Andy Bown
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Stunning day allowing 6 loads of washing to be dried, but more like early Autumn or mid Spring than high summer.
9.2c minimum was the lowest since 4th June then the maximum of 21.8c was the highest for over a fortnight!
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I thought my first ever sub 15c August max was on the cards as it hadn't got above 14.7c at 16.00 but it's now bright, increasingly sunny and above 16c!
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2 hours ago, MP-R said:
Haven't done too badly here considering, staying dry all day after overnight showers. Still, pretty rubbish for the time of year. Tomorrow looks worse.
Yes it has been surprisingly decent considering the forecast. It started off dull, wet and cool but a slow clearance led to a pleasant afternoon with hazy sunshine and lots of spectacular convection all round. Mind you seeing my weather station reading 14.9c on August 8th at midday was really depressing.
Tomorrow could be woeful though.
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Today has been the first dry day for 12 days! Not sure when the next dry day will be!! Countryfile forecast suggests Thursday, my brain says the LOW will remain too close.
The complete opposite of earlier in the summer and spring when the wet days were the oddities.
A quirky stat ; my last 4 maxima have been 20.5c, 20.6c, 20.7c then 20.8c today!
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A few sharp showers this morning otherwise stunning views of CBs to the W/S around lunchtime then to the N/E all afternoon, but it remained warm and mostly sunny pretty much all day.
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I said last night that I expected the better weekend to downgrade to continue unsettled and sure enough tomorrow now has more showers forecast than looked likely 24 hours ago, Saturday seems likely to bring some heavy showers and even Sunday isn't likely to be dry! Then lo and behold the next LOW turns up into Monday!!
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1 hour ago, Azazel said:
Grimmest summer day I can remember for many years here
I was thinking it is without doubt the worst day this summer, not even a hint of brightness throughout and non stop rain varying from invizdriz to full on torrential downpour and everything in between! As if to make matters complete it is now blowing a gale!
I do wonder where this will end!? Better looking days keep downgrading to showery days as they approach, I expect the weekend to do likewise.
A remarkable turn around from what was a pretty good summer until the thundery night 2 weeks ago.
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3 hours ago, Mapantz said:
Quite a deluge here, 16.8mm. The charts have significantly downgraded rainfall totals on the latest runs. The MetO last night, showed heavy rain until midnight, that has now changed, and its supposed to have cleared through by 3pm. That's a 9 hour difference within 12 hours of the forecast.
They may want to revise that looking at what's heading NE in the English Channel, looks similar to this morning at first glance.
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Tuesday looks set to be the warmest day of the week for the 3rd consecutive week, we managed 21.6c in a prolonged bright/sunny period between 13.00-17.00 which was bookended by heavy downpours.
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Tomorrow's forecast has gradually downgraded since Saturday from a dry/sunny day to scattered showers and now it's predicted to have widespread heavy showers!
As for today, largely similar to yesterday with plenty of sunshine and a streamer of showers moving a few miles NW/N of Warminster for much of the afternoon.
I do just wonder if tomorrow will actually end up similar again.
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37 minutes ago, mac_ said:
Good storm here at the moment, a repeat of yesterday. Unusual for N Ireland
Is it that unusual? When we were there for 5 days in August 2014 there was thunder on 3 days. Must be a similar set up.
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A 90% fine day with plenty of sunshine while the apparently named 'brown willy effect' streamer has been passing a few miles to the North throughout the afternoon and ongoing now. We did catch a half hour downpour from a broader part of the streamer which deposited 6mm a few hours ago and similar could happen soon.
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I've never heard that 'brown willy effect' term either but it is a very frequent occurence to have wind convergence producing a shower streamer from mid Cornwall all the way to the North London area.
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Warming up nicely this morning, err I mean night, from 15.6c an hour ago to 17.2c now!!
Knocker, thanks for your earlier comments, you are totally right.
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Ideal summer afternoon for my boy's first birthday ; dull, windy, drizzle and sharp showers!
Our lovely garden is wet and unoccupied and instead we have a lounge full of people!
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A proper sunshine and showers day today, warm and bright enough between showers to dry washing but 3mm accumulated along the way.
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Sat enjoying a very warm, clear evening in the garden I decide to have a glance through the apps, I know this one is prone to inaccuracy and only picks one weather type per day, but blimey (!!) this could be the last evening out here for a while!!
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On 24/07/2017 at 08:39, Windblade said:
Hearing details of the damage in Cornwall from last weeks storms sounded suspiciously like tornado damage to me. Shame it was at night as there wont be many/any pictures of it to see if this was infact caused by a tornado.
So far as I can remember the damage in Cornwall was caused by torrential afternoon storms which remained and continually developed over the same location (Coverack) for several hours. Nothing of a tornadic nature had any mention.
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Today has been bookended by very gloomy conditions, this morning due to residual frontal cloud and this evening due to showers * .
In between summer made a very warm return with the max being 24.3c .
* anyone have any idea why a shower streamer has formed from roughly Thornbury - Bath - Frome?
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Mike and Steve, thinking along similar lines here although it was pretty wet from midday to 4pm yesterday.
Thank goodness it's been a generally good summer until Friday because this looks set to be the 3rd woeful day in a row.
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Somehow all areas of red on the radar managed to completely dodge my postcode, whether to the West or East, still got 20mm though.
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Sure there is rotation, rain now blowing on the back windows a few minutes after blowing on the front windows.
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I truly hope Ben and Tom Dewey are watching this.
The energy transference through these cells is amazing. Pink cores decaying then reforming and with them the direction of stunning lightning changes from S to E to W.
Some remarkable long rolls of thunder travelling through the sky and also seeing anvil crawlers from the cells Glastonbury way.
Properly reignited over Warminster as of 03.30 with the heaviest rain so far.
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It's happened within 15 minutes, pink core reignited further West so it could pass overhead again.
South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/17 onwards
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A very changeable day with warm sunshine early on and early to mid afternoon plus mostly clear sky at present, all sandwiched by 2 decaying fronts mid to late morning and late afternoon which have given negligible drizzle/light rain.