Summer 2012 Part 1: The Great Flood of June 9th 2012: off the scale!

June 10th 2012: this is a bit of a collaborative post with Aberystwyth-based photographer Keith Morris to whom I am grateful for permission to use some of his images as between us we got to where we could in order to record an extraordinary severe weather event that affected a fairly small part of Mid-Wales from the early hours of Saturday June 9th onwards.

Rain set in on the night of June 7-8 as a deep area of low pressure off the SW of England moved NE straight across Wales, bringing severe gales especially to the south-western coastal areas during the 8th. The low had moved off into the North Sea by the evening of the 8th but its trailing occluded front continued to sit over Mid-Wales overnight before finally drifting off northwards later on the 9th. The rain finally died out late morning on the 9th, almost 36 hours after it started. The area affected is shown by the map below; place-names are in black and river-names are in blue: