A Face like Thunder

Damp and blowy yesterday as I left the NY coast and moors but improved as I headed through the Vale of York and across to the Pennines and home. Back in a couple of weeks.

Looks as though it rained heavily overnight. Cleared now but very wet underfoot and I suspect we are not yet done with today's rain.

Poured down at 4pm and then on and off until about 6pm. And more rain expected to move up from the south overnight. Hopefully it will move away from the area by daybreak or soon after as I have outdoor plans for tomorrow.

Got back from N Yorkshire in warm sunshine. However, the patio was waterlogged again, indicating that it has been anything but dry since we left on Monday.

A wet start to the day and foggy on the coast. Dried up during the morning in Pickering but a monsoon shower there at 5pm and signs of surface water on the road back to Whitby.

Summer8906 not in London, see my post of 23rd February

Turned out to be a fairly decent day on the Moors and at Whitby. Some bright sun, some cloud and I thought at one stage we were going to get a shower or storm but nothing came of it. I was told that away from the coast, the Moors and area around Pickering were very foggy early but even that cleared up later. More of the same tomorrow please so that families on their Easter holidays can continue to enjoy themselves in the area.

My brother said that they had a thunderstorm at Purley in S London this afternoon. No further details.

Back in North Yorkshire for the first time this year and it rained all the way to Leeds which was a nuisance on the motorways. Rain had stopped by the time I arrived on the coast and has stayed dry but mainly cloudy since. Terribly wet and muddy underfoot and streams running down to the coast are all full, obviously reflecting the weather of the past few weeks. I was taken back to Easter Monday, 1st April 2018, which was very wet in the Region but was followed by a sunny day on the 2nd until early evening when we had a memorable and quite frightening 45 minute thunderstorm near Whitby. I wonder whether we might get a repeat in 2024.

Heading across the border to North Yorkshire today and it rained all the way to Leeds. Wet drizzly stuff rather than heavy but a nuisance nevertheless and it slowed the traffic on the M6 and M62 quite badly..

BBC Countryfile forecast for the week ahead had just about everything in it except warm sunshine. Rain tomorrow, showers or longer spells of rain interspersed with some sunny periods after that until the weekend and then potentially wet and windy at the weekend but warming up, although you probably won't notice it. Not good in other words for the start of the Easter holidays for kids and their families.

iand61 agreed, I thought we were going to get a mainly dry Easter Monday but now it appears not. Maybe the weather people were referring to Scotland when they referred to the 'North staying dry', although I wouldn't class our Region as 'Southern parts' by any stretch of the imagination! A second dry day today although more cloud than yesterday. 2 out of 4 reasonable days over a March Easter is probably as good as it gets and is certainly better than Easter Sundays in1975 (30th) and 2008 (23rd).

... and here! Lovely start to Easter Saturday and the last day of GMT for 6 months.

Still showering down with rain a short while ago but signs of it clearing up as night falls and the prospect of a better day tomorrow, the last under GMT for 6 months.

An OK day here so far. One heavy shower but otherwise dry and quite sunny and not particularly chilly in the sun , despite a brisk wind.

A dry, even bright start but dark clouds already building up and expecting showers soon. In fact, as I post, I think the first shower has arrived!

I spoke too soon, raining heavily here now.

Cheshire Freeze fully agree, the ground is still saturated from last night's rain here in Crewe and I don't think it was particularly heavy. Pools of water on our patio which are showing no signs of going away. One small sign of hope, the barometer seems to have bottomed out from a low below 29.0

Rain Lady black clouds we have a-plenty here in S Cheshire, but surprisingly, there has been little rain so far during daylight hours. However, the wind has got up and the barometer is still very low, and we are clearly not out of the woods just yet.

I opened the curtains half expecting to see some of the white stuff. Instead, we have blue skies and sun although evidence of heavy rainfall last night on the ground.

cheshire snow Yes, I must have seen the same forecast which looked interesting for tomorrow morning. I'm not sure that we're going to be affected by snow here in Crewe but areas around Chester and the hills around the city may certainly see a fall before it washes away with milder air taking its place. I shall peep through the net curtains with renewed interest tomorrow morning!.

cheshire snow oh s**t. Strange afternoon, lunchtime heavy shower, then dry and bright, now wet and wild.

tricol yes, we had that heavy shower as well. I wondered whether it was a front moving through because the weather cleared up immediatly after.

Wind has picked up and turned very gloomy with rain in the offing. Barometer below 29.0 and only going one way. Oh joy!

Yellow weather warning for wind for tomorrow just issued for London, the SE and SW of England. A rain warning for Northern Ireland already in place for today. The Easter get-aways could be tricky!