Manchester Ship Canal has overflowed its banks at Irlam Locks

https://mobile.twitter.com/lorna_hoy/status/680757801724067841/photo/1

Christ lived in Irlam for years, never known that before !!

Thanks for this thread, good reports

I,m on the other side of the front

East Wind 7c - approaching 40mm rainfall since 0900hrs yesterday. 29mm since midnight.

funny, I think you should check the charts. Within 72 hours the pressure will be rising by about 50mb+ over Scandinavia. Europe is on the cusp of a major pattern change. The only thing that is in doubt is whether its effect reaches as far west as the British Isles. 

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

More pulses of heavy rain funnelling into NW England in the next few hours.  Not good

OK thanks - if you could PM me the source I can ask them :)

https://www.facebook.com/bev.dickinson.3?pnref=story

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2015-12-26/flood-water-rips-hole-in-side-of-pub-in-haworth/

Still rising.

 Really hope we can get high pressure in for the New Year. Who cares if it doesn't get cold? A bit of respite from the rain is desperately needed for those further north  Some really frightening pictures coming in 

I just can't imagine how life-affecting floods like this are, never mind that it's Christmas, too. Just awful 

Many thanks!

My sympathies are with all those people in Lancashire & Yorkshire (and probably Cumbria) who have been affected by this awful flooding. I only hope that no-one from this forum has been affected.

Weather, please change and be quick about it!

here here

It's been wet and where it hasn't flooded from the river it's flooded from run off from the high ground. No escape.

Any more photos of the Aire Bar in Leeds.

Probably totally flooded by now. That entire area of town is underwater. This is Wellington Street, about 300 metres from the River Aire.

From what I've heard they've had to leave the building

What is the latest levels now on the River Aire.

https://twitter.com/AireBar

York now has a Severe Flood Warning.

Specifically it has 6 of them. Only the west side of the city is not under one, and given how big there flood areas are this is going to be potentially Hull flood levels.

The flooding in Leeds on Twitter is staggering, its flooding anywhere and everywhere thats low lying, would never have thought it was possible for ASDA house area to be under multiple feet of water.

Wow I walked down there at 3pm and there was just a big puddle. Like you say it's not even that close to the river. 

The reason for that is that the Foss and it's tributaries can't cope. They normally store and pump the Foss at St. George's Barrier, but there's nowhere for it to go now. Foss flooding is far worse than the Ouse, as there's no protection for many areas due to the Pumping station soaking up most of the risk. 

And now there's talk of evacuation of 3,500 homes in the Foss area. Foss and Ouse not expected to peak until Monday.

EDIT: confirmation that the Foss Barrier has failed, so no water can be pumped out of the Foss into the Ouse, hence the water being backed up into the Foss. Even during the worse floods in the last 200 years in 2000, the Foss did not flood due to the Foss Barrier still working.

River levels are still rising, remarkably.