TonyH

Reports of snow in London on Twitter I assume from those who can't differentiate hail and snow

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Rather cloudy with sunny intervals to mid afternoon, sunny spells after 1600. Cool with a moderate to fresh NNW wind. Min: 8.7c @ 0600 Max: 12.3c @ 1530 Trace rain yesterday and today Currently: Clear intervals. Temp: 9c RH: 80% Pressure: 1021mbar, falling slowly

Mainly cloudy today the odd spot of drizzle especially this morning. Very cool with a moderate NNW breeze. Sunshine after 1730 rose the temperature above 11c. Min: 8.3c @ 0900 Max: 13.4c @ 1800 Rain yesterday and today: Trace Currently: Sunny, cool Temp: 10c RH: 83% Pressure: 1021mbar, steady

Clear with ground frost early last night, more cloudy with a sharp temperature rise from 0200. Mainly cloudy and mainly dry today, just the odd spit of drizzle afternoon. Moderate NNW breeze. Min: 2.4c @ 0200, up to 9c by 0600 Max: 13.7c @ 1400 Rain yesterday and today : Trace Currently: 11c/ 95%/ 1018mbar, rising slowly

Clear intervals and a touch of ground frost last night. Sunny periods, warmer than of late, light to moderate NNW breeze. Min: 3.2c @ 2300 yesterday evening Max: 17.0c @ midday Dry yesterday and today Currently: Sunny, cool Temp: 10c RH: 80% Pressure: 1016mbar, rising slowly

[font=arial][size=3][b]Headline: Average start then appreciable cool down; fairly dry but a few showers, rain threatening the Midlands Friday[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]Cool last week, with frost, sleet and even snow for high ground! Many of us saw several ground frosts, and even an air frost for a few places. Lowest readings +1c for Coventry on Wednesday night and -1c here at Llanwnnen on Friday morning. Tuesday was very wet for SW Wales, 2 inches of rain fell at Llanwnnen while Pembrey Sands in Carmarthenshire had 3 inches, there were blobs of icy sleet on the windscreen as we drove about on Tuesday evening. Amazingly for mid May the Brecon Beacons and high ground over 400m had snow, with 2 inches of snow lying near Newcastle on Clun, close to Offa's Dyke in Shropshire. Not all doom and gloom as there were decent sunny spells between the scattered showers from Wednesday onwards and in these it felt reasonably warm even if temperatures remained below average. No day managed above 15c (59f) for SW Wales last week, although after this protracted cool weather even 13c in sunny spells felt pleasant enough on Saturday afternoon! SW Wales on Friday saw some very heavy downpours, with hail and thunderstorms, officially Milford Haven was the wettest place in the UK with 14mm from afternoon downpours, although the rainfall radar suggested that over 50mm fell between Haverfordwest and Narberth, and there was flooding reported near Whitland in Carmarthenshire. So far this month, 6 days have seen hail fall here at Llanwnnen, hail showers are more typical of early rather than late Spring! Apart from the soaking on Tuesday, parts of the Midland's missed the worst of the showers last week, less than 1mm falling at Coventry from Wednesday onwards. Russia and Eastern Europe has been enjoying very hot weather for the past week, it has topped 30c daily over parts of Russia...we can only dream..but at least the coming week is predominantly dry, although again temperatures will struggle to top the average and with another pronounced cool down mid week, giving further ground frosts and showers.[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]On Saturday Wales and the Midlands were fortunate as all the wet weather kept to our north, and so we are again on Sunday with the rain to our south over the English Channel. We are getting the dregs of the heat that affected Eastern Europe that made it to the UK via looping up to Scandinavia (it's a long story)- the only true warmth though is at 5000 feet, at the surface the air is more moderated down to closer to the average. Sunny periods and feeling pleasant on Sunday, temperatures pushing 20c for parts of the Midlands, although generally more like 16 to 18c around the mid May mean. so not feeling too bad. A mild rather humid northerly flow for Monday, rather extensive cloud but sunny intervals breaking through at times, more especially out west. Weak fronts in the flow causing a little rain or a shower in places, these more likely over the Midlands. Maxima on Monday 16 to 19c, but cooler on some coasts, A noticeably milder Monday night lows of 8 to 10c, Tuesday is another day of variable and in places extensive cloud cover with sunny intervals, but equally the odd spit of rain or light shower. The relatively warm air hangs on with highs of 15 to 18c generally, although cooler for coasts having onshore breezes, North Wales and southern Cardigan Bay for example. [/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]Early on Wednesday a weak cold front clears south to leave a bright but fresher day, the start of a cool northerly plunge of air between high pressure over the Atlantic and low pressure over Scandinavia. Wednesday then some good sunny spells and only a few showers, again these most likely for the Midlands, with a heavy shower possible for the East Midlands later in the day. Maxima just 12 to 15c, poor for late May. Even cooler air pushes down from the north on Thursday, with -5c 'upper' temperatures at 5000 feet, this notably cold for late May, and this means snow showers for the Scottish Highlands again! Clearing skies lead to a widespread ground frost on Wednesday night, and it will be a sunny start to Thursday. However, cumulus clouds will soon develop in the unstable air mass with convective showers scattered about for the afternoon. Some heavy showers in places with hail and thunder a possibility, although West Wales coasts more likely to stay fine and dry. Maxima very cool on Thursday at 10 to 13c in spite of the sunny intervals! Clearing skies on Thursday night means another widespread ground frost, even the risk of localised air frost, my garden perhaps a 'favoured' spot for this, lows generally 0 to 3c (this less than a month from the longest day!)[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]On Friday we are still in the very cool Arctic northerly, with the added complication that a deep low may track down the North Sea threatening wet weather for Eastern England, while at the same time high pressure is attempting to push into Ireland. A stab then at Friday, would be sunny spells and some showers, parts of West Wales escaping these, while the Midlands catches a few heavy downpours. The chance that the low encroaches close enough later Friday into Saturday to bring more general wet weather into the Midlands but this by no means definite. Cool or very cool Friday highs just 10 to 13c again, certainly feeling chilly in the shade! Next weekend a similar pattern of pressure high to our west and low to the east, however subtle differences. A 'warm' low will have dumb-belled about the previous 'cold' low and will be over the near Continent next weekend, introducing milder upper air. GFS brings shallow low pressure over southern Britain while ECM more inclined to keep this at bay. The suggestion is of a somewhat unsettled weekend, showers in places but other areas escaping and remaining fairly dry, temperatures still no great shakes as the milder uppers are not likely to be realised at the surface with the predominating NE flow. Overall for the next seven days West Wales largely dry, the Midlands more at risk of any rain or showers, reasonable temperatures to start with, but becoming very cool from mid week.[/size][/font]

