Cheshire Freeze

This would be cold, cloudy and damp for 80-90% of the UK I’m no fan of heatwaves but a couple of warm and settled days wouldn’t go amiss.

Rush2019 lovely view of Sutton Common transmitter there

Barring a few days over the next week the GFS and GEM don’t look very warm and settled to me. Cool, damp and dreary in the mid term-

A Face like Thunder there was a distant rumble a bit ago

Just heard thunder

A Face like Thunder this was yesterday morning mate (the squall). Today we’ve had intermittent hail bursts on and off through the afternoon. We’ve been right on the edge of that line of shower activity.

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

Turquoise The winds were something else here under that squall. Things literally bent horizontal for a brief period. If it had lasted any longer than it did there would have been a lot of damage (trees were already blown down as it was).

Love convection at this time of year. A tad warmer would have been nice though.

SunSean yep that’s how someone with a lowish heat tolerance will feel here in the UK when it’s hot. You feel like you can’t escape it and it’s made even worse when you have no aircon in your home.

Just had some hefty sized hail falling

Just woken up by thunder, lightning, hail and storm force winds!

Scorcher not really seen anyone get excited about cold at this point? Think most people, me included, want a bit of warmth and sunshine?

Would probably see snow falling in the heavy showers with uppers circa -5

GFS consistent with strong Greenland heights towards the latter part of the month- Creates a path for the jet stream to ultimately head south once more- Any settling down with HP close to the UK looks a temporary affair as things stand…though with the swampish nature of the landscape at the moment, any dry weather is appreciated. Any southerly tracking low pressure will start to pack more rainfall as we approach May and more latent energy is added into the fold. That’s what made May-July 2007 so wet (high PWAT values).