Wales, the Midlands & South West England Weather Discussion

[Polar Maritime]

Nice evening here with a bright Moon and a bank of Fog below me in the Valley, Temp 4.8c with no wind at all.

[dragon falls]

Lashing down here now roads like rivers no thunder yet ,......

[legritter]

Evening all ,just observed 2 very bright flashes far out west definately not fireworks  ,radar looking very active over bristol channel and s wales ,but i think the worst possibly to my northwest ,but moving very slowly .looks like a few could see it severe even if only for a short period .copiouse amounts of rain look likely for later tomorrow and tuesday with weather fronts stalling from time to time .cheers  gang .

[MP-R]

Evening all ,just observed 2 very bright flashes far out west definately not fireworks  ,radar looking very active over bristol channel and s wales ,but i think the worst possibly to my northwest ,but moving very slowly .looks like a few could see it severe even if only for a short period .copiouse amounts of rain look likely for later tomorrow and tuesday with weather fronts stalling from time to time .cheers  gang .

 

You've seen lightning?! Right, time to press my face up against the windows and watch haha. I was thinking it was beginning to die off a bit.

[Bobby]

Had 2 nearby thunderstorms earlier with fork lightning and house shaking thunder. Some non-thundery downpours too, 20mm since last night. So much thunder and lightning this year it's crazy.

 

Caught a fork on with the camera!

 

Starting to come down again now.

[egret]

Plenty of flashes and bangs just to the south of here from the last lump of shower cloud.

[Dorsetbred]

Clear and damp from overnight rain, currently 

4.6°C (40.3°F), Apparent temp 3.7°C

Edited November 10, 2014 by Dorsetbred

[Gibby]

Fine and dry this morning with a Southerly breeze picking up. Current data here.:-

 

http://www.norton-radstockweather.co.uk/index.html

 

[Cactus]

Quite a pleasant start to the day with some sunny intervals.

[knocker]

Ac at different levels with some Sc. Temp 10C with a light southerly. Awaiting the rain.

[picog]

Another chilly night with temperatures down to 0.1C by 7am. Very autumnal without the gales so far this morning. Lovely.

[warmintim]

Beautiful day yesterday - cracking walk round Horningsham and then to Heaven's Gate overlooking Longleat. Did not feel like mid Nov.

[egret]

Just had severe weather alerts from Met Office covering every day of this week (sw - rain) I can imagine flood alerts following shortly. This is beginning to look a bit like autumn 2010 or 2013 depending upon which outcome you prefer!

[Bobby]

The BBC presenters and Met Office seem to be becoming increasingly concerned with flooding as we go through this week, mostly for the S and SW. For here the Met Office site has the heavy rain (mostly)/heavy shower symbol from 5pm today til 3pm Wednesday

 

Had 152mm in the first 9 days of this month (+232mm in Oct) so suffice to say the ground is saturated. NMM and EURO4 48hr totals

 

 

 

By Friday morning, 100mm locally?

 

[Mapantz]

Currently 11.6°C and sunny.

Had a little bit more thunder & lightning early this morning, nothing special though. 4.8mm from showers.

The BBC presenters and Met Office seem to be becoming increasingly concerned with flooding as we go through this week, mostly for the S and SW. For here the Met Office site has the heavy rain (mostly)/heavy shower symbol from 5pm today til 3pm Wednesday

 

Had 152mm in the first 9 days of this month (+232mm in Oct) so suffice to say the ground is saturated. NMM and EURO4 48hr totals

 

 

 

By Friday morning, 100mm locally?

 

I'll by no means get the same totals as you Bobby but it has been quite exceptional for my little part of Dorset. 180mm last month, 87mm so far this month.. that's wetter than the same duration in 2012. The ground is getting close to saturation, so this week will definitely cause a few problems!

[Bobby]

I'll by no means get the same totals as you Bobby but it has been quite exceptional for my little part of Dorset. 180mm last month, 87mm so far this month.. that's wetter than the same duration in 2012. The ground is getting close to saturation, so this week will definitely cause a few problems!

 

Wet indeed, the SW got the brunt last winter too didn't we. Noticed this in the Met O warning for today/tomorrow

 

This front will become slow-moving, allowing pulses of heavy and sometimes thundery rain to spread northwards across south west England and South Wales

 

More thunder, sure hope so!

[knocker]

As forecast a foul afternoon with moderate rain, temp 12C and winf southerly 25mph gusting 40. Oh the joy of slippers, a fire and a good book. HR Modis 1235

Edited November 10, 2014 by knocker

[SteveB]

Blimey, the front sure is slow moving, was supposed to be hear by now, but I reckon I have at least another 1 1/2 to 2hrs before it gets to me! 

[Wilxy]

Looks like there Is some light rain on the way overnight, perhaps heavier over the hills around these parts but nothing to much to worry about.

[picog]

Our nextdoor neighbour farmers have just brought in their cattle for winter - usually that's a sign is going to get wet, and they pretty much get the timing right every year.

[Barbel]

Reached us now on Devon/Dorset border very heavy rain and the rain band looks to be 70 miles wide and slow moving.

[SteveB]

The Eastern edge has literally just reached me, a good 3hrs behind schedule

[Bobby]

Hammering down here, winds gusty as well

 

Rainfall totals next 96hrs from NMM

 

Probably major flooding if that happened, especially on Thursday/Friday

 

 

Is that a few areas of 200mm I see?

Edited November 10, 2014 by Bobby

[Wynn D Woo]

We'll Beeb were way out with their forecast for today. Fine and mostly sunny all day and the rain which was supposed to arrive around 4pm still hasn't quite reached us.

[Evening thunder]

Colder than expected back home the last two nights, -0.4c yesterday morning (0.1c off the lowest this Autumn) and 1.2c early this morning.

 

As mentioned above looks like a wet week coming. We haven't been as wet as some through October and November (back home in Devon), with 101.4mm in October and 39mm so far in November (before today).

We had missed much of the heavier rain so far this month (apart from Saturday), but seems to be changing as a southerly flow with these systems is a good direction to get higher totals there (as opposed to SW/W where you get more of a rain shadow effect from Dartmoor)

 

Not much happening in comparison up here in Egham this week though.

Edited November 10, 2014 by Evening thunder