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?
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