Watch out on those Rivers

[matty40s]

Some incredible rainfall totals being seen yet again over very short periods with the thunderstorms from the Midlands up to Wales and the NW.

The top end of the Trent flooded last night near Stoke, and Leicester has now seen 3 days of major thunderstorms.

Watch out on the rivers, and even the canals if local events can lead to raised levels.

[Naughty Cal]

We had an incredibly intense storm an hour ago here which has led to some minor flooding locally. 

[Chris Lowe]

Rainfall Map where I am.

 

[mrsmelly]

Had nowt here. A bit last night but nowt yet today.

[Victor Vectis]

Nowt down here, IoW, either.

[Alan de Enfield]

Lincoln 16:30 to 17:30 absolute cloudburst.

Water running down the drive in waves, thunder and lightening and the widow glass flexing.

[peterboat]

We have had an hour here! I need a lot more than that for the allotment. Thunder and lightning but not really heavy rain, it's cleared the air though 

[GUMPY]

In Bideford we had half a months rain overnight the other night and its rained every day since.

All the water butts have refilled and ground is wet, still got a few days more rain to come.

Guess when I can move the boat in a couple of weeks time there will be SSA on the Nene

 

[Naughty Cal]

32 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Lincoln 16:30 to 17:30 absolute cloudburst.

Water running down the drive in waves, thunder and lightening and the widow glass flexing.

We got it about an hour later in Worksop.

 

Could do with more where that came from. Our garden is parched.

[peterboat]

4 minutes ago, Loddon said:

In Bideford we had half a months rain overnight the other night and its rained every day since.

All the water butts have refilled and ground is wet, still got a few days more rain to come.

Guess when I can move the boat in a couple of weeks time there will be SSA on the Nene

 

More than likely how are your plants doing?

[Alan de Enfield]

19 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

We got it about an hour later in Worksop.

 

Could do with more where that came from. Our garden is parched.

 

We have had non-stop thunder and lightning for the last couple of hours and still going strong (but no more rain)

[GUMPY]

13 minutes ago, peterboat said:

More than likely how are your plants doing?

Had some potatoes, broad beans, courgettes, rocket and radishes so far.  Potato plants were overhanging path so dug 2 up still 20 plus to go. Looking at thinning the Kale end of this week. Still got some Broccoli, Tomatoes and other bits in mini greenhouse waiting to go in but have to wait until a week or so until I clear a bed of spuds.

 

[blackrose]

Some downpours in Northamptonshire but the upper Nene hasn't come up very much. 

[WotEver]

57 minutes ago, peterboat said:

More than likely how are your plants doing?

On the farm where we're based the farmer has had a terrible time.  60 acres of potatoes dug up and destroyed and now winter wheat about a third of the height it should be at this time of the year. Either heavy rainfall stopping harvesting, McCains shutting down their production, or drought stopping anything from growing.

[wandering snail]

We've had over 2 hours of heavy rain complete with thunder and lightening here at Tafts Wharf near Rugeley with no sign of it easing up yet. The Trent was noticeably up and fast flowing this afternoon before all this so expect some flooding over the meadows in the morning.  

[Movin' on]

Absolute chaos for an hour or so in Leominster/Bromyard yesterday and some overnight but not a lot of use to the gardens - I guess the Severn will be up a bit on Friday 

Edited June 17, 2020 by Halsey

[Dave123]

No change in the Thames flow yet but at least the canal reservoirs will get a top up and its good news for some of the northern ones that are shut.

[peterboat]

13 hours ago, WotEver said:

On the farm where we're based the farmer has had a terrible time.  60 acres of potatoes dug up and destroyed and now winter wheat about a third of the height it should be at this time of the year. Either heavy rainfall stopping harvesting, McCains shutting down their production, or drought stopping anything from growing.

Wallers the same, didnt even get winter crops in! spring crops are growing now because of the rain, they say what we are getting is perfik warm and wet so stuff is catching up rapidly

[WotEver]

2 minutes ago, peterboat said:

Wallers the same, didnt even get winter crops in! spring crops are growing now because of the rain, they say what we are getting is perfik warm and wet so stuff is catching up rapidly

Except heavy rainfall doesn’t work - it just runs off. 25mm in an hour yesterday and it’s only penetrated about an inch. 

[Jerra]

We had 4 cm (1½ inches for the dinosaurs) in under 45 minutes yesterday.

Edited June 17, 2020 by Jerra

[peterboat]

2 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Except heavy rainfall doesn’t work - it just runs off. 25mm in an hour yesterday and it’s only penetrated about an inch. 

We arnt getting that we had steady rain for a couple of hours, Jayne had the torrential stuff in Derbyshire

[Naughty Cal]

Looking outside I wouldn't be surprised if we have a repeat performance of yesterday again today. It is very muggy again and the clouds are starting to build again.

[Graham Davis]

This is a good site to see what is in-coming;
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

[pearley]

Wychnor to Alrewas crossing now in Amber. 

[mrsmelly]

Still not much rain at all here. very hot and dry as a bone. I can hear thunder in the distance so expecting a couple of inches later. It will be inches here as I live in England and have just been for a drive int camper, we passed some speed limit signs in mph and the first road sign I saw said Bicester 6 miles.