Heavy rain and SE gales here at the moment!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn481.gif

I'd say Sat storm is slowly downgrading. Gusts around 70mph S Ireland, SW Eng but elsewhere, closer to 50-60mph i.e a regular wet/windy system.

Once the rain band clears, it should become dry for many C and E areas:

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It will probably just be a wet night, brightening skies, drier C and E areas with scattered showers W and N. Blowy and gusty but certainly nothing too out of the ordinary... IMHO and based on what I am seeing.

Of course, flooding is the issue on the saturated ground but in its own right, it seems like a regular wet/windy system. The problems appear to be the cumulative effect of the frequency of Lows. From a weather 'excitement' p.o.v (as an enthusiast), it seems to be vastly overhyped. The worst hit areas will sadly suffer the most i.e SW. The rest of us will get off quite lightly and no doubt, some of us, will be left wondering what all the fuss was about....

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Things have changed somewhat over here - we're now mobilised tomorrow, to Bridge, nr Canterbury, to help flood victims. Gotta be up and ready to go by 7:15am. Should be an interesting day, to say the least!

I've walked to Ramsgate and back today, and everywhere you look it's just water (apart from the sea, obviously 😉. On the way there, I saw the Ramsgate Lifeboat returning. Probably one of many shouts in the last/next few days I should imagine.

 

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...so the land is more watery than the sea??

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intresting cell developent in Wales over the last hour or so thats is hammering it down

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

 

 

Bridge is near to my folks (yhey're in Womeswold) - they often go down the Duke's Head for a meal.. how is that part looking??

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Sunday's meto FAX looks a bit ominous for southern districts. Another spell of wet and windy weather sunday night (in an already stormy weekend picture) but with some quite cold air wrapped up in the system . Thats all before the potential 'wintry' storm on Tuesday.

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Some more incredible waves some look like tsunamis. Think we were lucky no one got killed!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26070143 

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10mm so far from this event.

Any reports from Pembrokeshire? That was quite a long-lived extreme area of ppn over that area in the last hour or so.

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Dry all day and now some light mizzle up here... it's another world! We've only had 65mm so far this year!

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Cycled back from work (Sevenoaks) via the lanes and through the Medway Valley tonight - localised flooding all over the place with extensive run off from the fields. Pretty much all the drainage ditches were full and the road over Hartlake Bridge nr Golden Green flooded to about 1.5feet or so (or just a little below my knees on the bike). Most cars didn't risk going through although clearly one person had tried and had to abandon the car.

Few more localised bits of flooding further on including around a fortunately small scale flood of around 2 foot underneath the Paddock Wood line rail bridge and a smaller flood near the Dovecote in Tudeley.

According to the rain gauge at home we've had about 16mm today - so wet but not biblical, just shows how much water is in the system already. With further rain to come and more looking likely next week I suspect they'll be further localised flooding issues for a while yet.

 Edit: The current River levels for the Medway aren't that bad where I ent through, although expect them to shoot up a fair bit. It's the run off from the fields in to the already full ditches that's causing the flooding at the moment. With there being no where for the water to go really it's just spilling out all over the place.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/136485.aspx?stationId=1074

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The Environment Agency has issued 13 new flood warnings in the south-east since 7pm this evening. This includes 2 warnings that cover Gatwick Airport (the River Mole and Gatwick stream). Lets hope we don't see a repeat of the flooding before Christmas at the airport which caused chaos.

only about 10-15mms so far but once again seen surface run off into the garden from neighouring fields, rising our "draining ditch" from an inch to 6 inches within a couple of hours. With another 10mms easily tonight, plus the rain on saturday, and then the feature on the fax for sunday, our relatively dry area of the country is gonna be drowning!

Some amazing stats from the Met Office here

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/uks-exceptional-weather-in-context/

In southeast and central southern England, Dec 2013 and Jan 2014 was the wettest any 2 month period in a series going back to 1910. In this region it is probably the most exceptional period of winter rainfall in at least 248 years.

From 12 Dec to 31 Jan parts of southern England saw 5 months worth of rainfall.

I'll give an update tomorrow if I can - going by reports so far, it looks like we'll be in the Barham area to help residents affected by the river Nailbourne. Not sure if I'll be able to get online when out tomorrow, but will try and tweet/fb updates if I can, that someone may be able to relay back to here.

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Cheers! I think the Duke is in Barham, not Bridge. Just glad they're up high on the N Downs.

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Very nearly an inch so far today here. 0.92 in fact. It seems to me that things are going to elevate to a whole new level of seriousness should the weekend's weather pan out as forecast

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Radar shows an intense area of rain heading for MBY, local rivers were at tipping point this morning god only knows what they will be like in the morning

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