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

[Captain Shortwave]

I can confirm the rain Daniel saw in London as there was a few light showers when I was in London, the afternoon was much better as the high cloud (Probably shower debris from the continent) cleared away leaving sunny spells and some fair weather cloud. Very hazy though.

[stainesbloke]

Vile North Sea clag this morning, hopefully will burn off soon to leave sunny skies as upper air is clear. Should reach 22-23C today with any luck before it all goes pear shaped from tomorrow...

[Emz by the Thames]

The Meh is above us but I can see glimmers of sun poking though. Trying to decipher rain risk for later as I will be outdoors all day, not easy.

Does anyone else obsessively look at long term forecast once they book their holiday?  I'm off to coastal Suffolk in 3 weeks and just obsessively looking at long term forecast, even though thinks are subject to change several times...it's daft but I can't stop myself!!

[Milocation]

radar not working for anyone else, and short term forecast, typed in Colchester and stuck on a blank screen. Checked wifi and its all fine, must be either me or the website

[Captain Shortwave]

2 hours ago, stainesbloke said:

Vile North Sea clag this morning, hopefully will burn off soon to leave sunny skies as upper air is clear. Should reach 22-23C today with any luck before it all goes pear shaped from tomorrow...

Similar start here though like the last couple of days the fog/low cloud has cleared very quickly and the sun is out despite being close to the coast in Rayleigh at the moment.

[stainesbloke]

32 minutes ago, Captain Shortwave said:

Similar start here though like the last couple of days the fog/low cloud has cleared very quickly and the sun is out despite being close to the coast in Rayleigh at the moment.

Still completely overcast here and feeling really cold, so annoying! The area of grot is slowly shrinking on satellite pics so am hopeful for a warm afternoon.

Edited May 29, 2016 by stainesbloke

[lassie23]

8 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Still completely overcast here and feeling really cold, so annoying! The area of grot is slowly shrinking on satellite pics so am hopeful for a warm afternoon.

Think the best way to describe this morning, is vile.

[alexisj9]

1 hour ago, LimoPreacherman said:

radar not working for anyone else, and short term forecast, typed in Colchester and stuck on a blank screen. Checked wifi and its all fine, must be either me or the website

Had trouble with some sites including pics on this site yesterday, it was mt provider I'm sure but still don't know exactly what was going on or if it will happen again. Couldn't get a few sites up at all. 

[alexisj9]

Got a hazy sky, with cumulus moving in from the north east, and altocumulus moving in from the east.

[Captain Shortwave]

There does seem to be good news for bank holiday Monday, the rain which was predicted to come in during tomorrow might be slower to arrive, in fact some models are keeping the whole of our region dry throughout with temperatures into the low twenties across southern England and London, cooler elsewhere with a stiff NE breeze.

[seaside 60]

Nothing wrong with today.

Nice breeze but not a cold one, decent temps, nice day in all, much like yesterday, but yesterday had a colder wind.

Be nice if rest of summer ended up like this.
 

[seaside 60]

Also looks like a dry tomorrow, which is what the net where sliding towards.

In fact most of the rain forecast near us, over us over the last couple of days and including tomorrow has vanished

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Yes tomorrow looks brilliant again as long as any north Sea muck can stay at bay..

Overnight tomorrow into Tuesday is where things turn went and windy for a time, some heavy prehaps thundry showers following in Tuesday day time as low pressure takes charge

Models really struggling though 

[Captain Shortwave]

well now I am in GT Yarmouth, where it has been apparently overcast for days. Oh well NE winds suck here to be honest. Not a lot of hope for tomorrow here at least but hopefully everyone else will enjoy some sunny spells.

[stainesbloke]

Loads of North Sea grot this morning again across most of the SE with a cold wind. Wales and the West Country look lovely and clear, lucky them. Hopefully this clag will clear much more quickly than yesterday.

[lassie23]

1 minute ago, stainesbloke said:

Loads of North Sea grot this morning again across most of the SE with a cold wind. Wales and the West Country look lovely and clear, lucky them. Hopefully this clag will clear much more quickly than yesterday.

