"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

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.

At 18z there has been 29.6mm so far at Whipsnade. I'll
have a Luton figure later this evening if I can get through
the floods.

Philip

I am going to offer my garden as a potential venue for yachtng at the
Olympics.

My simple (garden centre) rain guage will need to be emptied soon
before it overflows at 50 mms

Jack (S.Cambs)

On 27 May, 17:28, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
"Phil Layton" wrote in message

...

Only 5.3mm here in Guildford Tudor. Worries me a bit as Martin in
Tawfield had had 8.0mm by breakfast!

.... classic problem for guidance-meisters: you can see the very narrow
band of heavy rain currently lying in an arc from Suffolk (through PE I
should think) to Salisbury Plain - not moving very far and some places
along that line must be getting some tremendous totals: either side, a
rather 'flatter' PPN profile, with marked variability: haven't read the
18Z rainfall yet (will post it in the thread relating to forecast
rainfall), but probably only ~5mm for the day so far.

Martin Rowley
Bracknell

Much wetter not far to your west, Martin and to your north-west, Phil
- 05-18z 17.1 mm by AWS here, with another 5.9 mm 20z-00z yesterday
(almost dry 00-05z), making 23 mm 20z yesterday to 18z today. Still
raining slightly; max just 11.3°C.

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire (10 km SW of Reading)

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

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.

At 18z there has been 29.6mm so far at Whipsnade. I'll
have a Luton figure later this evening if I can get through
the floods.

At 2120z the event total at Whipsnade has reached 36.6mm.
At 2000z the event total at Luton was 56.2mm. And rains it still.

Philip

It started raining just after 05:00 GMT on the 27th May in Bristol
www.afour.demon.co.uk. From 07:40 to 16:00 it was contiuous. From 17:40
until 23:20 GMT (time of this e-mail) it got heavier. In that time we've had
39.8 mm. It is still raining.

Maximum temperature was 10.1. Maximum gust was 37 mph with a wind chill this
evening as low as 3.0C

--
Regards
Barry Horton

www.afour.demon.co.uk


"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
oups.com...
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?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom

At 2120z the event total at Whipsnade has reached 36.6mm.
At 2000z the event total at Luton was 56.2mm. And rains it still.

Philip



Where about in Luton is the rain gauge?

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?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.


36mm in the last 24 hours, it has just stopped 0830 Sunday morning
Alan
Wincanton
www.wincantonweather.org.uk

Last night I said 39.8 mm of rain had fallen in Bristol. This was incorrect.
For the time period I mentioned it was actually 27.2mm.

Appologies for misleading.

This morning actual 24 hour pptn (09:00-09:00 GMT) = 26.2mm on 27th + 3.1mm
26th May.

--
Regards
Barry Horton



"Barry Horton" wrote in message
k...
It started raining just after 05:00 GMT on the 27th May in Bristol
www.afour.demon.co.uk. From 07:40 to 16:00 it was contiuous. From 17:40
until 23:20 GMT (time of this e-mail) it got heavier. In that time we've
had
39.8 mm. It is still raining.

Maximum temperature was 10.1. Maximum gust was 37 mph with a wind chill
this
evening as low as 3.0C

--
Regards
Barry Horton

www.afour.demon.co.uk


"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
oups.com...
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?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"informer" wrote :

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom

At 2120z the event total at Whipsnade has reached 36.6mm.
At 2000z the event total at Luton was 56.2mm. And rains it still.

Where about in Luton is the rain gauge?

About 200m from the Stockingstone roundabout. May I
ask who's asking?

Philip

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

At 18z there has been 29.6mm so far at Whipsnade. I'll
have a Luton figure later this evening if I can get through
the floods.

At 2120z the event total at Whipsnade has reached 36.6mm.
At 2000z the event total at Luton was 56.2mm. And rains it still.

At 0900z on the 28th the event total at Whipsnade is up to
64.8mm. It has been raining continuously for 27.5h, and it has
rained for 33.1h of the last 37 according to the Dynes TSR.
The Luton figure will be appreciably higher, but I won't pick
that up until this evening.

Philip