Dancerwithwings

Tend to agree a little! most on here follow the models... GFS, ECM etc, throughout late Autumn, Winter any signs of the white stuff (me also)...but then at the eleventh hour So why bother...be a mildie! But then again it's just the same come Summer....Cape value watching ......All the fun of the fair i suppose

"So has anyone else preference for weather types changed over time?" Yes!.... From moderate snow to heavy whiteout 20cm to 30cm overnight snow!!! Ok, Ok where's Canada again

Agreed....lovely and bright for the N/W Midlands come 1 to 2pm....Just stay in bed til then Conor lol!

You off to your local swimming baths then that's the only way you'll be getting wet!!! next rain for the Midlands will be Thursday. Where you get them forecasts from for your location i have no idea.

Let's hope it (detector) will get plenty of action this year

Blown across the local supermarket car park around an hour ago, Not nice!!! not really......Loved it

Great for the garden, seems awhile ago now since we had had a good old downpour, i think we're in for the night and more hefty showers come tomorrow

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Hi Bish.....Just thought that i would have a peak, expecting it to be the other side of the channel and i was little surprised how soon it's came upon us.

Radar showing heavy rain now http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile incoming.

Currently 9.0c at 1pm cool for the 2nd may!!! Monday is looking not bad at all, what does the MO know,,,, lol!....bring me sunshine

Met office latest issue (1600 hrs today) after a bright start has most of the Midlands and southern England in rain on Monday http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcqdpt4x5

Sorry! 13hrs and 45 Minutes late....same as the last two entries 12c Cheers

I guess that's Spring for ya!!! .......

More of the same come tomorrow morning for most methinks

Just shows not all Sundays are cloud talk....Just love this sat image, out of the whole of Europe the most crisps clear place is the MIDLANDS EDIT; this one is from earlier, waiting for the later one to become available .

Rain & 12.4c and getting cooler over the coming days....It's spring all right!!!!!

May Snow A trawl through the archives reveals that on 17th May 1955 was probably the most notable May snowfall on record. Much of England and Wales was affected by several hours of snow (Eden 1995), including two to three hours’ worth in the London area (Brazell, 1968). Coincidentally, the same date twenty years earlier in 1935 also saw England and Wales affected by widespread snow with some places, including theWirral and parts of Devon recording several inches of snow (Eden 1995). Incidentally, on 17th May 1935 snow also fell in the central Netherlands (Zwart 1985) and this is the latest in the season that snow has been observed here. May 8th 1943 saw snow falling over parts of northern Britain as a depression tracked eastwards across north Wales. The Isle of Man was among the worst hit places and in Douglas 15cms snow lay on the ground by the morning of the 9th (Pritchard 1997?), whilst virtually the whole of Scotland was affected, including falls of 7cms at Duntulm, Isle of Skye (Stirling 1997). Such is the fickleness of May weather that just a few days later temperatures reached 30C in Kent. Other notable instances of May snowfall include that of mid-May 1923, Scotland’s coldest May of the 20th century and the century’s second coldest May in England and Wales, whilst May 18th 1968 saw snow falling as far south as the Midlands. Meanwhile, a little more recently the Mays of 1979, 1981 and 1982 started with widespread wintry showers whilst May 13th 1993 saw several centimetres of snow settling over the higher ground in central Britain (Pritchard 1997?), including a fall of 30cm at Moor House in County Durham by the 14th (Stirling 1997). Stepping back into the nineteenth century Eden (1995) and Stirling (997) report widespread snow England between the 16th and 18th May 1891. Snow fell to depths of several inches in some places, including falls measured at 15cms deep in parts of the Midlands and East Anglia. A few days earlier on the 10th snow had fallen as far south as Bath and London (Stirling 1997). Meanwhile, Gordon Manley, writing in Weather in 1975 tells of snowfall in southern Britain on 22nd May 1867 and 27th May 1821 whilst Brazell (1968) mentions snow as having fallen in or close to the London area on 12th May 1816, ‘the year without a summer’. Moving into the eighteenth and late seventeenth centuries Manley (1975) raises the possibility of snow being observed on parts of the higher ground in Sussex on 12th June 1791. Early May snowfall was recorded in parts of the London area in 1770 whilst in 1698 a widespread deep snow was reported all over England on 3rd May (Brazell 1968). http://www.dandantheweatherman.com/Bereklauw/latesnow.html

Makes the volcanic activity at Bárðarbunga (Iceland) looks like just a 'zit'....Calbuco Volcano eruption is mind blowing!!! The amount of lava being ejected is incredible going by that You Tube video.

Today was not bad at all 2 lots of washing went out today, i thought i would make the most of it! because come the weekend I'll have no chance of that happening. Wind & Rain, rain and more rain and cool, even cold with sleet & snow for the likes of PM & TM.... this will be a right Shock to the system :cold:

Radar is showing plenty of showers to our North East....In coming ? http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile

Hey!!! what's this 'sunshine' was not expecting this today at all.....BONUS 12.2c

Lol! were loving it... what puzzles me sometimes!!! when it's not so good that's when we get the moaners, and like today where are they now ???

A little on the breezy side but apart from that it's a lovely day....Blue all the way... 14.5c