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These winds are so strong, feel stronger than sone amber warnings we recently had!

Tomorrows rain and low approach/angle is ideal for when we had that cold in place to get heaps of snow but now it is too warm we get the precipitation. PMSL.

Very light drizzle here, so very cold though, shame its not the white stuff.

So much rain. Must be one of our wettest years. Always say things balance themselves out. Summer dry weather and wet winter weather. Rain is always around the corner for our Island sitting slap bang in the path of the normal jet stream.

Experienced freezing rain once only, in Bruges last December. Was horrific, saw cyclists just going A over T. We were walking on cobbled roads, so dangerous, pavements were sheets of ice. My coat was an ice sheet.

A few stats about the rainfall we are currently experiencing. The SE have had measurable rainfall from 09/10/23 - 06/11/23 and counting - 29 days. Going back to 2019 the longest period of measurable rainfall in the SE is 76 days (21/11/2019 - 04/02/202) and this was in the period of 21/09/2019 - 16/03/202 where there were only TWO dry days out of 176. Would be interesting to go back further.....

For the south east, the last day with zero measureable rainfall was 8th October. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/daily/HadSEEP_daily_totals.txt

Indeed, this is the other end of the scale. Hoping we get a nice easterly to dry us out.

I hope those praying for rain 6 weeks ago have got the rain they so desired. Been very wet down my neck of the woods for quite some time now..... Not that i am surprised.

Agree with you 100%. Heavy rain here again, just in time for the school run, yet again!

Amazingly SE is sat at 112% of Rainfall to end of August, which would be considered a very wet 8 months, I say amazingly, as there seems to be a few areas with hard ground, so would like to see the map of where the rainfall has hit. Where I live we had had plenty of the wet stuff, would be nice for another dry period. I can see this year ending on a very wet note, just hope not too wet, hate seeing people suffering from floods especially at Christmas.

That was insane rain for a good 20-30 minutes.

I would say a 20% chance of seeing rainfall in that hour, but by no means am I am expert.

You need an average i guess, to work out anomolies, and you will always have variations. This average we need. There will always be someone saying, 'no way are we hotter than average' and somone saying the opposite, this is the love of weather. It would be boring if we all had the same opinion, agree. Hope you get some of this wet stuff anyway in the Saharan Kent countryside, teeming down here.

I would love a proper weather station, with accurate readings. Especially to see how much rain fallsvin those really torrential downpours.