Got my brolly too. Don't trust this weather. It wouldn't surprise me at all if another one of those lows built up. Still strong winds coming up the coast today.

On Tuesday night when my windscreen wipers decided to pack up, I had a hair-raising experience trying to drive in the pouring rain with water running diagonally across the windscreen, making almost zero visibility - especially bad on the well-lit roads with lanes. The streaks of water broke up the lights and obscured almost everything. It was hard to spot where anything was - lane lines, median strip - even the edge of the road. I don't care to repeat that experience in a hurry.

Of course, now they are fixed, it definitely won't rain now :-P