miserable pissy rain

this thread title has taken up residence in my mind and this morning I would like to report that in Cambridge we have the most miserably pissy rain of the year so far, a little more than drizzle, but enough to need an umbrella, accompanied by a gusty wind and a 10-degree drop in the temperature, and falling on me without pause for apparently the next few years.

^Feeling that, I'm 50 mins east of yer in Norfolk, driest county in Britain, my arse.

Utterly drenched walking Widget the whiplet back from Lincoln’s Inn Fields but mood brightened by seeing 20 of the Tartan Army running for the pub. I am staying indoors for as much of today as possible.

Torrential at the moment.

Been out for an hour with only a brolly for protection. It's lovely!

Hoping for a 1970s-style quagmire pitch for England vs Scotland tonight.

Can confirm, these are the scenes in Cambridge today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLjRj8rSJpk

Early this afternoon at work it was slashing down so hard that water was coming through a hole in the window and starting to seep through the wall.

Crikey.

time to get the surfboard out?

We were promised a thunderstorm at 3pm, 4:40 now and haven't heard a rumble or seen a drop, very disappointing.

We've got yours too.

xp it’s waiting for me walking home in a couple of hours

Forecast to be thundery showers all day. There have been four rumbles but that's it. Plenty of rain though.

I’ve learned not to put too much stock in forecast thunderstorms, feels like more often than not they don’t materialise - I guess they are more unpredictable than other types of weather or tend to be more localised or something

Don't worry, if the weather's especially bad in London, the rest of you will hear all about it.

https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

the only way of tracking storms is doing it live

yesss

according to that the storm is already here. just had a listen outside and reckon I can hear a distant rumble, might just be a lorry

Flooding in East London gets out of controlpic.twitter.com/gzJ3HSfLEq

— The Pileus (@thepileus) July 25, 2021

hope giles coren's house gets flooded

Severe thunderstorms over central London throughout much of this afternoon have again caused major flash flooding in parts of the capital.

This is the scene at Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station in Stratford (via @R0bday): pic.twitter.com/pJxagrelnf

— James Cosgrove (@MrJamesCosgrove) July 25, 2021

cold swimming and commuting, never a good mix

coren's house is on a hill sadly so the best we can hope for is violent run-off eroding its foundations

i know this now because I put some flowers there on Friday, the video reminded me of the street, suppose lots of streets in london look like that though, if I hide this it won't be in search results yeah? I know he is a bit litigious

previous videos showed Portobello road and around by me I've seen people putting sodden cellar contents out into the road (counter creek they call it, Thames water have an "action plan". we get mail about it, although I'm 2 floors up so shrug emoji)

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives., Apparently had 6 ins of water in every downstairs room & more towards teh back of the house where the floor levels are lower.
I don'tr remember hearing of flooding in the street since teh early 80s where it used to flood about half way down the street fron what i remember, THis was all the way along the street and i think deeper.
Drag, so glad I'm elsewhere and 4 flights up.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaC-Ysioj4
guy wadfing into the beginning of a road a bit in is the end of teh road I spent my teens in and the guy standing in shorts outside a Victorian building is the far end of that road. Yeah can see that the depth of flooding is deeper than I remember from the 80s. It doesn't seem to have an end from that shot, though road goes up hill behind the camera.
I wonder how frequently this will repeat now its happened

thumbnail still image is from outside the school at the end of the road too.
THe council in the borough have tried to combat rat running drivers by placing small mini parks at the end of the roads that used to be through roads so where you're seeing bollards there is around where this park thing is

there's at least a couple of flash-floods every year in london when the summer rains first come, often including negative effect on the underground -- this going back as long as i've lived here: bcz the storms drains as they are can't handle the sudden flow and back up and the water needs to go somewhere and in some places there's a lot of handy holes and in others not so much (holes can't take it)

this was worse in that it was in unexpected places -- and is at the front of our minds for obvious reasons and we all get to see the social-media clips -- but the basic london problem here is not at all new, it's old and seemingly untackled, certainlt unre-tackled with a view to the threats of the future

is there even the ghost of the notion of a larger longer-term joined-up project? maybe yes and only wonks are chatting abt it in obscurity? someone must have written this (perhaps i should go search) but i've never read anything comprehensive on the state of the physical infrastructure to tackle this issue even in ordinary years (if we will even be gettging "ordinary" years ever again). a fvckton of street restructuring goes on all the time but it's notoriously unco-ordinated -- the same street dug up three times in a row for different reasons, instead of tackling everything in one go -- and that's just maintenance

AIUI there is a Mayoral target for area of sustainable urban drainage (SUDs) which in theory gets included in new developments etc, but I've no idea how far it goes towards addressing the current or future issue.

tfw yr advised "sadiq is on it!" :|

(cheers tim, i confess i did no research work at all before posting)

Just been looking at an elevation map of Hebden Bridge and am aware of how steep some of the paths are but didn't realise that some of the parts where I used to go walking are 800ft + higher than the parts of the town that frequently get flooded.

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives.

I think Calzino's first video post ('Flooding in East London gets out of control') is actually my street (in Walthamstow).

does the same red car appear in both? Like there's a red car taht appears in 2 different videos I saw yesterday and isn't on the street I was referring to. Not sure where around Walthamstow it would have been though. May be a different acr but I think it looked similar

‘Hey, there’s a red car in the fountain’.

bump

lovin it

welp

It took two attempts to get Widget outside for ones and twos this morning. Whippets HATE rain.

Woody still hasn't gone. Raced outside the second I opened the door and turned right back around. Confused. Disappointed.

Widget was enticed out by his friend Mabel the cockapoo also going about her business across the street. We are now safe to go out for the BIG WALK (get the bus to Little Venice, walk the canal back to Kings Cross).

jesus. it woke me up at 3, it's now 4 and has just been solid that entire time.

Yeah I sleep in the loft and it was just hammering down.

i like that sound (when i'm inside and in bed): i sleep better

Lots of lake-style puddles this morning!

Got woken up at 1am to investigate water dripping on my wife & toddler's bed. A hopefully minor and easily fixable leak from our roof window.

my work is semi flooded, we have all been moved to the back of the building.

Just went from light-to-moderate miserable pissy rain to heavy rain. Looks like I got indoors just in time. Jeans are still soaked though.

with rain, that is