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Can this be classed as the first thundery plume of the year? Very impressive sky on the Eastern edge of the heavy rain, this is producing large drops of rain.

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Wow 2 dry, bright, pleasant days in a row! So we must be due some rain! Tomorrow morning looks set to oblige.

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1 hour ago, jtay said:

Can we count this as a bit of Asperatus?

Floated up from the South, then fizzled away.

It's a very unstable sky, summer plume like to the East of a cold front. 

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Is it really going to be dry tomorrow?

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I am going to invent a new phrase, the Dorset Driver.

This doesn't refer to how Karlos, Mapantz and others operate their vehicles, it is a streamer of showers forming from the Dorset coast and pushing inland.

It happens frequently in moist S/SW flows year round and has begun again this afternoon.

Showers tend to intensify over the high ground around Shaftesbury before affecting the Warminster to Trowbridge area then dying out as they head further N/NE.

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Please could somebody turn off the tap!

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2.1c and heavy rain. The 2 beasts aside we seem to have had countless cold rain events since early December!

Thank goodness it was fine for 90% of the day! Lovely walk to the park and round the lake then outdoor play for our boy at grandparents house.

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I wasn't expecting to wake up to heavy wet snow! It stopped as it started settling though.

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Was cool to see patterned frost on the cars, but here comes the rain again!

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We have had 12 Saturdays this year, 9 of which have been either very wet or unsettled. The local football leagues have had postponements left right and centre!

Now it's the Easter weekend with lots of matches on Good Friday and Easter Monday both of those days look very wet while Saturday should be dry!!!

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Some of the rain has looked a bit 'blobby' during the heaviest bursts in the last hour, so an element of evaporative cooling, but it's 4.2c so nowhere near cold enough to sustain once intensity eases.

Thinking of taking my boy on a boat trip across the lawn later!!

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I've managed to arrange childcare so I can deliver my fortnightly papers on a bright, breezy afternoon rather than in tomorrow mornings vile conditions!

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1 hour ago, warmintim said:

Steady - lets not get carried away! My father refers to 'Warminster Dress', which is wearing shorts, usually with jumpers and hats, at all times of the year. I nearly reached for the shorts yesterday!

Lol so did I, by 2pm I wished I had!

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1 minute ago, Summer Sun said:

Can you check again? I have just looked and the time is fine

It's correct for me too now. Maybe my radar page needed refreshing!

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Hi, is the radar having problems after the clock change?

It's showing 19.10 as the slide time when it should be 20.10 . Or is it an hour behind by coincidence?

Not an issue on a dry evening but it could cause confusion from tomorrow evening onwards.

Thank you.

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44 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Made 12.6°C here today. Pretty nice! Plenty of work to be done in and around the pond.

According to the BBC graphics, we shall be enjoying some snow in Dorset & Hampshire on Friday, with temps of 9 - 11C.

I think those graphics are meaning hail in heavy showers, if you're referring to the Countryfile forecast he did mention hail.

We do have the chance for some convective weather this week if the lows are slack enough, but it could also go the boring way of more general cloud/rain.

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4 hours ago, Leon1 said:

I wonder if there won't be as many wasps in the summer from the cold snaps this year?

And ants! If the last 2 summers are anything to go by my boy will be eating them in the lounge.

Hilarious to hear people saying they were freezing this afternoon in light of last week and 3 weeks ago!

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My humble request to Mother Nature is that if we must have a 3rd winter outbreak that it waits until late Good Friday to allow my local football teams to play their annual derby and is gone in time for me to be able to go out to work on the Tuesday morning!!

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Stunning Sprinter day with a sharp frost then virtually unbroken sunshine. Now a lovely night with setting crescent moon. The snow on the Western edge of Salisbury Plain looked great earlier.

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10 minutes ago, wiltshire weather said:

 

As for our snowman, building him in the shady part of the garden has helped keep him fairly intact, wonder if he can last until Easter?

Looks good, we will have to remember to do that next time. We built ours in the same few square yards of lawn which are in the sun from 09.00-15.00 now lol. This time I won't bore everyone with gradual reduction pictures!

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34 minutes ago, khodds said:

True. Spring is the new winter.

Sprinter! 

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I am reminded of dry summers where people wish for rain. It then rains for weeks on end and those same people moan it's too much.

It's the same now with cold/snow ; many of us wished for it, we've had 2 epic spells and now more is possible towards Easter some (including me) don't want it!

Also, those of us in the Points West region are so fortunate to have Ian Fergusson and John Hammond regularly doing live forecasts. John Hammond hinted at a cold Easter weekend 10 minutes ago.

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1 hour ago, warmintim said:

Not sure when it came down (#crucial - is today another day of snow?). Yes - I did enjoy seeing that.

Reviewing the Net Weather radar a broken line of showers moved South across us between 05.00-05.30 .

I'm counting it as another day of snow lol.

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Well I certainly wasn't expecting any more snow this week but there is a fresh dusting on all surfaces!!!!

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Beautiful Spring afternoon except for the bitter wind and 2.3c temperature lol. Washing out on airers on the patio as the line is above the snow covered but melting boggy lawn!