I think Royalist is laid up?
I went outside for 20mins earlier. Left the house in full sunshine, came back in like a drowned rat. Did I mention the intense wind, hail, thunder and lightning? Coz that all happened too!!
“RainToday” app has been my saviour for many walks - similar apps to use.
I juts checked it 20 mins ago (blue skies, etc) - it forecast rain in 20 mins (& matching the weather radar) - yep, it just honked it down. Pooch can wait a little bit!
Sadly, whilst too early to forecast on the app, our AEF tomorrow looks at risk. 
I’ll be checking out East Midland’s TAF when it’s issued at 1600 hrs & trying to check in with 5AEF.
My goto is always this:
It’s only a ‘live’ radar, and doesn’t do a forecast. But you cna go back a bit in time. I’ve always found it super accurate as it’s not trying to predict anything, but you can easily see movements and predict your self. It permanently lives open on another monitor at work so I can see when rain is coming and move stuff inside!
I normally do Rain today - but didn’t get time betwixt the school runs, phone calls and general like noise - just thought I’d “pop out quickly between showers”… Got it wrong!!!
Well, the home page gives an indication (tied to the weather radar) - it’s a close to a forecast as you’re going to get. 
I reckon i’ve got until about 1250-ish for the band of rain to clear off. Useful time not wasted - finished off letter to HMRC!
For the first time since I arrived 10 months ago we had proper rain overnight.
IT. IS. CHAOS.
We’re in a desert, so drainage isn’t considered in most places. The front street (along the seafront) was completely flooded by water running downhill, most of the buses aren’t running and the directors are currently telling volunteers not to travel out of the town due to the road conditions. That said, I’m currently in the back of a taxi on the way into the city anyhow.
All it would take to solve 99% of the issues is some guttering and drainage on the roads, but because the rain is so infrequent here it’s not something the authorities consider.
There have been a couple of landslides in the city, but they’re actually relatively minor. Funniest thing is an army truck has become stuck in some of the mud trying to get to the site of the landslide.
It’s ’snowplough syndrome’. A few years back there was disruption due to snow, and a lot of criticism of the authorities.
One council chief exec (can’t remember for sure but might have been Birmingham) rather bravely went on the radio to explain that yes they could buy snow ploughs, but unlike in say a German or Swedish city, we have heavy snow so rarely that they’d sit idle most of the time and it was more cost effective to clean up by other means or just live with the short term disruption.
I’m sure it didn’t stop the pitchfork wielding mob though.
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It’s quite astonishing how quickly they’ve turned things around here. 24 hours after the rain stopped and almost everything is back to normal, with the exception of greater disruption to the north where we’ve had a sewerage pit overflow and cause a minor landslide.
This is looking up a road that I often run along, or at least what’s currently left of it.
The bottom road is also currently blocked.
I thought you were in Peru and not Croydon?
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Don’t insult Peru like that…
Any of you up North with clear skis might want to keep an eye on the sky to the North. Decent chance of some aurora.
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