[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

48 minutes ago, jy said:

Yes our glorious country lane aptly called Flood Lane is in fine form not only flowing strongly but for added fun filling the numerous potholes with water making driving a real lottery. Will be advising mate alternative route driving in the dark for Thursdays pub visit. For additional excitement round the corner there's about 80 metres of lake/lane that's over a foot deep.

Good job your pub visit is Thursday as the suggestion is this is lining up for Friday

Oh and Saturday

Lets not forget Sunday

 

Tiz over a week away but look, not a drop of rain!

 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Bristawl Si  Andy Bown  MP-R  Ok NOW I seriously get the feeling you Northerners are rubbing this in!!

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

The last remnant remains but I can see some thinner cloud to the NW

It has now stopped raining here.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, anybody notice that Spring still wants to follow the wet winter, with today's rainfall that is 4 out 5 days with measurable rain?

Daily rain totals

11.3 mm on day 1

11.8 mm on day 2

09.9 mm on day 4

With today adding to this.

Yesterdays Met Office video did suggest this happening, as shown here, whilst commented it might be heavy showers, they did highlight it, getting the position of it possibly too far south:

However, the same was stated on todays video, which almost suggests they didn't review the updated scenario, as they still stating "heavy showers", this is continual rain, not showers, so got to give them a black mark for not updating their forecast for today.

This radar shot doesn't suggest showers, that plain old rainfall:

Moving on, the overnight low of 3.7°C at: 01:00 has managed to haul itself up to 5.8°C, RH97% and a light breeze from the N.

From Above, the coastal rainfall showing nicely.

On Golden sands, wet suit weather..

 

 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

2 hours ago, Alderc 2.0 said:

More rain again this morning, it’s getting pretty desperate now. Need a really lengthy dry spell until about October! 

Certainly is chucking it down, the dogs went outside and tiptoed around in the puddles.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

1 hour ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

The triangle is here 

Aha, figured out, there's a hole in the cable and when it rains we get the infamous triangle of a rain area.

 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

50 minutes ago, snowdog said:

Rain arrived here now. Same old same old !

Considering its taken most of the daylight hours to reach us, it seems to be getting a scoot on now, well the first band that is, then we await the second band in a short while. Computed view below

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, back to the usual overcast sky in readiness for the rain later. The overnight low of 1.0°C at: 05:20 has risen to 8.9°C, RH78% and a freshening breeze in from the S.

From Above the inbound front sets the scene

On Golden sands

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

7 minutes ago, AWD said:

Just watched the local weather forecast.  More rain tomorrow!  Yay!!!  

Yup looking wet, that's the price we pay for a sunny blue sky day!

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

2 hours ago, Dorsetbred said:

OK so who killed the sun around 12:25?

AND allowed it back again later?

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

OK so who killed the sun around 12:25?

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, one outta three ain't bad, I'll take it, with a clear wall to wall blue and frost covering and no breeze...very nice. The overnight low of -1.9°C at: 06:48 has risen to 9.9°C, RH71% and light air movement from the S - SW.

From Above

On Golden sands, busy, busy, busy

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Champion!

And warm in the sun currently 8.1°C @*Stormforce~beka*

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, so Spring has a 100% wet start, a good way to follow a wet winter! The overnight low of 0.5°C at: 06:04 has risen to 5.8°C, RH87% with a light breeze in from the SW.

From Above, the radar confirms the partially cloudy start this morning along the coast.

On Golden sands nice patches of blue sky 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

8 minutes ago, Snowkissedtwice said:

WOW! Just had a really heavy downpour of hailstones. The patio and car is covered in white stuff. Then magically, it suddenly stopped. Come on own up... who turned off the tap? 

Sat in the middle of two main areas of rain again.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

48 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

I want one!!

Beka when they are this large and bigger you probably don't want hail. Having sat inside a brand new jeep that was pounded by large hail, it ended up with every panel beaten in, + a very mutilated windscreen. Great fun though!

As to the car the rental guy commented "Got caught in the hail didya?". I suspect it was sold off quickly.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Can anybody living near Dean Hill, stick 50p in the radar meter please, it's still broken?

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

36 minutes ago, matt111 said:

I made a snowball…sort of  

L

just had a hail shower which briefly accumulated in places. 

All hail the MIGHTY MATT!

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

The suggestion of High pressure for a few days might mean a slight lowering of the water level around the area.

With the suggestion of aa couple of cooler nights before things warm slightly.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

18 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Oh no! Coco pops aren't what they used to be!

Yes, agreed, they used to be CoCo poops.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, Spring has sprung with a leak! Glad to see the MetO yellow warning has been removed, as it's pleasantly sunny down here. The overnight low of 1.5°C at: 00:37 and the current temp is 7.2°C but some windchill attached to that with the fresh breeze in from the W - SW. RH81% and 6.3mm of rainfall.

From Above, Inbound showers for later by the look of that

On Golden Sands, a couple of hardy folks braving the surf.

 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

3 hours ago, jtay said:

Starting March with one of these...

pretty tragic really.

Confused as I posted earlier the expectation from ECM was for the rain to pass through overnight hours around 3am. Then tomorrow was looking like this:

From GFS it was looking like this:

UKV has this for tomorrow

And add GEFS to that we have:

Now we have 5 possibilities, yer takes yer choice...

So that would suggest the MetO are in agreement with the GEFS/GFS forecast rather than the ECMWF.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

16 hours ago, AWD said:

Don’t worry, we will soon be finished with our wet February days.  They will be no more.

Instead, we will get to experience some wet, March days.

Interesting quick check on the amount of sunshine here for the past month to midday today:

Sunshine hours for the month: 26:29 hrs

Norra lot really.

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Morning All, at least this is the day in February that it can rain. Happy Birthday any leaplings

As for the weather, well it seems to be a groundhog day, with the overnight high of 9.9°C at: 05:27 being followed by the low of 7.7°C at: 08:08 due to the wind direction changing in from the N. RH97% and light air movement from the SW.

From Above

On Golden sands a calm channel and interesting cloudbase

And this is being saved for later tonight

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

20 minutes ago, AWD said:

Don’t worry, we will soon be finished with our wet February days.  They will be no more.

Instead, we will get to experience some wet, March days.

Ah well, at least good riddance to a mild and wet winter 2023 / 2024, and thank goodness we took everything that was thrown at us about association of typical events tied in with an El Nino winter in the UK, and all the hype about the winter being back end loaded for colder weather. Just goes to show we have a looooong way to go with seasonal forecasting yet.