North West Regional Discussion 30 Jan 2019 onwards

[dodge]

Peak district taking a lot of oomph out of these showers as they pass over here... just a spell of moderate rain but no thunder and the radar shows the heavy dark echoes subsiding alot once they get over the hills to the east...completely the opposite to Sunday's rain which fed the moisture and kept in situ for much of the day....bit more lively further north.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Seen a few flashes and loud thunder now, rains not as heavy as the radar suggests.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Seen some nice cc lightning overhead

[Spurry]

Just a light shower about 1 hour ago here,now quite bright again, definitely sheltered by the Peaks/Pennines

[SnowThunder]

Will the next few rounds of the swirly bands give us some more convection or is that it for the day now ?

[Osca31]

Still rumbling away. could be more to come looking at the radar.

[SP1986]

As predicted nothing here.. In fact aside from a light shower around 3 nothing at all. 

[IanR]

not heard thunder today, but some very thundery skies to my north west earlier that were pushing away as usual , too far to hear thunder , pity it wasn't night , as lightning would have been visible ,  a bust here for sure   , again , roll on autumn

[iand61]

Not sure about the warning of thunderstorms but biblical rain here for the last half an hour.

looks like the dog will have to walk itself tonight.

 

[Frost HoIIow]

Not heard any thunder at all today. Bit disappointed given the bullish warnings online & on TV. We seem to do much better when they're not expected 

[IanR]

Seems most of the North West t storms have been over sparsely populated  areas , ie the Irish sea , or northernmost moorlands , 

While Gtr Manchester, Merseyside etc not getting much thunder wise,  just moderate sporadic rain this afternoon 

 

[CongletonHeat]

Been lashing down for the last 2 hours here and no sign of it stopping soon, probably another 50 mm including yesterdays rain to go with all we had at the weekend.

[Rush2019]

5 hours ago, CongletonHeat said:

Been lashing down for the last 2 hours here and no sign of it stopping soon, probably another 50 mm including yesterdays rain to go with all we had at the weekend.

When I used to live in Congleton, the river Dane used to flood in various parts of the town, is the river posing any threats yet?

[northwestsnow]

Well another day, another promise of thundery activity- reading the BBC text at any rate i won't hold my breath though!

The showery regime is set to continue with the risk of heavy downpours, frequent lightning, hail and gusty winds. Showery activity will tend to be generally be widespread.

Edited July 31, 2019 by northwestsnow

[Weather-history]

Rostherne has had about 100mm since and including the thunderstorm last week and Rochdale around 153mm in the same period.

 

[SP1986]

Big rain showers this morning. Rain bouncing off the ground but no thunder of course. 

[DIS1970]

33 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Well another day, another promise of thundery activity- reading the BBC text at any rate i won't hold my breath though!

The showery regime is set to continue with the risk of heavy downpours, frequent lightning, hail and gusty winds. Showery activity will tend to be generally be widespread.

I would take the BBC's warnings with a pinch of salt, as they had my area set out for 11 hours of potential thundery activity, and all that happened was that the time frame was constantly reduced, so the result was zero, other than 8 hours of rain.

[ManiaMuse]

Seriously the rain is starting to jaffa cakes me off now. Of course it has to be like this when I have taken 3 days holiday as well...I bet it will be nice tomorrow when I am back at work.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Been mainly dry here over the past couple of days. Nothing like forecast at all. Think we've been quite lucky after the weekend deluge!

[Iceaxecrampon]

Radar has stir-rod rain incoming soon - some loud returns.

[dodge]

Showers much more frequent and 'Torrential' at times here today, now the low has passed by too the north east switching the winds round to the west and we don't have the Peak district hills in the way from a south easterly... still no thunder...but plenty of rain.

Edited July 31, 2019 by dodge

[IanR]

8 hours ago, northwestsnow said:

Well another day, another promise of thundery activity- reading the BBC text at any rate i won't hold my breath though!

The showery regime is set to continue with the risk of heavy downpours, frequent lightning, hail and gusty winds. Showery activity will tend to be generally be widespread.

you know when they say frequent lightning its game over ,    same as humdingers

[WillinGlossop]

Glossop

50mm today and hammering it’s down,

150mm this week,

220mm this month....

 

[toggerob]

Never seen the Goyt flowing through Whaley Bridge as high as it's been today in all 29 years of living here with some businesses and homes affected. The Goytside Farm river-levels near New Mills show the Goyt has overtopped it's previous record high by just under a meter, and there's still a 12hr lapse to wait for run-off from the hills to make it's way down.

[feb1991blizzard]

RIDICULOUSLY HEAVY RAIN ALERT!

Edited July 31, 2019 by feb1991blizzard