Wales/Cymru Regional Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[keithlucky]

Still forecasted heavy thundery showers over the next few days forecasted.So further temporary snow cover possible as dewpoints are driven down in heavier bursts overnight.

[Marcus_surfer]

Another shot from last nights heavy snow

[Marcus_surfer]

 

Here's a video of around midnight last night. You can see just how heavy it came down totalling around 2 inches in just under 40 minutes 

[Bartlett High]

Heading straight for us!

[andymusic]

 Bartlett High yep got caught in that on the way home late from Milford Haven last night - lots of flooding about - so the water table is quite high now - doesn't take much for floods to occur at the moment

[DeepSnow]

Currently having a heavy shower. Having looked at the met office, the average annual rainfall at St Athen by me is 1043mm and I've already recorded 594mm in the first quarter of the year. Could do with getting a few weeks of warm dry weather to help dry the ground out a bit, as im sure many areas need!

[Snowyowl9]

Weird weather lately...

It did snow last week but nothing of note...but we ve had 2 impressive hailstorms one last week which ended on some snow then an overhead crack of thunder...Following day 2 rumbles of thunder to the east..

And today very loud hailstorm big hailstones which hurt and impressive clouds and another overhead rumble of thunder nice...Ground is still extremely wet..after the very long wet spell since last july..

Edited April 1 by Snowyowl9

[Wetterfrosch]

What is wrong with the MetO computer? Over the last few weeks their numerical output has on several occasions been coming up with some astonishing wind speeds that luckily never materialized. The latest corker projects 86 mph gusts this coming Saturday for Penygroes less than 2 miles away. For the same time the BBC reaches 48 mph and NW model 56 mph, both are plausible looking at the corresponding fax chart, but 86mph??? Also notable has been the frequent drastic up and down of wind speed from update to update. Is the poor computer suffering from dengue fever??? Having a less than perfect roof I could do without such an excitable machine!!

 

[wimblettben]

 Wetterfrosch 86mph!!!! I do hope not.

Our worst winds last winter peaked at just 57mph and that already caused some downed tress and power outages.

[Wetterfrosch]

The plot thickens! While the laptop version now offers me 96 mph, the same page on my smart phone 'only' tops at 60 mph at exactly the same time. All wind values are much lower there while everything else is absolutely the same. Therefore it must be a technical issue (or are Russian hackers are at work?) which explains the volatility of the laptop version.

Mobile phone:

Laptop:

 

Edited April 2 by Wetterfrosch

[Wetterfrosch]

Now who's a wally?Turns out that my extraordinary wind speeds are actually in km/h which took some coincident to reveal itself. Why didn't i think of that before? No idea when or how the units got changed and now i feel so embarrassed to appear so brain dead. Anyway, i still don't look forward to even the 60 mph gusts still consistently forecast for Saturday.

[Crepuscular Ray]

60 mph is quite bad enough! 

Mixing units can happen to anyone. According to one report released after an investigation, one of the joint NASA/ESA Mars landers crashed because NASA was using metric measurements while ESA had decided to use imperial. 
 

On a more local note, at least the week of drier weather gave me a chance to strim the top off of most of the lawn. There’s no way I could have used the mower on it, though. I’d just have just ripped the grass out by its bedraggled roots. 

[Marcus_surfer]

We got to 50mph last here with the lashing rain it was quite a stormy night. More wind and rain to come.

[CLH]

10th Anniversary of (cyling) Battle on the Beach at Pembrey tomorrow.

I've done probably 7 of them? Obviously none during Covid.

I can recall one event being damp, but most of them being glorious and, remarkably, with an easterly (we travel NE up the beach then into the singletrack) and repeat.

And, being on the beach/forest, it's always dry.

For tomorrow's race the route has changed because the forest is largely flooded, which is pretty unprecedented even in the depths of winter. And it looks like we face a 49mph gusting SW'erly. Not in your face but enough to really make it a bit grindy!

 

[snefnug]

Will this rain never end?  Hopes of being in sodden garden dashed yesterday as more sodd’ng rain tipped down.  Wettest of wet dog walks too.  Bah humbug!

Edited April 8 by snefnug

[CLH]

Update on my race as a barometer of where we are.

I've never seen Pembrey like it. We crossed about 3 rivers which are not rivers, just hollows. Knee deep. Deep mud in places. Just awful. And did 4km (twice) along the beach into 50mph crosswinds (awful).

We always get caught up in anecdote over statistics. But I think all our anecdotes this year are spot in. Just the worst.

 

[andymusic]

 snefnug signs of some slighty warmer weather except for a couple of days next week but also dryer weather in the medium to longer term - hopefully!

[snefnug]

 andymusic currently warmer for sure,  but either continuous  mizzle or rain and more cloud , mizzle rain in forecast.  Hey ho!

[Marcus_surfer]

Fog, mist and drizzle sums up the day after heavy rain earlier. Like something out of a horror movie this weather is

[ANYWEATHER]

 Marcus_surfer looks like you’ve got the milder airmass moving , hence the advection fog ….

[Marcus_surfer]

 ANYWEATHER oh yes always the same, up to 11.8C now was 9c earlier.

[Crepuscular Ray]

Just ceaseless drizzle here, and my running rainfall total for the year has just passed a metre. 

[andymusic]

 Crepuscular Ray Looking like a much better "dry" day tomorrow though but like I said cooler into the beginning of next week

[Crepuscular Ray]

 andymusic I do hope so. It’s time to get out in the garden.

[andymusic]

medium term forecasters seem convinced that April will end with a cold blast and so does the gfs for about a week