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35 minutes ago, Norfolk Sheep said:
I'm interested to hear from anyone in the St Ives - Swavesey - Fen Drayton area - they've literally been under it since about 10am this morning and it shows no signs of letting up.
My youngest son lives in Huntingdon and my wife spoke to him mid afternoon. He told her that it had been raining all day. That's about 10 miles from Swavesey and St. Ives but a bit less from Fen Drayton
Kind Regards
Dave
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5 minutes ago, exodus said:
Just checked and had 40m rain in one hour this morning
God that incredible. Its about 150 feet.
On you on a boat?
Kind Regards
Dave
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30 minutes ago, Dbarb said:
Looks like the Essex desert is going to remain a desert for the time being
Didn't have time to update my whinge earlier this morning, but the mid Essex Desert did enjoy a relief of sorts a little while after I posted. It did dry up again quickly though. My next door neighbour was none to pleased with me as he was laying a concrete base and I told him it would not rain. Luckily he had a tarpaulin at the ready before too much damage occurred, I just hope we are still on speaking terms,
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Good Morning folks
Our rain shield has been been broken at last. We had two minutes of large raindrops falling moderately heavily. That is probably it for the next month in the mid Essex Desert. Still storm starved.
Kind Regards
Dave
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2 hours ago, Mark wheeler said:
Is something about to kick off off the coast of Brighton ?
1 hour ago, Steve Murr said:The Brighton echo was anaprops...
When I read your comments Steve I thought at first you were being insulting to the local newspaper for the area.
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The storm and rain shield of the mid Essex desert continues. We have had almost unbroken sunshine all day. At last there is now a pleasant breeze, Earlier it had been terribly humid and unpleasant. What chances for storms tonight/tomorrow? The same as other times I guess zero- although Essex Live which is about as accurate as the Daily Excess has us down with a 72% chance of storms tomorrow. I certainly wouldn't bet my shirt on it happening.
Up to the allotment shortly for my daily watering.
Kind Regards
Dave
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59 minutes ago, Daniel* said:
Other poor souls actually have AC built in their homes. Mate no one in London is enjoying this well some may be but it’s horrible in capital without AC to 12th in central average maximum is 30C and average low is 17.4C my average low in Rotherhithe is 18C. The mean is over 5C above average simply outrageous, we haven’t seen similar anomalies since extreme December 2015 and that was unprecedented but second half of August likely to be much cooler so expect the anomaly to lessen somewhat still bound to be notably warm.
My middle son is a "self employed" electrician which means he has to get work where he can. In the construction industry you generally do not have a choice to being self employed. That work companies do not have to pay holiday or sick pay or redundancy, although operatives often work for the same firm for years, He even has to pay £20 a week to a payroll company to process his wages from his net salary.
He is currently working in a new development in Canary Wharf. The company is Chinese and the project is the construction of luxury flats. He is working on one of the top floors, the 50th I believe he told me when I saw him the other day. Due to the height of the building it is designed so that none of the upper stories windows are openable, there is much glazing and blinds/curtains have yet to be installed. Also the air conditioning is to be commissioned and therefore unavailable,
I don't envy him working in such conditions, but the way things are these days he has to tell himself that he is fortunate to have a job.
Kind Regards
Dave
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2 hours ago, GeordieX9v said:
Rather sharp shower east of Chelmsford
How far east? I am about 2 miles northeast of Chelmo and have seen nought. Been sunny most of the morning.
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30 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:
Nope just a little bit of larger convective rain drops then a steady rainfall which the sand (arid desert) garden looks like it enjoyed
So about 10 mins of steady rainfall and skies are now clearing from the SE for the Oven to go back upto around 200c for 7 hours
You are very lucky Paul.
We have not even had one drop of rain. I raise your Sahara with my Chilean coastal desert!
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1 hour ago, moogyboobles said:
I'm a fan of The Old Windmill in South Hanningfield, I have missed my lunches there so much! Can't wait to go back (I'm still staying home).
Watching those storms over North Wales is making me quite jealous. I sometimes go to a music festival in Portmeirion and what I would give to watch a storm over the bay there. It would be stunning.
We have been there a few times and indeed it is good there.
@Paul1968 i said it was a light lunch- a beef burger and chips from the small outbuilding in the front garden. Adequate but hardly too challenging to get wrong. I have heard from friends though that the restaurant is expensive .
