Heavy Rain, Flooding, High Winds - 21st November onward

[Bobby]

It's quite concerning how rapidly the situation in the SW is worsening - the number of flood warnings is increasing every 15 minutes - there were 50 at 11pm, when it last updated at 23:25, there were 60.

There are now 105 flood warnings ("Flooding is expected. Immediate action required") and 207 flood alerts, blimey.

Rain has intensified here over the past hour or so, ~35mm has fallen so far.

Edited November 24, 2012 by Barb-

[124alex]

40mm here, and still pouring down!

[picog]

At least the rain has now cleared the western end of Cornwall, and some SW parts of Wales

Edited November 25, 2012 by picog

[peterf]

listening to radio Cornwall it sounds very bad down there.

[Paul T]

55mm in plymouth on Saturday, ref;

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/metnet

22mm in Portishead, mainly in last couple of hours. Flood warnings ever rising.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Paul T

[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.

[peterf]

fingers crossed for anyone caught up in this,you have my sympathy.

[sunny scunny]

Not too bad around here with only 10mm of rain so far.

[Raidan]

Earliar I was going to post about the weather being boring here,but in the last hour and a half once again for the third time in five days we are flooded,don't know what happened to the wind though just a bit of a breeze and that's it.

[peterf]

most of us can handle a bit of flooding around the area,it's when it affects your home it becomes an entirely different situation.

[stevofunnelcl]

reporting from westward ho, n devon

full day of rain, near the back edge of rain, wind has really picked up from north-west

coming in from sea

wind is roaring

after the rain, get ready for blow

[AWD]

The railway lines in the SW have all but shut down due to flooding.

Most roads are flooded, even trunk roads.

Haven't seen so much rain in a very very long time & there is another round to go tomorrow evening by the looks of it.

Constant reports here, on Ian Fergusson's twitter feed;

https://mobile.twitter.com/fergieweather/tweets

[MrSunshine]

Met Office "Be Prepared" Warning's been taken down off the website. Possibly upgrading to a Red in parts of the South West and Amber Warnings for other parts of the Country being issued I reckon.

[Sainsbo]

Met Office "Be Prepared" Warning's been taken down off the website. Possibly upgrading to a Red in parts of the South West and Amber Warnings for other parts of the Country being issued I reckon.

I was also thinking that. I know the warning was due to expire at midnight (I think) but with the rapidly increasing number of Severe/Flood Warnings they can't honestly believe this isn't sufficient of atleast an Amber Warning still.

[The PIT]

I've just walked home and what the radar is showing and what is happening is completely different. I'm hardly wet so perhaps I got lucky.

Roads look like the monsoon has happened but all the drains are blocked so surprise.

I think I got lucky walking home.

[MrSunshine]

They must be revising their warnings for the overnight period, Wales was under an Amber Warning and there is still about 6 hours of rainfall to come through from what I can see so expect to see new Warnings issued imminently.

[Sainsbo]

I think the Midlands might be under a higher warning that what it was under. GFS shows a large part of the midlands getting 40+mm of rain into the early hours.

[The PIT]

Well according to the davis its 6 mm an hour here and it's just jumped up.

Looking at the radar it looks like 2007 here when Sheffield got flooded. Difference it's not stalled and the radar is over doing it.

[The PIT]

I'm guessing we've had between 15 and 25 mm here so far.

[Fujita Pearson Scale]

A recent video upload from tonight's flooding in the south west

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[Zenarcher]

Across the Southern coasts are reporting mainly gusts over 40mph. Some places are gusting over 50mph though. The low is currently situated over Southern England and should continue to move in a NE direction. Wind speeds will continue to increase through tonight and into the morning.

[Evening thunder]

A recent video upload from tonight's flooding in the south west

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Not surprised at that, I'm about 8-10 miles NE of Exmouth and today (yesterday now) according to my Davis i had 67mm of rain :o never expected that much.

Never seen the flooding quite so bad just down the lane either! pretty bad outside my house too. (am at home this weekend)

Just up the lane and round the corner a big wall 12ft tall by 30ft long at a rough guess collapsed into the road! taking fences and the edge of someones garden with it!

also saw flashing lights a bit like distant fireworks and odd pops/bangs i didn't know what were, and later a very bright flash and pop from across the valley (presumably electric). Now the River Otter is flooded a lot and rising.

Rain just kept being very heavy over this area this evening and finished with a truly torrential downpour (heaviest anywhere on radar)

A few rivers in Devon seem to be at record levels (since whenever gauging station set up)

Off to bed now hopefully some pics to upload in the morning.

[TheToastPeople]

The river behind my house is getting higher by the hour and its been raining over 12 hours now! Cant wait to see the floods tomorrow!

[Snow and storms]

it's easily gusting over 60mph in Hastings, this thing seems stronger than forecast, the pressure is 987 already

[Chris D]

988mb (apparently, according to my old weather station) here and falling rapidly. Expecting very strong gusts later this morning.

Edit: Think the pressure could be a wee bit low, maybe add a few mb haha.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Chris D