Lauren

Sadly, we missed out on the storms last night (again) but we have had 51mm of rain since Sunday which is a pretty fair amount!

Had a few bursts of torrential rain in between sunny periods. Considering a lot of the clouds were big bad CB's I was dissappointed that we didn't get any thunder & lightening.

Some serious CBs around this morning.

I hope so Jane!

Well the roof is leaking at work and there arent enough buckets!

Weve had rain on and off all day but it was only heavy for about 10 minutes at around 9pm. Seems to be going above and below me.

Weve not even had anything particularly heavy. Is worse to come?

The worse stuff seems to be going just south of me.

Sky signal just went for 5 minutes.

I'm just down the road from you in Rochester and we haven't had that much rain, but then again you know how hit and miss weather can be!

1 and a half I'd say JL. One proper nighttime one that lasted about 10 mins and one at work during the day that again lasted about 10 mins but wasn't really close enough for me to class it as a proper storm. Gradually getting less and less every year

I shall wait for it to hit me then. Any guesstimates on what sort of time I can expect it?

Supposed to be heavy rain all day here, it's barely even raining. BBC forecasting T-Storms for Tuesday when I'm at work and can't enjoy them

Just thought I'd put an update in here:So Somee may remember I mentioned an old uni contact who was doing their PhD and was focusing on the decreasing number of UK storms, his initial findings are this: I am paraphrasing here and using laymens terms as this is how it was explained to me. Essentially over the last 20 years most years have had the roughly the same amount of storm potential (CAPE, LI etc) apart from a handful of years. Despite this number of UK storms has fallen rather dramtically for most places. So why is nothing come of this potential? To take El Gordo from last year as a case study, all the ingredients were there, but the cake didn't rise. Having studied the atmospherics (as in charges in the air, jet stream, etc etc) it appears that pressure which needs to drop for the storms to kick off is not doing so. Looking at the isobars etc when these potentials are forming it appears that the low pressure is being dragged southwards towards the equator. This has coincided with draught phases near the equator. Essentially the draught conditions are sucking the low pressure towards them in a sort of osmosis effect. Why this is happening they do not know, but apparently this is why we've seen the potential heading southwards over to France etc and then erupting there alongside the normal factors. It seems that countries in a similar position to us on in the southern hemisphere are experiencing very similar. Right I have no idea if that makes any sense or if that's accurate, but that's the jist of what he said. Any thoughts?

Alright, I heard you the first time!

Crikey looks very dark over London way and seems to be heading for us. Can someone explain to me briefly what this Atlantic system will be bringing us if it stays on track?

Well I for one, am not ready for winter yet. I haven't had enough sun yet. Although I could be persudaded with the promise of some epic snow.

Well I think 2012 in weather can be summed up as meh.

Nice day in the garden topping up my tan. I hope there is still some sun to come yet.

Did anyone else see the sunset tonight? The way it was shining on the clouds was beautiful.

Had a fab time, was just what I needed and I've got till monday off to continue to relax. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery, beautiful sea, beautiful food, what more can you ask for? You're right, definately feels massively different!

It seems really bitter here , but that may be because I spent the last week in temps in the thirties.

Not so for us in North Kent, barely a rumble all year!

Well glad to say you were spot on with the weather forecast. Just back from a lovely hot week. The weather is beginning to turn out there now though, on our last day the wind chnaged direction and the other peninsular became very clear, which we are informed is a sign the weather is going to chnage in the next week or so and low and behold rain and storms are forecast in the next few days.

Same Coast! I am a sun baby and want a bit more from the sun before I'm ready for winter to roll in again.