Thunder in Wembury overnight

[Len]

It woke me up at 0305 BST.

Another batch of heavy rain moving up from the south atm for this afternoon.

Len

Wembury

[Graham Easterling]

6.5mm of rain overnight in Penzance. No thunder.

This afternoon's rain didn't amount to much here, around 2mm. Total rainfall this month, to 09:00 today, 46.8mm. The rain has tended to be much heavier just to the east.

Still a big swell in Mount's Bay. The people in the sea giving some scale to the waves. About 6' or so at Perranuthnoe, 11am. Very messy conditions.

It was 3 times that size during the early hours of 21st.

Graham

Penzance

[Freddie]

A wet day Friday followed by further heavy rain Saturday night.  Single (loud) rumble of thunder at 0450z today that woke me up!  Rainfall total for this month so far is 65.4 mm (eLTA is 86 mm).  Unusual to be wetter than you, Graham.

[Graham Easterling]

Unusual to be wetter than you, Graham.

Yes, especially in October. LTANormal October rainfall here is 128.1mm, so it's been a dry month so far. 37% of the norm for the whole month. Very surprising given the recent synoptic charts. 

Graham

Penzance

[Len]

9.8 mm in 24 hrs to 1800z bringing my total for the month to 53.7 mm.

Still only half of LTA for October.

Len

Wembury

[Graham Easterling]

Cornwall's reservoir levels are now critical, both the largest (Colliford) ad the local one (Stithians) at the lowest level since the were first built.

South west water say they can pump water around, I suggest that they got on with, Roadford on Dartmoor has a good amount still. I have been told it's not that simple, and there's no means of pumping water from other reservoirs into Drift (which feeds Penzance).

Startling pics here

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/gallery/more-forgotten-landscape-exposed-water-7728993

 Plenty of water escaping from storm sewage overflows onto beaches every time there's a sharp shower these days. Of course, they've stopped reporting overflows out of the summer season, that helps reduce the figures.

It's the same countrywide (well on the coast clearly). Back in the '90s there was great progress made, now it seems almost back to square 1. No politician gives a s**t, if they do it ends on a beach near you. Some storm overflows operate >10 times a month, in other words every time it rains.

Currently

https://www.sas.org.uk/map/

Graham

Penzance

[Len]

A couple of decades ago SouthWest Water  had a programme called 'Clean Sweep' which was a pledge to stop putting raw sewage into the sea around the coast in the Southwest. They completed the programme and were well pleased with themselves, but they did not let on about storm overflows which continue unabated.

Len

Wembury