SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

[snowray]

3 hours ago, lassie23 said:

i was going to mention goats but thankfully didn't mention goats as i thought it's not the best place for goats, still raining for goat's sake.

Yes its been non stop raining cats and goats here too. Also was foggy and misty yesterday like its around halloween/Guy Fawkes time of the year.

Rather not think too much about Guy Fawkes and things being blown up right now though with all this talk of WW3 thats going around

Edited April 10, 2018 by snowray

[Blazerblue]

So part of the storm forecast has made me chuckle

allowing clear skies with some warm sunshine to develop across southern counties of England, which will trigger heavy showers with thunder. Further rain, perhaps thundery, over the Low Countries looks to affect far SE and East Anglia overnight.

If we get any sunshine it’ll be a miracle! Dull damp, misty crud for yet another day here, sunshine hasn’t been here for what seems like an eternity. 

[Methuselah]

11 hours ago, stainesbloke said:

Pishing it down, again. Just for a change.

Sounds like you need a new raingoat?

[Froze were the Days]

I dare not look out the window currently due to fear of my retina's being burnt out by the sun...not!

[lassie23]

well it has finally stopped raining

[LightningLover]

All this goat business, and I STILL can’t think of a goat-themed joke...

[Wimbledon88]

The trend is your friend over on the mad thread.ECM is sniffing something seemingly.Someone hoping that this weather pattern will last till November and have early winter. It turned a bit nasty with that one  but all calm again now GFS on board.

Phew......

[Methuselah]

The sun is coming through...9C & light SE breeze.

[lassie23]

27 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:

The trend is your friend over on the mad thread.ECM is sniffing something seemingly.Someone hoping that this weather pattern will last till November and have early winter. It turned a bit nasty with that one  but all calm again now GFS on board.

Phew......

The trend towards the weather continues next week, i think we will have weather next week 100 percent.

[Methuselah]

4 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

The trend towards the weather continues next week, i think we will have weather next week 100 percent.

But what kind of weather will it be, lass? Whether it'll be Weathery weather or unweathery weather. And what will Frosty and Summer Sun make of it?

[lassie23]

44 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

But what kind of weather will it be, lass? Whether it'll be Weathery weather or unweathery weather. And what will Frosty and Summer Sun make of it?

whatever the weather, frosty will post the same thing five times a day with a few words changed here and there and summer sun will post charts showing 44c which he has photo shopped

[LightningLover]

Im back home! the sun is trying to break through the murk/cloud, current temp. around 10C.

[stainesbloke]

3 hours ago, Ed Stone said:

Sounds like you need a new raingoat?

[SenlacJack]

The earlier mist and murk has cleared and with the sun breaking through it feels quite pleasant here. 13.8c currently

[stainesbloke]

A lighter shade of grey here now, I suppose that’s a start. Only 12C though. At least it has stopped raining and it is virtually calm.

[Daniel*]

14 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

A lighter shade of grey here now, I suppose that’s a start. Only 12C though. At least it has stopped raining and it is virtually calm.

Likewise 

Seems nice and sunny in far southeast likely more of us will join into afternoon/evening. 

This April so far has been woeful like March but not as cold..

[kentcloud]

31 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Likewise 

Seems nice and sunny in far southeast likely more of us will join into afternoon/evening. 

This April so far has been woeful like March but not as cold..

Glorious afternoon, now that the sea fog has burnt away, 15c at Lydd Airport, fab walk along the beach at Greatstone at lunchtime

[lassie23]

22c next week

[Daniel*]

2 hours ago, kentcloud said:

Glorious afternoon, now that the sea fog has burnt away, 15c at Lydd Airport, fab walk along the beach at Greatstone at lunchtime

Not had any luck and time is ticking - light levels have got darker if anything jealous! 

[Gowon]

I've a week off work next week.. timed it perfectly

[LightningLover]

Thunderstorm chances for tonight?

[Daniel*]

43 minutes ago, LightningLover said:

Thunderstorm chances for tonight?

I notice some heavy showers have developed heading towards Kent and then I presume Essex.

[LightningLover]

To my east:

[SenlacJack]

After a misty murky morning the skies cleared here in St Leonards-on-Sea to give some lengthy spells of warm sunshine for much of the afternoon, 17.0c was the max locally.

Interesting to read the posts in the convective chat because skies have certainly darkened here in the last hour or so but that's coincided with a noticeable drop in temperature and dew points. Currently 14.1c.

On a seperate note, today was my 1st day of induction as a volunteer weather observer for Hastings Borough Council, a task formerly carried out by a Council employee until the budget cuts deemed it impossible to carry on.

Thankfully though the Council have maintained the observation sites and as a result the small team of volunteers I have now joined are responsible for taking daily readings, posting them on the Met Office WoW site, in the local weather kiosk and sending the weekly report to the local paper. Some proper Old Skool equipment involved, including a Campbell-Stokes recorder and a barograph.

[NO LONGER POSTING]

That's quite a nice isolated cell on the south coast although  no lightning.. 

Some heavy rain coming in from the east for some