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

[William Grimsley]

Looking quite convective today. Will be interesting to see if Dartmoor gets any sleet or snow and/or if any of the showers prove to be torrential with hail and/or thunder.

Edited April 9, 2016 by William Grimsley

[ARTDEMOLE]

Broken cloud with sunshine after  eary morning precipitation of 2.4mm. Humidity 61%rh. Breeze SW slight. 10.3c. 

[Nights King]

chance of some snow in the heavy showers today maybe 

chilly sunny start though so far.

[William Grimsley]

It's sleeting here! Big snowflakes falling! Temperature: 5.9°C Dew Point: 3.6°C Rainfall Rate: 5.6 mm/hr Rainfall Last Hour: 0.4 mm Rainfall Today: 1.0 mm. 

Edited April 9, 2016 by William Grimsley

[William Grimsley]

Can anyone confirm moderate snow is falling on Dartmoor? @festivalking

[William Grimsley]

Just checked Dartcom, snow was falling there a short while ago, not settling though.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Overcast. Wintry shower of rain with some sleet. 5.9c. lowering.   Humidity  82%rh  Pressure 1004.2hpa. Precipitation today  4.2mm. 

[Bristawl Si]

Cold showery rain.

I wish these raw temps would take a hike until next Winter, quite frankly.

[offerman]

Just had splodges of sleet in heavy rain here!! 

[William Grimsley]

Heavy snow at Dartcom, currently!

Edited April 9, 2016 by William Grimsley

[William Grimsley]

Some lovely convective skies today. We've had a few showers with one containing rain/hail/sleet/snow!

[Nights King]

Brief white out with a dusting of snow after some initial heavy hail.  

Don't often see a shower start as hail without the rain.

[knocker]

Showers have died out now very pleasant ,apart from the cold wind, with just some small Cu.

[ThundersnowDays]

Pouring rain with a sprinkling of ice pellets here.

[Mapantz]

Just had the tiniest hail shower here, probably about 50 of them, but they were like peas!

Well.. i've spent most of today getting this sorted, so hopefully there's no errors!?
There are one or two small bugs, they shouldn't affect how it all works and they will be fixed at some point.

Forecasts: http://www.warehamwx.com/cu/ewn/forecast.php
Stations: http://www.warehamwx.com/cu/ewn/stations.php

Two chart viewers:

http://www.warehamwx.com/cu/ewn/forecast/map.php

This one has two extra models + a test bed for another:

http://www.warehamwx.com/cu/ewn/map.php

[knocker]

A pretty grotty morning with Ns and St, moderate rain and increasing wind as the front(s) track slowly NE. Temp 8C and wind SE 30mph gusting 45.

There is a warning in force for today.

An area of low pressure developing over the Southwest Approaches Saturday evening overnight into Sunday brings strengthening southeasterly winds into Devon and, more especially, Cornwall from early Sunday onwards into Sunday afternoon before winds slowly back easterly and gradually start to ease a little later on Sunday afternoon and more especially on Sunday evening.

These strong winds will be accompanied by outbreaks of rain, initially mainly over western Cornwall where some locally heavier bursts of rain are possible before the focus of the heaviest and most persistent rain shifts to Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor during Sunday afternoon and evening.

[Andy Bown]

Conversely it's a glorious though increasingly windy morning in West Wiltshire, some Cirrus but plenty of blue sky. Minimum was 0.1c with a lot of frost, 6.1c now.

[lettice]

All this talk of frosts and snow on here the last few days, makes me think how different our climate can be in a region.
Last cold spells that were lower than 6-8c were April 1st, 21st and 22nd March that got down to 4c and last frost was 0.5c on 18th March.
Yesterday and Friday was a lovely sunny day with some cloudy spells, but with some occasional April type showers yesterday morning, just 1.8mm of rain.
Temp was up to 13c yesterday and only down to 6c overnight.

Now 11c, dry and sunny with light grey and blue mixed skies.
Was some talk on weather last night of strong gales today our way, not sure that's correct.
Its SE 18 - 20mph with a couple of 25 mph gusts.

Yearly rain so far = 281.2mm
Monthly rain so far = 13mm
March = 72.8mm
February = 46.6mm
January = 148.8mm

Edited April 10, 2016 by lettice

[Nights King]

Slowly clouding over here today after a glorious start.

Overnight low of -1.3c which i wasn't expecting and I have seen more snow this spring than all of winter had to offer  I just dream of warm sunny weather now though still not even needed to cut the grass yet. 

[stevofunnelcl]

it's been gusting between 40-50mph up here today

that yellow warning should have covered devon as well

[knocker]

Clearance here now with plenty of Ci and some St.

[Stormyking]

Crazy storm surger around the islands coast today, got these shots earlier from Nettlestone

[Mapantz]

Blowing a hoolie today! Imagine if it had been Winter with the current Easterly tapping in to a cold pool? The windchill would be gruesome!

Temp: 10.1°C - Hum: 68% - Bar: 1003.22hPa - Wind: E/SE @ 10mph, gusting to 30mph.

[A.J]

as posted a short while ago in the storm discussion thread, elevated convection breaking out over north/NW France in association with WAA towards southern/SW uk....Elevated storms tonight are a possibility

[Lyn-M]

West Bay harbour was full to overflowing at high tide this morning.