South East England & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 28/03/14

[TheToastPeople]

Exactly how I am feeling.  This stubborn cloud simply refuses to budge.

 

Still, hopefully some of us in this region will be lucky this afternoon/evening, fingers crossed!

Ah well its still early days, Perhaps a tad early in the season to be storm chasing anyway.

Im hopeful there will be a storm about somewhere this evening, probably in Lincolnshire.... again!

[LJS22]

Sun popped out here.  For about 10 seconds.  Brighter skies now though so still a few hours to go

[Reefseeker]

Utterly murky and miserable here, waiting all morning for the cloud to lift and the rain to stop but still haven't made it out for my 'lunchtime' walk, I guess that is the return to fitness delayed until next week then! Still hoping the sun will punch through and get us all convected up.

[kate1]

No sun here just rain look like I'll be missing out again

There's a poetry thread for that sort of thing, Tom.

[Summer of 76]

seems to be lots of heavy rain around and about which is growing however no lightening being shown on the radar, if only the sun would come out

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Keeping an eye on that stuff heading NW towards Cambridgeshire. We seem to be in the right place for it drifting over the shortest route over water possible from France! Hoping for something. There seems to be some development over Belgium at the moment.

[Summer of 76]

Looks a bit misty on the downs at the moment, however if it cleared and we had a good thunderstorm move up from the south, I don't think a marquee up there with a load of metal would be the place to be watching from

 

http://dunstablehpc.co.uk/images/weather/dunnycam.jpg

Edited April 25, 2014 by chris mantle

[Summer of 76]

Well the temperature outside at the moment is only reading 11.6c, sun where are you?

[Steve C]

There are some very heavy showers moving northwards off the southern Dutch coast currently. It looks like they'll miss us.

 

It'll be interesting to see what develops to our south over the next couple of hours.

 

 

 

[Eskimo]

Skies clearing over the channel, better late than never!

[HammerJack]

Still full cloud cover here. Also turning quite misty... Feels cool out there as well.

Edited April 25, 2014 by LeighD

[Keraunic]

Light, drizzly rain here now. Very still and very dull.

[Team Jo]

The sky is a lovely greeny-grey here at the moment, just waiting for that rain band to arrive. It certainly *feels* stormy. Be interesting where those echoes off holland end up (and if they remain potent)

[Summer of 76]

Well looking at he radar for Europe, something has to develop over the south of France as there is no precipitation down there. 

 

http://www.radareu.cz/

 

 

I wonder if the influence of the low pressure coming in from the west has pushed everything east and that rash of showers of Holland moving north was the showers shown on the BBC graphics last night moving up through the SE and EA.

 

Still only 11.6c here and due to a solid brick built house i have had to put the heating on for them who have colds

Edited April 25, 2014 by chris mantle

[jamesslater93]

It's brightening up here now, although it probably doesn't matter anymore...

[Captain Shortwave]

awful day, just thick low cloud with occasional light rain and drizzle.

[Daniel*]

20c failed to materialize, 10.6c with cold rain. Not great - And the storms swanned off, To the continent per usual.

Another dismal display from the weather gods, this country is riddled with average weather

Horrid day ahh it was looking so good... Just persistent rain and thick cloud; seen better.

Gardeners be warned âš ï¸ very cold minima from the GFS

Edited April 25, 2014 by Daniel*

[Eskimo]

My statement stands! "If there is no sun by one, there'll be no storms by dawn!" 

[Mesoscale]

Anyone seen that stuff coming out of the Netherlands right now?? Looks quite tasty!Live cam of Amsterdam if the storms reach up there!http://www.earthcam.com/world/netherlands/amsterdam/Just rain here today but the smell in the air tonight is making it so much more bearable, it smells like spring!EDIT: Closest camera I could find to the approaching storms was is The Hague, NL. its a traffic cam but its good quality.http://webcam.prvgld.nl/n348c.html

Edited April 25, 2014 by Mesoscale

[Keraunic]

Blimey! That's some heavy stuff coming out of Holland. :O looks like it may just clip the North Norfolk Coast.......maybe, perhaps.

[JMTD]

We are all entitled to hope for the type of weather we enjoy; and this is a weather forum after all....and thunder storms have been around since time began. Apart from that, lightning, which is rich in nitrogen is good for crops and all growing things so it's good for us as well. We'd be poorer without them IMO. And.....we owe our very existence to them.Yes, they can be dangerous, but if you take proper care, and respect them you should be fine.

 

Oh of course, I didn't mean it in that way. Everybody is different and obviously a lot of people love storms. I didn't used to really mind them at all until a bolt struck a pole in my back garden which sounded like a bomb going off. Love the rain, hate thunder and lightning. Seem to be constantly coming on to see "this percent chance of storm today" and it drives me nuts. Sorry if I offended any of you by the way I said that in my previous post...heat, cold, snow, rain, sunshine...anything for me as long as the storms keep away 

[Steve C]

I did look at the CAPE charts this morning, from GFS and they didn't look anywhere near as tasty as yesterday's were showing, in our neck of the woods - the action was showing to our east...

 

I'd be 90% sure that some of us will hear thunder in this region before the weekend is out.

[Keraunic]

Oh of course, I didn't mean it in that way. Everybody is different and obviously a lot of people love storms. I didn't used to really mind them at all until a bolt struck a pole in my back garden which sounded like a bomb going off. Love the rain, hate thunder and lightning. Seem to be constantly coming on to see "this percent chance of storm today" and it drives me nuts. Sorry if I offended any of you by the way I said that in my previous post...heat, cold, snow, rain, sunshine...anything for me as long as the storms keep away 

No offence taken, JMTD. I know that T&L is not everyone's cuppa tea. I have family members who would sooner scoop their own eyeballs out and replace em with hot toffee apples than suffer a storm. I guess us storm fans do get terribly excited when storms are forecast.

[Summer of 76]

Latest BBC weather has removed the storm threat this evening and that front from the west seems to be coming through earlier around 4am but seemed to break up. 

 

Tomorrow see some showers in the afternoon but Sunday seems to be the day when a storm or two could be around the area.

[lassie23]

Latest BBC weather has removed the storm threat this evening and that front from the west seems to be coming through earlier around 4am but seemed to break up. 

 

Tomorrow see some showers in the afternoon but Sunday seems to be the day when a storm or two could be around the area.

Watch as the BBC remove the Sunday storm threat too! :lol: