"Tudor Hughes" wrote :

There is a Severe Weather Warning out for SE England (except
Sussex) for heavy rain. Also, on R4 1257 pm some gushing girlie
mentioned a couple of inches of rain (I think) for SE England this
afternoon and evening. So far I've had 5.2 mm today, none of it
heavy, and it has not been raining for the last two hours. Looking at
the radar I can't quite see where this professed deluge is coming
from. Can anybody else?

Up here, Tudor ... it looks as though the narrow band of
heavy rain is pivoting on Luton ... 65RA for over two hours
now, and the A505 main road between Luton and Dunstable
has an impassable flood under the old Dunstable Town railway
bridge; there are several minor floods elsewhere. Negotiating
Bison Hill was a bit like driving up a river. If I've not misread
the Dynes TSR by 5 or 10mm, we've so far had ~22mm and
it's still chucking it.

Philip @ Whipsnade