a few unstable cells to our s/w imagine how stormy that must feel in such high seas

http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html

Very high tides and massive waves in Dawlish this evening. The sea breached the main road and a side road (marine parade) was flooded to around 3 feet. 

Part of Dawlish station has collapsed with a large section of sea wall collapsed damaging the railway track further. There had already been damage on Monday which had cancelled the trains (this is the mainline to Cornwall) until Friday but it now is becoming apparent it will be much longer now. 

Can see a short video here of the waves breaking over the road (and a taxi driver). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQR4y-wWlU8

Not much wind here though Rob, just heavy rain

The low is still located south-west Ireland. It's not done yet

Gusting to around 40-45mph from the SSE here. Just 0.4mm rainfall here so far. The radar would suggest more than this though. 

Horrendous - most of Guernsey east coast flooded.  Amazing images and videos (if you don't leave along the coast)... We live in the second highest part of the island, so luckily ok.

https://www.facebook.com/gsyweather/posts/1458245597721437

https://www.facebook.com/gsyweather/posts/1458239764388687

We've had roughly half the event so far according to the models.

Overnight my home location saw 18mm and Reading saw over 20mm, so it's been a more substantial event around here. The models have always showed it being wettest for the southernmost counties.

As usual, convective rainfall organised into 'chains' of merged showers, which then brought a lot more rain to some areas than others. My home location actually avoided most of those, whereas Reading caught three of them - with that in mind, Reading might in fact have seen over 25mm. It was so noisy last night that I had trouble getting to sleep and was woken again sometime between 4 and 6am.

It will be interesting to see just how much surface water is out there - even before the event started there was still a fair bit of standing water from previous events.

Sometimes a vast accumulation of surface water has threatened to block my route to the university buildings - could this be the day that does it?

The system overnight brought just 3mms of rain but the second system in the SW looks much more potent as it was forecast to be for the East Midlands this afternoon an inch of rain possible by the end of the day.

Horrendous for the SW, it is bad enough here with fields flooded , front after front en route

It's has gone very dark here, wind has increased, and after a short interlude it's began sending it down again...

another low for Saturday by the looks  it.. Lovely weekend again...No respite ....

Last nights frontal band gave 4.0mm..rather less than expected.

The main problem for south coast dwellers will be the heavy convective nature of the rain in between weather systems during the next week or so.

The fax charts clearly show a wrap round occlusion which is coming across the SW now. The winds associated with that may well be stronger locally than those experienced last night. It was a windy night although not exceptional.

Local rainfall was significant but I am more concerned by tomorrows feature

Indeed Dave. The winds have really started to power up here in the last 10 minutes or so as they take on a more SSW'ly direction. Tomorrows rain is of concern. It has the potential to be disastrous with progged totals in the 20-30mm range across a large area of the south and parts of the SE being consistently modelled.

Yes, the wind has suddenly picked up. I expect my patch up job on the fencing and guttering will not last long!

My fencing and guttering needs doing too. I'll do the guttering but the fencing will have to wait to do a proper job on it

Fww we're heading to the south coast shortly. Probably around Barton or Southbourne as high tide is due around midday. Should be a photo opportunity

Seeing those photos of Dawlish is so heartbreaking. What has that lovely part of the world done to deserve this? One can only imagine what is going through the minds of the townsfolks, it's going to be years before that sense of normality will sink in . . .




Over here, indeed there is this gale-force southerly wind (my favourite weather type, not) but thankfully the saving grace is that after the 3.2 mm of rain last night (unless the rain kept blowing over the mouth of the gauge), it is has been quite bright and dry all morning. But, it seems our luck may run out tomorrow.