xmas and the exe

 

 

 

 

flooding at the exe valley

 

  The rivers Exe and Culm use the Exe valley as a flood plain to expand when necessary, ignoring the trainline from Bristol to Exeter, and the villege of Stoke Canon, which sits at the confluence .. the church is there from 1666 so this can’t be new to them 

 

 

stoke Canon floods Dec. 2012

Rain radar for 20 Dec. 2012 . That’s what the Met Office+ had to say:

We all know the UK sees a good deal of rainfall, but it’s not often you cannot see the country at all on a rainfall radar image like the one below.

As you can see from the picture, taken from 6.50 am this morning, rain is falling widely across a large part of the UK.

Some places have seen persistent rain since the early hours of yesterday (Wednesday) morning, with some fairly high rainfall totals.

See rainfall totals on our blog at http://bit.ly/VTkVQ2 and keep up to date with warnings at http://bit.ly/T59NRG