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A FLOOD ALERT has been issued for Edinburgh and Lothians

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  1. kaputnik
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    A FLOOD ALERT has been issued for Edinburgh and Lothians
    from 29-08-2012 11:20 to 30-08-2012 11:20

    A FLOOD ALERT has been issued for Edinburgh and Lothians.

    Heavy and slow moving showers may affect the region during Wednesday. These could cause some localised surface water flooding issues, particularly if the heaviest rain falls in urban areas and on impermeable surfaces, such as the road and rail network. Areas prone to land slip may also be impacted. Ponding and standing water may occur in low lying areas. Flooding from small watercourses and rapidly responding rivers may also occur. Due to the showery nature of the rainfall, it is difficult to predict which areas are most at risk, however, the overall risk is expected to decline during the early hours of Thursday morning. Members of the public are advised to check the Traffic Scotland website before traveling. SEPA will monitor the situation closely and provide further information when available.

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  2. fimm
    Member

    We've just had an impressively heavy rain shower with thunder and lightening here in Livingston. Actually, it is still raining. I assume it is heading for Edinburgh now...

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  3. Dave
    Member

    There's a big front just over us, with a little drizzle here in Leith.

    If it rains, there's a danger I may get damp on the commute.

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  4. DaveC
    Member

    Still dry here in St Andrew Sq, well its not raining anyway! Sky looks light grey not dark.

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  5. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Rain just arrived at Tollcross. Very light at the mo. But, Murrayfield has now disappeared from view, so expecting heavier to arrive. It was really nice out at lunchtime...

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  6. cb
    Member

    A heavy rain shower ended two minutes before I left the house this morning and another started 10s before I reached work (I can cope with 10s) so I've been feeling pretty smug* about my commute so far today.

    (*apart from the abuse I received from an angry man in BMW after I pointed out to him that he had failed to indicate. Apparantly I'm an f-ing, f-face something or other)

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  7. steveo
    Member

    Just seen a spot of lightning and a rattle of thunder here at Fountain Bridge.

    Edit: Just got REALLY dark here!

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  8. wingpig
    Member

    Flash and rumbles around the Lothian Road area, too. Possibly the same ones. Can hear the splashing of vehicles outside. Hoorah for recently-fitted dynolights.
    RUMBLERUMBLE.

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  9. DaveC
    Member

    Aye persisting it down here i St Andrew Sq, Hail and HEAVY RAIN, lightening and thunder. Might just have to get the bus home if it keeps up.

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  10. steveo
    Member

    Hoorah for recently-fitted dynolights.

    I had similar thoughts, the pain of the single speed this morning may well pay off this evening.

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  11. lionfish
    Member

    Luckily hiding in library cafe - nice place to be to look out at the rain and lightning!

    Am I the only person who instinctively starts counting after the flash... 2...3...Boom...

    "about one kilometer in three seconds"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound

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  12. fimm
    Member

    @lionfish Am I the only person who instinctively starts counting after the flash?
    No, I do that too.
    Merely raining in Livingston now. However examination of the Met office rainfall radar indicates that that information is of no use to persons to the East of me, as the weather is in fact moving from south to north.

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  13. DaveC
    Member

    I was always told 'one mile in one second, but this was in the days before the calulator.

    ref too wiki on speed of sound... oh yeh I see that now.

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  14. Snowy
    Member

    I was once on a guided biking and canoeing tour of the Dordogne* where the guide insisted that the sound of thunder travelled at 5 miles per second! Needless to say that once the flash and the bang were less than a second apart, we got off the water smartish and left him to it...

    *thunderstorms every day for a week, if you like that sort of thing

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  15. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Booo! I was in a meeting on the ground floor with a teeny window when the lightning arrived - my desk on the 7th floor would have had some wonderful views!!!

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  16. lionfish
    Member

    minimoth has arrived home "soaked to the knickers" apparently.

    I'm going to keep working in the library until it stops.... ... which seems to be taking a long time ...

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  17. chdot
    Admin


    Hat for rain

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  18. DaveC
    Member

    I got throughly soaked on the cycle home too. Had to resort to 'heating' to get my shoes dry. Taking no chances today, full waterproofs though I am a tad warm.

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  19. crowriver
    Member

    Does anyone here except me ever check the weather forecast before leaving the house? The rain was predicted...

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  20. chdot
    Admin

    Rain is predicted for the current hour...

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  21. Dave
    Member

    I rode in the usual stuff yesterday and today - humvee shorts, SPD shoes (no covers or special socks), long sleeve top.

    When it's still this warm, I don't mind being wet (and the shoes don't take that long to dry - less than the time until the next commute).

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  22. cb
    Member

    "Does anyone here except me ever check the weather forecast before leaving the house? The rain was predicted..."

    Are you suggesting that if you get wet it's your own fault?
    Weather forecasters tend to tell you that the rain can't be predicted (very accurately) in weather like yesterday's.

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  23. kaputnik
    Moderator

    The rain was predicted

    Well, rain was predicted. Not neccessarily that particular rain! (BBCs 2 raindrop rain classification system clearly not up to the job of defining days like yesterday)

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  24. fimm
    Member

    I had my waterproof with me yesterday. I left the office in the rain, got very cold and wet within 5 minutes, thought "this is not fun" and 10 minutes later the sun came out, we had the brightest rainbow, it was lovely, and the cycle home was not nearly as bad as I'd feared!

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  25. steveo
    Member

    Plus it was cold rain. Even with my boil in the bag I felt a little on the cool side.

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  26. Dave
    Member

    I feel like I was in a different Edinburgh yesterday ;-)

    Maybe coastal warmth down in Leith, and I've got going by the time I climb up to Blackford hill?

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  27. Uberuce
    Member

    The good burghers of Radio 4 warned me about the weather, so I packed my usual summer rain kit: overshoes, shorts, cycling top, and rode into work in my jeans and T-shirt.

    I missed the torrential downpour, but the P1's were walking up Comiston Road during the peak of it. Utterly soaked, but more amused than scared, with the exception of a couple that didn't care for the thunder.

    The light was just perfect coming down Spylaw Road at 6pm; gave the rain an eerie backlight, the kind of rain that Roy Batty's memories of the Tannhauser Gate could vanish into.

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  28. Min
    Member

    I never trust the weather forecast. It is too often wrong for that.

    I officially remounted my lights some time ago having officially removed them for summer. Since we haven't had a summer, they had to go back on. My waterproof lives in my pannier anyway.

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  29. wingpig
    Member

    My waterproof is always in my bag, where it remains during heavy rain in anything except sub-zero-Celsius conditions. Yesterday's home-journey rain-precautions involved putting my phone in my waterproofish camera bag rather than my non-waterproof pocket.

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  30. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I had my waterproof with me yesterday

    Me too, I was "prepared", but not for that. I think even my heavyweight Paramo would have let that rain through.

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