[WR] South and East Essex - Current record rainfall totalslocally- Hadleigh and Canvey Island almost 90mm.
 

In Mid Suffolk the yellow warning applied to me also. The areas of rain continually faded away in my immediate vicinity. Total measured for this event was 5.2mm ( 24 hrs to 0900z on Sat 1.3mm and following 24hrs 3.9mm). 15 miles to S E Wattisham recorded 14.4mm.
Brown grass on lawns now three quarters green here and local farmer active on his land today planting oil seed rape for next years harvest!
NSS. Mid Suffolk.

[WR] South and East Essex - Current record rainfall totals locally- Hadleigh and Canvey Island almost 90mm.
 

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Adam Lea writes:
On 25/08/13 17:32, Dave Cornwell wrote:
My friend is a local Councillor on Canvey Island and was out wading
through knee deep water rescuing some old people living in bungalows who
were temprarily cut off. He was around in 1953 but wasn't comparing
though mentioned something similar around 1960. One of the problems was
the high tide was about 4pm so the water level in the creek was making
it difficult to pump water away hence the problems they were having with
it backing up through the toilets. Apparently a lot of recent building
has connected surface water drains to the sewage system.
Dave

Sounds like if anything a yellow warning was insufficient. The
effects you describe sound more akin to an amber warning,
possibly even a red warning in very localised areas.

The colour of the warning takes into account both the probability of the
event occurring and its severity if it occurs, not just its severity.
Also I imagine that there was no way of predicting just where the really
heavy rain would fall, and they couldn't know that it would be somewhere
as susceptible to flooding as Canvey Island.
--
John Hall
"Sir, I have found you an argument;
but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

[WR] South and East Essex - Current record rainfall totalslocally- Hadleigh and Canvey Island almost 90mm.
 

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:31:49 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
As at 20.30 - still raining Laindon (here) 71mm Corringham - 76mm Hadleigh - 89mm Canvey island- 87mm This is a particular problem on Canvey Island as it is below sea level. The roads are under a foot or more of water as high tide was around 4pm so the water can't flow away. The main A127 is also shut. Maybe why there were yellow warnings issued Lawrence? Dave

High totals were not confined to Essex. The 09-09 total here was 66.1 mm, my 2nd wettest day in 30 years' recording. Despite that, the ground absorbed the rain easily and the ground today (Sunday) is still quite firm. At no time was the rain torrential, merely heavy and came in several pulses and was remarkably persistent. In that respect the event was quite unusual and the total measured rather surprised me but unless my neighbour has been active with his hose (I don't think so) the figure is true.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft, 169 m.