PennineMark

Similar to other folks, we have a dusting of snow. Not much, but it counts as the first this season. Hope its not the last .

A poor day again, and unfortunately on a Sunday. It seems to have been going on for weeks. We'll get near 25mm rain for the day. It's only 3.20 and the evening seems to be already setting in. Fingers crossed there's a change coming later this coming week, no matter how brief, to give us a break and let the groundwater levels drop.

Another poor, poor day. Not a glimpse a brightness and showers coming through every 30 mins or so. Rain totals 120mm for the half month, so unless we get a dramatic change in fortunes, it is going to be another very wet one. One dry day in the last 3 weeks just about sums it up.

East Lancashire is soggy and overcast. 70mm rain already this month and only 2 totally dry days in the last 3 weeks. A change is needed. I know we seem to get stuck in lengthy wet and dry periods, but lately the wet ones seem to outnumber the dry ones and they go on a whole lot longer.

A shockingly poor day by any standards. 30mm of rain and a temperature struggling up to 8c. More rain to come. After a wet October, the ground is saturated and this wet week will make things worse. Not great if like me, your work is based on working in the ground. No sign of any settled period either. Grim.

I think we'll rarely see a better example of the rain shadow effect from an easterly. Currently on 15mm of rain here for the day when those closer to the western Pennines have had a far wetter day. For those from Wakefield to Chesterfield it's been so much worse. Intriguing how these set ups don't tend to work the other way round. Under a stationary front and a westerly we wouldn't usually be looking at 100mm plus. It's almost lake effect rain from the North Sea. At least its not mid winter with sub zero temps. They'd be buried and we'd have nowt to speak of.

Another wet start today with 15mm so far. These wet early mornings seem quite frequent recently. Thankfully the all important northern edge to this band is a good 50 or 60 miles further south than forecast yesterday evening by the Met. With a bit of luck it'll clear through far quicker and take this damp, grey muckfest with it.

A beautiful autumn day with bue skies and 12c as any cloud remained to the south. Unfortunately, it all goes wrong again tomorrow with rain seemingly drawn in our direction yet again. Hopefully, the forecast location of said rain is, as has been the case a few times recently, incorrect.

Yeah, when they get it wrong in a bad way, we always seem to get the worst of it. It happened the other way round last week when the trailing front forecast for southern Scotland parked itself over us. We always say it, but if this was snow we'd be bone dry.

20mm since midnight here suggests it's been a wet morning so far. I take it that the trailing front forecast in midweek to be over southern Scotland has set up 250 miles south. Is this why a weekend of much promise has slowly lost its shine? Fingers crossed it all gets booted north.

Yeah, areas to the north of here seem to be copping the worst of it today. Up to 35mm here so far and it's very reminiscent of the 23rd of July when we got to 48mm, up til now the wettest day of the year. Will we get to 50mm today? Looking at the conveyor of rain coming off the Irish Sea it looks a possibility.

Lightning popping off every 10 seconds or so from the storm over Glossop. Decent show from here although rather silent. 20230910_205520.mp4

This has turned into a remarkable spell of weather for September. Didn't expect more than 24c or so today but the recent sun has got us to 26c for the 7th day in a row. It'll be a long while til we seem the same again. Difficult to tell the storm potential for later as it all looks a bit disorganised down south.

I'm going to go against the general view here and try and find a positive in what we have. I'm sat outside in the 2nd week in September at nearly midnight, it is still 21c with not a breath of wind and it is fantastic. We have plenty to moan about the rest of the year so I'm going to try and enjoy it while we've got it.

Agreed. Completely overcast here but the temperature is hovering around 24c. Not bad for a September morning with no sun. The warmth seems to be east of this rain band, even beneath the cloud. If we get any sun, and it does look likely from lunchtime, temperatures will rocket.

Considering it's supposed to gradually get even hotter this week, this is quite a remarkable temperature for any summers day at 6.30pm let alone a day in September.

I think this is one of the notable things about summer 2023. It's midday on the 29th August, so still summer, and the temperature in the house is currently 17.8c. That's poor even for November or March. By all accounts the average summer temperature has been pretty average, but the sunshine that comes in the windows and warms the house up has been very much in short supply. The same goes for most of the past 8 weeks. Hopefully September will bring a warm up before the sun really does begin to lose its strength.

Just taken our new puppy out in the garden for her early toilet visit and there is a real autumnal feel this morning. The air is still, misty and damp with everything coated in tiny water droplets. The spiders have been busy overnight as there are webs everywhere. Not a drop of rain here yet so we seem to have got away with that so far.

Back to normal again today after yesterday afternoons sunshine. Grey, overcast and the occasional light shower making the cool 11.5c feel really damp.

Is it just me or have the some of the short term forecasts from the MO got worse recently. Today is another great example. At 9pm yesterday the animated map forecast from the Met showed a cloudy but dry start, perhaps brightening up later but likely to remain dry. This backed up by their app. At 8.15 this morning we have rain, as does much of the region. Its so wrong. How does a fairly significant band of rain not get picked up less than 12 hours before it appears? This isn't just a small rogue shower. Frustrating for anyone planning outside activities, especially folk like me that work outside and plan work according to the forecast. See if you can spot the difference below.

What on earth is going on? Its a weekend and it's a lovely afternoon. Days like this have been incredibly rare recently so time to get sat outside and make the most of it.

July has been a shockingly poor month. We got to 256mm for the month here. When you consider that the average annual total locally is 1200mm, that means that over 20% of the rain we expect for the year, fell in the peak summer month of July. When you add in low daytime temps and low sunshine amounts, it has to be one of the worst. Another grim day today. On what surely should be expected to be one of warmer days of the year, we've managed to get to a toasty 13.8c. A temperature not out of place in March or November.

It seems that it's been equally horrendous up here too. Just registered 240mm here with 23 days on which rain has fallen. Looking at what's to come for the rest of the day, that total could exceed 250mm. Many places must be at 250 or 300% of the normal July rainfall. Extraordinarily wet, cool and cloudy for the entire month. Things can only get better.

80mm for the weekend now a distinct possibility. 42mm today with 4 hours of rain to come. After one of the best Junes, if not the best, we get one of the worst Julys?

Yeah this NE Greater Manchester stretch from north of Rochdale through Littleborough, into Saddleworth and as far as Mossley probably are the wettest areas. Although we do pretty well for snow, I reckon areas of Oldham at similar altitude do better.