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Well it is today, but it was quite nice yesterday after a slightly damp start, much better than forecast anyway. So we have one wet day midweek to get out of the way before a nice looking weekend. A win all round if you ask me: a bit of rain to water the gardens when it's least annoying and nice when most people have the time off to enjoy it.

Ah, yes, another day that missed Manchester entirely.

Been pretty poor here today tbh.We had around 3mm of rain overnight, 0distant rumble of thunder around any time and overcast ever since,with a temperature of around 12 degrees.

The nearest rain is approaching me from the Peak District. Let's see if it can get down the hill without fizzling out.

Wow! That was amazing. FIVE WHOLE MINUTES of light rain. Not just drizzle mind, actual light rain! And there was this bright light all across the sky the whole time! Oh, what you say? Yes, yes, it is still daytime. Oh, that was just daylight? Not a constant 5 minutes of lighting. Oh. Another non-event here then.

A very heavy shower with hail just moved through here.

At -1c, it was the coldest night since November at MAN airport weather station. Remarkably, both last autumn and this spring have recorded lower temps than the whole of winter. The temperature didn't drop below freezing at any time in Dec, Jan or Feb.

A beautiful morning in Manchester, not a cloud in the sky, except for that plume of smoke from the fire in Salford. As it's a paper fire, the smoke looks like a regular cloud once it gets high enough for all the water vapour to condense out.

Sun's coming out here.

I'd say it's the worst here since Jan '07, and that storm killed several people. Still, it's an ill wind and all that, and I got 4 wheelbarrowsful of logs from the tree that came down on my street.

Made it home safe on my bike just after 5. Had a stop-you-in-your-tracks-when-it-gusts headwind half the way, then turned left and had a massive tailwind the rest of the way. Don't understand that, there was no sideways component on either leg, but I'm sure I only turned 90 degees. Two trees down at home, one on Wilbraham Road just by the end of my street. Ridge tiles off my roof, grrr! Will pop out with the wheelbarrow and saw later for some logs if it seems safe.

There's probably precip to the SW of what is showing in Ireland, Shannon radar is out.

Seriously icy here now. Gonna be crazy on the roads in the morning.

Nice burst of hail here just as the rain cleared. Quite pleasant now. Current January rainfall is 10mm off the average with a week to go at http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ITRAFFOR3 This is the first time in the 11 winters I've spent in Manchester where I've not seen a soingle snowflake by this time. Remarkable.

Never seen this before: flooding along the Liffey in Dublin due to high tide and storm surge: http://www.joe.ie/news/current-affairs/pictures-flooding-hits-dublin-as-weather-warning-still-in-effect/

Mild?!! Wash your mouth out! Actually, 6C here now, so pretty chilly. After a burst of hurricane-style wind-driven sheets of heavy rain that lasted 5 minutes earlier, it's not grey, raining a bit and the winds have dropped right off. Looks horrible. For all the weather warnings, we're still below average rainfall for December in south Manchester: 60mm out of 80. The wind has been so strong that even when it does rain it doesn't last long.

Last Friday they was a similar warning for today. Yellow everywhere except the extreme east of Norfolk. Hedging their bets, it's useful as a long range prompt to people to stay alert. Last Xmas I think I remember something similar for snow that eventually affected just a small part of the country.

Reading the article, they seem to state rainfall in l/sq. m. So 100l is equivalent to 100mm. A lot, especially in as mountainous a place as the Canaries.

Looks like the builder didn't use any frame fixings. Was it just stuck in place with sealant? Wouldn't take much pressure gradient over the building to suck that out then.

Temp dropping in Trafford Park now: 5 down from 8 half an hour ago. Had some graupel in a light shower just now.

The scene outside has turned from autumn to winter overhight, as the heavy burst of rain and wind on the back edge of the rain mass has stripped a lot of leaves from the trees that were hanging on to them. Beautifully sunny now, just like yesterday. Hope for a few showers later, but the wind may go NNW too soon for my location.

68.8.mm here last month, just shy of the September average. No rain in the last 10 days of the month though. Now on 410mm so far this year, 50% of the annual average in 9 months.

And the forecast for the next five days? Meh. This says it all really: Actually, it is a teensy bit brighter today.

And jolly cold too: 13C max, brrr!

To follow on to my post from May, here's the year to date in my area: Rain 2012 Ave Days > 10mm 2012 Ave Days > 1mm 2012 Ave Jan 41.1 76.7 72.3 1 1 2.5 8 13 13.1 Feb 40.4 37.3 51.4 1 0 1 8 10 9.7 Mar 24.6 26.2 61.2 0 0 1.5 6 5 12.3 Apr 15.7 98.6 54 0 4 1.5 5 15 11.2 May 49 49.8 56.8 1 1 2.5 12 9 10.4 June 48.8 128.5 66.1 1 3 1.5 8 18 11.1 July 73.2 126.2 63.9 3 3 1.5 7 18 10.9 August 51.3 94 77 1 4 2.5 12 12 12 Sept 135.6 70.5 3 1.5 15 11.1 Oct 67.1 92.5 0 2.5 13 13.6 Nov 75.9 81.5 2 2.5 14 14.1 Dec 126 80.7 5 1.5 20 13.5 Jan-Aug 344.1 637.3 502.7 8 16 14.5 66 100 90.7 Totals 344.1 1041.9 828.9 8 26 22.5 66 162 143 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/19812010/sites/manchester_airport.html http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/#?tab=climateMaps http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IENGLAND340 Very dry - 70% of average so far, and far drier than last year.