Half an hour of downpour, a rumble of thunder + an hour of reasonably high wind, and that's it?
Anyone seen anything remarkable weather wise?
The press are playing hard to the extreme weather meme, but frankly, there is noting exceptional about it.
Seems to have been very variable. Somebody I know saw very little rain, but the next village flooded. Around here, the next day or so will tell, as it takes that long for the rain to come down the rivers.
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IMO, ever since the Michael Fish mis-forecast of 1987, the Met Office has been exaggerating its forecasts of wet and windy weather so that no-one can accuse it of underestimation.
It didn't seem very bad here (North Hants), but someone was killed by a falling tree a mile up the road, and I saw a couple of trees down when I was out on my bike this morning.
We had reasonably high winds though nothing enormous, but our power went off
6 or 7 times. Torrential rain for 30 mins this morning.Andrew
Talk about the village mentality. ;-)
no, talk about the urban 'if its on the the news it must be true' mentality.
WE had relatives driving that day 80 miles towards London. No issues. a shirt term flooding of A14 N at Bar hill due to very rapid rain. No trees down - usually in a good storm with current top hamper there would be several.
Neither the rain nor the wind seem to be in any way exceptional.
IN East Anglia at any rate.
Gridwatch monitoring wind turbines over the whole country did not show high outputs of wind power.
No stories of death and destruction in today's news at all.
In article , The Natural Philosopher scribeth thus
You weren't up the A14 or the A498 on Friday nite then I expect;?..
Or got stuck in Bourne book or similar places then?..
I was at location in Cambridge in Friday around 5 ish and I could not see Two leccy pylons at 300 meters such was the density of the rain. When I went out water was bulbbling and streaming up thru the drains;!..
Just a shower then? Try it in a Tennessee downpour, when you can't see the pylon at 20ft through a car windscreen! I've seen I10 in Houston get
6ft deep puddles when it rains there.
You have news for your local area?
All the forecasts I saw were pretty clear the effects could be local and didn't give the grid locations of exactly where.
There you have it.
Plenty of reports of disruption here.
I make a habit of NEVER being on the A14 on a Friday night ;-)
yes, we had that for about 1/2hr then it all ran off to bother someone else..
I mean yes, flash flooding due to volume/time, but not a huge volume overall really.
Or a typical Johannesburg thunderstorm. I've actually pulled off the road because visibility is simply non existent. Paint stripped off car rooves by hail is a regular insurance claim.
But that's regular expected stuff. This was by even by English standards rather mild.
Harking back to e.g. Lynmouth...1952..
"Overnight, over 100 buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged along with 28 of the 31 bridges, and 38 cars were washed out to sea. In total,
34 people died, with a further 420 made homeless. The seawall and lighthouse survived the main flood, but were seriously undermined. The lighthouse collapsed into the river the next day."Or the north sea flood of '53
"In England, 307 people were killed in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 19 were killed in Scotland. 28 were killed in West Flanders, Belgium."
It depends on where the storms passed. They weren't very wide but moved slowly with quite a bit of preciptation.
We only had about 7 mm over about 40 minutes, nothing the drains can't handle around here.
That could cause floods in some places where the drainage is overloaded by too much hard surfacing.
You don't need to go back that far. 2004 is quite far enough
Cars these days are so well sealed that they readily float, and a large number were washed out to sea from the car park. The local lifeboat-men had to check them all to make sure there wasn't anyone trapped inside. They said it was eerie, because the automatic rain sensors had turned on the wipers, and the submerged indicator lights were also flashing, on empty cars floating a long way out to sea. Fortunately no-one died.
On 11/08/2014 15:03, The Natural Philosopher wrote: ...
One of the local rivers is about three feet higher than it was a couple of days ago. Fortunately, all that means is that it is at its normal winter level, rather than its normal summer level. It needs to go up another three feet or so to flood.
No its just normal late summer unsettled weather really. Brian
Kingussie station has got a bit damp.
Owain
Dave Plowman (News) expressed precisely :
It depended very much on where you were. We had power loss, several cars wrecked in the local floods, rail lines flooded trains cancelled and several hours of the most concentrated rain I ever remember seeing
- on the Friday. Sunday brought another dose, but not nearly so bad.
It;s because I am going on holiday soon...
In message , The Natural Philosopher writes
A lot of rain here, Aberdeenshire, Sunday. When I walked the dog yesterday morning, the river was lapping the banks. By the time I walked her again late afternoon, the river had been over the top and back down again. Total rise about eight feet. Lots of sand bags in the village, caravan park evacuated, golf course good for those with scuba gear and floating balls :-)
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