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  1. Andy Bown
    20mm of rain today, the last 4 Saturdays have provided a combined 51mm! Much fresher this evening and dropping off at 14.4c so likely to be pretty autumnal in the morning before the return of heat from the South.
  2. Andy Bown
    It looks showery tonight, heavier further West then turning lighter further East. Amazing that the weather is set to repeat the changeable Friday, wet Saturday, iffy Sunday then increasingly warm/fine from Monday until the end of next week! The last 3 Saturdays have been 1. very showery, 2. very thundery and 3. very wet and it seems set to become the 4th in a row this week.
  3. Andy Bown
    A ridiculous minimum of 19.1c! I was out working in Trowbridge and there was a surprise convective style sharp shower at about 11.00, I can only assume it came from the unstable mid level cloud which was visible through the Stratocumulus. Sunshine among Stratocumulus this afternoon, 23.9c .
  4. Andy Bown
    It was a howler, seems the fronts got a move on by turning up yesterday afternoon rather than overnight and therefore cleared through earlier today allowing a far better than anticipated outcome. Temperature approaching 23c with sunshine becoming more prevalent.
  5. Andy Bown
    It's a bit like a winter snow chase event tonight, front from the Atlantic stalling against rising pressure from the East. Having seen Countryfile the much vaunted hot sunny period seems limited to 6 or 7 hours on Wednesday afternoon after a damp Monday, dull Tuesday into Wednesday then showery fronts arriving Thursday/Friday.
  6. Andy Bown
    Today has been the wettest day since 1st August and the coolest since 29th June. A little surprised to see a wet forecast for Monday. I had lost track of forecasts for a few days and thought we would be done with rain for the foreseeable future after tonight.
  7. Andy Bown
    I would say that given the elevated nature of the storms as well as experience witnessing them myself on Saturday that the majority of those approx 22,000 strikes were CC and IC lightning with a measure of CGs thrown in of which you witnessed some. There were definitely some CGs in my area too, you can tell by the thunder alone during daytime, but my goodness night-time would have been far better! Had we had approx 22,000 CGs I think there would be some quite obvious evidence!
  8. Andy Bown
    Wow, thank you to Matt Hugo for using this in his Net Weather article today
  9. Andy Bown
    Wow, thank you to Matt Hugo for using this in his Net Weather article today.
  10. Andy Bown
    I am at football in Westbury and listening to it. Must be in the outflow from earlier aided by uplift over Salisbury Plain. I wonder how long they can keep forming in that trailing line.
  11. Andy Bown
    Comparing the lightning strikes, radar and viewing / listening from Westbury one very impressive feature is the amount of lightning in between the main cells, presumably from adjoining anvils. i have really enjoyed it but would love it to have been at night. Wouldn't have known which direction to look!
  12. Andy Bown
    Stood in Westbury watching a beauty of a storm cluster moving NNE over the West Wiltshire area. Constant angry thunder for over half an hour and lots of IC lightning. This would have been exceptional at night.
  13. Andy Bown
    It would be fantastic at night time!
  14. Andy Bown
    6 drops of rain on the patio earlier and now clearing up as the band forms further North, so it seems we're set for a bright, muggy day.
  15. Andy Bown
    Very possible given convection from the South is often from mid level cloud which will allow plenty of opportunity for hazy sun/brightness in between the rain and even when it's raining as happened here just yesterday evening and again right now.
  16. Andy Bown
    LOL If there isn't a storm in my immediate area between now and midday Saturday I will be amazed.
  17. Andy Bown
    If they are elevated they should survive electrically, best potential for spectacular lightning in that scenario but possibly little rain reaching the ground.
  18. Andy Bown
    Looks like Tuesday to me with drier, clearer air arriving tomorrow night into Tuesday before it turns hazier on 2 counts during Wednesday due to the usual SE haze and frontal cloud from the W. Wednesday night and Thursday look potentially fascinating.
  19. Andy Bown
    Absolutely shocking morning, it's been raining (sometimes very heavily) for over 6 hours and shows no sign of letting up any time soon! Yesterday and Friday were considerably better which is ironic as today was widely touted (and still is) as the best of the 3 days! Until Friday the monthly total was 20mm which all fell on the 1st/early on 2nd, I had only 4mm in the gauge yesterday morning but looking out of the window at the gauge it is approaching the 20mm mark in the last 24 hours.
  20. Andy Bown
    Hi Ian, I read the news re Meteogroup around the same time as your Points West broadcast yesterday evening. Will you still be doing Points West regularly? I sincerely hope so. Thank you.
  21. Andy Bown
    A very Mediterranean style day after a surprisingly cool start, repeat performance tomorrow too. Ian Fergusson made mention of lightning potential Wednesday night, with a Warm Front lifting Northwards it does seem the sort of set up that could produce elevated lightning shows.
  22. Andy Bown
    You've had wall to wall cloud? Amazingly different here with unbroken very warm sunshine since mid morning!
  23. Andy Bown
    Hi everyone, well the rather dry summer continues with the only notable rainfall event in recent weeks being 20mm on Monday 1st August. A really fine week this week with plenty of sunshine and comfortably warm at around 21c maxxes. I am now a daddy and it is wonderful! We had something of a rocky ride with both my wife and my boy suffering infections at birth, but we got home last Friday after a 9 night stay at Bath RUH and all is good now!
  24. Andy Bown
    Pretty much dry from now on, maybe a slight shower.
  25. Andy Bown
    That looks like a plane contrail. Stratocumulus, warm brightness, humid, calm, 19.7c, ants in the lounge and baby still inside the wife!
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