Rain totals in NW England and NW Britain as a whole are insane. Going to get much worse too.

Shap in Cumbria has had 118mm of rain so far today. Keswick has had 100mm.

Heavy driving rain ( again ) for much of the day here no end in sight until next weekend, possibly.

This PWS at Ambleside has recorded 138mm today but it has almost stopped for now.
In fact the radar generally looks less angry over there since dark.
http://www.amblesidecottages.com/



Note they've had more than 2000mm this year which is about 4 times what we've had!

Looks to be easing sooner than forecast which is good news. The record won't be broken though with 100 odd MM recorded will it?

That was only a blip, reintensifying again now. EURO4 forecasting it to continue until early hours, possibly even heavier.

Some amazing stuff here - Keep us all informed. Cheers, thanks.

The flood water from the River Kent in Kendal is now two doors down from our house as the flood defences breached big style at about 4pm.  The bottom of the road must be 1.5m deep.  8 houses completely flooded out.  Our neighbour who has lived in his house (now flooded) since 1965 has never seen anything like it.  Really quite scared.  Now getting blackouts as the power is affected.

Looks like some record breaking incidents are about to take place if they haven't already. I believe the 24 hour rainfall record is about  326 mm.

Is that record under threat anywhere.

Concern echoed here. Rainfall radar in these situations in a warm sector is very hard to extrapolate, as it looks like the rainfall is shrinking and then it re-intensifies.

Thats a great link

The actual lakes will still be filling, as the rivers flow into them, so the worst in some places still to come.

Good luck to all of you up there, in one of my favourite areas of the world.

Further south, we've seen the rainshadow from the N Wales mountains in full effect.

Flooding has to be the worst nightmare of all , its bad enough at anytime but to happen 3 weeks before Christmas is just bloody awful .

Just hope everyone saw it coming and got everything upstairs

This is the river up our road, one door from our house - still coming up.  We are about 3m above the river.  Neighbours in the 8 houses below have been flooded out.  Please keep your fingers crossed for us...  This is unprecedented.

Good luck Bagfish. 

Bagfish, that's really awful!  My thoughts are with you and everyone affected.  Stay safe!

It's amazing how so much rain can fall in one part of the country and none in another.  We haven't had a spot of rain today at all.

And here are some pictures from earlier in the day.  It is considerably higher now.