The Midlands Regional Discussion

[Essan]

18.6mm here (rain has stopped in last half hour) - makes it my wettest day of the year and since August 26th 2011

[picog]

Relentless heavy rain now. All getting bit hairy on the flooding front.

Edited July 6, 2012 by picog

[Serendipity]

we have blue sky... phew!!

[Luke]

What's the forecast for tonight? There is quite a lot of surface water around.

Edited July 6, 2012 by Luke

[Essan]

What's the forecast for tonight? There is quite a lot of surface water around.

Should be dry tonight, but a risk of heavy showers tomorrow, with some more general rain possible later, which falling on saturated ground could lead to more flash flooding

[cyclonic happiness]

Well, the sky's cleared now and we have some sunshine

I don't think it'll last too long but it's nice after such an awful day .

[Luke]

Still grey skies here

[Nick L]

We have breaks in the cloud, blue sky!!

[picog]

Stopped raining. Yeah! Still a very wet dog walk — lots of pooling in the fields.

[Nick L]

Turned into quite a nice evening in the end, but much fresher, will be nice to have the window open tonight!

[Bartlett Low]

Any interest in these Pics you reckon? After rain had passed through. Sorry North West Thread is locked. This is South Manchester about an hour ago.

[stormyskys]

Contrails I would say, they do look a bit strange though. Maybe a few ufos moved through at high speed lol.

[Barbmac]

Well, more rain here in Malvern today, we appear to be in the line of a series of sharp, heavy showers developing on the radar stretching from mid Wales right across to London.

[Luke]

Rain looked like it was dying out before it got here but now it's here it is chucking it down now.

[Arnie Pie]

Lots of up drafts in the clouds coming over Birmingham atm

19c and looking good for later

[Ian Ballinger]

sky has just gone pitch black

[snefnug]

normally post on Wales thread, but we had our food festival in Oswestry today, and apart from spotty cooling mizzle

at about 6.00 this morning, and a few cloudy doubtful moments, it has been gloriously hot and sunny. Please be that it is the same for the festival on Sunday, because there is something so nice about seeing happy smiling faces, eating great food and making friends with some fantabulously beautiful dogs, and their minders. Mr Blue sky is my new bestest friend!

[cyclonic happiness]

Well, it's started rather cool this morning and it looks like showers again today although the most recent radar shows showers actually dying away probably due to the layer of stratus that's stopping convection.

Yesterday's showers where killed off by a layer of cirrostratus and we may go the same way in this neck of the woods today?

[TonyH]

My weather guide to the coming week (not good again!):

http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/309/entry-4435-weather-guide-monday-9th-to-sunday-15th-july-wet-wales-and-central-midlands-specific/

[Luke]

Where has this amber warning just appeared from, didn't know any rain was expected tomorrow!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Where has this amber warning just appeared from, didn't know any rain was expected tomorrow!

Absolute washout tomorrow, and friday 13th washout coming up, hate living here

[TonyH]

Some slow moving downpours in a line across the central/ north MIdlands now should be interesting this evening,

Edited July 9, 2012 by TonyH

[Nick L]

Raining...that's a new one!

[Nick L]

Although I'm a bit confused as to the direction it's going. I put the pressure overlay on the radar and going by the supposed circulation on that it should be going south...yet it's going North. I wish my course actually taught us about weather rather than maths...

[TonyH]

They are very gradually moving NNE although the ones over Shropshire are almost static.

Of course they travel with the upper flow between the 850 and 700hpa levels usually.

Edited July 9, 2012 by TonyH