Penzance 35mm in 90 mins still pouring!

[Graham Easterling]

38.5mm since 09:00, but of that 35mm (give or take a mm) fell in 90minute 3:30-5:00pm. Still more to come! A narrow line of torrential rain passing right over Penzance. Some embedded thunder. A few images over an hour or so. (Not in order, not that it matters, nothing much changed) 

Many roads are flooded in town, and traffic is gridlocked.

Penzance forecast (MetO) half a sun and a 20% chance of rain for 5pm when I looked during probably the worst around 4:15.  For penzance it's the rainfall event of the year. Looks like it's been bad near St Ives as well. From being exceptionally low, the runoff means the stream in my garden is now very high indeed.

All exciting stuff, if you're not flooded. 

Graham

Penzance

[Keith (Southend)]

Scarified a lawn this morning here at Southend-on-Sea, an even after last weeks rain I got covered in dust as it was so dry. In fact in the 20 years I've been doing this lawncare is pretty hopeless during the summer now. Perhaps we should use the grass seed they use in the Mediterranean regions...

[Graham Easterling]

You could always move to Cornwall keith!

Actually, it was very brown & dusty here much of July and August.

Newlyn Green(?) in July

One of the lovely spots visitors ignore. I feel safe showing it here, given the readership! You'd find it hard to find space to breath in St Ives in July. Beautiful 30-40 minute walk along Newlyn Green, along the prom, past the Jubilee Pool to Penzance Harbour.

Graham

Penzance

[Graham Easterling]

Cornwall Live etc, including the EA, had lots of dire (red) warnings for coastal spring tide flooding, when it didn't seem that likely given the sea conditions, but had no mention of the flooding due to rain. In fact yesterday evening, after a field of campervans next to the Ponsandane stream in Penzance had been flooded, showed all west Cornwall river's as low and falling, last update 7am. Funny how warnings, even if they didn't come to pass, are newsworthy, while actual events down seem to exist, except on social media.

The BBC did pick up on it, except it totally confused 2 events, the rain & the spring tide. The actual wording still here  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrj0lz1e4po

Heavy rain brought flash flooding to parts of the South West overnight.

Various videos shared on social media show flooding in the streets of St Ives, Cornwall, with The Lifeboat Inn posting to say it had temporarily closed on Tuesday evening.

The business was closed at about 17:00 BST but reopened at about 20:00, posting on social media to say it would be offering a "heavily reduced menu" until closing time.

The videos on social media showed flooding caused by heavy rain in St Ives in the afternoon, not overnight. The Lifeboat was closed, not because of rain, but due to the high spring tide, a not that unusual an event, hence the stone floor & sockets well up the walls. So wrong on both fronts.

Why is it, whenever there's something in the news you actually know about it's so often innaccurate. Where's the pretentious BBC Verify?

Anyway, a local school opening late as some of the classrooms were flooded. The main A30 west of Penzance was completely closed half a mile from my house at this spot

One of South West waters sewage overflows onto Porthmeor Beach St Ives. A waterfall of s**t - literally - result of the 'clean seep' upgrade..

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1830465714207453

Graham

Penzance

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You are so lucky to get rain.  Serious drought up here.

Jack