On topic the wind has increased here and it is now a lot less oppressive. As soon as it cools down further I will do my nightly trip up to allotment the other side of Chelmsford to water. A right chore. Hopefully we will have some rain soon. The clay soil is hard and if it is heavy rain it will just run off and not soak in. Light rain over several hours is much more useful
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Kind Regards
Dave
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48 minutes ago, Paul1968 said:
Just 30 deg here but quite uncomfortable due to 61% humidity,no sign of any storms though today and that counts for tomorrow as well sadly
Just got back to Chelmo from Hullbridge, The temperature higher her but as it was so humid at Hullbridge it felt just as uncomfortable.
Had a very pleasant light lunch and drink at The anchor & sought a bit of shade in the nearby nature reserve.
Kind Regards
Dave
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7 hours ago, alexisj9 said:
Just sat outside trying to cool down, inside is boiling, and I saw another shooting star, so that's one three night in a row now.
Hi there.
you need to be very careful if your inside is boiling!
Hot and cloudy here in Chelmsford. @Mark wheeler it looks very tempting to travel to somewhere cooler. Enjoy your holiday
Kind Regards
Dave
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1 hour ago, Froze were the Days said:
That's lush!...I posted my front lawn yesterday on the Summer Ramps and Moans thread, decidedly browner.
That is because we live in the Essex Rivera, with average annual rainfall totals less than that of Tel Aviv. With our annual rainfall are unofficial desert areas.
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24 minutes ago, h2005__uk__ said:
Chelmsford (Writtle) and Andrewsfield reached 35.1C and 32.4C respectively today, meaning mid-Essex has now reached 30C after failing to do so during the heat at the end of June. The last year where 30C wasn't reached at either of these stations was 2009.
My own personal station just north of Chelmsford recorded 32.6C.
Yes got very hot and humid here in North Springfield. Is the station at the Writtle College? I used to have to visit on occasions of freak weather impacting on County Council buildings when I worked for ECC Property Services Department to inform reports I had to produce to submit to Committee.
Did you see the beautiful sunset this evening. Truly spectacular.
Kind Regards
Dave
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11 minutes ago, Mark wheeler said:
I just posted to say I predict it’s going to be a stinking ecm tonight , you can all blame me when it goes T up later
Hello Mark
I trust you and family are well.
Did you mean "stinking" as in sweating perspiration without using deodorant, or a terrible ecm for those liking summery weather.
Or more likely did you mean "stonking" and it was a typo.
Kind Regards
Dave
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15 hours ago, essexweather said:
Certainly some impressive gusts today. Highest here was 42mph just before 4PM.
Perhaps that was one and the same that blew our grandson's cake along with his plate onto the ground!
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10 hours ago, thunderpants said:
That light band of rain passed through without delivering a drop here, although showing on the radar it must have evaporated before reaching the ground, and lets hope it's not windy for Dave later.
Hello Thunderpants.
It was mostly sunny but it certainly was a tad breezy.We were using a bench in the field to stand the cake on but attempting to light the candles with 5 & 0 on them proved an impossibility.
At one point after the cake was cut and 3 year old Arthur's plate was on the bench and a fierce gust blew plate and cake onto the ground. Apart from the mishaps we had a very enjoyable time.
At least it will be memorable for us in the years to come.
Looking at the next couple of days it would appear it will be mainly dry and that dreadful wind will die down.
We could do with some overnight rain and the garden and allotment could do with rainwater rather than from the tap, The wind and sun has made everything so dry and little precipitation recently.
Kind Regards
Dave
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2 hours ago, Blessed Weather said:
Hearty congratulations to you and your wife Dave.
The Met Office Fax charts show a couple of cold fronts coming through around noon on Sunday. But looking at precip forecasts from 3 models the rainfall will be very patchy and light. Timing is the issue, with Arpege showing very little rain and coming through early Sunday, whilst GFS says more widespread and hitting Essex at 11.00 and NMM going for 12.00. But the good news is that all three have the rain cleared through Essex by 15.00 Sunday afternoon. I hope the sun comes out for you.
Arpege 09:
Many thanks for your good wishes and information re Sunday. I will toast to you as we bask in the sun.
Kind Regards
Dave
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Tomorrow will be our Golden Wedding Anniversary- American Independence Day- the day I lost mine,
With things as they are and with my wife having a heart condition celebrations on the day are on hold as we do not fancy the risk with mixing with too many people when the big unlock-down commences tomorrow.
