Is everyone having these dreadful storms?

I'm on the south coast, Isle of Wight, not had any thunder or heavy rain, a bit through the night but nothing like the yellow weather warning was saying.

I'm in Essex, we've had a couple of days of light rain intermittently, but no storms, despite being warned of them.

We sat in the conservatory and just watched the lightening on Friday afternoon. Torrential rain showers on and off since.

I usually get out the Werthers originals when there’s a thunderstorm. My grand pop used to give me three creamline toffees to suck with the promise that the storm would be gone by the time I’d finished them. He was never wrong.

Rain during Saturday night but the thunder & lightning forecast for yesterday didn’t arrive although the sun did! Warm & muggy today, still no ‘weather’ but a spot of drizzle just now. Tomorrow should be fine too. I think we’ve got off lightly in East Devon

The puddles are meeting across our road and several others in the village and water is spouting out of manhole covers. Thankfully in my post code the road is several feet lower than the houses, so we stay dry, but elsewhere in the village sandbags are already being put in place outside front doorss

Just back from three dull days in Northumberland but no rain. Some downpours here in West Yorkshire today but got the shopping done in the dry sessions.
Feel lucky for once!!

Us in the North had it all earlier in the year.

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Driving towards my village (no I didn’t take the picture while I was driving!) and the centre of my friends village- she had to move out this morning after being marooned upstairs from yesterday

Our road is unde 6 inches of water today, causing problems for parents dropping children off at the primary school opposite. Neither the school nor the houses are flooded.

When we moved here nearly 30 years ago the last 2 times the village had flooded were 1892 and 1947. Since then it has flooded in 2007, 2009, and annually since about 2020. We have had a lot of new houses built on the flood plain in the last 10 years and roads are now flooding that had never done so before they were built. We are also threatened by a vast reservoir that will flood most of the parish and raise the water table by over a metre. Given that the water table is already very close to the surface, they might as well extend the resrvoir to cover the village.

We had a few periods of heavy rain on Sunday and yesterday with some thunder on Sunday but nothing major. We are in Shropshire and seem to miss most of the extreme weather thankfully.

It is a bit cloudy here in SW Wales but dry
I have two loads of washing on the line. Hopeful it will dry

We have always had extreme weather events, very hot, very cold, very wet and so on, they are certainly reported more often. Usually as the “ hottest for 50 yrs” or “wettest this century”.
So I don’t take too much notice because I’ve seen most before, in 2002 locally we had 6 inches of rain in one day a lot of damage was done.

well, we are mainly underwater now

JaneJudge

well, we are mainly underwater now

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Oh dear, has your house been flooded? Are you ok?

RosiesMaw2

Driving towards my village (no I didn’t take the picture while I was driving!) and the centre of my friends village- she had to move out this morning after being marooned upstairs from yesterday

Oh no JaneJudge, I hope your home isn’t affected.

our house is fine but not everyone's is and loads of roads have flooded and still are, then places that aren't flooded are getting excess water flooding in now. I seems there was just so much rain at once rather than anything else, it just had no chance to drain properly. Loads of roads closed.

That sounds really grim, I hope everybody is safe there.

Woke up to pouring rain. Even though the Met Office forecast was saying no more rain for the rest of this week.

On Monday at the top of our river catchment they had 4 inches of rain but it’s fairly hilly and ran straight off. 15 miles downstream we now have all that water, fields flooded a few minor roads too, no reports of widespread damage.

Here it was a wet day on Monday we probably had around 2 inches spread over all day so the drains were not overwhelmed.

We had some thunder the other night in Surrey and a quick burst the other afternoon, otherwise no, but awful rain.

The fields around us are now as flooded as they were at the end of last winter. What will happen if we have another wet winter is beginning to get me really worried.

Torrential rain down here in East Sussex.. been raining all day

Rained heavily most of the day, here in SW Wales.

Flood warning just come through from Environment Agency and the rain has started. On Sunday the Met Office said we were heading into a week without aany rain.