dec10snow

Not sure if we’ve managed to remain below zero all day (we did have sun most of the day) but considering the Met forecast a 4C max today, whenever I’ve checked Wunderground the majority have shown 0C or under so seems like forecast overcooked the temps a little!! Pray this bodes well for into tomorrow ??

Oh fair play - still within the town and elevation anywhere across Taunton is generally shocking Even if it wasn’t much to write home about, like many others I’m bloody desperate and would take anything at this rate!! Since Christmas I’ve been to Wills Neck (Quantocks) and did actually see some lying snow on the drive up to the top car park which was good, however nothing for the walk. Also been to Dunkery Beacon, had some sleet on the way up but again, nothing aside from areas such as in the picture below which I guess you could stretch to “lying snow”

I was asleep by then, don’t tell me I missed the 1 shower that actually produced some snow?! I was regularly checking outside to see if there was anything. I’m wondering, are you a bit outside the town and therefore higher up?

I’m still getting repeated phantom showers on the radar overhead but the ground is still completely dry - nothing made it down all day. Is it a dry airmass sucking the moisture out before it reaches the ground?

Much like yesterday, radar showing precip overhead but nothing at ground level. (Cloud overhead is even slightly broken!)

Snowball fighting and sledging are elite sports so can continue. I’ll decide I’m moving house into an igloo if it does snow. Very true, though I am now progged 2C for Friday by MO (with no precipitation forecast of course!!)

So... that announcement... does that mean we can’t go snow hunting?!!!

Moderate precipitation shown to have passed over but nothing bar a few lone drops appear to have made it to ground... doesn’t bother me, it only would have been rain!

Lovely frost this morning which was just about lasting and now it’s RAINING

As it’s quiet thought I’d share this mental video!

Concur with both of you, hate to keep moaning but it is disappointing, much like you Bath, I didn’t expect a storm everyday but was very hopeful for at least one storm! Mapantz’ image he put in the Convective Thread sums up the hole of activity around our areas, Image credit to him

What an uneventful breakdown of the heat! Had some moderate-heavy rain rain yesterday afternoon and back to grey overcast dull conditions now I don’t hold out hope for the coming days either to be honest. It’s so frustrating watching the same places get pummelled whilst the best we can do is watch some lightning that’s 40-50 miles away!!

You’ve got to laugh, lots of heat over the past few days with no storms which led to today. Been cloudy all day and didn’t appear to reach the predicted temps and we’ve rounded it off with some moderate/heavy rain. Bit of a cooler breeze now that rain has passed over, inclined to firmly grasp my towel and throw it as far away as possible.

Snap, watching lightning from what I assume is the cell over Exmoor, nothing showing on Blitz despite the regular flashing. edit: https://www.lightningmaps.org/# seem to be showing these ones (though they do quickly fade away on their map rather than staying which is strange)

I’m amazed we’re yet to see a steric from the new cell by Taunton judging by the rapid development from the radar!

Likewise, I’m probably 40 miles away but getting a decent (albeit fairly faint) light show from the IC lightning!

A summary of the various thunderstorm/connective forecasts for today and their links; https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/convective https://www.estofex.org http://convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2020-08-10 https://www.severe-weather.eu/outlooks-day1/weather-forecast-europe-aug10th2020-mk/

World record lightning - a single flash travels more than 700 km in Brasil WWW.SEVERE-WEATHER.EU Record lightning flash: The longest lightning flash duration of 16 seconds in Argentina, the longest distance is set at more than 700 km across Brasil!

What do we think to Estofex in here, from what I see they’re usually fairly accurate? http://www.estofex.org Lvl 1 for SW England, Wales and up into Ireland! Also, Convective weather have retracted their forecast — edit, I see they’ve reissued as per MeltedFlake’s post!

Woke up yesterday, raining. Went to bed, raining. Woke up this morning, raining!! Looks like there were some short spells where the rain stopped overnight but pretty much a solid 24 hours of rain which seems to be fizzling now after around 60mm overall from the system.

Just had a look at 5 stations across town; 58mm is the highest and 45mm the lowest readings. 3 out of the 5 are showing over 50mm... fair to say it’s been very very wet!! Good job it’s been so dry the last couple of months otherwise these sorts of totals could cause real issues!

Checking stations across town, looks like we’ve had 40mm+ so far and currently belting down still as I type... doesn’t look like any let up soon either judging by the radar. Can’t remember the last 40mm+ day we’ve had, let alone the 50mm+ it’ll probably be by the end of the day.

Nothing overhead here unfortunately, enough rain to wet the ground but that was about it. Quite comical looking on the radar to see how the cells always missed us and two of them actually grouped together over the northern side of the town by Kingston St Mary sort of area. Thunder heard and lightning seen however.

Very angry looking cell on the radar west of Taunton. Seems to have been the case yesterday, just away from it they seem to be firing up, could this be elevation based?

Cell north of Wells formed within the last 3 radar frames, possibly on track for you? Not electrified yet mind.