What happened to all the rain?

[NO LONGER POSTING]

44 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

What happened to all the rain?

It got delayed till tonight, and looking at it, it's not goona rain.. It's gonna pour some very heavy rain incoming from the east tonight and tomorrow morning 

Hopefully today some of this cloud can burn back, but looking at the sat it's pouring in from the near continent and some storms have fired over Germany so more clag from them is spilling in

[lassie23]

8 minutes ago, Surrey said:

It got delayed till tonight, and looking at it, it's not goona rain.. It's gonna pour some very heavy rain incoming from the east tonight and tomorrow morning 

Hopefully today some of this cloud can burn back, but looking at the sat it's pouring in from the near continent and some storms have fired over Germany so more clag from them is spilling in

Thanks

[interested & confused]

Cloudy this morning in Kent with a very chilly N wind  - 14C not nice at all

 

Edited May 30, 2016 by interested & confused
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[Blessed Weather]

Grey and windy here with flecks of drizzle in the air. 12.9C. Being so near to the North Sea coast, I'm not too hopeful that the cloud will break here today. West of the Region looking more hopeful. But 2 very nice days out of a 3-day Bank Holiday - not too bad at all!

The ongoing saga with the development and track of the Low Pressure on the near Continent has been fascinating to observe. The timing and westward extent of the rain has been all over the place. What a run-around it's given the models - it's not too often that the high res models are quite so far out at such short range. So a suggested soggy BH Monday has finally (??) turned into a wet commute to work for this Region on Tuesday.

The strength of the N'ly wind will be a feature over the next 24 hours with gusts of 90km/h (55mph) along the East coast, peaking early tomorrow morning just before the rain arrives.

This afternoon 15.00  Tomorrow morning 05.00

[stainesbloke]

1 hour ago, lassie23 said:

What happened to all the rain?

No idea, as Surrey says maybe will come tonight? Some storms over S Holland are moving this way...

[seaside 60]

41 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Grey and windy here with flecks of drizzle in the air. 12.9C. Being so near to the North Sea coast, I'm not too hopeful that the cloud will break here today. West of the Region looking more hopeful. But 2 very nice days out of a 3-day Bank Holiday - not too bad at all!

The ongoing saga with the development and track of the Low Pressure on the near Continent has been fascinating to observe. The timing and westward extent of the rain has been all over the place. What a run-around it's given the models - it's not too often that the high res models are quite so far out at such short range. So a suggested soggy BH Monday has finally (??) turned into a wet commute to work for this Region on Tuesday.

The strength of the N'ly wind will be a feature over the next 24 hours with gusts of 90km/h (55mph) along the East coast, peaking early tomorrow morning just before the rain arrives.

This afternoon 15.00  Tomorrow morning 05.00

Would have interesting in the middle of Jan with ingrained cold over Europe.

However as we know we always say that and it never does happen.

Oh well back to last weeks Express for my mega scorhcer bank holiday and hottest spring ever.

Oh dam its summer tomorrow.

[lassie23]

5 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

No idea, as Surrey says maybe will come tonight? Some storms over S Holland are moving this way...

Probably be a large patch of drizzle by the time they get here, do I water my melons?

[stainesbloke]

3 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

Probably be a large patch of drizzle by the time they get here, do I water my melons?

Ooh you don't want to overwater them in this horrid chill, they'll rot! Are you growing them outside? What variety are you trying this year? I have a cantaloupe type one in the greenhouse and one called Ogen. My neighbour on the allotment reckons there's a type you can grow outdoors now in the UK?

[lassie23]

1 minute ago, stainesbloke said:

Ooh you don't want to overwater them in this horrid chill, they'll rot! Are you growing them outside? What variety are you trying this year? I have a cantaloupe type one in the greenhouse and one called Ogen. My neighbour on the allotment reckons there's a type you can grow outdoors now in the UK?

I'm growing water melons but the cool nights and morning are not agreeing with them. Netweather gardening thread has some interesting stuff in it btw.