Amber warnings today

[Ohyoubadbadkitten]

NW
mentioned this in yesterdays thread, but really I should have bought it into its own thread. Looks pretty serious to be honest as there could be 100mm+ over densely populated areas. I hope that regional news stations have been highlighting the concern??

Arhhhh I'm taking my Guides camping tomorrow to a festival - suddenly not looking forward to it :(

oh dear hellsbells :( (hope its not the IOW!!!!!) looks quite wild saturday night, depending on where you are going. If it is in the NW then I'd check that your field isnt under water.

In Cheshire. Better pack the wellies and waterproofs!

eep.
Do check ahead that it is still safe!

I'm in Lancashire. The rain is horrendous and relentless.

Seriously not looking forward to a 25 mile round trip school run later.

DS is on a beavers sleepover. They're in a barn but still

Helena, probably worth checking your local radio station website to see if they have road closures due to flooding. ( or perhaps twitter). Take care. I suspect you have set off already though?

How is everyone else doing?

Guides festival is cancelled - unpacking tents! Have notified all parents. Will treat myself to a G & T later I think ;)

I'm unsurprised. But what a pain for you! Better though than trenchfoot.

I heard about the guide festival cancellation on the news and thought about you hellsbells.

It's brighter here but still raining, although not as heavy as earlier. The environment agency has issued a flood warning for Preston as the rainfall will hit the river at the same time as high tide - not a good combination.

eeeeeew, it chucked it down during school pick up. Luckily we were allowed to wait in the classrooms until it died down but within 5 mins it started again.

I drove part of the way and the sound of rain on the roof was deafening.

I hate this weather .

Site is apparently very flooded hence cancellation. Next time I will plan indoor holiday ;)

Severe flooding at Prestonpans means the East Coast railway line is down... Which is not great as I am stuck at Edinburgh Waverley waiting for my train back to London.

Oh that's a bit rubbish mooncup. Is there another route you can take? ( do you need us to look anything up for you?)

I just had a look at routes. Tricky! There's a sleeper service at 23:40 that goes into Easton but no idea which route it takes.

Easton! Stupid thing, euston.

Just looked up what the issue is.
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You poor soul. I hope you've found a solution.

Thanks OYBBK, how nice of you! After two and a half hours we are maybe 20 miles south of Edinburgh, but the train is now about to inch cautiously over the flooded section so I'm hoping (perhaps over-optimistically) to be home soon after midnight.

How's the forecast looking over the next week?

Hope you get home ok mooncup. The sleeper takes the west coast line iirc and goes via Glasgow. We caught the sleeper from Preston to Inverness last year. I had romantic notions of travel a la 1940s but DD was travel sick. All night.

I'm in Northern Ireland, it's been raining here since Wednesday night.

Is it the same weather front?

When will it stop?!

my daughter (teacher) is supervising a DofE expedition in E Lancs tonight. Rain was torrential all afternoon, & they had to be mini-bussed for the last bit, but remained cheerful last I heard.

Finishing early tomorrow though - their parents will be relieved!

Still looking unsettled mooncup :( however, we might sneak in a pleasant couple of days at the beginning of the week.

Athing. It is. You should get a bit of a break hopefully from Sunday afternoonish I think.

It had been awful here since Wednesday evening, east manchester. we are supposed to be attending a big outdoor party tomorrow afternoon and the torch is coming through on Sunday and we really want to go and see it.

I know a few hours ago the local river, Tame, was about a half inch off record levels! It's actually stopped raining for now but it's still unsettled an very grey and heavy looking.

OYBBK We're supposed to be on an outing to Spurn Point tomorrow. Will we be blown/washed into the North Sea ?