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We've got sunshine now! Turned windy, 28mph gust, 14mph windspeed. Temp: 11.6°C - Hum: 93% - Dew: 10.5°C - Bar: 982.93hPa - Rain: 17.8mm - Wind: S @ 13mph.

That will be ideal for convection for later on. 56mm here in the past 48 hours.

Not a huge amount of rain overnight, but it is horrendous at the moment. 14mm and counting. Heavy & thundery showers following on, right in to the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Yes please! Looking interesting tomorrow, that's for sure.

I would be cussing if it was snow. It was supposed to be heavy rain from 8pm, instead it has been a bit of light drizzle - I'm stuck on the no mans land gap of joy.

I think where the OP is going wrong, is that his/her deciphering of the 'mid' prefix before Summer and Winter is wrong. They are interpreting it as 'middle' which is incorrect. Midsummer and Midwinter are names given to the date that the solstices occur, they don't mark the 'middle' of anything.

Well, that was a fun night! I did get pretty rough here, a few things banging and crashing outside from time to time, nothing like 2013/2014 though. I had a top gust of 44mph and windspeed of 23mph, which exactly matched the Met Office forecast, so i'm happy with that. The rain (pre-frontal showers) started at midday yesterday and all the rain had passed through by 2am. So, in a 14 hour period, my manual gauge recorded 38mm, my Netatmo gauge recorded 36.3mm and my Davis 37mm. The pressure bottomed out at 965.56 hPa which is a new record. Swanage took a bit of a hit, as they do from Southeasterlies - lucky it was only neap tide, or the flooding could have been pretty extensive. That large pressure drop certainly pulled the water up! After spending the last few days jet washing the garden and cleaning up every leaf I could find, it looks like a bomb has gone off- leaves everywhere! lol Temp: 7.8°C - Hum: 83% - Dew: 5.1°C - Bar: 992.18hPa - Wind: WNW @ 4mph. Certainly a lot more rain to come over night..

968.98 hPa now - I'm struggling to keep my eyes open, so i'll head off to bed in the hope of another drop of 1 or 2 hPa.

970.84 hPa now - regular 40mph+ gusts.

Monday's rainfall totals are looking rather excessive as well:

In the midst of a short, sharp shower.. Pressure record on this station has been broken. Now at 973.15 hPa

Record broken! 973.65 hPa

974.03 hPa

The Purbeck hills tend to protect us around here, but it doesn't come close to anything we saw back in 2013/2014. The winds in some of those storms were the worst since '87.

Well, the Euro4 shows 964 practically over me at 3am - so we shall see! I can't believe how fast the pressure is dropping here, just watching it tick down on my site every minute or so..

At 975.21hPa at the moment. A buoy in the channel shows 967.

Pressure at 975.58 hPa currently, 973.79 hPa to beat. A buoy in the channel is showing 967 at the moment. Angus' center looks to track right over, or near to Dorset.

haha - snap! That always happens here, no exception tonight.

Now the rain has abated, the winds are finally beginning to pick up a bit. 38mph recorded on my wee Davis. 29.4mm was the total in a 12 hour period. Not too shabby!

That's the center of the low on there BB

The rain has almost ended here. 29.2mm over 12 hours.

26.6mm and still tipping it down! I won't beat my record 34.2mm for the day (on this station) as the rain started too late in the day, but I might get a 24 hour record at this rate.

Hi Chul Probably between midnight and 5am, peaking around 3 - 4am.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Almost at the magical inch of rain..