The Midlands - Weather Chat - Spring Onwards

[Gord]

Afternoon all. Sure I just heard a distant rumble of thunder.

[cyclonic happiness]

Everything is missing here, as per usual.

 

Even people at work notice how precipitation always seems to break up and go around this area, must be to do with the Birmingham heat island effect or something

[I remember Atlantic 252]

too far north here, thundery/cumulonimbus to my south, not moving here though, someone in west midlands really drenched!

[fizz511]

On 3 April 2016 at 8:52 PM, WillinGlossop said:

Current netweather forecast has 21cm snow here wed/thursday..... Hehe.... Ok....

You've still got your snow forecast I see..... Could it be one last hurrah for the Peak District?!

[Costa Del Fal]

Too far south for the thunder here. However it did pour down with rain and hail for a time. Very heavy stuff. Before hat it was another very pleasant day really. Tomorro (Tuesday) looks excellent too then downhill. Why oh why does the Greenland high suddenly become so easy to occur from now on?!? Hopefully it's Just a phase with the PV weakening. Won't last too long hopefully with this troughing stuck over us. I hope and pray anyway. Lol.

[Lukey]

The weather is so frustrating!!!  It's actually not all that pleasant out there right now..  Generally cloudy, windy, cool and quite frankly when we do see 4 seconds of sun it's not what you'd call 'pleasant'.. 

[Dave Bullock]

17 hours ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

too far north here, thundery/cumulonimbus to my south, not moving here though, someone in west midlands really drenched!

I was working at home in Aldridge yesterday and was 'perfectly' placed under the storms and downpours that affected parts of the West Midlands. There was thunder within a couple of km in the mid afternoon but the main feature was the constant deluge for something like four hours which, even by recent standards, was notable for the impact it had on flooding of roads, fields and watercourses in what seemed like a very localised area ( for various reasons I had to drive around Pelsall, Lichfield and Walsall in the evening where there was less flooding apparent). Fortunately there were no reports of impact on properties, and other than some still flooded fields and streams in full spate everything just seems its normal soggy self this morning.

[WillinGlossop]

18 hours ago, fizz511 said:

You've still got your snow forecast I see..... Could it be one last hurrah for the Peak District?!

According to https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:00000.25.03334

3-7cm snow tomorrow night accord to gfs 12z..... Ps met peak district forecast just updated going for hail sleet and snow

Edited April 5, 2016 by WillinGlossop

[Polar Maritime]

Sharp showers rattling through here, Feeling raw in the wind with temp currently 4.8c

[Terminal Moraine]

A day of sunny intervals and short showers of rain and hail. Current temp' is 5.9c.

[Polar Maritime]

Just had one hell of a Hail shower, All the ground went white and another looks to be on its way with very dark skys to my West.

[WillinGlossop]

Rain hail sleet snow thunder lightening rainbows......

[Terminal Moraine]

A shower of heavy wet snow around 8.15 p.m with the temperature down to 1.1c for a time. It's now back up to 2.3c but more showers approaching from the west/north west.

[phil nw.]

A line of showers crossing the region with typical April skies. 

I think there will more of this to come in the next few days.

[Polar Maritime]

Heavy showers have now started here and feeling raw.

[conor123]

Eh was hoping for a sunny Sunday finally but to much mid level muck and a chill to consider facing the garden today haha!

A definite writeoff this month now for even squeezing in one nice day looking at the charts, see you in May.

Edited April 10, 2016 by conor123

[Midlands Ice Age]

2 hours ago, conor123 said:

Eh was hoping for a sunny Sunday finally but to much mid level muck and a chill to consider facing the garden today haha!

A definite writeoff this month now for even squeezing in one nice day looking at the charts, see you in May.

A bit better here Conor..

Stratus building tho' and the wind is rising from the south east. The sun is still feeling warm and temp of 10C after frost overnight (min -1.8C)..

At this rate I may have to mow the lawns this aftermoon!!!!! Urgh

MIA

[Polar Maritime]

Not a bad day here at all, Dry with long sunny spells and a cool breeze. Temp 10c. Off for a stroll with the mutt..

[Costa Del Fal]

10 hours ago, conor123 said:

Eh was hoping for a sunny Sunday finally but to much mid level muck and a chill to consider facing the garden today haha!

A definite writeoff this month now for even squeezing in one nice day looking at the charts, see you in May.

Plenty of nice days in recent weeks. But maybe some bad luck further north your way and timing with the weekends. However it was a lovely sunny day till mid afternoon here albeit quite breezy but the sunshine was near enough constant till then so still pleasant.

Edited April 10, 2016 by Costa Del Fal

[Costa Del Fal]

Nice pleasant and partly sunny/sunny morning for us in the south west quarter of the country. Cloudier further east and north so we are enjoying it well again. Risk of a thundery shower later. 

[Polar Maritime]

Yes lovely day here cloudy but feeling warm, Out treating the Shed..

[Dancerwithwings]

Hi guys, still popping in from time to time but now't is interesting me at the moment....

Spring is boring me, OK! today wasn't to bad, but crappy, cool, cloudy, rubbish for most......Come on!!! bring me 20c and sunny skies.....FOR NOW

By the way GFS FOR 14:00 SAT         LOST FOR WORDS FOLKS...!!!

 

[Staffordshire]

Yeah me too, frequent visitor still but nothing is interesting me at all lately, bring on the summer and hopefully some storms, the past few years has definitely shifted my preference from snow to storms.

[LeeKay]

Be nice if could have some spring lightning bar the ppn bearing ENE

[Arctic Hare]

There's been the odd flash in these parts, but I wasn't concentrating so can't give more details.