Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[northwestsnow]

It's becoming beyond the joke now.

If this is anything to do with GW we are screwed...

[Had Worse]

Lashing the conservatory roof.

[WillinGlossop]

 Had Worse torrential rain and hail… back door mat floating ️️️️️ close Lightning ️ and loud thunder earlier…  shotgun thunder when I got up this morning too… so much hail today and cold in gusty winds… 

[tricol]

I'm calling it now. Rain at the weekend.

[Rain Lady]

What a crazy day - lightning earlier this eve in that belt of squally heavy rain which came through the northwest.   

During the day a mad mix up of hot sun (briefly) and icy machine gun hail and lashing rain.   Trees swaying in the spells of violent NW wind.

Collected 9.0 mm this morning at 9 GMT.  Current total for April is 107.6mm.

Spent last few days trying to make progress with outdoor work, but everywhere is just too saturated to manage.  Utterly disheartening.  At a simple level the sodden veg garden is covered with thick lush weedy grass grown well in the warmer temperatures.  There's no way anyone can even walk on it.

But I could weep for the fields.  Decades of work maintaining the network of tile drains and costing many thousands of pounds is now all for nothing.  The drains have been silted up in the heavy rain since the start of July last year and it is impossible to get machinery on the land to clear them without causing damage.   So now there is rush invasion taking over other species in the meadows. Even if the rain is suiddenly switched off it will be a very long time before the fields dry out and normal farming resumes.

I've been told that arable farmers are also having problems.  Seeds not yet in the soil.  Overwintering  crops ruined.

I fear for food supplies whether for humans and farm animals next winter.    Doubtful if places abroad can supply us reliably and cheaply when distrurbed weather patterns seem to be a worldwide problem.

 

 

 

 

 

[damianslaw]

A tempestuous day, squally downpours and downdraughts,  a pool of sub 528 dam air overhead, and consequently cold. Temps hovered between 5 and 8 degrees, fells retained a white coat above 650m.

 

Edited April 15 by damianslaw

[Jan]

Bit of a wild day today. Being an extreme weather freak I decided to drive down to view the River Mersey could barely open the car door with the wind, then I as I got back into the car to avoid a heavy hail shower, the door near took my leg off! I think we got to a high of 7-9c today but the wind made it feel much colder. Still wearing my anorak

[iand61]

 Rain Lady  aye it doesn’t matter which side of the GW debate you sit on, the conditions since early summer last year have been abysmal and we will all likely feel the effects in terms of substandard foods at higher prices.

if this turns out to have been a freak event and conditions settle down into a lengthy period of good weather then some sort of normality will return and GW will suddenly become a positive thing but months of continuing wet weather has certainly played havoc with all aspects of life and I really feel for anyone trying to make a living in these conditions.

Thankfully the dire conditions of yesterday should improve into something drier over the next few days with that rarest of beast, a high pressure system looking to set up shop around this part of the world but to me it looks like a drier but largely cloudy affair and, given the need for sunshine at this time of year, suppressed temperatures.

I certainly cannot see us reaching for the sun cream and dusting the BBQ off anytime soon.

[Rush2019]

It's DRY for now.  Blue sky earlier with tangerine coloured clouds.  7°C and those strong gusts have abated.

[A Face like Thunder]

We seem to have missed the worst of the weather yesterday evening, still bits and pieces of rain in a gusty wind but nothing like further north and east in the Region. A better start today (not saying much), although we had a light shower an hour ago and still partly cloudy. Hopefully the forecast improvement will continue.

[Rain Lady]

A little hail shower half an hout ago.  Looks like more to come as there's dark clouds to north.

9.3mm for the last 24hrs   expected more.     116.9mm for April so far.  That's 668.3mm now for this year.

[Scorcher]

More rain- horrendous and much worse than forecast. Sunshine this morning but it was all too good to be true.

It really is beyond a joke.

[Frigid]

Temperatures at Rostherne showing 14C .. a measly 8C at Manchester Airport. I'm guessing that's due to a localised shower, that seems to bring the temps down quite a bit. 

[Chris.R]

Yet Another strike south of Manchester. It's been a real hotspot this year.

[Chris.R]

Meanwhile here it's been a dry day with sunny intervals, quite nice. Still a bit windy. 11.3°C.

[Rain Lady]

Beefy shower streamer here now from north with powerful hail. 

[Rush2019]

Distant rumble heard from somewhere, no evidence of a strike on charts, edit.....radio is picking up something now.  Ominous cell nearby at Alderley Edge.  Was dry here till 1.15pm.

Definite thunder heard again.

[Chris.R]

 Rush2019 they appeared on Blitz for me

[Rush2019]

 Chris.R   Yes, thanks, I had a delay on blitz for some reason.  Heard 4 rumbles, edge of cell came into view, structure quickly fragmented. 

 

[gregior]

I'm right under this streamer,persistant heavy hail for over an hour now has left a very decent covering,plenty more to come too looking at the radar.

Edited April 16 by gregior

[Chris.R]

Dry and sunny

[tricol]

How, have they missed this much rain in the forecast? Absolutely throwing it down here and looks set to carry on all afternoon. Just been to Ashbourne for a meeting and it was really nice there until I was heading back through Leek. Almost biblical rainfall.

[Rush2019]

 tricol   I'm a stones throw away, had a bit of rain 1.15pm, been dry since.  Sat on the edge of this activity, can see your dark clouds to my south.

[tricol]

Yea, it's tracking right over us from the north. Temps really take a dive when these fronts arrive. Our garden is now 3/4 under water, it slowly grows after every heavy rainfall. We've ended up with a garden that we probably can't work on this year unfortunately.

[weatherobsuk]

To my East is blue skies, to the West is the ever imposing TCu showers making their way southwards across Cheshire. The Cat & Fiddle webcam has some good views across the plain with the rain-train in full steam.