Interesting weather here at the minute - sleet and wet snow flakes coming down, temp steadily dropping. Currently bang on 2.0C. So that makes it 4 days so far of falling snow here this Winter but no settling snow so far. Just looked at the webcam for the M62 summit @about 400m asl and the grass is white.

So they say its the wettest since 1876/77.

The winter of 1875/76:

1875-76: Amazingly snowy winter for the UK, especially the South East early on, the first week of December dumped 1-2ft in some places, worst in the South East. March of this month had many snowstorms, and April recorded nearly 2ft of snow in the Midlands! Snowfall was  recorded (on a notable scale), in November, December, January, February, March, April, and May! I would regard this winter as very snowy

Similiar to last winter i see lol.

The winter following 76/77 was obviously non descript as nothing has been mentioned.

Okay so the winter or 1878/ 79

1878-79: Another snowy one! In the north, snow cover remained for 3 months! Snow  recorded in November, December, January, February, March and April! Very snowy

okay so not exact but similar in ways, i wonder if history could be repeating itself lol.

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=winter-history;sess%3D

Lashing down in Basingstoke and has been for some time.

This event has done exactly what was expected to those areas that don't need it down here.

I find it frustrating that people call events downgrades and non-events well before these things come to an end

Agree Dave, it seemed that we weren't going to get a drenching here but it has beem lashing down for some time and radar shows we have a few hours of this left.

The Beeb called this right from as early as Tuesday

In the dry slot here. Seems a bit strange looking at the radar to see others getting pasted not far from here

Reading in the local rag that a bloke (not that far from me) who runs an equestrian centre has seen it under water for 50 consecutive days. 

Picked up in the last half hour after a brief dry slot.

That's a slow moving piece of crap.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/lib/template/spacer.gif

We had something similar here in Dublin on Tuesday.

I love a downpour or a good rainy soft day.

 But,bloody hell .(more on the way,here,and for you guys)

Will it ever end?.

Still lashing it down and heavy at that

Chucking it down here as well, 17.4mm today the most rain I have had in 1 day for 5 years. Lots more to come before 9am.

Winchester's contribution from the latest low pressure was 24.9mm

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/royaume-uni/accumulation-precipitations/192h.htm

Winchester will have a "great deal to contribute" over the next week or so...

Incredibly it is STILL raining has been for most of the night

They're getting used to it....as am I - not seen anything like it in my lifetime

32mm so far and its still raining.This is a measurment from when it started raining yesterday.Will have to check out the local rivers later and get some photographs.

One of our local streams has beaten its all time highest recordings set in febuary 2009 whe we had a thaw and the a intense low pressure leading to a recording of 1.51 metrers.This morning we reached 1.72.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/136490.aspx?stationId=7340

Fresh westerly first thing, and sleet on the windscreen on the way in, around Farnham on the A31, temp at 3.5 degrees.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/Controls/RiverLevels/ChartImage.jpg?Id=1299&ChartType=Graph

Soaring past the record levels... I think that's the one through the Canal section in the heart of Salisbury - must be quite the sight!

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/Controls/RiverLevels/ChartImage.jpg?Id=1319&ChartType=Graph

Downstream, in Ringwood - and the other side of my home location - there is also a record event taking place.

Yet bizzarely, my local river station has reported no change in river height at all over the past 48 hours... apart from a sudden drop of 2-3cm around noon yesterday. I wonder if some kind of flood defence was activated... makes no sense though as there was no evidence of such a thing back in early January!

I have noticed, though, that some areas north of Salisbury reported less than 20mm for yesterday, which looks to be a result of the main masses of rain tracking NE through my home location and then on through places such as Reading (where I'm currently at), seemingly sparing places such as Andover from the worst of the rain.

Still, close to 20mm is a substantial event when you've had over 24mm across the preceeding two days... the River Avon behaviour near Fordingbridge remains a mystery then!

Official UK wettest 9pm to 9pm yesterday was Wiggonholt in W Sussex (the RSPB reserve near Pulborough) at 28.6mm

Is that Bridge near Canterbury, Budz?

I've now recorded 46% of my annual average rainfall here since 12 Dec.