On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:56:57 -0700 (PDT), Colin Youngs
wrote:

Monday 22nd August 2016

UK rainfall totals in 24 hours to 18.00 UTC on Monday http://tinyurl.com/ahsgjwh

Shap, Topcliffe and Bala 14 mm, Rostherne (Cheshire) and Waddington 15 mm, St Bees Head and Lake Vyrnwy 17 mm, Crosby 19 mm, Warcop 22 mm, Blackpool Airport 34 mm, Walney Island 41 mm, Capel Curig 44 mm.

Wetter in Lancaster! Kind of.

I was up in the Lancaster area on Monday and we had quite serious
flooding in places in the town and its environs, having to abandon a
planned trip to the caves near Ingleton - the road became a river.

It felt like an "over 2 inch" 24 hour event centred on the overnight
period, and this was supported by the rainfall radar accumulation maps
on Netweather for the 24 hours ended at 11 am on Monday... 50mm in
Lancaster and ~75mm a few miles to its east. Squelch. The locals were
getting a bit worried about having another damaging flood like last
December at one point, and the damage from that up there (and the
Lakes) has not yet been fully repaired.

The contrast between a wet, cloudy and fairly cool Monday and a very
warm and sunny Tuesday on nearby Morecambe beach can rarely have been
more dramatic.

--
Dave
Now back in...
Fareham (W)