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Mark wheeler Yep, husband is shaking as he swears it hit our outside light.

Oh my goodness, massive flash of lightning followed by thunder that literally shook the house under the REALLY heavy rain passing over Surbiton right now!

Some lovely cloudscapes from the North Downs towards Abinger Hammer today. Also bluebells and lambs. A short period of heavy rain arrived at 7pm in Surbiton, but it came and went fairly fast.

Beautiful convective cloudscapes either side of us in Surbiton while we stay under blue skies and sunshine after a cloudy morning. Husband went to Homebase in Epsom and got drenched, with the line between dry roads and soakng wet ones about a mile south of the A3 at Tolworth.

Andy Bown I saw the A303 at Mere on the news this morning flooded. My sister is driving to Midsomer Norton tomorrow from Guildford to visit my mother and we're wondering how passable some of the roads will be; definitely not going via Chitterne!

That was a wild 5 minutes as the squall came through. Heavy, driving rain and hail, the trees waving wildly and the temperature in our lounge dropped as the wind came through our dodgy window frames and down the chimney.

No sign of Storm Jocelyn at Heathrow, a very uneventful landing into grey skies, drizzle and 12 degrees. Ah well...

Thank you for replying We're landing at 4... hopefully... at Heathrow, not Paris

I'm keeping fingers crossed for arriving back at Heathrow tomorrow afternoon from Prague. @Kentspur we got plenty of snow and ice on the ground It's raining this evening, in case we're missing home maybe

Thanks Tom, I appreciate your very educated guess:) The car had those pretty star-shaped patterns on the windscreen, although the sun is clearing it all now. Frost or no frost, it's absolutely freezing out there!

Very cold here this morning. Local weather station says -1.7c, dew point -5.7c. Husband wants to know why the frost appears to be melting if it's below zero outside. Beautiful clear blue skies again and crisp air.

Thanks, and yes, I had a bit of hope for snow in Prague, but am happy with cold and seasonal. Agree with what you say, 'cold' varies so much, especially with a stiff wind against you. I'll put Riga on the list; I was there as a student, so it would have changed rather a lot by now. My coldest ever was -25 in Moscow, and my face went so numb I couldn't speak! Sounds like you have done well on the snow front - send your luck around the south east on Wednesday... please!

A beautiful winter's morning here in Surbiton, after a hard overnight frost (the closest to anything looking like snow we're likely to get!), the air is crisp and sunny under blue skies, although rather raw walking into that wind. I'm loving the seasonal weather personally, but am disappointed at the lack of the white stuff later in the week. We're off to Prague for a few days on Saturday, so the cold weather will be good practice for correct clothing choices; hoping that storm doesn't come in too early and disrupt the flights.

Bristawl Si had a go at answering this very question in the Model thread a day or two ago: And yes, it's very cold out there... and drizzling...

Can I very much agree with @Paul; it's the first place I go, along with my regional thread, to get a feel for what's going on. Then, if I have time, I brave the MAD thread!

Well, @northwestsnow will be behind the sofa, @sheikhy will be farting, @MATTWOLVES 3 will be telling us to get our coats as we've pulled, and nearly all of us will be hitting the booze, so that's Saturday night sorted....

Some serious gusts are whipping through Surbiton now, just outside of the amber warning. It was bins day, so rubbish is flying around everywhere, empty bins have gone over and there's some crashes and bangs going on outside that I hope have nothing to do with the scaffolding over the road; trees are blowing like mad. Re: cold prospects and the MAD thread, I will be very happy if we can just get some respite from all the wet weather and replace it with crisp, cold days, some nice frosts, and the possibility of some flakes falling. Top of a Swiss mountain conditions would be fabulous, as would 2009-2010 redux, but for now, no more rain please! Edit: neighbours are out trying to put bins back together braving an onslaught of yet more flying debris - it's kicking off! And edit again, I went out to retrieve someone else's bin from our drive; returning it, I found another neighbour's bin straddling the road, and while I returned that, a large plank of wood went flying from the skip at the house renovation opposite. It's been a wild half an hour!

Happy new year everyone and best wishes for an excellent 2024... Preferably with loads of snow.

My husband becomes very anxious in heavy rain and has really been struggling a lot in recent weeks. There is also autism in the family. Hmmm... As others have noted, very windy last night, windows rattling more than in some considerable time, and then of course, we wake up to yet more rain;/

Get better soon! It's been a cold, damp and rainy few days. Let's hope the background drivers deliver for later in December

I think we are saved, during this season, by the highlights thread - it prevents a lot of unnecessary scrolling! Grey here, again. Looking forward to cold and frosty weather. Visiting my niece in Brighton tomorrow where it might be rather bracing:)

Cyprus, too, has been recording record breaking temperatures. I'm glad it's not just our imagination that November seems to be ever hotter. This is from 2nd November in Akrotiri: "Met Office Akrotiri @MetOAkrotiri More about our new Akrotiri November max temp (31.1°C) Some say it's boring, for us weather nerds a record max is the most exciting day of the year! The last and only time we broke 30°C was on 1st November 1992. Dating back to 1956, so only twice in almost 70 years!"

A wet and miserable afternoon here, 8 degrees and raining. My son forgot his coat to walk along the river to the cinema in Kingston and he got so cold, I ended up buying him a discount hoodie!

Yes, I thought the same. I think people were hurrying too much, getting impatient in the inevitable traffic that always arrives with wet weather, especially if they were stuck behind drivers that tried not to go through a flooded intersection at all then realised they had no alternative, the one behind speeds up to get through the orange traffic light, another one jumps in behind dashing through a red and off they go, way too fast, covering pedestrians. One school girl got soaked but then didn't move away from the edge of the pavement right next to the deepest flooding where multiple cars always pass at speed. A really unpleasant morning out there. Much clearer now.

Ah, so I wasn't imagining I could see hail (or something like hail) falling from the squall as it passed through!