SE & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/2017 onwards

[stainesbloke]

Glorious weather here in SE Spain this week. Barely a cloud, by day reaching 29-30C with a nice breeze and cooling down to 20-21C overnight. Absolutely perfect. I noticed the 'warm sunny spell' failed dismally at home in the UK with gloomy skies yet again. Flying home tomorrow, do NOT want to go back!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

I think the front has arrived here - it's gone very dull and gloomy over the course of the last half an hour or so.  Maybe by this evening it'll be both brighter and fesher.

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Outlook for Friday to Sunday:

Mainly dry with sunny spells on Friday and Saturday. Some heavy, perhaps thundery, showers may occur on Saturday night or Sunday. Generally warm, or very warm at times.

Don't want to get any hopes up yet, but.. The met Office type up for the weekend looks, well quite good. 

[SenlacJack]

I posted earlier today on another weather forum in response to folk who were posting about conditions being 'exceptionally warm' and 'oppressively humid' here in the South East today.

(Quote )"A slightly tongue in cheek comment from me so please don't take it too seriously, but l'm beginning to question the reliability of my internal body thermostat. Has it really been 'exceptionally warm' and 'oppressively humid' here in the South East today ?

It's felt anything but to me, hence me doubting my own body now

I'm 11 miles fom Herstmonceux and the readings from there suggest a Tmax of 21.6c and a DP max of 18.4c.

It's been another boring cloudfest here though, with barely a hint of blus sky or sunshine all day long. " (Unquote)

Just goes to show how differently we can perceive the weather I guess ?

 

 

[alexisj9]

Yep it was a nice comfortable day here yesterday too, feels more oppressive today tbh. 

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The reason that many towards the east coast and the south coast was because on on shore breeze was keeping the air "circulated" so to speak at lower levels. The upper winds however were moving in from the west.

Before that though, when the humid air arrived, those of us that managed to avoid that on shore breeze further inland, it was humid, certainly for people near to Heathrow and the City (West)

Even in Wales they hand much higher temperatures for longer than some in the South east, in-fact most of the Region.

Looks like the weekend is looking okay!! 

 

But I scrolled to the dark temps of FI on the GFS and the last frame just made me think.. "where have we seen this before" thankfully it is so distant it's about as relevant as a blank sheet of paper.

 

 

[Blessed Weather]

Working outside near Wattisham Airbase yesterday and with a cool breeze my fleece was on and off more times than a fiddler's elbow (? ) as the sun went in and out of the copious cloud cover. But the Brucie Bonus was a ten minute spectacular watching the Red Arrows practice for the Clacton air show this weekend.

Beautiful start here this morning with lots of low mist in the fields.

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Morning gang, fantastic start! What a change to the start of the week, this weekend might actually turn into a proper summery spell and not the weak attempt at the start of the week. 

I Posted on Facebook this morning:

 

Today: 24c Sunshine amounts: high
Saturday: 24-25c Sunshine amounts: Good-High
Sunday 24-26c Sunshine amounts: Good
Monday 24c Sunshine amounts: Good/Poor by evening

SUMMER IS BACK!!!!!

[Froze were the Days]

All I can say is all the signs are there for another scorchio September (again) - the jet stream appears to be drifting north limply, maybe a little amplification in a weeks time but all this will lead to is an area of high pressure transferring eastwards against a weaker jet which adds up to don't put the sun cream away just yet.

[stainesbloke]

Back from Spain last night to pleasant weather, today shaping up to be a nice, late Summer day. Plenty of sunshine and 22C currently with light winds.

[lassie23]

Almost September, so my thoughts naturally turn to winter and how every snowy spell will miss the SE Unless............the October Fog Index delivers this autumnLast year had three thin fogs and one dense fog, but got only three light snow falls, three out of four isn't bad I guess

[Captain Shortwave]

Lovely day with lots of sunshine and just a light south westerly breeze. A high of 24C.

The Bank holiday weekend looks.... really good 

Yes, all three days look dry with temperatures in the mid-twenties, Monday looks the sunniest and warmest of the three.

 

[SenlacJack]

Once the cloud cover and milky skies prevalent here for the last few days finally cleared, this afternoon turned out to be about as good as a late summers day can get.

Clear blue skies, barely a breeze and feeling warmer than the Tmax of 22.2c would suggest. It was the 2nd warmest day of the month, failing to beat the previous modest max of 22.6c. No complaints though.

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3 hours ago, Captain Shortwave said:

Lovely day with lots of sunshine and just a light south westerly breeze. A high of 24C.

The Bank holiday weekend looks.... really good 

Yes, all three days look dry with temperatures in the mid-twenties, Monday looks the sunniest and warmest of the three.

 

The GFS 12z even extends the warm to very warm weather into the week too next week 

[SenlacJack]

Just hoping this late burst of summer holds out for tomorrows event on Hastings Pier:

http://hastingspier.org.uk/event/day-tripper-ocean-colour-scene-w-the-bootleg-beatles-and-peter-hook-the-light/

[Dami]

Todays news :-

My laptop just blue screened. 

I have stomach cramps.

It is raining.

Todays rating -0/10

[stainesbloke]

Very pleasant day here, light winds, warm sunshine and 23C currently. If only all of August was like this!

[alexisj9]

22 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Very pleasant day here, light winds, warm sunshine and 23C currently. If only all of August was like this!

It,s quite windy here, with a blanket of milky high cloud.

[Blazerblue]

Dull cloudy grey all morning, with rain just to the north of us, few spots of rain as the sun tried to come out, but barely reaching the ground. Hardly a breath of wind, which is unusual for here. 

[knocker]

Hot off the press! Frittenden in Kent has recorded 26.2ºC this afternoon, making the highest temperature so far in August 2017!

[Daniel*]

Unfortunately it appears to have gone all overcast, not to moan most of the day has been bliss and warm 24C much more like it Summer. This BH weekend is looking pretty darn good.  

[Blessed Weather]

Some high level cloud has been plaguing the Region this afternoon, but happily it didn't spoil the day here - lovely and warm with the temp reaching 23.2C.

Infrared satellite at 19.55 and cloud still streaming across Region:

Now then - what's gone wrong? How have we ended up with a Bank Holiday Monday set to be a 27C to 29C scorcher?? Looking at European forecasts, we'll be hotter than Spain on Monday!

Arpege  GFS

Europe:

[Tommo1969]

It was a really nice day.... I was mowing my dad's lawn this afternoon and the sun broke out and it felt really hot. Right now it's a lovely still evening out there and I love it when you get warm weather with a hint of autumn cool. Perfect! Plus I've got 4 aubergines to pick off the plant tomorrow! And some tomatoes! Thank you weather gods for a bit of decent weather at last.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Not bad for my birthday, though it was cloudy this morning and again late this afternoon.

[stainesbloke]

August 2017 is trying to redeem itself this weekend, and on a Bank Holiday. Shocking. Looking good for our region.