Tim

Sadly it's rain in Long Ashton

Actually technically she's got that wrong as well as south Norway is nearest the Antartic lol!

Lol, what drug were you on at the time?!?!

Anyone seen the front page of Net Weather and the temp at Wyton Royal Air Force Base?.............. a new UK record surely lol!!!!! Quick edit because it's gone now......it said 127C lol!

Well I'm in Bristol and it's 25 degrees C humid but cloudy, well the sun although not out can be felt on the skin. I definately would not describe it as chilly!

I'm hoping for that to happen as well!

Since Feb 1991 in Bristol.

Well I got snow in the southwest of Bristol! And it gave a covering, I'm only 35m ASL so don't know why you're not getting snow when the rest of the city does?

Don't think it will. Theres nothing to pep that bit up around here. Only chance now is the shower activity later on in the night but I think the chances of that are low for Bristol. Next big chance will be later on in the week now I think for us.

Doesn't look good for the Bristol area. That rainband is fragmenting if you zoom in on the Bristol area on http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-...;soort=loop1uur

That doesn't explain month to month fluctuations though. People will drive cars all year round and trees have been cut down in the Amazon for over 30 years now at least. The figures you wrote to me just follows tradition really. Spring & early Summer tend to be the driest time of the year (I've heard the Atlantic is traditionally quietest in May). The wettest tends to be mid/late autumn sometimes mid winter.

The difference from one part of the country to another. Here the first frost probably December. I'll get a sleety shower in Jan or Feb if I'm lucky, only the one though!

More storms now in and around the Bristol area.

Just had a thunderstorm to the south of Bristol.

Several storms in and around the Bristol area at the moment.

Just had the same storm here. I think it's lost it's electrical side as soon as it gained it. There was no approach, about 10/15 flashes spaced over 10/15 minutes all fairly near the last couple to the north, then nothing. Still raining here though.

London wouldn't be a like for like example. The southern coastal areas get around 1750 hours of sunshine a year. More at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/location/england/

One of the best storms I've seen in a long time here. Had a drive around the North Somerset area in torrential rain. Much of a town called Portisheads high street is under water and being pumped out by the fire brigade. Also manhole covers forced off and 3 ft high spouts of water coming up!

A few rumbles to the southwest of Bristol now. Some spots of rain started to fall as well.

Just had another couple of rumbles with another heavy hail shower.

Just had a flash of lightning, very close, about 3 seconds untill the thunder. The winds got really gusty here now as well.

Seem to be some nasty storms just inland around the NSW coast today

Started to snow heavily again in Bristol. A fairly well defined warn sector showing on the rardar just clipped us melting the snow on the cars but now the cold front has arrived.

Lets have another Bristol person join in. Snow here in Long Ashton, light snow, slightly sticking to cars and some places on the pavement. Temp was 2.8 at 23:00 now 1.7 Tim

This is very interesting reading and some nice pics! The funny thing is though your storms seem quiet dry with very low rainfall amounts, is this typical? Often when we have thunderstorms in the UK you hear about places getting 25mm to 50mm everytime we have an outbreak, most years you hear about some place getting 100mm+ from a storm although for one particular place to get that much from just one storm is rare, but it happens. I'd usually expect an average of 10mm to 25mm from a summer storm. Most of your storms seem to have quiet low rainfall amounts though often less than 10mm. Just wondering if your storms are perhaps more spectacular in terms of lightning etc but not as high in precipitation? I imagine it varies locally a lot eg North-East Queensland has a very high summer rainfall.