South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion Sept 2019 onwards

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

We've had one heavy shower here so far while I was out, and there's a line of storms heading this way as I type (we've heard the thunder associated with them already).  UEA weather station reporting 5.5mm since midbnight but I suspect that will be increasing over the next 30 minutes or so.

[Katrine Basso]

The rain returned but it was heavier this time.  I tried to photograph the rain falling in my back garden but all I could photo was the results of the rain.

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Katrine Basso
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[Ben Lewis]

Bit wet today. 

The balance out has started. As it always does. 

6 months of this grot ahead now, apart from the one day snow event if we’re lucky. 

[Tom Quintavalle]

3 hours ago, Mapantz said:

Please keep political posts away from this forum.

Thanks. 

Don't worry Mapantz, after comments made on this Thread the other Day, I won't be posting on this part of the Forum, any longer. 

I've been a Member of NW since Jan.2005 and think I've contributed plenty of Weather related posts, in that time.

I've put together many posts, regarding Snow Streamers in S.E.England. I've been lucky enough to strike up a friendship with local Meteorologist Ian Currie. Mr.Currie was kind enough to allow me to share his thoughts with our Region and kindly allow me to reproduce many photos on this Forum, from his excellent County Weather Books. Mr.Currie even offered Members a reduced rate, to buy a copy of his Books but I'm not sure there were any Members who took up his very generous offer.

Last Summer, I was accused of laying "guilt trips" by a Member who I think has a personal grudge against me but the less said about that the better!!

In the time I've been a Member, I've "clocked up" 6,308 Posts and 6,872 Likes, so perhaps SOME Members appreciated my Posts. But no more, I've had enough now!!

I'd like to apologise to the Moderators in OUR Region, if I offended anybody, it wasn't meant.

But I've decided I can no longer continue to post on here.

I will now confine my Posting, to "Hosting" Fantasy Competitions, in the Lounge part of the Forum, where I've gathered around me Members who seem to appreciate my contributions, to the Sports section of this Forum.

I think DAMI was right in her assertion last Night, you're not allowed to have a sense of humour, in here. Sorry but I find some of these Weather related Threads, way too serious and "precious." Obviously my madcap sense of humour, isn't appreciated in all quarters, of this Thread. I'm sure those Members will appreciate my decision to retreat, from the S.E.Thread.

Interesting to note that exactly 4 Years ago, I was about to be "woken up" from a 10 Day Hospital induced Coma, after experiencing a Brain Haemorrhage/Stroke. Perhaps that Brain trauma sent me more "gaga", than I was before my illness and this 64 Year Old Brontophobic became even more of  a Brontosaurus/Dinosaur, in his mindset. Again I'd like to apologise for any offence caused by my "wacky", sense of humour.

I'd like to thank all those Members who voiced approval of my Posts, over the Years.

At least some of the Brontophiles around the Region, got to hear a little thunder today. Perhaps you'll hear some more during the rest of Autumn, you are due some after suffering two very "thunderless" Summers!!

I'd like to wish fellow Chionophiles, around our Region, plenty of cold and snowy Weather, this coming Winter.

Regards,

Tom.  

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by TomSE12

[all weather]

Yes Ben, think you mean sleet event.

Tom, I for one enjoy reading your posts, not sure what occured days ago but don't let these posters ruin it for you or for us. 

Please keep up your posts.

Edited September 24, 2019 by all weather

[Jimmyh]

I got one am utterly dismayed that once again a regular enthusiastic poster has been forced to remove himself from the forum. I for on absolutely loved @TomSE12 total light hearted jovial witterings that always brought a smile to my face in the mornings be it in the winter summer spring or autumn. There is something wrong here when people are corrected of the swerve so slightly off topic and dont stay on weather only ramblings. I did see a post a few days back having a go at Tom. I thought it was total imbyism. 

That's the problem we have lost so many good active genuine posters because of this and I am cross. I adore the weather and u can see my liked values and post as much as I can but occasionally we need to stay the other side of the fence. At no point has anything Tom has said could be considered abusive, just happy witterings of a man happy to be alive.

And I remember Tom's snow cup it was so much fun. Remember that people fun.......

 

[Tom Quintavalle]

1 hour ago, all weather said:

Yes Ben, think you mean sleet event.

Tom, I for one enjoy reading your posts, not sure what occured days ago but don't let these posters ruin it for you or for us. 

Please keep up your posts.

Thanks for those very kind words All Weather but I've made up my mind about not posting any longer.

As I stated, I've been a Member since 2005 and to my mind have made a lot of Weather contributions, to this Thread, the number of Posts I've registered suggests that. Latterly, posting up my interpretation of MeteoGroup's extended Forecasts, for our Region.

