

15:51 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: tidal stretches of the Lower Stour and Avon

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Flood Alert

North Devon Coast from Hartland Point to Lynmouth

15:09 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Coastal and tidal areas between Hartland Point and Lynmouth, including the Taw Torridge Estuary

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Flood Alert

Somerset Coast from Porlock to Avonmouth

11:11 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Coastline extending from Porlock to Avonmouth

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Flood Alert

Wye Estuary

13:14 on 27 Oct 2011

Location: Wye Estuary

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Flood Alert

Usk Estuary

13:07 on 27 Oct 2011

Location: Usk Estuary

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Flood Alert

South Pembrokeshire

20:42 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Rivers in south Pembrokeshire

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Flood Alert

Coast at North Morecambe Bay

15:41 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Coast at North Morecambe Bay

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Flood Alert

Coast from Gretna to Silloth

15:19 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Coastline from Gretna to Silloth

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Flood Alert

Mersey Estuary from Liverpool to Warrington

15:06 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: The Mersey Estuary area includes both sides of the estuary from Liverpool to Warrington

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Flood Alert

Low lying land by the Wyre estuary at Hambleton

14:07 on 26 Oct 2011

Location: Properties along Riverside Drive (and a Caravan Park), Kiln Lane and Wardley's Lane in Hambleton and Briskhouse land south of Cold Row.

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Flood Alert

Flood status last changed at 17:53 on 27 Oct 2011

Location:

North Norfolk Coast from Old Hunstanton to Weybourne

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These are updated here - http://www.environme...oods/31618.aspx

check to see if your river is still at risk since the above information, i did check a few of the above and they where at risk from water run off into rivers for the next 24hrs, so please check!

Edited October 27, 2011 by ElectricSnowStorm