The Midlands - Weather Chat

[Eugene]

warm at last today, mild feeling wind as well 21C now, but back to normal tomorrow and Mon with an icy wind

 

 

Yeah scarfs and gloves back on for the next two days.

[BlueHedgehog074]

Just been through Telford Central and Wellington rail stations on a top-secret train trip to Wales and it looks like the Stratuscumulus Sunday cloud curse is affecting the area. But... there did seem to be one or two brighter breaks in the cloud when passing Telford. :o

To be fair, it was mostly cloudy in Solihull before I left, too, so it's not the only place getting invaded by the cloud monster.

[Polar Maritime]

A cool breezy cloudy day here with the odd spot of rain, Temp 12.4c.

[conor123]

Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn 3 months later same weather, same temperature, 14c slate grey skies howling icy north westerly wind.........

[Eugene]

17C here and sunny, big improvement on yesterday.

[Shane Wheeldon]

Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn 3 months later same weather, same temperature, 14c slate grey skies howling icy north westerly wind.........

Dont worry connor the sun will return tomorrow and be here all week untill about 3pm on Friday when it will go AWOL untill Monday again!

[conor123]

Dont worry connor the sun will return tomorrow and be here all week untill about 3pm on Friday when it will go AWOL untill Monday again!

Luckily i'll be escaping to Turkey though wouldn't surprise me if the cloud chased me there 

[Polar Maritime]

Very heavy rain here with the hills shrouded, Temp 12.2c

Edited June 21, 2015 by Polar Maritime

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Dont worry connor the sun will return tomorrow and be here all week untill about 3pm on Friday when it will go AWOL untill Monday again!

 

not so sure about that tomorrow, looks a shocker for N Midlands with showers streaming through Cheshire gap, bbc pressure chart uuggh vile

[Snowshine]

North westerlies vs South westerlies.

Not too sure which one is better though...

NW = Mild, Breezy, Drizzly, Cloudy

SW = Warmer than NW, Windier than NW, Wetter than NW, Sunnier than NW

Well, looks like SW are coming soon.

[BlueHedgehog074]

It's interesting really. Have usually tended to believe that North-Westerlies brought brighter, showery, weather. But I think it depends where you are and whether it's via a proper Polar Maritime flow. South-Westerlies can produce the same scenario as well if it's resulted by the unstable Polar Maritime flow (especially helped by low 500mb thicknesses and low 850 hPa temperatures) with the best of the sunniest weather towards the South-East. I think also, the more unstable both the flows are, the more likely the emphasis would be on a sunshine and shower setup along with chances of thunder and hail - less chance, too, of convective clouds spreading out into large sheets of Stratuscumulus.

A North-Westerly flow via a Tropical Maritime setup with warm (upper) air spilling over the top of the Azores High into the flow could then result in mild, cloudy and wet North-Westerlies, probably especially if you're to the North-West of the region exposed to the Cheshire Gap.

Not really too much of an expert on this, but feel they are some aspects that can affect whether North-Westerlies and South-Westerlies are cloudy or not.

As for this morning (back in Solihull), seems to be a mixture of sumny spells with some sizeable patches of dark clouds around at the moment. Was the odd spot of very light rain. Reasonably mild, as well, with the temperature nearing 12*C, but thought it would have been a touch cooler than that.

Edited June 22, 2015 by DiagonalRedLine

[I remember Atlantic 252]

North westerlies vs South westerlies.

Not too sure which one is better though...

NW = Mild, Breezy, Drizzly, Cloudy

SW = Warmer than NW, Windier than NW, Wetter than NW, Sunnier than NW

Well, looks like SW are coming soon.

 

depends where you are, NW'lys way worse here all times of the year, prefer SW'lys all year round to NW'lys

[conor123]

Dodged most of the showers today apart from heavy one mid morning, some decent sunny breaks from 4pm though grey again now (still more sun than the whole weekend though shock horror lol), still got that howling wind though really gusty, in fact it seems like it's been howling between 20-40mph for 6 months now hmmm 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Dodged most of the showers today apart from heavy one mid morning, some decent sunny breaks from 4pm though grey again now (still more sun than the whole weekend though shock horror lol), still got that howling wind though really gusty, in fact it seems like it's been howling between 20-40mph for 6 months now hmmm 

 

the wind is howling, same tomorrow for me in the east, sunny for telford, grey/windy for Stafford and eastern areas

[Snowshine]

This week (hopefully) will be warmer and much sunnier from now onwards, except for tommorow morning at around only 9C.

The weekend will probably be wet and mild - pretty much definitely wet and cloudy (as per usual).

 

Next week may be (about 20% chance) hot, but I would not be surprised if it ends up being mild and cloudy.

[Costa Del Fal]

Back in Stourbridge now and a much better afternoon. No surprise the sun is out now that vile north west wind has vanished. It's lovely calm and warm this evening and will be having dinner and a few drinks outside tonight. Excellent. 22c high today.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

yeah dizzy high of 22.3C, balmy temps, wish the rest of summer could be like this, no hotter no need

[conor123]

The 15:30 curse struck again, satellite shows it clearly, used to be 4pm clearance back in the day now it's the 15:30 weekday cloudzillathon LOL soon as I get home from work cloud follows me.

Still managed 20.9c regardless and turning clear from west now.

[Polar Maritime]

Nice Summers evening here with long sunny spells and temp 17c.

[Costa Del Fal]

Still 20c here. One of the warmest areas of the

Country here today (West Midlands, Worcestershire and Herefordshire).

[Polar Maritime]

A few paragliders out tonight taking advantage of the calm conditions.

Edited June 23, 2015 by Polar Maritime

[Summer of 95]

What a surprise, more hazy muck constantly encroaching from the west and wind picking up again. Even the NW seems to be having a decent day, but we can't buy one at the moment.

[BlueHedgehog074]

Temperature has just about reached the magic 20*C mark and there's some good sunny spells around with just a few little cumulus clouds dotted about (...and the odd bit of that hazy stuff). This is definitely more like it.

Edit: the weather really does need to stop picking on certain places in the West Midlands, though.

Edit part 2: Started to speak too soon, seems to be clouding over more from the West. Should have known the Solihull Cloud Shield wouldn't remain strong for long (although, to be fair, it's not clouded over completely yet and the sun is still shining at times).

Edited June 24, 2015 by DiagonalRedLine

[CongletonHeat]

Sunny all morning then when I leave work at 2 pm it is completely cloudy, so annoying how often this happens.

[Dancerwithwings]

Am sunny fest then by 2pm it was all over cloud fest almost touched 22c at 13:30, felt very pleasant this morning in that strong sunshine.

Looking into early July it maybe getting

 

The GEM has the UK in a heatwave with temps easily into the 30's