I still suffer from fatigue, after my Brain Haemorrhage/Stroke and posting in detail, can be quite tiring for me. When I came out of Hospital in February 2016, after being hospitalised for 4 and a half Months, I'd even forgotten that I was a long-standing Member of NW.  I had to teach myself how to use a Computer again but thankfully this self-professed "Technophobe" has regained most of his IT skills!!

But no more posting on the S.E.Thread, now.

I'm afraid to say that over the past few Years, there "reeks" a sense of double standards, about some of the material in Posts, allowed in this Thread.

Regards,

Tom.   

Edited September 24, 2019 by TomSE12

[Tom Quintavalle]

7 minutes ago, Jimmyh said:

I got one am utterly dismayed that once again a regular enthusiastic poster has been forced to remove himself from the forum. I for on absolutely loved @TomSE12 total light hearted jovial witterings that always brought a smile to my face in the mornings be it in the winter summer spring or autumn. There is something wrong here when people are corrected of the swerve so slightly off topic and dont stay on weather only ramblings. I did see a post a few days back having a go at Tom. I thought it was total imbyism. 

That's the problem we have lost so many good active genuine posters because of this and I am cross. I adore the weather and u can see my liked values and post as much as I can but occasionally we need to stay the other side of the fence. At no point has anything Tom has said could be considered abusive, just happy witterings of a man happy to be alive.

And I remember Tom's snow cup it was so much fun. Remember that people fun.......

 

Thanks for those very kind words, Jimmyh. I'd completely forgotten about the "Snow Depth Cup". Now that was something I did put a lot of effort into, when I was TOMSE20 and lived in Anerley, S.E.London.

I had Members names on sheets of A4, spread across my Lounge floor and it was surprising that my Brain didn't "blow up", then!! 

Regards,

Tom.  

[Methuselah]

We'll certainly miss your input,Tom...I still remember your posts from December 2010, when we were both domiciled in Anerly(sp?) and when blizzards were a'raging. How time flies?

Edited September 24, 2019 by Ed Stone

[Mapantz]

I'm taking no sides here, but no one is being forced to do anything. If something/someone has done something, please use the report button. I say this, because I sense that something has happened, but I haven't seen anything. Due to the fact that moderators are not here 24/7, things do go unnoticed occasionally. The only way for us to deal with something we've missed, is if it is reported.

I think we should move on from it, now. If there's any issues, please contact a moderator, either by PM or you can privately create a thread here: 

https://www.netweather.tv/forum/forum/171-contact-the-forum-team-private-forum/

No one else but yourself and moderators can see posts/threads there.

Hope this helps?!

[Tom Quintavalle]

12 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

We'll certainly miss your input,Tom...I still remember your posts from December 2010, when we were both domiciled in Anerly(sp?)and when blizzards were a'raging. How time flies?

Thanks for those very kind words, Pete.

I'm off to spend more time with Sebastian and the Horse Racing Competitions.  

Harry Kane's Champion's League "Fantasy" goals will be in the capable hands,

of Callum (KIRKCALDY WEATHER), from now on. 

Regards,

Tom.   

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by TomSE12

[Froze were the Days]

Keep posting Tom dam you!  I like reading your posts first thing in the morning with a touch of everything in them - a bit of humour, silly graphics and updated daily forecasts and historical pieces. I don't care what anybody says on here that post made the other day (I know the one which riled me) really is in the tiny minority (you haven't upset other regular female posters)...you're an asset to the SE thread so in the immortal words of KC and the Sunshine Band 'please don't go'...

anyway we've all got to stick together to get through another much anticipated winter 2019/20 with great expectations only to be let down again and the hunt switches to the prozac again 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Froze were the Days

[Badgers01]

Really wet day here in Surrey several times stuck under slow moving red blobs on radar ... recorded 55mm here not sure how accurate but impressive in less than 12 hours ... surface water all around the roads slow to drain away .

[tinybill]

looking  at radar could be a wet night

[John Stevens]

This is a very sad evening to see @TomSE12 leaving. I thoroughly enjoy reading his posts in the morning, SE historical weather and the detailed discussions with Mr Currie. To think that someone with such humour, knowledge, compassion for everyone else and and thoroughly brilliant writing style is being forced of this forum is perhaps a sad reflection of the wider world we now live in.  This forum will be a duller and much less well informed place with Tom’s leaving. Such a shame!

[Jordan S]

Had another heavy downpour earlier adding 9mm so today's total upto now was 32mm but more rain pushing through tonight I see. Good for the garden!

[Ben Lewis]

Soaking here tonight. Puddles everywhere and fields and vegetation bogged through. 

