On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:31:20 BST, Bob Martin
wrote:

in 358352 20120611 203839 Dave Ludlow wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:16:30 -0700 (PDT), Nick
wrote:

On Jun 11, 11:56�am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Togless wrote:
Looking at the rain radar, there has been a fairly persistent 'tail' of
heavy rain running down roughly through Basingstoke, Winchester, Chichester
kind of area, and a few miles out to sea. �A friend who lives in Bosham is
unable to drive to work in Portsmouth due to flooding, and is looking
nervously at the very full mill stream running past his house. �Any idea why
this belt of heavy rain has been rather stuck over the same area for hours
instead of moving across the country, as the rest of the rain in the South
seems to be doing?

If you look at the radar stepwise you can see it is the result of the
centre of the small LP being located such that the perimeter is rotating
over that area perpetually replenishing the rainfall.

On what would I guess be the western edge of this in Southampton.
Since about 0900 it's been dark to the east and lighter to the west.
Heavy but not exceptional rain here. Good job it's Monday not the
weekend, that's all I can say!

A mere 27 mm of rainfall here so far today in West Fareham, and a
maximum of 11.9. Five days in January were warmer than today here!

I'm away from home this week (in dry Notts) but my WS at home in Waterlooville
was reporting 57 mm in the 24 hours up to 19:00 last night.
Now (08:30) reading 36 mm for last 24 hours .

Less over this way, it ended up as 31mm for the 24h, looks like you
were inside that spike of intense rain, it was just mod-heavy here all
day. No flooding.

--
Dave
Fareham (W)