Lots of rain warnings

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Including amber for part of the south.

oo 35mph now. I think that might be close to my record measurement (had the super duper weather station for just over a year. I want to watch masterchef but I also want to watch this real time on my display and they are in different rooms.
oh and a gust of 33 followed by something crashing over. I expect the real wind speeds are gusting up to 50mph but im getting all confused with all my tabs open now.

Might be my wheely bin - ought to go and check!

dinosaurs, I would love to! its my favourite thing to do and real life keeps interfering! Its just a obsession hobby.

Going to check my bin!

It was our bin. All over the road

I Like this weather

(I dont like it for others though for who its being horrible and destructive for.)

Wow you are good kitten, it is now raining in northampton, any good with lottery numbers.

While I was attempting to write an explanation for you Dinosaurs, along came Kitten with something much better than I could. I think one of the problems with understanding the weather is that most of what gets presented to us is two-dimensional, just like a map of the land is. But just as the land isn't flat, neither is the weather. I kind of do a visualisation of low pressure areas as bowls, and high pressure areas as domes, which gives me some idea of the ups-and-downs of weather systems in the air above us. That is simplistic and not always helpful, but it gives me a starting point. (But please don't ask me about troughs - I'm still struggling to understand those. )

Here in southern Hampshire, we've just had fairly strong winds so far. That line on the rainfall radar really has been moving very slowly, but I think that by now it's not very far away from us.

There have been some amazing/worrying photos on the Daily Mail website. That newspaper might not be to everyone's liking, for all manner of reasons, but they do get lots of photos and videos sent in to them which tell the story somewhat better than the text. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235946/Great-Western-Canal-runs-DRY-embankment-collapses-torrential-rain-fierce-winds.html Some of those photos show how damaging this weather system is, especially in areas that are already waterlogged.

Thanks OYBK.

We are in South Somerset and its seems to be easing a bit here now. Not before the wind blew over fences and power lines, and the flooding is pretty bad too.

I see the maps the same way alci :)

yay pinkkoala! if I were good with lottery numbers Id be doing this full time!

gust to 39mph now. Waiting for local met office station to update with their highest gust.

amazing pictures!

tricksy you are now towards the back of it.

Lots of flooding here - the river hasn't been over so badly in our town since 2007, though they've done a lot of flood defence work since then so house should be safe.

Power lines down in nearby town, and loads of roads closed

ok I'm upgrading that to "bat shit crazy weather"

CMOT - I think that a lot of councils have done flood defence work over the last few years, which has worked well in protecting homes. But this time of year is difficult for councils because a lot of drains can get clogged up with leaves.

"Bat shit crazy weather" - that's a good description. I'm feeling a bit on edge, even though I'm not in a flood-prone area, because I can see from the nearest online weather station that the temperature has been pretty constant ever since around 10 a.m. today, which surely isn't normal for this time of year. The calm before the storm, I think.

The trouble for our town is that the river wraps round it, so places got directly flooded from the river (4.5 m above normal at last update). We've got wetlands established on one side to help water sink into the watermeadows, and a bank on the other to keep it in the fields, but the leisure centre may get wet again.

Flash flooding is a real issue, and prob will continue to be this winter as theres just nowhere for the rainfall to go as everything is sodden. I know the insurers are really worried about ut

Also - without wishing to give away my profession - the way that our landscape deals with flash floods and heavy downpours is hampered by the way in which we have over decades managed stormwater. We need to take a good hard look at ways to enable floodplains to deal with er, whats the word, floods. yup thats right.

Back to that DM link I have watched the canal bursting so many times, always wondered how the canals hold their banks but how the walkers who filmed it kept their nerve to keep filming I do not know, I would have been running like a banshee as fast as my wee legs could carry me.

It astonishes me how houses are still built in flood prone areas, with ridiculous mitigation such as 'residents should sign up to the EA flood warning system' as a planning provision!

Sorry to hear about your flood drmelons. Hope your temporary accommodation gets sorted quickly.

EA warnings for those worried and don't forget there is flood line.

Weather wise I wouldn't be worried other than residual flooding tomorrow looks to be a good clear up day. I'd make the most of it.

:) you are welcome!

CMOT and redwelly - I agree, it is about managing the versus the weather in a much better way than in the past. Where I live, the river is at the bottom of town along a fairly narrow swath of land, where there are water meadows and channels for water mills. But from thereon up, there's a lot of up, so over a large area of land there's a heck of lot of rain that goes down the roads at quite a rate. Keeping the stormwater drains freely running is quite a headache.

There's a lot of chalk around this area, which does help in absorbing rainfall, so we're quite lucky in that respect. It's much more a problem for people on clay soils.

redwelly - Much as I appreciated the video of the canal bursting its banks, because that does show the effect of the rainfall, I did think that those people standing so close were being numpties.

managing the land versus the weather - was what I meant

really about to out oneself its also about the way that the up land is managed, so to reduce the flashiness of valleys, holding water back using natural storage, reducing runoff down easy routes such as roads, rivers which should meander to reduce the energy in floodwater surges, lots of different elements which when brought together can reduce the risks. Ultimately though rivers flood, a river's natural function is to spill onto its floodplain every 1-3 years.

I do however sincerely hope that as few people are flooded as possible, and I'm genuinely sorry for those who have to deal with this type of event regularly.