Andy Bown

Rinse and repeat in Warminster, on the edge of a shower a few hours ago otherwise warm sunshine all afternoon with beautiful CBs to the W/NW/NE/, also too far away to hear thunder which is in the Wells area. Mapantz what is your June rainfall total now? After this mornings rain mine is still only 20.5mm!!

Well having had convective/thundery weather in all directions except overhead all week (admittedly heard rumbles to the SW Tuesday afternoon and 1 rumble early Wednesday pm) this morning has brought persistent rain/drizzle since 06.30 .

Great sky! Having reviewed the radar from the whole afternoon every cell that has approached Salisbury Plain from the NNW has dissipated while those further W have maintained or increased in intensity. Then once the associated clouds with dissipated cells exit the Palin they have been reinvigorating further S.

Yes however that line goes almost right through my location where not a drop has fallen since about 08.00 lol !!

Did you not get anything this morning? A shower developed near Westbury/Warminster around 07.00 and intensified/expanded as it drifted Southwards. Lovely at the moment with sunshine and a lot of TCu/AC, kind of wishing I had plumped to do some washing this morning but too late now with developments to the North.

Whoop, thunder a few minutes ago from a rapidly developed cell in between Warminster and Westbury.

I found those warnings quite odd in that they covered coastal areas, the most likely outcome was always a convergence zone inland where the varying wind directions met which indeed set up and gave a soaking afternoon for a comparatively narrow stretch of Dorset/Wiltshire/Hampshire. Only 11.5mm in Warminster this month thanks to being approximately 5 miles North of yesterday's downpours and looking ok so far today, although to be honest I would love a good downpour this afternoon to top up the water butts as plant watering has been necessary every day.

Scratch that, thunder to the South quite regularly in the last half an hour and really dark skies in that direction while it's still dry/bright/18.1c overhead. I would expect a lot of localised flooding towards Salisbury pretty soon.

Steve, you say that but there were a lot of showers forming along the Bristol Channel coast and moving inland this morning. As with Mapantz' location Warminster has dodged the worst again today, 5mm overnight/this morning but dry/bright since about 10.00 while a pretty active (though not thundery) streamer has been moving West-East several miles South, I am assuming it is a convergence line.

It's often said that no 2 days are the same but surprisingly yesterday and today are virtual carbon copies despite the fronts and LOW pressure ; showery rain/drizzle (but only 2.5mm each time) until around 09.00 followed by low cloud/hazy sunshine. A few sharp showers around midday then increasingly breezy and sunny by mid afternoon and pleasantly warm at just above 20c.

Wet and warm this morning, 16.1c with the first 'ground wetting' rain for 10 days.

Really surprised to get a text from a mate in Devizes telling me it was thundering there. I had no thought that something of the thundery variety would happen around here, hadn't checked the radar since late morning assuming all local weather was like at home (bright/hazy) today so went straight to the radar/detectors and it's kicking off in the triangle you could draw between Trowbridge-Devizes-Bath! Not a drop at home as has been the case all week, to be honest we could do with some rain as there's only been 2mm so far this month and that was on the 1st!

I was not expecting this area to still be shrouded in mist/Stratocumulus after 11.00 today, it isn't even showing signs of burning off and there is even a hint of drizzle in the air.

Sometimes storms will develop in response to the atmospheric change that occurs when the sun starts to rise, that could have happened seeing as your post was at around 04.00 . Got my eye on the showers which are about to move over Salisbury Plain from the East, wondering if they're going to spark into life as they cross the higher ground in what is very humid air around here,

The radar would suggest that is near Hungerford!!!

As I'm sure you know Harry, it's a bit of a misnomer that storms clear the air. The local radio DJ said we could get a 'clear the air shower later' but that only really occurs once a cold front moves through and not when the storms occur within the warm/humid air.

Very humid today, probably the highest humidity so far this Spring/Summer and now getting bright sunshine after hazy sunny spells until an hour ago. Lots of interesting mid-high level cloud but nothing to suggest it will develop in this area. I'd suggest that the trough/front brought the scattered light rain/drizzle through the region and, along with the storms already occurring, could spark into life as it heads East.

I do wonder how cold this morning would have been in winter (particularly windchill wise) because it was only 10.7c at 11.00 despite sunny spells burning through! Now up to 16.8c with almost unbroken sunshine but a strong NE wind.

Quite amazing sometimes to realise how convective weather produces such varying rainfall amounts! I read of places receiving 50mm plus yesterday, some parts of North Wiltshire had nearly that much in one day a few weeks ago, torrential storms gave 25mm plus over the Mendips last Friday evening, yet IMBY I have recorded only 56.5mm in nearly 7 weeks.

The sort of day that we can get at any time of the year ; dull, drizzly, 12.9c . Hopefully just a blip though and as Mapantz says there hasn't been a lot of rain recently. May had just 32.5mm here and the last 18 days of April only had 24mm, so only 56.5mm in nearly 7 weeks.

Viewing the picture on my laptop for the first time, unfortunately it doesn't show up what I thought might be mid level CBs. They are in between the AltCas line and the darker grey frontal cloud and stretched right along the skyline, looking closely I can just about make out the towers but it was 100% better with the naked eye.

Not sure I have ever seen a sky like this. Am out working in Bradford On Avon with the whole Eastern sky filled with a line of AltCas and what looks like mid level CBs.

I have just logged onto the radar for the first time in 4 hours and cannot believe what's been going on, talk about so near yet so far! Can see the edge of the storm cells to the NW but haven't heard any thunder, though I daresay I would have if I'd been paying attention the whole time. Check out the beauty of a little cell which has recently fired near Bradford On Avon at the edge of the main cells.

Very mid level development with quite a tropical style downpour overhead now but there is blue sky all around, especially to the N and S so indicative of a convergence line, so it's quite a discreet cell as I imagine they all are in this developing line.

Yes it's gone very dark approaching Warminster from the S/SE in the last 15 minutes after a very warm and quite sunny 3 to 4 hours, although it's hazy TCu can certainly be seen. Those showers from South Wiltshire into Dorset have started developing quickly and I would expect torrential downpours by 16.00, whether they turn thundery remains to be seen.