Hopefully a dry period happens before the winter rains set in. 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Ben Lewis

[Daniel*]

An exceptionally wet day in ‘middle’ London over 40mm and easily wettest day of year here. More falling now... 

@TomSE12 to hell with with them people! Keep on posting we’ve lost too many, we need you! 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Daniel*

[snowrye]

@TomSE12 please do not go, I love your posts, and this thread will be a lot less happy, if you decide to stop. Please reconsider, if somebody has upset you, block them and report them, don't give them the satisfaction, on a weather note, wet

[SMU]

@TomSE12

Shooters Hill buddy...

 

Take a break.

Come back at the right time when shooters hill is on full blur !

[Crepuscular Ray]

Lots of lightning and thunder, and heavy rain today.

Weather reports are always welcome. Stuff about the wife's cooking less so.

I am sorry that I have upset you Tom, but this is a weather forum. I have had to learn to abide by the new rules, like everyone else.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Crepuscular Ray

[Snipper]

5 hours ago, Mapantz said:

I'm taking no sides here, but no one is being forced to do anything. If something/someone has done something, please use the report button. I say this, because I sense that something has happened, but I haven't seen anything. Due to the fact that moderators are not here 24/7, things do go unnoticed occasionally. The only way for us to deal with something we've missed, is if it is reported.

I think we should move on from it, now. If there's any issues, please contact a moderator, either by PM or you can privately create a thread here: 

https://www.netweather.tv/forum/forum/171-contact-the-forum-team-private-forum/

No one else but yourself and moderators can see posts/threads there.

Hope this helps?!

I haven’t a clue what set all the problems off. Thought there was a much more relaxed attitude on say this type of thread than the Models etc.

Always been general banter going on.

If someone like Tom wants to write at length so be it. At least he used paragraphs so you could easily skip anything that was not of immediate interest. 

Hopefully Tom after a while will feel able to recommence his input. 

[Daniel*]

44 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:

Lots of lightning and thunder, and heavy rain today.

Weather reports are always welcome. I am sorry that I have upset you Tom, but this is a weather forum. I have had to learn to abide by the new rules, like everyone else. Six paragraphs on the wife's cooking are irrelevant.

The rules are more relaxed in regional threads well that’s been the impression, it seems SE thread has always received more scrutiny, perhaps because the people are more interesting. There’s opportunity to discuss wider daily going ons alongside weather. I feel you are being a bit of a misery guts... forcing people away like so many have, self expression is important and human, more difficult to see on virtual space we’re more than blank profiles, none of this rigid nonsense do you want it to be ‘dead’ and soulless in here? People who moderate need to do a better job and focus on what actually needs dealing with.. and Tom is certainly not someone you need looking at.

as for lots of thunder and lightening not sure what part of town you were in!! Although it did give as much as we had seen all year, which does not say a lot. Quite a good weather day shame there’s been so little. In dry slot right now but more heavy PPN gathering to SW/W.

[Mr Frost]

5 hours ago, Daniel* said:

it seems SE thread has always received more scrutiny, perhaps because the people are more interesting.

Really? I think you mean more drama queens/kings by the looks of things in here. 

All the regional threads have interesting people - hence why I enjoy browsing through each one of them every time I visit this forum. (Every season of the year) This thread probably more often than most (out-with Scotland thread) as I have family who live in the South East and I visit them at least four times a year. 

The regional threads are all about what it says on the tin...chat about your local weather and it's effect on your daily life here in the regional forums.

I respect Tom and have enjoyed his posts for years regarding all things weather related - think the issue for some ladies and maybe some men could be his musings about Rachel Riley’s long legs, almost daily chat about how attractive female weather presenters are looking or as the member above mentioned...his wife’s cooking. (I had no issue with any of this but in this day and age I can see why some would maybe prefer weather related posts only plus there are specific threads for non weather chat)

Personally I come on this forum to read about the weather...that could be daily reports, outlooks, how it’s affecting everyone’s daily life with regards to the garden, travel, employment and I love looking at the pictures of anything weather related from all the UK and Ireland. 

Let’s be honest here - Tom is going nowhere. He loves the weather and won’t find a better place than this forum to talk about it. (I’m sure he has been active recently )

I look forward to reading all your future weather posts Tom and wish you the best of health. 

Getting back to the weather...so glad to see many reports of rain in here! My aunts garden down there has been like a desert for months. More rain today and without even looking I’m sure it will be at least 20c as always! Also very jealous of the hot Summers you all get! 

Have a good day everyone and I look forward to reading all your weather reports/looking at pictures this Autumn and Winter! 

All the best

David 

Edited September 25, 2019 by Mr Frost

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Another Dave