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Some pretty intense hail showers have been hitting here

my better half sent me this - from outside her shop in sale. i see no lightning on the radar but she's saying there is a lot of low rumbling going on, that line has been travelling SE for the last two hours.. WhatsApp Video 2024-04-16 at 13.00.32.mp4

A storm passing the south end of Milton Keynes birthed a weak funnel cloud, lasting for a few minutes just before 5pm. Rotation in the cloud leading up to it was very evident!

Rain Lady aye it doesn’t matter which side of the GW debate you sit on, the conditions since early summer last year have been abysmal and we will all likely feel the effects in terms of substandard foods at higher prices. if this turns out to have been a freak event and conditions settle down into a lengthy period of good weather then some sort of normality will return and GW will suddenly become a positive thing but months of continuing wet weather has certainly played havoc with all aspects of life and I really feel for anyone trying to make a living in these conditions. Thankfully the dire conditions of yesterday should improve into something drier over the next few days with that rarest of beast, a high pressure system looking to set up shop around this part of the world but to me it looks like a drier but largely cloudy affair and, given the need for sunshine at this time of year, suppressed temperatures. I certainly cannot see us reaching for the sun cream and dusting the BBQ off anytime soon.

Met Office forecast A drier day with plenty of sunny spells, though the odd shower still possible. Another breezy day though winds much lighter than on Monday. Feeling fresher than of late. Maximum temperature 12 °C. Its more than an odd shower that's for sure.

Still managing to avoid the showers somehow which is what I wanted to keep it dry here, but they did look quite threatening to my east about half hour ago.

The mad hail reached here now. Looks like more might be incoming in the next hourish. 20240416_152147.mp4

Intense hail showers hitting Irlam. I thought it was supposed to be a better day? I know the showers are localized but they are intense when they hit.

Thought I'd drive up to Monks Road and see the weather to the West

How, have they missed this much rain in the forecast? Absolutely throwing it down here and looks set to carry on all afternoon. Just been to Ashbourne for a meeting and it was really nice there until I was heading back through Leek. Almost biblical rainfall.

A lot more convective than forecast. Just has a decent thunderstorm, ball bearing size hail and lightning, two claps of thunder. More bubbling up in the distance.

A few heavy showers likely with hail (seen a report of hail from Nuneaton) passing just east of here, but my area has managed to stay dry so it's mostly a pleasant mid April afternoon so far. YouCut_20240416_130841037.mp4

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Bit of a wild day today. Being an extreme weather freak I decided to drive down to view the River Mersey could barely open the car door with the wind, then I as I got back into the car to avoid a heavy hail shower, the door near took my leg off! I think we got to a high of 7-9c today but the wind made it feel much colder. Still wearing my anorak

For the first time in over 3 months, yes that long, the models show high pressure rather than low pressure ruling the roost in the near term. We are not talking a major blocking high that will fend off frontal features, namely as it is forecast to position to our west at first allowing weak frontal features to flow around its NE flank, it then attempts to build over and through to our east but ultimately becomes thwarted by lower heights which look set to develop into a major euro trough. In these set ups which are very common in the latter half of Spring, chilly easterly and north east winds can bring cool damp showery airstreams to the east and south, whilst the north and west holds onto the driest sunniest weather. The only time in the year when the NW is on the 'fine' side of the NW- SE divide. More notable is the return to near average means, again something we haven't seen for any length of time since mid January.

Some more angry clouds approaching.

Heavy hail shower has now crept over the hills and is hammering down here. Chris.R Empty

severe snowstorm yes just got in rumbles of thunder mixed with heavy hail showers.

Just had two more rumbles of thunder.

Just heard thunder

Chris.R dry here as well, bar a couple of light showers late morning. However, a lot of dark clouds around and actually a bit surprised that we have not caught a hefty downpour so far.

Looks like streamer is moving over me... Very heavy cell to my north... had lightning half an hour ago... let's see what happens.

Scorcher yes bizarre, I could literally see the showers all around, been tipping down for the last 15mins or so.

Stunning cloudscapes today. Huge anvil to my northwest, I assume it's the Wolves or Stafford Cell.

It's DRY for now. Blue sky earlier with tangerine coloured clouds. 7°C and those strong gusts have abated.

A tempestuous day, squally downpours and downdraughts, a pool of sub 528 dam air overhead, and consequently cold. Temps hovered between 5 and 8 degrees, fells retained a white coat above 650m.

Crikey! That hail core on the Ascot/Wokingham cell is huge!

Don't tell me that cell that went over me before has just electrified. It's taking the p**s now

Hail storm here and just had a rumble of thunder.

