I have been uploading forecasts from summer 2007. Looking back at them, it was amazing how active the atmosphere was during early June to late July. I remember when it rained, it was frequently torrential.

Here are forecasts and a few news bulletins from that period early June 2007 to late July 2007

10th June 2007: Peter Gibbs warns wetter weather is on the way


11th June 2007: rain on the way


13th June 2007


14th June 2007: the flooding starts


15th June 2007


16th June 2007


17th June 2007


18th June 2007


19th June 2007


20th June 2007


22nd June 2007


23rd June 2007


24th June 2007


25th June 2007


26th June 2007


29th June 2007


30th June 2007


2nd July 2007


3rd July 2007


BBC News report on SW London hailstorm


4th July 2007


5th July 2007


6th July 2007


7th July 2007


8th July 2007


9th July 2007


10th July 2007


11th July 2007


12th July 2007


13th July 2007


14th July 2007


15th July 2007


16th July 2007: weekly forecast did not pick up the deluge for the end of the week.


17th July 2007


18th July 2007


19th July 2007


BBC news report on flooding


20th July 2007: day of the great rainstorm


22nd July 2007


23rd July 2007: Daniel Corbett does forecast from the site of the floods


24th July 2007


25th July 2007


BBC news summary on the floods

---

I remember July 20th well - never seen rain like it. My unofficial measure using a straight-sided glass on the table outside showed over 80mm in about 6 hours of torrential rain, and I missed the start of it! I see it mentions Hook (nearby) recorded 19mm in an hour just before the forecast. Also they spelt Witney wrong... tut tut BBC 😉

---

Summer 2012 was even wetter than summer 2007 here!

---

I didn't see the point of Daniel Corbett where wellies stood in a few inches of water to do the forecast. No point at all.

---