South West & CS England Weather Discussion Spring 2016 (26th March ------->)

[MP-R]

Stupidly uploaded photos of this evening's funnel cloud in the Southeast thread (have only had one glass of wine!). Anyway, this evening's funnel cloud:

 

[Andy Bown]

Hey that's a beauty Mike! Have you sent it to Ian Fergusson to be put on Points West? Ideal conditions today with slack LOW pressure drifting across the region.

We went to Salisbury today where there was one brief downpour around midday and some light rain either side, rather surprised to get home and find 10mm in the gauge but radar review shows the reasons why.

[MP-R]

53 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Hey that's a beauty Mike! Have you sent it to Ian Fergusson to be put on Points West? Ideal conditions today with slack LOW pressure drifting across the region.

We went to Salisbury today where there was one brief downpour around midday and some light rain either side, rather surprised to get home and find 10mm in the gauge but radar review shows the reasons why.

Thanks Andy! It's a bit late to put it in tonight's weather isn't it? 

Edit: I've tweeted it to him. I don't know how to send him photos though.

Edited April 4, 2016 by MP-R

[knocker]

Partly cloudy, mainly St. Temp 9C and a breeze from the WNW.

[Nights King]

wow a nice day and forecast to be the warmest day for a while at the dizzy heights of 11c  before maxing out at 7/8c for the next week.

[knocker]

It's been a pretty good day here with patchy Cu and sunny intervals.Max around 11C. Downhill overnight

[knocker]

Cloudy with Sc but a break is appearing to the west so front through here. Temp 9C Wind WNW 17mph gusting 35.

[MP-R]

Very different feel today. Blustery with a few moderate showers blown through and sunshine between. If not for the wind, standard April showers day.

[Mapantz]

Recorded the warmest day of the year here, yesterday. 15.9°C - Huge temp drop when the convergence zone made in here though.

As MP-R says, standard April fayre  today. A few light showers, nothing noteworthy.

Temp: 11.1°C - Hum: 63% - Dew: 4.3°C - Bar: 1009.21hPa - Rain 0.4mm - Wind: W @ 9mph, gusting to 26mph.

[Singularity]

April 2007, I was very disappointed when one day early in the month failed to reach 12*C.

Things are a little different these days! Though I'm not convinced by GFS' 9-10*C maximums Fri-Sat despite some sunny spells.

[knocker]

Plenty of large Cu around and frequent showers. Temp 7C and wind NW 20 gusting 30mph

[Dorsetbred]

April at it's best

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[ARTDEMOLE]

Cloudy. Showery . Breezy. NW 27 km/h. Temperature 9.8c. 

[Frosty hollows]

Showers really pepping up here. Radar showing some sferics to my east, but I've seen nothing as yet

[William Grimsley]

What I'm really surprised is how early this Spring is. It could be the earliest Spring on record if this carries on.

[knocker]

Showers died out during the day and would have been quite pleasant but for the blustery wind from the NW gusting to 30mph.

[knocker]

Fine morning and partly cloudy with Cu and some Ci. Temp 8C and wind NW 14mph.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Broken cloud. Some sunshine.   Calm. Dry. Humidity 63%rh. Pressure 1015.7hpa. Temperature  12.1c.

Will be half that tomorrow.  ...!!!!!

[knocker]

Medium cloud been thickening up for the last hour so the rain isn't far away.

[Mapantz]

Started off sunny, clouded over now though- still the odd speck of blue sky.

Temp: 11.5°C - Hum: 67% - Bar: 1013.04hPa - Wind NW @ 2mph

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[knocker]

Sounds brilliant.

[festivalking]

All set tomorrow for a walk on the higher moor early doors, in line for some sleet and snow, should be a fun walk.

[Andy Bown]

I must find the time to look at Mapantz' website!

My new weather station arrived late afternoon yesterday and I've got it up and running with the sensor in a different position to the previous one, it's currently reading 12.9c on an overcast though bright at times with sunny spells afternoon so that seems reasonably accurate to me.

When I watched Countryfile on Sunday I thought this would prove to be a pretty wet week, however apart from 4 hours of heavy rain on Monday (10mm) there's only been a few showers and the front coming in later looks weak.

[MP-R]

54 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

I must find the time to look at Mapantz' website!

My new weather station arrived late afternoon yesterday and I've got it up and running with the sensor in a different position to the previous one, it's currently reading 12.9c on an overcast though bright at times with sunny spells afternoon so that seems reasonably accurate to me.

When I watched Countryfile on Sunday I thought this would prove to be a pretty wet week, however apart from 4 hours of heavy rain on Monday (10mm) there's only been a few showers and the front coming in later looks weak.

Sunday's front also looks to stay away to the southwest for most of the day so could be a lot worse. Only had 5mm of rain so far this month.

[knocker]

Cloudy with some large Cu with Ac above. Recent shower. Temp 4.8C and a zephyr from the WSW.