South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 19/01/2018 Onwards

[Mapantz]

Despite the MetO showing heavy rain for 13 hours, 6 of them have brought just 7mm. There's only been bits & pieces of rain, nothing persistent. The charts yesterday showed much of the rain missing here, and they still do.

Temp: 8.7°C - Hum: 98% - Dew: 8.4°C - Bar: 1010.23hPa - Wind: Calm.

Nothing convective showing up on any charts I've seen @karlos1983

 

[karlos1983]

7 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Despite the MetO showing heavy rain for 13 hours, 6 of them have brought just 7mm. There's only been bits & pieces of rain, nothing persistent. The charts yesterday showed much of the rain missing here, and they still do.

Temp: 8.7°C - Hum: 98% - Dew: 8.4°C - Bar: 1010.23hPa - Wind: Calm.

Nothing convective showing up on any charts I've seen @karlos1983

 

Cheers wasn’t sure if this was because of convection or just a front.

[Mapantz]

6 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Cheers wasn’t sure if this was because of convection or just a front.

Just a small area of low pressure scraping by. Majority of models keep it across France. Some show a bit of rain for the SW and S coast, but zero convective parameters.

[karlos1983]

Roger that, cheers

[philglossop]

Sounds like a major police incident has been declared in North Devon- flash flooding in Combe Martin. Photos don’t look good.

[philglossop]

[philglossop]

Flooding throughout North Devon. Places affected include Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Combe Martin, Clayton and Umberleigh.

 

Devon and Cornwall police advise only vital transport throughout North Devon due to road closures, land slips and flooding.

[Nights King]

25 minutes ago, philglossop said:

Makes a nice change to see a drop of rain after this prolonged cold spell we have endured

I think most of us would settle for a big static high sat over us for 2 weeks at least it would dry out and we could see some frost although you know it would end up being a dirty cloudy high with endless gloom.

[festivalking]

With the snow still falling in other areas of the country I have no doubt that the winter of 17/18 will be remembered very differently. For us usual wrong side of marginal muck close but no cigar where as places such as Malvern northwards will place 17/18 as good to great for snow. Yes it' only January and I tend to hunt the cold till March 12th but this year it feels different i wonder if the chips are down already (they were not exactly up in the first place)

[MP-R]

Agreed NK! This winter has got to the point where it would just be nice if it could be dry! ... and the rainfall totals haven't even been that high here. 

 

[philglossop]

When you look at the local football around here these are just of the last games played.

 

Bodmin Town - 27th December 

Callington Town - 13th December!!!

 

Its just been raining most periods since New Year. My last walk on Dartmoor was 1st January in a window of relative nice mid morning. The moors were saturated then so lord knows what they’re like now!

[Bristawl Si]

Temp here at 9.30 this morn was 2c; now up to 8c.

Oh for a Barty to set up shop this week

Fed up of this Winter already.

[ThundersnowDays]

Constant moderate rain and misty here. 

[jy]

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This weather has played with peoples minds....poor jtay has cracked completely and gone to watch Southampton play football,let that be a warning to all,years chasing snow that doesn't ever arrive can do horrible things to a person,the poor lad lol

[philglossop]

15 minutes ago, Bristle boy said:

Temp here at 9.30 this morn was 2c; now up to 8c.

Oh for a Barty to set up shop this week

Fed up of this Winter already.

Currently a balmy 12.1c here. Just nipped to the shop in t shirt. No jumper needed

[karlos1983]

Up to 8.9c now after starting off at 3.0c this morning. Just started raining again ☔️ 

[matt111]

5 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Up to 8.9c now after starting off at 3.0c this morning. Just started raining again ☔️ 

Similar here, 9.1°C. 

[jtay]

10 minutes ago, jy said:

This weather has played with peoples minds....poor jtay has cracked completely and gone to watch Southampton play football,let that be a warning to all,years chasing snow that doesn't ever arrive can do horrible things to a person,the poor lad lol

Not going now jy. My mates ill and I'm not doing a round trip via Lymington to pick up and drop off the tickets.

At least I'll stay dry now.

[matt111]

1 minute ago, jtay said:

Not going now jy. My mates ill and I'm not doing a round trip via Lymington to pick up and drop off the tickets.

At least I'll stay dry now.

Dodged a bullet. 

[Dorsetbred]

Having been out and around outside for a few hours I can confirm it's wet, and it's that slow falling, soak you to the skin type rain. Back inside now, think I'll start on Britannia now..

Currently 9.3C and rainfall measure just keeps on climbing, now at 8.3mm, even the birds in the garden have taken cover..

Edited January 21, 2018 by Dorsetbred

[SteveB]

1 hour ago, MP-R said:

Agreed NK! This winter has got to the point where it would just be nice if it could be dry! ... and the rainfall totals haven't even been that high here. 

 

Currently up to 24mm here and still raining. It's been a thoroughly miserable winter made all the worst with most of the rest of the country seeing snow. Would love to see some prolonged dry weather , and I don't mind if it's of the warmer rather than colder.

Unless we see an epic cold spell develop, anything slightly less that involves the words marginal means more rain for the south west. Dry whether it's cold or mild please.

[matt111]

Stopped raining for the moment but now it’s turned misty instead so still miserable. 

[MP-R]

8 minutes ago, SteveB said:

Currently up to 24mm here and still raining. It's been a thoroughly miserable winter made all the worst with most of the rest of the country seeing snow. Would love to see some prolonged dry weather , and I don't mind if it's of the warmer rather than colder.

Unless we see an epic cold spell develop, anything slightly less that involves the words marginal means more rain for the south west. Dry whether it's cold or mild please.

Not far off 20mm here either. 

For you yes. Honestly, if you want snow from anything other than what you say, you've got to move away from the Gulf of Severn. I'm just glad I saw settling snow twice in December otherwise this winter would be worse than last.

[SteveB]

13 minutes ago, MP-R said:

Not far off 20mm here either. 

For you yes. Honestly, if you want snow from anything other than what you say, you've got to move away from the Gulf of Severn. I'm just glad I saw settling snow twice in December otherwise this winter would be worse than last.

I love snow, but not enough to move house.

In all fairness, you're right, this is not a good place to live if you like anything extreme. Poor for snow and cold, not very good for summer storms either.

I think I will need to book myself some weather holidays in the years to come, storm chasing for storms and Iceland or Norway for cold and snow.

[khodds]

Just been out for Sunday lunch, the roads are awful and the rain still pours down. 

Imagine if all this rain was snow ?