A paper published this week in the Geoscience Data Journal has revealed that what we thought were rainfall records need to be revised The Rainfall Rescue project was led at the University of Reading and involved over 16,000 members of the public digitising rainfall observations stored in the Met Office archives. Over

We are carefully watching rainfall predictions for Wednesday into Thursday. GFS and ECMWF are disagreeing on rainfall amounts. Here's the total rainfall forecast to 7pm Thursday evening. Notice the large totals in the east with 40mm+ over pats of East Yorkshire and widely 25-30mm eastern England and East Anglia.   This is the forecast