The highest official 24hr time period total for the UK is 11” (in Dorset) and the highest for any 24hr period is 13.4” at Honister Pass in the Lake District.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_weather_records#Rainfall 

Cheers Doc. Hope we never encounter that amount again.

Excessive rains and flooding in and around central and other parts of Freetown from last night to the early hours of Sunday 29th August, 2022.
Be safe and stay safe. Check on your loved ones. #SierraLeone #rains #rainingseason pic.twitter.com/jIyoCnydYD

— Sierra Leone🇸🇱 (@omegabritishbah) August 28, 2022

One-third of Pakistan underwater, according to reports. 

Pakistan is just short of 800,000 sq km; a third of that is greater than the total area of Britain at 250,000 sq km. Mind-boggling

Correction, courtesy of BBC's 'More or Less'; a third of all administrative districts in Pakistan have declared a state of catastrophe. That's still really bad, but not so dramatic as originally reported.

France recorded its hottest ever September day today 40.7c in Begaar in the SW.

A crazy temperature for so late in the year.

Confirmation of that? Couldn't find anything on a quick search 

Weatheronline shows Pau, Dax and Mont-de-Marsan all at 39C so I guess 40.7C somewhere nearby is possible but is it official? The official records appear to have broken local records at least

From Meteociel:

https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/tmaxi.php?region=r7

It was on Twitter , but cant see any official confirmation yet.

By next week from the charts I view with sausage shaped HP from SW to Scandi which will bring some warmth back here from France to low 20's.  Any heat left in France will aid us some further warmth and hope that push to early October.

Long article here detailing the many heat records broken, plus droughts and floods. Snippets to give the flavour but there's a lot more.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/09/hottest-summer-on-record-for-europe-and-china-during-northern-hemispheres-2nd-hottest-summer/ 

• Globally, an astonishing 298 long-term weather stations – including 265 in China – set their all-time heat records in August.


• the Yangtze River at Wuhan had sunk by early September to its lowest late-summer levels in some 150 years of record-keeping.


• the town of Padidan in Sindh recorded 1763.9 mm (69.44 inches) of rain in July and August, more than three times its heaviest annual total on record. It could take up to six months for the waters to recede


• EU harvest forecasts are down 16% for corn, 15% for soybeans, and 12% for sunflowers, because of drought and heat


• within just two months, a mountain pass at Les Diablerets Switzerland, ice-covered for several thousand years, became ice-free.


• 'Hunger stones' were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in the Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry"


• Mediterranean Sea is accumulating heat ! Anomalies over +5°C are measured in western part. [with chart]


• The southern route through Canada’s Northwest Passage was almost sea ice-free as of late August


• Eight all-time national/territorial heat records set or tied in 2022 [listed; incl UK]

Wow. What a sad reflection of the damage we are busily doing to the planet.

Worth a mention.

Hurricane/Storm in Canada and  further south.

see - storm

Dealt with extensively in Tropical Storms thread; above post copied there.

A area near Nicosia at same time reached at 41.2C in Alonoudi while Nicosia was 40.2C.

Wish UK offer some variety in Autumn. Autumn shouldn't' be all about rain and winds, there should be some hot to start with in Autumn to warm spells the colder spells in later part of Autumn. 

Cold front arrived and same place that reached 41.2C had big drop to 14.8C a record 26.4C diurnal drop range.  Very interesting to record. here such a severe borefast UK Autumn without any variety anymore.  

Australia floods: Three states issue evacuation orders after heavy rain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-63238065

Highest official 24-hr total appears to be 220mm near Melbourne, but unofficial reports of 400mm in Tasmania

By way of contrast "Worst drought in Sudan for 40 years"

https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/emergencies/east-africa-hunger-crisis-appeal 

More flooding - this time in Crete. It rings home to me because I only flew back from there a week ago after a 10 day holiday. We visited the resort just adjacent to Agia Pelagia for a day trip. The weather was going downhill as we left so I'm glad we appeared to have timed our break about right ....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/16/second-person-found-dead-flash-flooding-crete

I remember the flooding in Central Australia about 50/60 years ago? when it was reported that the extent of the flooding in this desert area was 'incredible'.

Severe flooding somewhere in Australia is something that has been recorded regularly over the years but often, not at the same location.

The link below gives a good idea as to the intensity of these rainfall events -

see - Deadly Australian Floods

Lot of thunderstorms and very cool temperatures of 22C in Nicosia and reported of waterspout in Ayia Napa area.

Autumn truly arrived now in Cyprus and really wet everywhere and quite early for those low  max temperatures which normally reserved in very late end of the month.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/10/17/yellow-weather-warning-as-rain-continues-to-batter-the-island-photos/

Or if you don't want to be shamed by begging messages from the Guardian

https://balkaninsight.com/2022/10/17/the-bad-weather-left-two-people-dead-and-a-huge-disaster-on-the-greek-island-of-crete/