South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/09/2020 Onward

[jtay]

Dodged the showers earlier, but it's now raining.

Off for a week after today.  Was hoping for a break in the weather to get away for a few days, but any potential rise in pressure looks too far away. Bit annoying.

 

[matt111]

Mostly cloudy with a few showers earlier. 13.8°C

[matt111]

Didn't get anything from that rain this afternoon so it was a dry afternoon once the showers cleared earlier on. Reached 14.9°C, currently 11.3°C

[CheesepuffScott]

Reached 14.1°C today.

[CheesepuffScott]

Lowest temperature of the night was 6.2°C at: 23:37... 6.7°C at midnight, and it has risen through the night.

Damp and dull this morning with an increasing breeze, currently 12.2°C

[Dorsetbred]

Morning All, a breezy start to the day after an overnight low of 7.3°C at: 00:39 before the cloud started to roll in and the temps started to rise, currently 14.0°C, RH84%, and a moderate breeze in from SW/SSW, waiting for the possible interest in conditions later...

Surprisingly nobody in the water, although a few down at Bournemouth pier..

Edited October 24, 2020 by Dorsetbred

[Dorsetbred]

Looking to my west the radar suggests three possible areas of interest over the next few hours, all heading this way and will gap as they reach me, but potential exists...

 

[lettice]

Was expecting a windy day today from the forecasts.
So far SW wind is only 6-8 mph with 12-16mph gusts.

Now dry, 14.2c, 1005.2 hPa

[Dorsetbred]

Well as expected the first two areas of interest have split as they approach..

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by Dorsetbred

[Mapantz]

A couple of mm's of rain from showers here. Temp 14.4°C

Whilst it is breezy, winds are not as high as the current forecast. 

Quite a few times this year, wind speed forecasts have been poor.

[Mapantz]

A little more respectable now...

[matt111]

Increasingly windy with light rain on and off so far. Awaiting the arrival of the heavier rain later on this afternoon. 14.8°C

[ARTDEMOLE]

Breezy 16 mph. Rain light 14.2 c Humidity 95%

[Andy Bown]

We managed a blustery damp hour at Nunney Castle this morning. Rather glad we’re not there now with a squall line sweeping through! 

[Dorsetbred]

Nice line just passed through some gusty winds and lots of rain....nice

 

[Mapantz]

A lot of rain here in the last 90 mins. Piddling down at the moment.

Was 4.6mm at 4pm. 21.4mm at 6pm.

Edited October 24, 2020 by Mapantz

[Frosty hollows]

Chucking it down here now, but have so far avoided the squalls 

[matt111]

Wet and windy for most of the afternoon with heavy rain at times, the heaviest of which was just now rather than when the squall line passed over earlier. Reached 15.4°C, currently 11.9°C

[Lyn-M]

Wet, wet and more wet!  No other way to describe today and it's still at it out there now.  I haven't ventured to the gauge since this morning's reading which was 3.7mm.  Just hope that it doesn't overflow before 09.00 tomorrow!

[Frosty hollows]

Mere 10mm here. Sounded like so much more 

[DaveL]

Well my monthly rainfall records are only reliable back to February 2014 but they have all been broken following yesterday's (Saturday) 17.0 mm. This month to date it is 170.6 mm, and counting.

Highest months are now:

Oct 2020 170.6 to date (190% of long term average).
Jan 2016 162.0
Feb 2020 154.3
Dec 2018 150.5.

Squelch.

Edited October 25, 2020 by DaveL

[lettice]

Forecasts were very wrong for here yesterday. They all had strong winds with 35-43mph gusts and a lot more rain than we had. 
Wind was only 8-13mph through the day with 15-20mph gusts and a few 22-25mph gusts between 5pm to 8pm
A spell of showery rain from 5pm to 10pm, gave 8.9mm, rest of the day was dry.
Mid afternoon temp was at 16.8c

Was still 12.4c at 5am, temp then dropped to 9.8c at 6:30am.

At 6:00am we had some heavy hail and rain showers, 8.6mm from that spell.
At 6:45am we had a few loud thunderclaps and lightning. 
Turned to light drizzle now and brightening up nicely.
Now 10.4c, 996.5 hPa, SW wind 6-8mph. 

[jtay]

Bit of a contrast this morning...

Off to Porlock Weir for a few days. Wet weather gear is packed.

[Lyn-M]

Surprised to find only 17.3mm in the gauge this morning, as Frosty hollows has commented, it sounded like much more!

Enjoy Porlock Weir, jtay.  Love that area, not been for a while.

[jtay]

18 minutes ago, Lyn-M said:

Surprised to find only 17.3mm in the gauge this morning, as Frosty hollows has commented, it sounded like much more!

Enjoy Porlock Weir, jtay.  Love that area, not been for a while.

Thank you. 

Nice bit of mammatus on the back edge of that shower.