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

[LightningLover]

is it worth keeping an eye on that lot over Belgium/ West Germany?

[snowray]

Heavy rain now moving up from Kent on an easterly towards London, no statics though. Pity we don't have -10c uppers.

[lassie23]

1 hour ago, LightningLover said:

is it worth keeping an eye on that lot over Belgium/ West Germany?

the people or the weather

[LightningLover]

2 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

the people or the weather

[Wimbledon88]

Theyve just called a heatwave for next week on the mad thread !

Bugger the mankini,the bikini is coming out!

[lassie23]

39 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:

Theyve just called a heatwave for next week on the mad thread !

Bugger the mankini,the bikini is coming out!

is 21c a heatwave

[Wimbledon88]

7 hours ago, lassie23 said:

is 21c a heatwave

It is in Darlington! 

[Badgers01]

2 hours ago, Wimbledon88 said:

It is in Darlington! 

Would seem like it down here compared to presently - another dire morning !!

[stainesbloke]

Yet more rain overnight and gloomy skies this morning, getting very tedious now. Amazing how difficult it is to get clear skies here. Endless cloud though, easy!

[Wimbledon88]

1 minute ago, stainesbloke said:

Yet more rain overnight and gloomy skies this morning, getting very tedious now. Amazing how difficult it is to get clear skies here. Endless cloud though, easy!

The lack of sunshine recently is almost becoming interesting in itself.It's got to be one of the dullest April's ever. Mind you,there's time yet.

I knew I shouldnt have said the allotment was dry a few weeks back. Certainly isnt now! 

[tomp456]

Went out around 7.30 last night to take the dog for a walk and I got a whiff of that storm smell in the air for the first time this year. 

Nearly 12c here, sunny intervals. Dare I say that spring has sprung! 

[stainesbloke]

8 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:

The lack of sunshine recently is almost becoming interesting in itself.It's got to be one of the dullest April's ever. Mind you,there's time yet.

I knew I shouldnt have said the allotment was dry a few weeks back. Certainly isnt now! 

This type of weather is the one I dislike the most regarding the UK climate. Grey skies for weeks on end, it’s very depressing. Don’t mind the rain if there are decent spells of sunshine in between. And it’s cold, a miserable 8C currently. Everything is sodden here, at least you won’t have to water the allotment for a while ?

Edited April 11, 2018 by stainesbloke

[Methuselah]

A thoroughly awful day: mist, murk and 9C...If only we could all stay in Darlo!

[alexisj9]

12 hours ago, lassie23 said:

is 21c a heatwave

At this time of year yes.

[Methuselah]

Just seen the Beeb's lunchtime forecast:

Two more days' yucky mist-filled dross and then a stonking warm-up for the weekend...Darlington here we come!

Edited April 11, 2018 by Ed Stone
another crime against the apostrophe!

[mpkio2]

Cool, cloudy and a little misty in Central London.

Annoyingly, if we got this same setup in the middle of Jan, it would be a lot colder.

Hey ho, can't really complain though.

Roll on the sunshine!

[lassie23]

is there a chance of the flow backing north east and bringing those scandi -20 uppers across the south east

Edited April 11, 2018 by lassie23

[alexisj9]

2 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

is there a chance of the flow backing north east and bringing those scandi -20 uppers across the south east

I hope not, now it's warm I want it to stay that way, untill winter, November this year.

[mpkio2]

3 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

I hope not, now it's warm I want it to stay that way, untill winter, November this year.

I have to agree. North-easterly winds at this time of year are pretty much useless (It cold is what you're after,). It will only deliver cool, cloudy, rainy days. Pretty much the week we're in now.

[interested & confused]

Sun is trying to break through now and temp up to 12C so I'm off to play on the allotment.

Potato planting time has arrived at last, nearly 4 weeks later than normal for here!

[lassie23]

2 minutes ago, interested & confused said:

Sun is trying to break through now and temp up to 12C so I'm off to play on the allotment.

Potato planting time has arrived at last, nearly 4 weeks later than normal for here!

i've planted my stuff already, it might snow end of the month

[SenlacJack]

Whilst doing my Hastings weather obs earlier this morning mist and low cloud quickly dispersed along the coastal fringe leading to a mostly sunny and quite warm late morning and afternoon here in St Leonards-on-Sea. Temperature now nudging 15c with just a light breeze.

I'm off to cut the grass now, the first cut this year and around a month later than I would usually do it owing to the weather.

[LightningLover]

4 minutes ago, SenlacJack said:

Whilst doing my Hastings weather obs earlier this morning mist and low cloud quickly dispersed along the coastal fringe leading to a mostly sunny and quite warm late morning and afternoon here in St Leonards-on-Sea. Temperature now nudging 15c with just a light breeze.

I'm off to cut the grass now, the first cut this year and around a month later than I would usually do it owing to the weather.

yes it's a nice day here too! (surprise surprise, as we are more or less in the same town...)

[alexisj9]

7 minutes ago, LightningLover said:

yes it's a nice day here too! (surprise surprise, as we are more or less in the same town...)

And here, beautiful day. Temp only 12.7 though.

[snowray]

1 hour ago, lassie23 said:

i've planted my stuff already, it might snow end of the month

I'm thinking that too, heatwave 23c next week then 3c by end of the month with a cold NEly wind from Scandi. 

Alternatively a bitter toxic mix of a SEly and nuclear fall out coming up from the Middle East if the warmongers have their way.