South East and East Anglia weather discussion/Chat - 18th February onwards

[Blessed Weather]

Lovely sunny start here and it's just reached 10.4C so already as warm as yesterday's poor effort. Quite a stiff SE'ly from the word go though.

Tomorrow afternoon looking to have some interest, with Alex on the Beeb suggesting scattered thunderstorms that "could possibly be intense". Arpege and NMM confirm some unstable air over the Region.

MetOff  Arpege  NMM

 

[<<Ryan>>]

Estofex have a level 1 just about touching the kent coastline. 
Fingers crossed for some action later.

http://estofex.org/

Edited April 11, 2016 by <<Ryan>>

[alexisj9]

It's been clouding over here since about 1:30ish getting really quite dark now.

[alexisj9]

Raining now big convective drops but no thunder as yet.

[Rain123]

Cloudy and damp first thing, more prolonged rain around lunchtime and sunny spells now! A mix and match day, that's for sure.

Interesting tomorrow, with sunshine and showers. BBC has their lightning symbol showing, so hopefully some good convectional activity!

[stainesbloke]

Bit of a write-off today for any outdoor activities. Started dry and cloudy, then the rain set in around midday, quite heavy at times. Stopped now and trying to brighten up. At least it felt very mild with barely any wind. Tomorrow looks interesting storm-wise....

Edited April 11, 2016 by stainesbloke

[tinybill]

On 4/10/2016 at 7:09 PM, stainesbloke said:

 

looking  at  the  radar  and what  now  comeing  out  of  calais  things could  easy  go bang  later

[stainesbloke]

1 hour ago, tinybill said:

looking  at  the  radar  and what  now  comeing  out  of  calais  things could  easy  go bang  later

Just looks like heavy-ish rain to me. Thundery stuff is further south in France, moving up towards us, hopefully tomorrow will see some nice convection with some sun forecast 

[alexisj9]

Yep it's just rain for now.

[Captain Shortwave]

Good spells of sunshine here though with a stiff ESE wind through the day. It did cloud over from mid afternoon with a little rain during the evening.

Edited April 11, 2016 by Captain Shortwave

[Froze were the Days]

What the hell!! - 16mm of rain overnight - was this forecast? getting fed up of this off the continent.

[alexisj9]

18 minutes ago, Froze were the Days said:

What the hell!! - 16mm of rain overnight - was this forecast? getting fed up of this off the continent.

The good thing is it was over night.

[stainesbloke]

Skies clearing here from the S after early cloud and some overnight rain. Looks like a nice warm day with potential for some convection later....

[Dami]

mild and humid out there today.

[Ben Lewis]

Sky starting to brighten here and feels very mild. 

Hopefully the scattered showers forecast this afternoon will miss here entirely and we get a drier day compared to yesterday.

[alexisj9]

Been a nice morning here so far.

[Blessed Weather]

5 hours ago, stainesbloke said:

Skies clearing here from the S after early cloud and some overnight rain. Looks like a nice warm day with potential for some convection later....

The sun has only recently come out here and after the overnight/morning rain it's feeling very humid. The "potential" is already showing its hand. A line of storms appeared very quickly in the last couple of hours with the lightening registering on the Blitzortung radar. Seem to be heading E/NE. A very good chance others will develop in due course.

Rainfall 13.30   Lightening 13.45

[Emz by the Thames]

Feels so odd today, mist this morning, humid one minute, cold wind the next - can't take my eyes off the various clouds. A storm just a fraction north of here, more soon hopefully (even though I'm working outside!!)

[Blessed Weather]

Quite a cluster in the Home Counties and another cell has bubbled up in Kent in just the last half hour.

14.30

[Methuselah]

There's some quite deep black clouds building here just now.

[JamieUK]

Very loud cracks of thunder and CG lighting here in Aylesbury. Yikes!

Edited April 12, 2016 by JamieUK

[Dami]

c'mon this way to bedford !

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

There was a dark-ish cloud which drifted NE over us a little while ago, though it wasn't producing anything at the time.

 

EDIT:  On checking the radar, I see there was a shower, but it just missed us, hence why I thought the cloud wasn't producing any ppn.

Edited April 12, 2016 by chrisbell-nottheweatherman

[stainesbloke]

1 hour ago, Blessed Weather said:

The sun has only recently come out here and after the overnight/morning rain it's feeling very humid. The "potential" is already showing its hand. A line of storms appeared very quickly in the last couple of hours with the lightening registering on the Blitzortung radar. Seem to be heading E/NE. A very good chance others will develop in due course.

Rainfall 13.30   Lightening 13.45

I watched that line of storms build to my N-NW, the cauliflower-type towers went up quite quickly and looked very impressive! Has stayed warm and quite sunny here.

[Dami]

Am watching said stormy line miss me by a few miles, I can just about touch it but it's moving away, although depending where i face, clouds are moving every which way.