Jamie M

Nice little storm offshore near Weymouth this morning.

I'm sure it'll come in summer this year and we won't be so lacking of storms last year because that was dreadful. It's only the start of April though.

Month so far: Mean Max Temp = 10.2°C‏‏‎ ‎(-2.4°C) Mean Min Temp = 4.5°C‏‏‎ ‎(-0.8°C) Mean Temp = 7.2°C‏‏‎ ‎(-1.8°C) Rainfall =‏‏‎ ‎3.61‏‏‎ ‎mm‏‏‎ ‎(8.85%) Sunshine =‏‏‎ ‎37.7‏‏‎ ‎hours‏‏‎ ‎(20.32%) Very meh although 2 days with snow falling is pretty impressive I'd have to say!

Not too bad for April, eh.

Timelapse from today

Mammatus clouds, extending from a cumulonimbus and from turbulence!

Hailstorm missed by a mile or two to my S, would be interested to see what that looked like. Amazing sunset though. Am always a fan of having convective showers clear before sunset.

Love these sort of days.

No wonder I got a nasty awakening in the early hours.

Looks like the Downs had some influence on that mini thunderstorm earlier this morning.

Love these PM spring showery days, especially when you live next to the sea. Beautiful mammatus structures on many of the anvils I've seen going past today. Lack of lightning but good to see the lively active nature of things again! I'll link to one of my favourite WW shots from the local area. My report for Chartham WWW.BBC.CO.UK Chartham, Kent

Not entirely sure where to post this so please feel free to move it about if you need to. I was randomly strolling through folders I had when I came upon a video with a time lapse of a roll cloud and what appears to be an ever so slight rotating base from a storm just before it near the latter half of the video. Found the radar snap for the particular cell and nothing seems notable on it. Video is below, sorry for the terrible quality, any ideas? Untitled.mp4

Had some sleet/snow flurries in the shower just gone past. Nothing major but definitely took me off guard. DP went down to 0.4c

Day 1 Convective Outlook VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 03 Mar 2021 - 05:59 UTC Thu 04 Mar 2021 ISSUED 07:26 UTC Wed 03 Mar 2021 ISSUED BY: Dan An upper low, initially over the western English Channel on Wednesday morning, will drift slowly northeastwards then east-northeastwards to become centred near west London by midnight Wednesday night, then east-southeastwards over the Strait of Dover by 06z Thursday. The associated cold pool will aid in some steepening of the mid-level lapse rates, yielding some weak elevated CAPE - but increasing to a few hundred J/kg CAPE in response to SSTs and any diurnal heating inland. Showery outbreaks of rain will likely slide across parts of central and southern Britain through Wednesday and Wednesday night, although the risk of lightning with this is considered rather low (5% chance). Nonetheless, the slow movement - especially on Wednesday night over parts of East Anglia and/or the East Midlands - could result in some locally large rainfall accumulations. Rather extensive cloud will likely limit insolation, however some support for breaks in the cloud to develop in south and more especially southwest England which would allow greater surface heating to occur. Here, given the slack surface pattern and a small low centre in the vicinity, low-level convergence coupled with orographic forcing may aid forced ascent to generate a few heavy showers. Forecast profiles are rather saturated with weak shear and limited CAPE, and so the risk of lightning is considered quite low (10% chance) but a few isolated lightning strikes might be possible. The main area of interest is primarily southern counties of England, perhaps as far north as Gloucestershire and encompassing part of south Wales depending on sufficient cloud breaks. The moist boundary layer (low cloud bases) and convergence may allow a few funnel clouds to occur.

6.7c under the lurking cloud, whilst 12c at Langdon Bay. Cloud/mist has truly taken the mick here. Building off the sea in the latest frames.

Yuk. Same old thing for the last 2 days.

Deepest condolences. Gone too soon.

16.7°C A degree lower than what was met in February 2019. I want more of this!

09:30 15.5c 8c dp S'ly wind

10:40 obs 12.4°C 7.9°C dp

Sahara dust muting the colours this morning. Sundog to the left hand side now looking rather void of any rainbow! 11.1c 7.2c dp

13 Feb 16:42 (-0.5°C) 20th Feb 16:52 (15.0°C)

12:00 obs 14.1°C 6.9°C dp Sun well and truly out and white cloud being replaced by haze

08:20 obs 11.3°C 7.0°C dp Manston = 10.5°C 6.6°C dp