Weather warning for Friday look odd - seems to be warning that the  sea and  a bit of the costal path is doing to get drenched 

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Expanding the map out a bit it "digs" further inland "oop North".

The coastal areas covered are for effect of wind and high tide.

Many coastal locations have a high tide on the 3rd. Portsmouth Harbour is at 5.0m at noon - about as high as it gets. Throw a SSW gale in and sea walls will top.

Pretty gusty here
Noticed that the neighbours daft trampoline thingy was "lifting off" on one side just now - luckily the wind direction makes it unlikely it will end up though one of my windows if it takes off completely !

I'm amazed (well actually I'm not!) at the lack of preparation some people take. OK, if you are going to lose your roof, you are going to lose your roof and there isn't much anyone can do about that - but you can certainly tie everything down in the garden so that you don't end up with a wheelie bin through the side of your conservatory (etc).

Going to be wet and very breezy here. especially mid day... 

Wind beginning to get quite strong here now, the old 40ft fir tree next door's getting a battering.

After last night's downpours and with massive surface water flooding already this morning, with GFS predicting a lot more rain to come including an environment ripe for more downpours tonight, I'm thinking the rain warning should be upgraded to amber!

A truly atrocious start to 2014 here. Got super-soaked last night  but had a good time even so 

I luckily escaped the downpours last night, and walkied home under a starlight sky around 12:30, however this morning  the wind is back and the rain has ben heavy and driving. since around 6 am. but it amazes me what the river Test which is my local river will take, I guess its just a well managed river aith a wide flood plain which hasnt been built over, Lots of surface water though.

Alan

Timsbury nr Romsey 

some really torrential stuff developing to the SW. If it gets here we are in trouble and certainly an Amber warning should be issued.

Already lots of surface flooding here

I don't understand what the Met Office are playing at. They updated their yellow warning at 2317 last night to increase the impact factor of today's storm due to increased expected rainfall totals. But at the same time they reduced the "likelihood" factor in their grid matrix which kept the warning at yellow. There can be no justification for that. The likelihood of today's event was if anything increasing not decreasing. Were they on the booze?

If they had just increased the impact element alone then the update last night would have immediately warranted an amber warning. Instead because of the bizzare way they dealt with the update it remained yellow. Given the already saturated ground and the amounts of rainfall expected today an amber warning is entirely justified IMO.

In my view the warning system has been rather discredited by the events of the last couple of months. In principle I think the system is a good one but the way it has been applied of late defies belief. There seems to be a real reluctance to upgrade from yellow warnings. Maybe this is because of criticism in the past when perhaps warnings were upgraded too much but two wrongs don't make a right.

A few gusts to around 50mph but it's the rain that's the story.

Surface water everywhere and a spell of heavy rain again approaching.

Some serious amounts of rain falling now, 20.8mm since midnight and still hammering down. Had a drive round a little earlier and there's a lot of surface water on the roads as most drains seem to be blocked, the river running through the town is rising pretty quick and looks as if it'll flood once again if this weather keeps going.

Blowing a gale again.  Gusts up to 52 mph at Langdon Bay, lashing rain.  Getting used to this now...

Latest here in the village, sustained 34mph, gust to 48.8mph

With plenty of rain, really quite a wild day out there!

That's Gusty's new pad

Looks like this rain is going to last until midnight for this area...