South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[Andy Bown]

23 minutes ago, DaveL said:

It's gone up from 8 to 10 degrees here since the rain eased off an hour ago. Positively warmfrontesque it is!

Whereas to the NW area of the LOW it’s now 3c.

17 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Worst drive home in a long time. Roads flooded, torrential rain and when I drove over 200m it turned to snow. 

Evaporative cooling at play for sure.

[Bristawl Si]

Another fail from Meto for this afters/eve.

Charlie boy on local news yday eve, showed rain affecting area south and east of Bristol. It's been chucking it down last 3 hours.

[Wiltshireweatherwatcher]

Awful conditions out there. Started here around 1pm and hasn’t stopped. Very persistent.

Must be very close to an Amber with the amount of rain we’ve had and the amount that’s currently still falling now.

I think there will be some items on the news tomorrow featuring our region following today’s rain.

[warmintim]

Driving home from Bath to Warminster I’d swear it was trying to sleet but the temps were 5 deg C. Certainly the worst rain for a while. Roll on a cold dry spell.

[ThundersnowDays]

worst flooding I can remember on the roads tonight, every road has become a river, no one can get anywhere, chaos!

[FlightlessWings]

Finally the rain has stopped. Drove to Trowbridge at 5pm and the lanes were already covered in surface water. Some houses in our village have flooded I believe and our lane is under a few inches of water. Fingers crossed it will have receded by the time the sun rises. 

[chapmanslade]

3 hours ago, Bristawl Si said:

Another fail from Meto for this afters/eve.

Charlie boy on local news yday eve, showed rain affecting area south and east of Bristol. It's been chucking it down last 3 hours.

Was the Met Office yellow warning (including Bristol) not enough for you?

Not sure who 'Charlie boy' is but Ian Fergusson @fergieweather on the BBC Points West was clear about the warning and about the uncertainty over how far north the rain would get. Far from a 'fail'

Edited January 4 by chapmanslade

[Kiwi]

Chaos around my village with 3 of the four routes out cut by flooding. Numerous cars abandoned......and raining again!

Reports of M3 closed due to flooding and main railway line from Basingstoke to Winchester blocked due to a landslip at Micheldever.

Landslip on railway blocks all lines on route amid heavy rain

WWW.HAMPSHIRECHRONICLE.CO.UK

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A landslip has blocked all lines on a Hampshire rail route

Flooding hits Hampshire closing roads including M3 and A31

WWW.BASINGSTOKEGAZETTE.CO.UK

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Road closures have affected a number of major roads in Hampshire as flood water strikes

 

 

Edited January 4 by Kiwi

[matt111]

Just now, Kiwi said:

Chaos around my village with 3 of the four routes out cut by flooding. Numerous cars abandoned......and raining again!

Reports of M3 closed due to flooding and main railway line from Basingstoke to Winchester blocked due to a landslip at Micheldever.

Landslip on railway blocks all lines on route amid heavy rain

WWW.HAMPSHIRECHRONICLE.CO.UK

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A landslip has blocked all lines on a Hampshire rail route

Flooding hits Hampshire closing roads including M3 and A31

WWW.BASINGSTOKEGAZETTE.CO.UK

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Road closures have affected a number of major roads in Hampshire as flood water strikes

 

Just seen the M27 is closed for about 15 miles too because of flooding. 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

It's mental out there!!

[nettie]

Lots of reports this morning of roads being  flooded.  Safe journeys everyone today . 

[Andy Bown]

Yes it’s chaos locally, not as bad as last night but plenty of issues! Of course some of it has ‘absolutely nothing to do with new housing on floodplain fields next to rivers’ !!!!!!!!

[Wiltshireweatherwatcher]

Now it’s getting light, the full extent of the flooding caused by yesterday’s rainfall will begin to become clearer. 

Latest report from the BBC Points West region:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-67889651

[festivalking]

Please please yesterday the last deluge for a while! I saw that corfe castle had flooding. Know that stretch well.

Overnight low of 1.9c. Looking ahead Tuesday for our region looks particularly cold.  Certainly an ice day for the moors.

[nettie]

Just seen this for around my area.

[Dorsetbred]

Morning All, still some local flooding, but in the main things are moving again. The overnight low of 3.2°C at: 08:27 has risen to 6.0°C, RH95% with a light breeze in from the N, with some pleasant warming sunshine, to dry things out a tad.

From Above

On Golden sands a fine looking morning

[matt111]

Mostly sunny so far today. It’s been a long time since I’d have last been able to say that. 

[Rich_Clements]

Nice to see a bit of sunshine this morning on my bike ride into work, feeling a little more chilly than of late but that is a good trade off from all of this incessant rain.

 

I am meant to be doing something in Tewkesbury tomorrow which is going to be interesting as the Town is near enough an island at the moment.

[Dorsetbred]

Thar she goes..

3 hours ago, Rich_Clements said:

Nice to see a bit of sunshine this morning on my bike ride into work, feeling a little more chilly than of late but that is a good trade off from all of this incessant rain.

 

I am meant to be doing something in Tewkesbury tomorrow which is going to be interesting as the Town is near enough an island at the moment.

Waders?

[FlightlessWings]

Nice to see a sunset again! I forgot how beautiful they can be . 

[Mapantz]

5.6 hours of sunshine today. That is the most hours since November 25th.

I power washed all of my  paths/patios today. They got very slippery with algae and slimy shizz growing. 

A satisfying 4 hours!

[matt111]

Was nice to have a sunset with almost clear sky although the cloudier ones can be nice as proved one day last week. Also because of that it stayed light just that bit longer which was quite noticeable. 

[Bristawl Si]

19 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

5.6 hours of sunshine today. That is the most hours since November 25th.

I power washed all of my  paths/patios today. They got very slippery with algae and slimy shizz growing. 

A satisfying 4 hours!

Hmm...need to do ours over next couple of days. Normally, do them once/year around mid-March/early April ready for Spring and Summer, but the wet few months since end Summer means they're bad and v slippy right now.

[Dorsetbred]

Now THAT looks like a dry spell!

[Andy Bown]

Raining. Again.