South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 31/12/13

[Jason T]

High tide levels for 6pm onwards.....http://t.co/YaV6n4snXM

 Notice anything missing....http://t.co/uxaSaZWAOD

[Coast]

I think I've resolved to grab a few sneaky snifters of top-notch rums tonight, turn the TV surround sound up a bit more than usual, close the curtains and keep my fingers crossed. With any luck there will be some breaks over the next few days to get out and about to grab some more photos - I hope everyone stays safe, dry, powered up and damage free.

 

 

[alexisj9]

Holy bleepers!

 

I was in morrisons and the lights were flickering and I knew that bad weather was on the way, especially of the noteworthy skies coming towards me before hand. I came out and went into the chemist and again lights flickering. As I walked back the bad weather hit and it sure was bad to start of with!

 

A big gust nearly knocked me off my feet, with hail hitting my face and the tree's roaring in the wind. Even within home distance it was still chucking it down and giving it all with the gusts.

 

Pretty impressive, but enough is enough, give us cold dry weather or snow atleast!

Yep my husband just said the same thing for his journey home.

[john pike]

saturday night

 

 

low showing at present is further south

 

ukmo show this

 

 

heavy rain overnight south of the region

 

cold and poss heavy wintry showers when that low heads off east

 

gusty winds when the low passes east and puts wind direction east north east

 

the wintry showers will be a blink and miss situation but rain again is more of a concern

 

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sunday

 

 

a weaker south westerly but may increas again later in the day

 

rainfall

 

 

dry for a bulk of the day

 

however later

 

back to heavy rain overnight and gusty south west winds

 

one good thing about these

 

i will have to come back to you on that

[SF-02]

Just watched the  BBC Weather the next huge storm for Sunday will not be as bad as they thought Gibbs said they are watching it!!!

To be honest for some in the south east every system in the past week hasn't been that strong and been less than feared. Some heavy showers yes, but generally not more than 10mm of rain a day and non damaging gusts. If there have been heavier bands they last 2 or 3 hours maximum.

[Eskimo]

To be honest for some in the south east every system in the past week hasn't been that strong and been less than feared. Some heavy showers yes, but generally not more than 10mm of rain a day and non damaging gusts. If there have been heavier bands they last 2 or 3 hours maximum.

It's the sheer accumulation of rainfall over the last few weeks, it has rained nearly every day since mid December and the rivers cannot take any more, they've had enough lol. 

[Jax]

The Atlantic rain train just keeps on coming back, in a way glad I am working from home tomorrow, but then Sunday is not looking too good, we really could do with a prolonged dry/calm spell, give the ground a chance to dry out and the rivers to fall again, (anyone remember the drought?).

[Sussex Jules]

To be honest for some in the south east every system in the past week hasn't been that strong and been less than feared. Some heavy showers yes, but generally not more than 10mm of rain a day and non damaging gusts. If there have been heavier bands they last 2 or 3 hours maximum.

Do you live near any rivers or open land?! Have a look at your local river then come back and tell me that things haven't been too bad.

The Atlantic rain train just keeps on coming back, in a way glad I am working from home tomorrow, but then Sunday is not looking too good, we really could do with a prolonged dry/calm spell, give the ground a chance to dry out and the rivers to fall again, (anyone remember the drought?).

Cuckmere in the summer!

 

[Alpine glow]

You never get that in Waitrose..... 

 

Do members generally never tell people about our interest in weather for fear of being labelled odd, or a geek? At least this last 12 months we can say we've had a pretty amazing set of weather events to experience and not feel like keeping it quiet to friends and family! 

 

I stopped mentioning the weather to my friends, family & colleagues after I impressed them with my newly found knowledge on the polar vortex... & then there was THAT ECM..

[Jax]

Cuckmere in the summer!

 

dry river.jpeg

Hard to believe how things have turned in a year, 2013 started long and cold, then a cracking summer and autumn, then it all seems to have gone breasts up.

[2810lollypop]

To be honest for some in the south east every system in the past week hasn't been that strong and been less than feared. Some heavy showers yes, but generally not more than 10mm of rain a day and non damaging gusts. If there have been heavier bands they last 2 or 3 hours maximum.

not here they haven't ! I've had more damage in the last few weeks than I did in 87 ! Probably because the ground is so saturated but none the less it has been awful here . Sounds like you've been lucky

[Sussex Jules]

Hard to believe how things have turned in a year, 2013 started long and cold, then a cracking summer and autumn, then it all seems to have gone breasts up.

I exaggerate, don't think I have ever seen it that dry just uploading pics from today and will post them up in a bit.

[john pike]

ukmo at 120

 

high enough pressure over us to keep us mainly dry

 

at 144

 

 

again still high enough pressure there to keep any showers light

 

note the pressure to our south east

 

that is slowly weakening

 

keep watching there and also the jet

 

ecm next

[SF-02]

Do you live near any rivers or open land?! Have a look at your local river then come back and tell me that things haven't been too bad.

Cuckmere in the summer!

 

dry river.jpeg

The Thames - which is fine. I know there's flooding in places and sad for people affected but it is not the massive amounts that were predicted/feared. Which is good and hopefully the coming bands of rain will peter out and give around 10mm like previous ones have. 

Edited January 3, 2014 by SF-02

[Flaked Queen]

We all live in different areas so the weather affects us all differently so for some to say oh haven't had much wind , rain, storms is not the same for others ! Give some thought for the ppl who have been affected by this awful weather !

[SF-02]

We all live in different areas so the weather affects us all differently so for some to say oh haven't had much wind , rain, storms is not the same for others ! Give some thought for the ppl who have been affected by this awful weather !

That's why in my post I wrote 'for some in the south east'. 

[john pike]

sunday night

 

as posted earlier

 

heavy rain and windy

 

monday

 

 

strong south west winds

 

troughs on there so heavy fast moving showers

 

similar to today???

 

 

cold air warm air mix

 

thunderstorms likely

 

jet

 

will certainly have an effect on the gusts

 

 

this is still a tricky forecast so keep watching as will probably be updated over the next couple of days

[Tom Jarvis]

Will I finally get my storm

[Captain Shortwave]

Evening all.

Well at lunch today we got hammered by torrential rain, hail, thunder and lightning. The weather obviously didn't get the memo that it is January

[Sussex Jules]

Eastbourne Beach

 

 

Birling Gap

 

 

With seas like that this Cuckmere Haven is struggling

 

 

[Keraunic]

Erm....re'some earlier posts,is this going to be a case of 'our storms have been worse than yours'? Blah blah. We've all had bad weather of some kind or another in the past week or two. Some have been more affected than others. Some, like me, like extreme weather....some dont.

Dont let's see this forum turn into another one like some others.

Edited January 3, 2014 by Keraunophile

[Sussex Jules]

Wow they have just shown a rockfall at Hastings on local BBC news.

[scotteboi]

BBC News just mentioned Sundays wind and rain event will be a 'notch down' in regards to both wind and rain compared with today/recent lows.....am I missing something as I thought Sundays event was to be as severe if not worse than today's/previous? Although (don't get me wrong) I hope they are right as I'm fed up with these lows now and people getting flooded out is horrendous

[Sussex Jules]

Link to youtube video of rockfall at Rock-a-Nore

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nD3prlsvDQ

[Snowangel-MK]

Further to my post earlier regarding MK's fantastic balancing lake system....

 

 

 

 

This is water being released from the River Ouzel into Willen Lake this afternoon !