Tom D

Lovely snow here in Ware - http://i.imgur.com/4Mc57.jpg

Lovely snow here in Ware. It's a bit dark but here's a photo I just took http://i.imgur.com/4Mc57.jpg

Hello all, I wonder if this is the best place to post but I'm interested in seeing how the cool summer we're having here in the UK compares to elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Are there any charts that show temperature anomoly? Thanks in advance.

It's moving north eastwards towards Belgium I'm afraid.

http://distilleryimage7.instagram.com/9623f63ec12611e1a9f71231382044a1_7.jpg From Twitter in Leicester.

Not something you see every day. Huge storm has exploded in northern France, the rainfall intensity is in excess of 200mm/hr! http://i.imgur.com/n8sqV.png http://i.imgur.com/iRzqq.png Out of interest, why is the south of the UK remaining dry and hot?

Once again here's some traffic cameras from Leicester. Some bad flooding on those roads. http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/cameras.html

Good selection of webcams from Leicester http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/cameras.html Reports of tornado in Newtown Linford http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicestershire-battered-storms-torrential-rain/story-16464588-detail/story.html

Reports from the girlfriend of damage to property in north Leicester, conservatory roof has been destroyed by hail. Wish I'd stayed a couple more days now!

This is unbelievable. Enjoy this one guys, it's a rare storm. http://i.imgur.com/dLDJ2.png

There's some light showery rain in the SE at the moment, just had a tiny bit of rain here. Have to say that storm over the West Mids/Wales looks incredible! http://i.imgur.com/ZIpcq.png http://i.imgur.com/f3s44.png

Shower here now. No thunder or lightning.

I think they just mean that the convection is interfering with the radio waves, so there's some crackling. On a clear day you wouldn't get this but on humid, thundery days like today you're likely to get some crackling from signal loss. Correct me if I'm wrong. http://en.wikipedia....i/Noise_(radio)

Seems to be a good line up from Kent, through London up towards Beds, Bucks & Herts and the East Midlands. These showers will pep up some more I think, slow moving.

1230: http://i.imgur.com/XdQ0d.jpg 1330: http://i.imgur.com/rGcwL.jpg Just shows where clouds have 'popped up' - notably in Kent, London. Moving northeast. Worth keeping an eye on these. Not sure if there's any potential of the cloud west of London up to the Midlands, but possibilities for the northern English clouds.

A nice thunderstorm here in Ware, Herts as part of that line on the radar. Seems to be IC lightning, just as entertaining as last night. Torrential rain to go with it this time though.

Lightning in all directions here in Herts now. This is crazy.

Just been woken by thunder here in Ware, Herts. Thought I'd give you guys a report. Fast moving little storms though, seem to have passed now. Rather unexpected in any case and the first after dark lightning I've seen for years!

Trying desperately to snow here, sleeting at the moment. Looks blustery and feels bitter. Who have thought it after last week...

Morning all, my mother in Ware, Herts rang me this morning and said the thermometer was showing -14.9c at 7:20am. Amazing. Here's a nice photo to accompany that temperature!

Morning all. Mother back in Ware, Herts tell me that temperature at 7:20am this morning was -14.9c. Here's an accompanying photo.

Got a nice dusting of snow overnight here in Leicestershire, here's a piccy.

On a similar note, the ECM at +240 is stunning. How cold would this be?!

The CFS is certainly showing a nice Greenland-Europe block after 400 hours. Will be interesting to keep track of this possible trend of a drastic change in weather patterns come mid-January. While the ECM and CFS at +240/252hrs look very dissimilar, the CFS eventually brings a decidedly similar set-up by +372, at least for the North Atlantic. ECM t+240 CFS t+252 CFS t+372

'Shallower' likely refers to the atmospheric pressure, which I assume is now not as low as today's earlier model run. This could mean that most areas that see snow will see very little, because the precipitation is also less intense on the same run. Hope this helps Would you not also say that after about +120 a lot depends on the depth and speed of the two depressions to storm out of North America? If they were not as deep the high would end up giving the UK a more NW air flow and thus keeping things fairly average. I notice on the ensembles there is quite a spread in this area at the same time, indicating potentially the operational is overcooking the low pressure, so to speak.