Instead we are meeting our eldest son, middle son, his wife and 3 year old Arthur in a field a 10 minute walk from our house on Sunday. It would have been on the "big day" but our middle son is a self employed electrician working in London and needs the money for 2 reasons- he was unable to work for over 3 months with the lockdown and secondly his wife is Filipino and going through the long protracted process of obtaining British Citizenship. This requires proof that his annual income exceeds a certain figure to ensure he is able to support her. The irony is the threshold is considerably above the minimum wage.
We had suggested that they came to our house and sat in the garden, but our son is concerned that in spite of the precautions he has taken travelling to an from work and in his workplace he may have picked up the virus without showing any symptoms and he could unintentionally pass it on to my wife, He is happy with the field as we can social distance far easier there.
My concern is what the weather will be like here on Sunday afternoon. The BBC forecast this morning was not very helpful and didn't give any detail re the progress of the front coming in from the west.
Will we be OK or should we expect a very soggy celebratory cake?
Kind Regards
Dave
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10 hours ago, Bradowl said:
I was 12, it was only sleet down here but I recall some cricket getting abandoned because of Snow, I think it might have been at Buxton.
And at Colchester too. Friends of ours that week went on holiday to Wales for a fortnight. It was very cold & they wore their coats and jumpers. We all know what happened the following days and for the rest of the summer.
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14 hours ago, mark4 said:
Here in Chelmsford Essex we got nothing, so hit and miss.
Indeed Mark.
We could really do with some steady rain for a few hours preferably at night. I have an allotment off Avon Road and the ground is rock hard and bone dry which means having to water it every day. It's also a frost hollow and we suffer damage to crops when other parts of Chelmo don't.
Looking at next week's charts on the Model thread it looks as if we are going to have more of the same as far as no rain is concerned.
Kind Regards
Dave
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59 minutes ago, Mark wheeler said:
Lovely weather today , quite a breeze but that was not a nuisance here , looking forward to the weather for the next few weeks and watching the computer models coming out has been quite exciting too .
Hello Mark.
I trust you and family are well. Are you still working as I have noticed you posting on here more than usual.
The weather here has been glorious today in spite of the strong breeze. I am starting to wish it would rain at night as my allotment is bone dry and the ground (heavy clay) is hard as concrete.
Thursday might be the day when we get some storms. I have mixed feelings about that as one of my sons who lives with us (he has rented out his house to our middle son, wife and 2 year old temporarily) and I intend to walk along the canal between Chelmsford and Maldon (about 11 miles) but I don't fancy that in torrential rain.
Keep safe
Kind Regards
Dave
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10 hours ago, Wimbledon88 said:
You should never plant seedlings out till end of May mate. I got caught out badly about three years ago. Late May early June for me now.
Too true. My allotment is in a frost hollow and as I heard there might be frosts I decided to cover my potato leaves with grass cuttings held down by pieces of wood I found on a nearby disused allotment. Others didn't bother and when I went up to water the next day I noted all their potato plants leaves looked very limp and sorry for themselves. Luckily my plants were unaffected. To make sure yesterday I took some fleece up to my plot & placed this on my potatoes.
Will my friends on neighbouring plots' potato plants survive their frostbite?
Kind Regards
Dave
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Good afternoon everyone, I trust you are all well.
With everyday life on hold I have taken the opportunity to catch up with reading a lot of my old magazines that I didn't have time to previously.
Among my many interests is stamp collecting- after all philately gets you everywhere. Reading through the August 2019 edition of Stamp Collector I found an article that may be of interest to some of our more mature in years members of this forum.
During the 1930's there was a man who devoted himself to his fascination of thunderstorms. His name was Morris Bower and was from Huddersfield but was always known by his second name Morris.
He devised and had printed a postcard of which more than 10.000 in May 1933 were produced and it was part of a remarkable project involving a small array of voluntary observers totally about 1,000 in number worked for him including naval and military officers, MPs, country vicars, scientists and even shepherds. He wrote to newspapers and magazines asking for volunteers to provide a more widespread cover for reporting thunderstorms.
Morris and his wife collected the returned postcards and collated the information for what became known as the Thunderstorm Census Organisation. He produced annual reports from the information he gathered. They carried on gathering data until his death in 1982 aged 80.
Following his death his organisation became part of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation in 1984.
Did any posters on here send in these postcards to him? Perhaps @knocker or @johnholmes
South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion Sept 2019 onwards
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Posted · Edited by claret047
The camels have now left and the nomads have removed their tents form the arid land. The Mid Essex Desert is no more. Heavy rain from 10.00 pm for an hour or so with strange flashes in the sky, From memory I believe it might be called lightning.