I beg to differ! Everywhere has suffered wetter weather than normal for the past two years. I spent four years living in Newcastle and never got used to the average temp being 2 degrees or so lower than here.
The downpour was quite widespread causing havoc on the A64 and reaching Harrogate/Knaresborough about an hour later along with a load of thunder and lightening.
It has been worse than that before though with the whole city being gridlocked by cloudbursts before today. Wait until there's a decent fall of snow - lol