Andy Bown

Yes very pleasant albeit cloudy again now. It doesn’t ‘feel’ like March though. In fact there’s almost an oppressiveness to the air. Still and warm and hazy like a summer afternoon.

78/79 you know what it’ll do, it’ll make the first evening of light until gone 7.30 be dull and wet! And ensure the colder nights with that set up push into the early morning a little further!

An almost rain free S/SW!? Blimey! It feels humid and if the sun breaks through I think it could get quite warm.

There’s no fog just Stratocumulus and occasional hazy sun.

What are the Met Office on!? is it really going to turn foggy this afternoon? It is barely ever still foggy at 14.00/15.00 even under a midwinter anticyclone!

Sorry if I seemed annoyed. It’s simply that we cannot even achieve a dry day! Fine, pleasant afternoon now though. Looking at the radar from all morning until now perhaps there’s a weak front/trough moving slowly East. Pretty standard really !

Err why is it raining and developing heavier overhead!?

The second weekend in a row with most of the rain overnight. Very fortunate timing! And a very pleasant afternoon outside.

*Waders required to hang bedding on the line! *Slight exaggeration but it’s back to square one!

A proper April showers day today with plenty of warm feeling sunshine in between.

Alderc 2.0 I just had to wear sunglasses while hanging towels on the line. Oh the joy !

Not sure how but there was an hour (whooppee!) with decent sunshine mid morning. Shame it’s been sandwiched by showers, drizzle, gloom and wind!

*Stormforce~beka* Hope you’re ok, not bruised etc! Steady on here, got a few sunny spells, still invizdriz in the air on and off though.

Any idea when there might actually be an even partly cloudy morning? Let alone a clear one! Feasibly it could be light enough by 06.30 to have no lights on indoors, but no chance with it being dull every morning! Would gladly swap 11c and gloom for 0c and frost/sunshine!

Add drizzle to that. The one chance of a dry day gone before 07.00!

Alderc 2.0 there were a few model runs on Saturday/Sunday that kept this rain over France and delayed any rain on Thursday until the night - that looks set to arrive by early afternoon now too! Drier tomorrow, maybe!!!

Ah the old sky clearing towards sunset scenario is rearing itself again! Probably going to be quite clear most of the night then dull and wet tomorrow !

Spoke too soon earlier. It’s been raining, sometimes pouring, for 2 hours now from a kind of back building downpour.

The first day this year with almost stationary heavy showers developing then dying in situ. A very convective sky here despite a lot of mid/high level cloud. A dry day so far though IMBY with some hazy sunshine after heavy rain overnight.

Today started looking promising for an interesting day with sunshine and sharp showers. However since 11.00 it’s just been cloudy and dry.

Shame there’s more rain due this weekend because the ground is just beginning to dry out in the strong SEly wind!

Big differences locally this morning. Warminster is crystal clear and sunny. Westbury is misty. Trowbridge is freezing and foggy!

MP-R it has here too, finally and thankfully! The last of the rain stopped at about 12.00 then frontal cloud finally departed the sun about 13.30!

Literally fed up this morning. Big area of rain spiralling around Southern England and actually developing further on its NW flank in my area. Why is it when the set up is unsettled things seem to self perpetuate into even worse? It’s raining here, now, and likely worsening when every forecast and app and model yesterday evening had a 95% dry, sunny day with minimal light shower risk. As it is now we’ll be lucky to scrape a little lightbulb sun if the frontal cloud begins to move away this afternoon! Short term precipitation modelling and forecasting has definitely got worse in recent times. One example being Friday into Saturday that brought the snow. Another being back in the Autumn with a large area of heavy rain. There are others.

jtay it’s as badly forecast/modelled as the precipitation that brought the snow Friday night into Saturday! Short term precipitation forecasts and modelling has definitely got worse in recent times.