I feel so sad and so sorry for people, this is utterly awful.  I also feel angry that more is not being done to mitigate against flooding.  With political will, a lot can be done in upper catchments to store much of the water on the moors and prevent the water getting straight into the rivers in the first place.  Serious thinking required. 

Sadly the weather pattern is very reluctant to allow easterly winds in - which would give the NW a break.

Fortunately all fine here.

I've read that they are looking at early Monday for the peak on the Ouse, so almost 48 hours after the rain stopped in the catchments.

Anyone that knows York will know some of these streets - which haven't flooded like this since the 1980s, but now the Foss is causing real problems:

Walmgate this morning (@yorkie_pudding)

Piccadilly (@your_funnyuncle)

Foss Islands Road (@SteveJBradley)

I do feel for anyone who is flooded, lets hope the HP wins the battle currently being shown and it all dries out

Any more rainfall totals anyone.

Does anyone have the graph showing the peak level of the River Aire. Last one showed it at 4.34m.

Here are the 6 hour rainfall totals for the 48 hours to 06z today from a selection of official Met Office stations.

I recorded 20mm to midnight on 25th and 48.8mm to midnight on 26th

Amazing - most of those readings for the 48 hours are over 2 inches. That figure for Capel Curig is over 8 inches.

I imagine that some places in the North West must be heading for over 20 inches for the whole month of December.

To 6am today for Dec:

980.2 mm - Capel Curig
761.0 mm - Shap

Honister in Cumbria recorded 1,038mm in November and 978mm in December to the 26th.

A lot of rain.

Phew - never mind 20 inches. Jeeesus - that is almost 40 inches.

York racecourse this afternoon. Think that's an overflowing covered drain rather than a drowning horse (pic by @thepottatoes)

Huntington Road on the edge of York is flooded now. The photo is about 100m from where I grew up.

The river level peaked at over 5.2 meters.

That area has not flooded since the early/mid 80s Brian - not due to the height of the Ouse, just the failure of the Foss Barrier.

This stretch didn't flood in the early to mid 80s, I lived there until 1988. The Foss flooded along Huntington Road closer to York itself but not at the bottom of Mill Hill (where the photo is taken). 

Do you still have family/relations in York, Brian? If so I really hope they haven't been affected by this.

I've been to York many times, mostly during good weather! Beautiful city, and a terrible shame that this flooding is occuring there just now. The same goes for Leeds & Manchester.

Here are some stats from the Met Office. Multiple stations in north Wales and north-west England seeing their wettest December on record by some distance and that is before the next major storm mid week which will significantly add to these totals.

That said some of the stations do not have a very long archive of data. However, Newton Rigg has a century of data and has gone way past its previous record.

Stations at height such as Shap and Capel Curig which always receive a lot of rain at this time of year are hundreds of mm above their previous record.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2015/stormy-end-to-December

As a whole the NW England and Wales region has also recorded its wettest December on record. Total rainfall to 25th December is 226mm. Previous record was 202mm in 1986. This total does not include any rain since 09z yesterday so more to be added plus the next storm in midweek.

The region also recorded its wettest ever December day on Christmas day (09z 25/12 to 09z 26/12) with 39mm beating the previous record for any day in December of 33mm set in 1983.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/charts/daily_plots/HadNWEP_Dec2015.gif

I remember the Foss flooding badly in 1982 down Huntington Road, didn't realise it was worse than that now further out from the centre.

FWIW, we were in York visiting friends today and the town centre is very much open for business. 90% of the population are unaffected, it's just very difficult to get about in town by car as the inner ring road is affected.

A Leeds montage:

 https://www.facebook.com/leedsbible/videos/1673654716250879/

EDIT: was working a few minutes ago but now seems not to!