Southwest & Central Southern England Regional Discussion

[A.J]

latest NWx radar grab for our region....awful, just awful....torrential rain pushing back N/NE into Som/Wilts

[littlemissy]

Rainband, why must you pivot here!!!!!! LOL

The winds should come in the early hours as the rain begins to clear. Well that's my understanding of it anyway.

Thank you for updating.

[Wivenswold]

Just stopped raining now after over 11hrs of heavy rain, it's been like being subjected to water torture with the torrents pouring off next doors gutters, the slience now is golden. Good luck upstream, it will stop evantually

National Rail website is reporting a landslide at Dawlish.

[AWD]

National Rail website is reporting a landslide at Dawlish.

There is a landslide at Dawlish Warren & another at St Bordeaux near Plymouth, closing the only railway line in Devon. lol.

Flooding on the Falmouth branch & St Ives branch, along with flooding near Exeter & Honiton closing the railway lines here too.

Flooding at Chipping Sodbury, Flax Bourton & Cwmbran closing the railway lines around this area too.

Basically, don't catch a train to the SW in the next couple of days as our railway has shut down here.

[littlemissy]

latest NWx radar grab for our region....awful, just awful....torrential rain pushing back N/NE into Som/Wilts

Sounds awful.I'm in Somerset not far from Taunton to my north and exeter to my south.I guess that the rain will push back down into Weston??I'm hopeless with directions (if you didn't realise).

ooo update on Sky news, perranporth residents told to move out because of danger to life.

Torrential rain still in Plymouth and Exter(30 mins away from me ) and Exmouth cut off .Poor people.Heart goes out to them.

Edited November 24, 2012 by littlemissy

[Skip Spence]

latest NWx radar grab for our region....awful, just awful....torrential rain pushing back N/NE into Som/Wilts

Hi. Just down the hill (Lyneham Banks) from you in Dauntsey Vale. Seems to be pepping up again now after a quieter spell earlier. Avon flows at the bottom of my garden; highest I've seen it last Wednesday but in truth it's been high regularly since April. A dry spell would be much appreciated for sure.

[124alex]

Oh my god I have a river going down the road that i come out on! Its incredible to see to be honest as i have never seen flooding this close to home being high up! It must be bad lower down below the hills!

i have a river flowing down the road i come out onto too! 40mm so far and still raining. how long is the rain due to fall until?

Edited November 24, 2012 by 124alex

[Chris K]

Ian Fergusson â€@fergieweather

"W COUNTRY Heaviest rain currently stretches S to N from Lyme Bay up central Somerset across N Som, W Bristol into S Glos to Thornbury area"

Confirming as our local BBC forecaster says above...it really is terrible outside - there's surface flooding on the roads here and local stream has overflowed its banks but luckily any houses nearby are well out of reach. Only the footpath has disappeared.

I'm lucky to be living on the higher side of my town. The local flood plains a couple of miles out are going to look bad in the morning pretty sure of it...

[124alex]

i have a river flowing down the road i came out onto too! 40mm so far and still raining. how long is the rain due to fall until?

delete please.

[Wilxy]

wow the rain is pivoting on top of us plus the north movement has slowed down alot so could well still rain till 3am.

[AWD]

I live on the A320 and its currently a river flowing down into Bitton now.

Haven't seen this much rain in a very very long time.

[Jason T]

Crazy really, We all look for the wildest of weather,yet when it really happens in its extreme,Different cards are really on the table. Im sure i speak for everyone on this whole site for you in the SCSE Thread. Stay safe and sit tight.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20farm&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQtwIwBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF7MwXniOD44&ei=oWCxUIflOeiG0AWFy4H4Bw&usg=AFQjCNE-XMooZj7XnTr-4ZYM2NHxD6FZvA

[Nights King]

i have a river flowing down the road i come out onto too! 40mm so far and still raining. how long is the rain due to fall until?

3am ish I think although It really is shocking how much rain we are getting at the moment... I thought early evening it wasn't too bad and that the warnings were a little over hyped because of the saturated ground etc but just look at that radar I think I should start building an arc soon! Its crazy out side! Lets just hope we can get the same kind of volume when it comes to our next snow event...

[Bobby]

Not even into tomorrow evening before more heavy rain and a rash of heavy showers move in to the same areas, perhaps another inch in places, over a short time too potentially. Not good.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Barb-

[AWD]

Being so engrossed in this event, I haven't seen/looked at any forecast for tomorrow & Monday. A quick scan through the 18z GFS suggest more heavy rain tomorrow night?

http://cdn.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20121124/18/27/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20121124/18/30/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20121124/18/33/ukprec.png

Surely we aren't having a round 3 or 4 tomorrow night?

[Fujita Pearson Scale]

Posting from Suffolk......

My thoughts are with all the people living in low lying areas in the SW and Wales tonight. This event will go down in history....... it's extreme.

FPS

[Zephyr]

Being so engrossed in this event, I haven't seen/looked at any forecast for tomorrow & Monday. A quick scan through the 18z GFS suggest more heavy rain tomorrow night?

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/27/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/30/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/33/ukprec.png

Surely we aren't having a round 3 or 4 tomorrow night?

Another severe flood warming for Bolingey Stream from Bolingey to Perranporth. Looking at them charts I have to say this doesn't look good for the South West / South.

[Nights King]

38mm so far today...

[fUnKy]

Haha! I did exactly the same thing a couple of years ago before I knew what it was all about

Sacramento is a strange place if I remember rightly ... well it's either that or the South African Clinical Research Association

Edit - but we are a bunch of extremely nutty storm chasers as well

lol.. that too..

So as an extremely nutty storm chaser I take it you've been running around like a South African Clinical Research Associate today... It's been a bit wet!

I'll have to get me some of those digits.

[Chris K]

Being so engrossed in this event, I haven't seen/looked at any forecast for tomorrow & Monday. A quick scan through the 18z GFS suggest more heavy rain tomorrow night?

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/27/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/30/ukprec.png

http://cdn.nwstatic....8/33/ukprec.png

Surely we aren't having a round 3 or 4 tomorrow night?

Don't think it is meant to be as bad as today BUT obviously we really don't need anymore rain in the near future!!!

Average precipitation 1971-2000 for November for our area is approx 50-60mm apparently. I'm sat at 155mm so far.

And other areas in the SW evidently have it worse than me..

Edited November 25, 2012 by Chris K

[AWD]

The river Avon at Strensham lock normally;

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8f8PT0CMAE3D4S.jpg

And currently;

http://t.co/WtbakCoV

Yikes!

[fUnKy]

Been nuts today... Plymouth has been crazy wet (and this is from someone living in a place that is used to wet)

All the storm drains were overflowing. Thank god I live up the hill from the Plym estuary. Feel for those that live near the rivers today.

[Dean E]

My thoughts are with the people in the SW... this is really an extreme and once in a 20 or so year event. Don't out unless you really have to and stay safe and alert!

Wishing I could share some of my dryness that we are currently seeing along the South Coast, but its also been rather wet here too with 33mm of rain here, but no where near as bad as you guys!

Stay safe

SM

[Wilxy]

Tomorrow morning will reveal how bad things are.

[fUnKy]

The river Avon at Strensham lock normally;

https://pbs.twimg.co...PT0CMAE3D4S.jpg

And currently;

http://t.co/WtbakCoV

Yikes!

woah.. that's a lot of water.