Storm Babet

[Guest]

27mm of rain here since midnight and another 12 hours to come? Wind is strengthening too.

[alexisj9]

18 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Idiots in Brechin now complaining that they have lost everything as the river is in their house and now waiting to be rescued by the fire service in a boat.

After refusing to evacuate yesterday.

Putting emergency services at risk and wasting their time.

That really infuriates me, not the moaning about losing everything, although they had plenty of time to move things upstairs, unless you're in a bungalow, but actually staying when asked to evacuate. They knew this was coming. Everyone knew this was coming. Why ignore both a red warning, and the Scottish environment agency, what ever that is.

Edited October 20, 2023 by alexisj9

[richie3846]

Heavy overnight rainfall floods town roads and BLOCKS ALL TRAINLINES

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Roads have flooded across Swindon after heavy overnight rainfall as a result of Storm Babet.

 

50mm rain in 24h, and no weather warning? The ground is fully saturated in this area, and we've had another 35mm in a short few hours, flooding the railways for the second time in a week. 

[Saint coolio]

It’s so bad even the sea is flooding

 

[Snowshine]

52 minutes ago, cyclonic happiness said:

had around an inch of rain so far, but there is no warning for my area, and it looks like another inch to come or more during the day?

Yes more rain than expected here too, and I'm not convinced the next band of rain will miss the region entirely.

Edited October 20, 2023 by Snowshine

[ChezWeather]

Heavy rain here now, and it'll carry on for some time looking at the radar!

[FetchCB]

44 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Idiots in Brechin now complaining that they have lost everything as the river is in their house and now waiting to be rescued by the fire service in a boat.

After refusing to evacuate yesterday.

Putting emergency services at risk and wasting their time.

The issue I don't understand is that the Met Office issued a red warning on Wednesday Lunchtime ,so will have been briefing civil contingency ahead of that , and yet it took the local council 24 hours to order evacuations.

Surely in that lost 24 hours more time could have been spent not only convincing people to evacuate  but also giving them time to move valuable items upstairs.

[parhelion]

27 minutes ago, ChezWeather said:

Heavy rain here now, and it'll carry on for some time looking at the radar!

Yes it really looks set in now

[Freeze]

36 minutes ago, richie3846 said:

Heavy overnight rainfall floods town roads and BLOCKS ALL TRAINLINES

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Roads have flooded across Swindon after heavy overnight rainfall as a result of Storm Babet.

 

50mm rain in 24h, and no weather warning? The ground is fully saturated in this area, and we've had another 35mm in a short few hours, flooding the railways for the second time in a week. 

They must have ran out of weather warnings?

[Paul]

Some mind blowing and extremely concerning (radar estimated) rainfall totals in eastern Scotland. 254mm northwest of Stonehaven. 

Didn't expect to see the day where our 24 hour accumulation scale gets maxed out at over 250mm...

[webtone]

49 minutes ago, richie3846 said:

Heavy overnight rainfall floods town roads and BLOCKS ALL TRAINLINES

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Roads have flooded across Swindon after heavy overnight rainfall as a result of Storm Babet.

 

50mm rain in 24h, and no weather warning? The ground is fully saturated in this area, and we've had another 35mm in a short few hours, flooding the railways for the second time in a week. 

63mm  for the week so far and 31mm of that overnight  according to my station. The models didn't predict the position of  overnight rain well, quite a bit further south than predicted. Probably why no warnings...or no more space on the map! 

Edited October 20, 2023 by webtone

[Andrew Hurcomb]

UK weather warnings

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Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, snow, wind, fog and ice. Choose your location to keep up to date with local weather warnings.

Just updated  weather warning for  West Mids and Wales at 9.04am this morning. Its still chucking it down and quite dark here, Another hour or two of heavy rain. Better late than never

[matty40s]

I'm now off onto Blackpool from Northampton, have delayed my journey to make the most of the dry bit up the middle.

 

[ChezWeather]

Already seeing loads of reports of localised flooding on social media, radar really not looking good either!

[Midlands Ice Age]

I.ve recorded 31mms overnight added to the 25mms from Thursday night gives a total of 56mms in 36hrs in Sunny Solihull.

Its stopped for now as we are in the gap in the Midlands.

MIA

[WYorksWeather]

Looking at weather stations for the three cities it really doesn't look good in West Yorkshire.

Wakefield getting the worst of it so far.

 

[OddSpot]

30 minutes ago, ChezWeather said:

Already seeing loads of reports of localised flooding on social media, radar really not looking good either!

No doubt Horns Bridge will fall victim

Looks all red on google traffic heading to it

[weatherobsuk]

I know it's the Daily Mail, but at least it's live updates..

Storm Babet LIVE: Scotland gets rare red UK weather warning as woman swept to death and search begins for man trapped in floodwater | Daily Mail Online

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Storm Babet continued to wreak havoc across Britain today as the Met Office warned of a 'danger to life' amid forecasts for 70mph wind gusts and 10in (250mm) of rain.

 

[ChezWeather]

Intense rainfall here and the wind is gusting as well now, no sign of it stopping 

[MAF]

2 hours ago, matty40s said:

Idiots in Brechin now complaining that they have lost everything as the river is in their house and now waiting to be rescued by the fire service in a boat.

After refusing to evacuate yesterday.

Putting emergency services at risk and wasting their time.

I am sorry, but it's a bit harsh to call people 'idiots' because of staying put. My wife is partially disabled and moving out the house to sit it out, would be a hard option. had it been when my dog was around (a very large rotty) I too would have had to stay in my house as where do you go with a large dog that scares a lot of people (albeit it he was as gentle as a lamb). Also, some people just don't have that 'dunkirk' spirit and really do not want to mix with groups of people in a sheltered place without getting even more anxious, stressed, panicky etc. So i am not sure they are 'idiots'

anyway, lets hope there is no more loss of life and sincere condolences to all those affected by this.

Edited October 20, 2023 by MAF

[parhelion]

19 minutes ago, ChezWeather said:

Intense rainfall here and the wind is gusting as well now, no sign of it stopping 

Radar looks insane doesn't it? Just a conveyor belt of rain

[Jo Farrow]

1 hour ago, Andrew Hurcomb said:

UK weather warnings

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Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, snow, wind, fog and ice. Choose your location to keep up to date with local weather warnings.

Just updated  weather warning for  West Mids and Wales at 9.04am this morning. Its still chucking it down and quite dark here, Another hour or two of heavy rain. Better late than never

 

[mountain shadow]

Brechin flooding.  Some water height they.

 

[Jo Farrow]

Flood warnings this morning

[MAF]

Invermark

36 hour total to 20/10/2023 at 09:00 GMT : 158.8mm