SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on

[Justin1705]

 Lauren saves paying for it

[Freeze]

Much better today, it may be chilly, but I'd much rather have sunshine and showers over prolonged rain and cloud all day, great cloudscapes too!

[Methuselah]

It's thunderplumping! 

[Vortex3929]

After the ghastly morning we had, it doesn't actually look that bad out there now. Some sunshine about.

[Dami]

it be hailing.

[Snowangel-MK]

Happy 1st March - I’m giving it 3/3 that’s for hail, sleet & grauple - more than February delivered but feeling ready for some warm  spring sunshine now ! 

[Harry's House]

Hail then a little sleet in the precipitation.

[Challock Weather]

 Harry's House Yes just hit here - quite an intense line wasn't it. 

[Blessed Weather]

Regional stats for February 2024 just posted over in the Records & Stats thread. All in all a remarkable month with records tumbling.

 

[Neilsouth]

Hailstorm has just gone through here!  

[Challock Weather]

 Neilsouth Ashford area has seen some serious rainfall this evening. Seems to intensify as it approaches us on the radar 

[Badgers01]

Just woken up by thunder and lightning in Surrey was not expecting that!

[Bazza118]

Came down to south wales yesterday. Rained during the night but woke up to 5cm of snow. Winter has arrived

Still snowing 

[Bogman]

Now snaaw, no sleet, just rain, rain and more rain.

[Emz by the Thames]

Bucks Council has issued a weather warning for London and the South East for snow....when there isn't one. And now the local and parish councils and doctor's surgeries have spread the non existent weather warning.

They have even put up a non-existent Meto link.

Truly bizarre!

Edited March 2 by Emz by the Thames

[ChillyJuju]

Today's Low Temp

1.6°C  at    0:18

That temperature was before the Barometer sunk it's reading and it began raining at 2:00am when it raised its warmth to a measley 3c.

These are the readings right now. The Barometer is on its way back up and the current weather is broken clouds with sunshine

 

Temperature
5.3°C

Humidity
90%

Dewpoint
3.8°C

Wind Chill
4.6°C

Wind
SSE

Barometer
990.2 hPa & Rising Slowly

Today's Rain
8.4 mm

 

[Shaunado]

A day of being sunny one minute and a heavy shower the next! One of the showers had a slightly sleety touch to it, and another had some small hail.

[lassie23]

They are still on snow watch in the MOD thread

[alexisj9]

 lassie23 lol when are they not.

[lassie23]

 alexisj9 i think the cutoff point is 25th June

[ChillyJuju]

Broken cloudy night skies with a lovely bright half Moon rising

Temperature 
-2.7°C

Humidity
94%

Dewpoint
-3.5°C

Wind Chill
-2.7°C

Wind
SW

[lassie23]

 ChillyJuju what about your wetbulb was it drier or wetter than normal

[Freeze]

Cold, frosty, sunny start at 0c

[SunSean]

Essex missing out on any sunshine once again. This weather pattern, since I first became more interested in weather almost a decade ago, is the most testing, unrelenting & depressing I have ever experienced. If it isn't raining, it's overcast or both & any sunny spells are gone in a flash. The last fully sunny day in my area was January 26th. Utterly pathetic. There were sunny spells forecast today, which although nothing special, would have been a break from the never-ending gloom but even that did not come to fruition & we have been cursed with all day rubbish again. I know the day isn't over yet but the cloud satellite shows a constant unbreakable stream of crap flowing up through my area. My only option now really is to take a chunk out of my savings & escape abroad for a few days because sunshine in Essex is seemingly an exceptionally rare occurrence these days & for a sun lover like myself, it's nothing short of torture! Apologies for the rant but my patience to experience sunshine again is far beyond the point of broken!

[minus10]

Incredible...wettest February since records started in 1856 here in the south according to the met..

..also much warmer than average more broadly..

...my own very untechnical rain guage recorded 120mm rain for February or 110mm upto 28th as this year is a leap...well over twice the average for this area..and another 22mm so far for March..

..weidly woke up to a frost and mist this morning ....

...ground is so saturated though...as others have said desperately need period of dry weather...with some sun would be nice...as a gardener sodden ground makes usually enjoyable work very challenging...

..am i hopefull?..well a good start would be to see elimination of those rain spikes on the model runs...

....mmm...oh well there is another SSW on the way apparently...

...interestingly the latest ecm zonal wind chart keeps winds reversed from about 5th to 29th of this month...maybe enough time to promote some blocking that will enable drier weather to take hold...lets hope so, particularly for gardeners and growers..