And even then it' s further West than this part of the SW. I think it's the speed of the system that's caught people out with just a relatively short intense spell of rain. Wales is getting a pasting though as was Devon but seems to be easing from there now.

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Raining properly here now, I would class it as "peeing it down".

Actually, it's now quite heavy.

EDIT: And it's stopped. Got 2.7 mm out of this cloudburst.

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Yes, Cardiff Westwards seems to be getting plenty

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Is anyone noticing this strange multilayered effect at the rear end of this rainbelt as it moves into Kent showing up on Raintoday's radar?

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Raining quite steady here now and getting quite breezy, dull and damp afternoon instore

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An hour and a half of moderate rainfall here. About twenty mins of that you'd describe as heavy. Now cleared. Certainly nothing of note at all. A glance at the radar suggests the real rain went west of here across Wales.

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Heavy bursts of rain here now.

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It is raining as the eastern end of that rain belt passes over Kent. It is nothing too special (moderate with the occasional tropical-like blobby stuff) and yet the radars are showing a very intense core between Folkestone and Dover!
  Still, every little helps as we do need the rain anyway.

There is that noteable dip in temperatures as it went from 17.2 C an hour ago to 15.7 C currently. 95% humidity.

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According to radar raining here now - but still waiting
Martin

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Rain moved from this area now...

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Certainly for CS areas, the narrow band moving quite quickly North has underwhelmed respective of modelled amounts.
Not over yet though for the NW and totals will accumumlate here.
Then we have the (still forecast) area moving into CS, SE and EA overnight. We shall see, but my philosophy is always not to be too critical until after the event.

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I agree, Neil, about not criticising until after the event.

That said, I'm wondering whether the band forecast for the far SE tonight might end up further west...

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Indeed, as the POTENTIAL will still be there in the next 12 or so hours. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and keeping my eyes peeled on the radars for some photogenic night time lightning later on this evening even though it isn't all nailed on.

Yours eternally optimist, Ian D J.   

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Bust (so far) for this area. Winchester has received 0.5mm today. As we are still in the plume it will be interesting to see if this can be salvaged later

Dry now, not much at all from today's event

A large area of drier weather now across the South, maybe that is the lot?

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I wouldn't throw in the towel just yet as I'm using old fashioned eyesight and can see there being that "lifting" effect; as in cumulus rising from the base quite rapidly under this cirrostratus later.

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I'm keeping an eye out on this next pulse of rain currently SW of Brest which is showing on radar, looks quite heavy.

28mm here, much of it torrential under darkened skies. It was forecast to be 25-50 mm and the rain really started at 10 am, as forecast.

Just starting to rain heavily here, but it looks a narrow band and moving quite fast.

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Well for my area, that was a damp squib to say the least.

The warnings suggested 20-40mm of rain in my area, I recorded the grand total of 4mm.

I know there is possible showers on the way this evening, but it will have to go some to get anywhere near 20-40mm.

Fail IMBY - although I concede that the radar suggests it was rather wet to my west.

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Yes Marcus, for our back yard, this was a bit of a damp squib and a Met Office fail....However, it just seems to be the small matter of 40-50 miles west and we would have had a real soaking, so I'm not going to slate them TOO MUCH on this occasion.

50 miles is miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

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Well I'm well in the West and I only recorded 5mm from a 1 hr slot. Had over 8mm here yesterday so putting it in comparison with that today's event was a big fail. Some in authority must have egg on there faces this evening as the event was expected to be much more widespread. Just as I type the first sun of the day streams through the window. However, it's not necessarily over yet as the second swipe in the SW approaches looks quite lively too.

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Had a whole 1mm of rain here today (of which half fell overnight) - that's about 65% of 'average' and half what NAE predicted .....


Edit: currently looks like tomorrow's rain (which was always predicted to be the 'main event' here) will likely track a bit further west and mostly miss us too.

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7mm here from the forecast 20-40

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Two thorough and persistent drenchings this morning, one walking the dog into town at 11 am and another walking back. Both had torrential episodes lasting several minutes and anyone who claims the forecast for very lively downpours was a failure is welcome to come round and wring out the dog for evidence.

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