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

[ARTDEMOLE]

Sunny here .. 13.9c. Scattered cloud. 0.3mm rain early.. More to come later.

[Mapantz]

A heavy shower this morning, depositing 2.4mm. It was blue skies after that, a bit more in the way of cloud now, though. Feeling warm.

Temp: 16.1°C - Hum: 64% - Dew: 9.2°C -  Bar: 1005.72hPa - Wind: S @ 8mph.

[knocker]

Well the rain is well through here; clear sky with some small Cu.

[matt111]

Quite nice not long ago and felt warm. Now turned cloudy and looks like the rain is almost here.

Got up to 16.2°C when the sun was out. Now 14.7°C. 

[Zephyr]

Rains not made it here yet but looking at radar its getting pretty close.

[legritter]

Rain arrived here ,very heavy at present, looking at radar Weymouth way looks like a good place for thunder ,could be other areas later looking at satellite coverage ,cheers .

[ARTDEMOLE]

Heavy Rain here . No Mooning now until late this evening. 3.6mm the last hour.

 

[Dorsetbred]

We must be on the "dry side" of this as we have only had 1.5mm of rain..

 

[ARTDEMOLE]

5.4mm mm. the last hour now.....

[Mapantz]

I'm surprised how quickly that rain fell apart after it left Dorset..

An hour ago:

Now:

It was heavy-ish here. 8.2mm has fallen today, i'm also surprised at the lack of heavier downpours and thunder to be honest.

Edited October 15, 2016 by Mapantz

[Dami]

It be raining. 

[matt111]

Not much rain fell here. Only 1.4mm.

[lettice]

Grey wet morning, 7.2mm so far today since 6am
Expected more rain this weekend from the recent forecasts. Had just 0.6mm yesterday in drizzly showers between 4pm and 9pm.

12.1c lowest temp overnight at midnight
Now, 14.2c, 1008.2 hPa, 93% humidity.
8 mph Southerly wind now from yesterdays 10-16mph SSW.
Early morning 5am to 6am, a SSE wind picked up to 20mph, with a few 30mph gusts.

[knocker]

A very bright morning with some Cu. Temp 11C and a breeze from the SW.

[Mapantz]

Pretty wet & windy this morning. 9.2mm of rain falling, and winds gusting to 30mph + - Warm with decent spells of sunshine now, breezy.

Temp: 16.7°C - Hum: 77% - Dew: 12.6°C - Bar: 1010.46hPa - Wind: SW ~ SSW @ 12mph.

[lettice]

After that early morning spell of 8.4mm rain, its turned into a bright sunny day.
17c, humidity down to 75%, 1011.0 hPa
SSW wind, 10-4mph with some 20mph gusts

[Dorsetbred]

Well that provided some needed rain, we picked up 21.2mm yesterday,  this morning around 7am it was torrential. And now showery but some great beach weather.

 

[stevofunnelcl]

just heard my first thunder of 2016 here, heavy downpour, and the power went out for a few seconds

[Dale Hay]

Just looking out my window (South) and there's a big ass 'anvil' (think that's the term?)

 

[Dorsetbred]

A nice cell has just cruised over us with torrential rain and some lightning. Currently still raining and I can see stars, along with back edge of the cell. Nice one..

[viking_smb]

1 hour ago, Dale Hay said:

Just looking out my window (South) and there's a big ass 'anvil' (think that's the term?)

 

that is huge, any intercloud lightning?

[Mapantz]

24 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

A nice cell has just cruised over us with torrential rain and some lightning. Currently still raining and I can see stars, along with back edge of the cell. Nice one..

A cracking downpour here, too. 101mm/hr rate. I saw some lightning over your way, after passing here.

[Dale Hay]

4 hours ago, viking_smb said:

that is huge, any intercloud lightning?

Not that I could see, still bright outside et al, however I followed it on the rain radar and also on satellite imagery. At 1800 and 1805 (BST) it looked more like it had a 'hook', then sometime after that (about 30-60 mins), it was dumping its guts - a well defined circle of Purple (on NW radar) ... it was totally mad how ferocious it seemed on radar.
I've never seen one so big in my life.

[Dorsetbred]

Last nights active cell produced a peak rainfall rate of 102.86mm/hr, it certainly was chucking it down. This morning as I was about to walk out the door another cell decided it was a good time to drop it's lot!, so that's propped the rainfall for the last 2 days up to 32.5mm.

[Polar Bear]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/19565/boom-what-on-earth-was-that-mystery-noise-sparks-online-debate.html

Yes it was definitely one bolt of lightning and thunder - we were directly under an intense storm cell, with high anvil towers - ( I saw the lightening, heard the boom, sure enough went outside and the anvil was clearly visible in the moonlight as it passed - radar view also showed the cell (intense rain fall five mins before). Anyone care to give them some meteorological evidence in the comments?!! lol!

(Mind you... the flash seemed very bright and very quick - more like a bolt having hit something - so not sheet.. so I can see why meteor...Perhaps I am wrong and it was!)

Edited October 17, 2016 by Polar Bear