Bright sunshine now I'm back home. Its gone very dark to my North, something is developing

A Face like Thunder here in the east of the town we’ve been having intermittent bursts of hail!

Lightning out of this lot...

7.7°C here now down from 11.5°C 20 minutes ago

Heavy rain and some hail. Come on electrify.

Yep there’s a chain of cells headed down the coast ,some are in for a soaking

Oo is that a strike to my nnw?

Rush2019 It's been quite wet in Wilmslow- seems bizarre that some places not too far away are missing the rain.

To my East is blue skies, to the West is the ever imposing TCu showers making their way southwards across Cheshire. The Cat & Fiddle webcam has some good views across the plain with the rain-train in full steam.

Scorcher True, forgot to consider the strength of the sun at this time of year and possible inversions. Mild days in the mid to high teens likely. Nights would be chilly though if skies clear.

Yea, it's tracking right over us from the north. Temps really take a dive when these fronts arrive. Our garden is now 3/4 under water, it slowly grows after every heavy rainfall. We've ended up with a garden that we probably can't work on this year unfortunately.

Chris.R Yes, thanks, I had a delay on blitz for some reason. Heard 4 rumbles, edge of cell came into view, structure quickly fragmented.

Distant rumble heard from somewhere, no evidence of a strike on charts, edit.....radio is picking up something now. Ominous cell nearby at Alderley Edge. Was dry here till 1.15pm. Definite thunder heard again.

Yet Another strike south of Manchester. It's been a real hotspot this year.

danm I loathe autumn. The light dwindling, that chill in the air, nearly everything in nature dying... yuk

We seem to have missed the worst of the weather yesterday evening, still bits and pieces of rain in a gusty wind but nothing like further north and east in the Region. A better start today (not saying much), although we had a light shower an hour ago and still partly cloudy. Hopefully the forecast improvement will continue.

This upcoming sunnier drier spell better last a while yet, we have some catching up to do. Here's the sunshine stats here for the first 3 and a half months of the year since 2018: 2018 - 293 hrs 2019 - 299 hrs 2020 - 313 hrs (this came before the sunniest May on record too) 2021 - 297 hrs 2022 - 293 hrs 2023 - 212 hrs (already dull) 2024 - 161 hrs (shocking!) * the only "recent" start to the year comparable to 2024 for dullness was 2013 which was infamously god awful, but even that managed 193 hours! No wonder it's barely felt like spring at all. If 2024 wants to be considered a good year it'll need a classic late spring and summer, otherwise another one for the bin!

What a crazy day - lightning earlier this eve in that belt of squally heavy rain which came through the northwest. During the day a mad mix up of hot sun (briefly) and icy machine gun hail and lashing rain. Trees swaying in the spells of violent NW wind. Collected 9.0 mm this morning at 9 GMT. Current total for April is 107.6mm. Spent last few days trying to make progress with outdoor work, but everywhere is just too saturated to manage. Utterly disheartening. At a simple level the sodden veg garden is covered with thick lush weedy grass grown well in the warmer temperatures. There's no way anyone can even walk on it. But I could weep for the fields. Decades of work maintaining the network of tile drains and costing many thousands of pounds is now all for nothing. The drains have been silted up in the heavy rain since the start of July last year and it is impossible to get machinery on the land to clear them without causing damage. So now there is rush invasion taking over other species in the meadows. Even if the rain is suiddenly switched off it will be a very long time before the fields dry out and normal farming resumes. I've been told that arable farmers are also having problems. Seeds not yet in the soil. Overwintering crops ruined. I fear for food supplies whether for humans and farm animals next winter. Doubtful if places abroad can supply us reliably and cheaply when distrurbed weather patterns seem to be a worldwide problem.

Some from this afternoon. A fab day for some cloudspotting, about as classic of an April sunshine & (hail) showers day as it gets. Although a little chilly for my liking, the very strong sunshine makes up for it! Also some mammatus looking at the Coventry Airport cam when I didn't have the chance to capture them:

This is at Norwich at 3.45pm just had some big lightning and hail from this heavy shower.

12z deterministic runs, out to Mon 22 Apr (day 7) Most of the (modest) shenanigans we've seen over the past 36 hours ago have disappeared now. Fine weather for all throughout next weekend looks to be the most likely scenario. 12z ensemble means, out to Tue 30 Apr (day 15) Interestingly, it looks like the pattern will lapse into something cooler again by the end of next week, but without any Atlantic influence (contrary to this morning's GEFS runs). I don't have time to wait for the full ECM ensemble to come out, so the abridged version will have to do. It goes just about far enough out to show the appearance of a cold trough to our east, supporting the GEFS and GEM ensembles.