South East and East Anglia weather discussion/Chat - 1st June onwards

[lassie23]

2 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Drizzle and 17C, sigh, another lovely June day....zzzzzzzz

Heard there is drizzle in Spain too

[Carl46Wrexham]

2 hours ago, Norfolk Sheep said:

Smiley Carol pinpointed Kent, Essex and Suffolk just now - bad luck chaps  

I missed it. Did Carol say the "H" word? If so...look out for distant flashes across the Channel. 

[tomp456]

Is this vile drizzle going to hamper the chance of storms later on?

Of course it is. 

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2 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

Is this vile drizzle going to hamper the chance of storms later on?

Of course it is. 

No, imported storms should fire in the area below the line of cloud to the south over northern France and move north east 

Question mark remains where or if they fire 

[Cableguy]

Anybody know any good vantage points in Kent? Obviously depends on the radar but am thinking somewhere like  Capel-le-Ferne. 

[Jo Farrow]

Met Office have just issued Amber warning, after their 11 am conference

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1466636400&regionName=se 

[alexisj9]

5 minutes ago, Cableguy said:

Anybody know any good vantage points in Kent? Obviously depends on the radar but am thinking somewhere like  Capel-le-Ferne. 

That where I would suggest, it's very high up, and you can see right over to france no problem, so if the storm for some reason do not get over, you'll still get a good show. Stay in a car or building though, as you'll be in the cloud if the storm does get here.

[Dami]

As normal I am sitting on the fence regarding any storms for me, have had 3 storms so far this season and i'm happy with that TBH. I find alot coming up from france, if they make it to me  they either disappear or are just a bit of rain. I have been very lucky so far with home grown stuff.

So although i'm checking things i'm not having the excitement of past events, because I fully expect to wake up over the next few mornings having nothing and seeing the pictures of others.

 BUT It's too good not too have a peak now and again!

 

Edited June 22, 2016 by Dami

[alexisj9]

4 minutes ago, Jo Farrow said:

Met Office have just issued Amber warning, after their 11 am conference

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1466636400&regionName=se 

Right over Kent, think I've got to move, this will be the third one this year. The other two were not amber warned, so I'm defo expecting flooding in the usual places. Which luckly is not here. At the bottom of the road though.

[Cableguy]

8 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

That where I would suggest, it's very high up, and you can see right over to france no problem, so if the storm for some reason do not get over, you'll still get a good show. Stay in a car or building though, as you'll be in the cloud if the storm does get here.

Thank you.

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If things do go the right way later, it could be quite a show.. Good luck those that want a "proper" storm.. Nows a chance for it 

 

[Stephanie Starr]

We don't want anymore rain. We had flash flooding last week. Luckily I was missed but mile.up the road was eight inches deep.

[tomp456]

17.4C, 100% humidity, feels like 23C. Sun sort of trying to come out. 

Am on the boundary for action later. Think everything will be more inland and East Sussex/Kent way but you never know. 

[Ben Lewis]

Well the Meto seem to think Kent could be those in the firing line with an amber warning

Good to see London & Home Counties only at a Yellow warning. 

Hoping the worst of the rain & thundery activity skirts off towards the East - Belgium & Holland, as is so often the case and misses my location.. Don't want or need anymore rain around here. 

[Lauren]

I s'pose the plus side of living on a hill is we can't flood. Having said that it's not been unknown for all sorts of debris and even a car (due to the handbrake not being fully on) to go white water rafting down the road. The water can get quite a shifty on running down the hill.

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certainly some very juicy 06z runs and some agreement 

[alexisj9]

20 minutes ago, Lauren said:

I s'pose the plus side of living on a hill is we can't flood. Having said that it's not been unknown for all sorts of debris and even a car (due to the handbrake not being fully on) to go white water rafting down the road. The water can get quite a shifty on running down the hill.

Same here, I'm quite worried about the road in the valley, everything from here and opposite goes down there.

[alexisj9]

Sun was coming out in Dover when I left, it is out now in Folkestone.

[lassie23]

Any chance that we end up with drizzle instead

[fujita5]

Some quite strong echoes on the radar over the Brest area.  Animation shows movement is more northward than I'd expect at this stage so perhaps steering flow will bring more of the SE into play later rather than just Kent.

I'm hopeful of something here in NE Essex as my 10-year-old daughter wants to camp out tonight to watch the storms as she's off tomorrow due to the referendum, however I'd prefer not to be washed away completely!

[tomp456]

After the sun made a brief apperance earlier, we have now returned to thick overcast cloudy conditions. 

Humidity is still 100% but there is a breeze now, taking the edge off the humidity. 

 

I take it that the cloudy conditions will not hamper the chance of a storm later as the storms will be elevated? 

[Captain Shortwave]

I guess I am glad that I get up at 5am as the sun was out for a couple of hours, alas it has been grey and drizzly since then. It is warm and humid though out there and the cloud has tended to lift somewhat in the last hour or so.

[Norfolk Sheep]

2 minutes ago, Captain Shortwave said:

I guess I am glad that I get up at 5am as the sun was out for a couple of hours, alas it has been grey and drizzly since then. It is warm and humid though out there and the cloud has tended to lift somewhat in the last hour or so.

Certainly brighter but my washing is stubbornly refusing to dry properly *sigh*

[Ǝssex Ǝasterly]

I should've taken more notice of the forecasts over the last few days, knew it was going to be warm today but didn't know about the humidity.

Walked back from college earlier today in a my fleece and felt like a wet sponge!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Pretty leaden skies still, though humid.