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Never bother looking at the metO symbols for the day

Snow here in Ipswich. My favourite kind of setup - cold air across warm sea, and one that actually brings some type of weather

Was pretty epic here in east Ipswich. Never before have I seen a storm develop above in minutes and the entire sky turn grey from a few dark clouds and blue sky. Can’t think of a heavier 20 minute spell of rain I’ve ever witnessed at this location.

I stopped counting at 59. 59 times the lightning symbol appeared on a met office forecast and failed to materialise. Same for tomorrow, however drive west along the A14 and you will witness heavy rain and lightning aplenty.

Very true! After a few hot days thunderstorms here = sky turns grey, bit of drizzle and that’s it

Hard to see anything but a half decent day today and this weekend. Normally thundery showers equals get the BBQ out as those showers never appear or appear in the form of light drizzle. We shall see

Just get the continent cold enough, the wind in our favour and with an ever warming sea I believe one day this snow starved “cold rain” infested East Coast will get buried in an event like never before. I’m counting the days, bring it on! 2 years and 26 days since the last covering of snow

Exactly, 6 degrees this afternoon and 5 degrees forecast for next Wednesday afternoon by MetOffice. Could be going from a week of cool breezy light rain showers with a touch of frost to another week exactly the same…

One more week of this hideous snowless winter, the second in a row. Never before have I witnessed a couple of winters so inadequate at producing anything minutely wintery. A few frosts that took one look at the rising sun and melted is as close as it got and being too close to that “warm” sea of ours soon beefed temperatures up to 7 degrees. Thanks for the memories winter 22/23, unfortunately there weren’t none. Bring on non event Yellow Thunderstorm Warning Season!

Headline in local newspaper: EADT “Severe cold weather warning issued for Suffolk as freezing conditions continue” Am I missing something? It’s just the met office forecast is for 7,8 & 9 degrees over the next few days and it rained yesterday and today. If I plan on leaving this town over the next few days, please other members of the SE & East Anglia community enlighten me are there biblical snow drifts out there? Just over 4 more weeks to go and it will be consecutive winters with no snow!

On the last cover of snowfall nearly 2 years ago. Feb 9th 2021.

A summary of my “cold spell”…Raining a week ago, raining in the week & raining now.

Nice to join in on the white landscape finally this morning in the form of a blink and you’l miss it frost. No real change in the weather this weekend unfortunately…yet more rain! Thank goodness it will start getting lighter in the evening from next week and I can look forward to another summer full of yellow thunderstorm warnings that never materialise.

What an abysmal rain spell this has been. Never has even felt "cold". A frost or 2 at night can still be observed between raging storms. Come back Atlantic all is forgiven, possibly the best chance of seeing white stuff in the form of hail. If there is talk of a warm give me strength because any warmer and the BBQ will be getting dusted off and the speedos will be out!

Lovely photos everyone stay safe and enjoy! Would love to be sharing the same but unless pictures of rain and wet surfaces is your thing i’l leave it until the only thing that will bring snow here…THE BEAST

6 hours of heavy rain predicted here by the Met for this evening. Wow let me know when this “cold spell” starts. Any mention of a warm up and il be dusting the BBQ down. May as well have a raging Atlantic onslaught as the result would be the same… rain and a bit chilly at night

Rain here in Ipswich

Would love to know! Totally devoid of any storms, thundery showers or heavy rain. Wiki however does quote this area as “Semi Arid” so certainly a long standing issue. Scientific wise… The North Sea? Wind direction? Seems to either be SE, S or SW. Maybe we will get better luck on that rare prevailing West wind because heaven forbid a storm should survive crossing the Iceberg infested cold pool of muck we have to our East.

Surreal isn’t it. The usual light rain snooze fest. I’ve had my 1 fix of heavy rain this year ( which lasted 5 minutes ) Good riddance to a summer full of thunderstorm warnings which never materialised.

Still no measurable rain since the 5 min squall line of the 18th June

Exactly happens time after time

Storm / heavy rain shield in full operation as usual here in Ipswich. Just rewinding todays radar you can see why Wiki quotes this area as semi-arid. Any action always to the south or west. Deserts missed the rain.

Can honestly say this has been the most incompetent bore feast of a winter in my near 40 years. A complete lack of anything cold. The closest I’ve got is whilst defrosting the freezer and throwing the ice outside. Even that melted instantly. Void of anything extreme apart from a 30 second squall line on 20/2 which must be a record breaker for not actually breaking up into a light drizzle as it past through. Oh well at least there is the summer to look forward to. Full of yellow thunderstorm warnings which as per usual develop and sit to the west whilst BBC Look East ( Look Norwich ) have a 15 minute feature on the severe storms around the region. Can’t say goodbye to this winter because we never met.

Often I rewind the radar in frustration of how any notable rain avoids Ipswich like the plague. Hopefully with a WSW wind over the next few days we may get something interesting finally!

Norfolk Sheep move a bit further south down here to Ipswich. Lovely Sunday afternoon here blue skys & hot. Saw the yellow warnings for rain & thunderstorms a few days ago and actually arranged a BBQ for today knowing it would never happen.