South West & Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 28/08/13 00z ------------------>

[Lyn-M]

Absolutely tanking it down here at the moment, but judging by the radar, not half as badly as it is elsewhere in the region.  The tail of this present area of rain now to the west of the Channels Islands looks rather lively!  Suspect that it will miss us here.

[dec10snow]

Wow, that radar looks really impressive!!! Looking good!

[South coaster]

I'm in Hampshire does any one think Iwe might get in on the storms today

[Somerset Squall]

Is it nighttime? Lol. No thunder and lightning here yet, but the rain is pretty heavy and it is very dark. I thought the showers were meant to start off light?

[wimblettben]

Its raining here now.

 

No thunder yet.

[BARRY]

well it's tipping down again the rader looks like a map of Africa at the moment

[AWD]

Interesting day for many parts of South & West England, south of the M4;

http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html

Further showers & storms are also likely as the day develops. I wouldn't be suprised if the thundery element gets restricted into the Channel later on however as the unstable airmass subsides slightly;

But there is still enough advection in the upper level flow to create further convective activity throughout the afternoon;

Especially across Devon, Cornwall & Dorset.

Some impressive overnight thunderstorms looking on the radar loop. More to come over the next few hours too, with more shower activity flowing across the edge of the theta advection, SE/NW.

[BARRY]

still raining hard net weather local forecast shows sunshine for us lol.

[Andy Bown]

I'm not altogether sure where the air is coming from but with hazy sunshine after the sharp bursts of rain it feels positively tropical. Surely a good chance of home growns breaking out this afternoon should the sun come through strongly which seems likely given the brightness approaching from the South. Humidity is 90%!

[Mapantz]

15.2C - 93% humidity, 6mm of rain. Hazy sunshine here at the moment. I had a few more showers this morning, nothing quite like the thunder & lightning around 1am though.  

[galacticwarrior]

And here in Reading there's sunshine with no rain in sight

EDIT: 100th post?! Woo hoo!

Edited September 28, 2013 by galacticwarrior

[Snowkissed]

15.2C - 93% humidity, 6mm of rain. Hazy sunshine here at the moment. I had a few more showers this morning, nothing quite like the thunder & lightning around 1am though.  

We had a storm here too in East Dorset around 2.30am. Do think we have see the last of the storms for now Mapantz?

[Mapantz]

We had a storm here too in East Dorset around 2.30am. Do think we have see the last of the storms for now Mapantz?

 

Storm wise, i'm not sure. The good ingredients for those shifted West slightly. The current radar shows where the trough is but that does get shunted away by a front moving up later today, so we may still have a chance for some beefy showers later on today/evening, and who knows, maybe a rumble of thunder mixed in too.  I guess we'll just have to radar watch on & off through the day and gauge things that way.

 

I was surprised by last night's if i'm honest, i was waiting in the pub for the heavy shower to stop, to which it did, so i made a dash for it, the streets had rivers of water coming down them but where they've now turned off all the lighting at 1am, you cannot see a thing in the backstreets, where i live, you have to physically grope the walls to work out where you are! That's when the lightning started, it aided me home. 

 

Fingers crossed for later!

Edited September 28, 2013 by Mapantz

[BARRY]

38.2mm of rain since midnight

[wimblettben]

Well that load of moderate rain that came through didn't produce any thunder.

 

Will be very dissapointed if nothing happens, its all too far west as usual just like what happened with a narrow group of storms that moved north overnight back in July.

[Mapantz]

38.2mm of rain since midnight

 

Just a few hours ago, the BBC tweeted to say 14.2mm fell at Exeter airport in three hours. More to come for you folks down there, stay safe! 

[Summer Sun]

Very surprised the met office haven't issued any warnings for parts of the south west given the amount of rain thats already fallen

[BARRY]

well another 1mm fell in just 20mins tis coming down like staire rods

[Guest William Grimsley]

There was 3 overhead claps of thunder this morning, here. It shook me up, I tell you. A big thunderstorm is heading this way now, here.

[Methuselah]

Just for you, William...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQEbQJx5Bo

[wimblettben]

There was 3 overhead claps of thunder this morning, here. It shook me up, I tell you. A big thunderstorm is heading this way now, here.

Lucky you!

 

There has been nothing here but some rain so far.

[A.J]

more storms developing over the french coast and the channel islands, these are heading for south devon....Brixham's the place to be today!

 

The storm threat seems to be moving further to the west as that's where the best instability is...not ruling out something happening over dorset/wilts, but it would be the exception rather than the norm

[BARRY]

It's still raining we have 41.8mm rain so far since midnight and the the storm looks like it will miss you william

[Guest William Grimsley]

It's still raining we have 41.8mm rain so far since midnight and the the storm looks like it will miss you william

Miss me?

[BARRY]

Miss me?

have you got rain