Clear spells with ground frost last night. Thick fog by 0400. Fog cleared 0600, rather cloudy to 10am, then hazy sunny intervals. Sunny this evening. Cool with a light to moderate NNW breeze. Min: 2.4c @ 0400 Max: 13.2c @ 1430 Rain yesterday: 3.5mm Rain since 10am today: Nil Currently: Clear and very cool, yet another May frost on the cards! Temp: 6c RH: 87% Pressure: 1009mbar, steady

So much for Pembrokeshire missing  'the worst of the showers on Friday'. South of that county thunderstorms, heavy hail, local floods, Milford Haven wettest in UK! However at leat the north of that county ws mostly dry..

Happy with v6 on my mobile but is there a way for this to open as it always defaults to mobile version? ,Also there is no option asking to remember password on log in. Thanks Paul.

Clear periods and an air frost last night. Sunny to 10am, then areas of Cu, Sc and the odd Cb with sunny intervals. Occasional showers 1330 to 1630, briefly heavy with quite large hail (almost 1cm). Less cool with a light to moderate NNW or variable breeze. Min: -1.1c @ 0500 Max: 15.0c @ 1130 (before the cloud really developed and the NNW prevailed) Rain yesterday: 3.6mm Rain since 10am today: 3.3mm Currently: Clearing, cool. Temp: 8.6c RH: 89% Pressure: 1011mbar, rising slowly

Joking

Nah they are just jumping on the bandwagon.

Twitter reports power outages in Llanelli area.

Reports TL and hail Llanelli area on Twitter

Anybody around that lively storm crossing Gower?

Clear periods and a ground frost last night. Sunny intervals and generally dry today, however a prolonged rain and hail shower 1130 to 1230, apart from this just a few brief light showers. Cool, light variable breezes. Min: 1.1c @ 0500 Max: 12.8c @ 0945 (convergence line related) secondary peak 12.7c @ 1730 Rain yesterday: 0.6mm Rain since 10am today: 3.6mm Currently: Clearing, very cool Temp: 5c RH: 91% Pressure: 1001mbar, rising slowly

There are overlays but only one at a time, v4 has two, and there is no 850 wind.

Ok I am getting the swipe mastered! Can only see the one overlay choice though, I like to have pressure and 850s to track movement.

Thanks Paul If I swipe it moves the map away from where I want it. Justnoticed it also lacks accumulation.

Due to finding the mobile version unworkable I am back to met office radar, just need it to be zoomable, or be able to use v4 on it. Another deterrent is that it is not remembering my details so prompts for log in each time, a real pain on a mobile, and that its not saving my postcode favourites.

Heavy rain to 0400 last night. Cloud and sunny intervals today, a few brief rain and soft hail showers, more sun late afternoon. Moderate to freh NNW wind. Very cool. Min: 4.1c @ midnight Max: 10.8c @ 1800 Rain yesterday: 47.3mm Rain since 10am today: 0.6mm Currently: Clear spells Temp: 6.3c RH: 835 Pressure: 1001mbar, rising slowly

Pembrey had 74mm, more than you.. http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&CONT=ukuk&LAND=UK&REGION=0003&SORT=3&UD=0&INT=24&TYP=niederschlag&ART=tabelle&RUBRIK=akt&DATE=1368597600&CEL=C&SI=mph

74mm actually in 24 hours Keith

Bet you had sleet in it, I definitely did at 4c, mind the rain was very heavy! Pretty sure the radar feature has over egged the totals/ returns due to snowflake effect in the layers the radar passes through. Not seen anything higher than Pembrey. I mean, that is showing nearer 200mm which patently did not happen, otherwise we would be hearing reports of devastating floods today!