DaveL

Not much of the UK visible tonight! Only half an inch so far here but hours of it still to come...

Lightning seen to my north or NNE just now, followed by rumbling thunder. South Downs probably. Short torrential shower here, just before that and still raining. Max 10.6°C, now 8.7.

Beautiful sunny if crisp afternoon here today too, max only 7.8°C. No wind. Temperature is dropping rapidly now, grass frost already at -1.0C with the air temperature still up at +5.5, quite a big difference for here.

Well I did my midnight duty and went out in the rain to empty my check funnel, leaving a same-diameter pot out to collect whatever fell while I was inside pouring and measuring. 32.4 mm then in all yesterday and still raining. All that squelchy grass made quite a change from the last couple of weeks and it was my first frost-free day after 11 frosty ones and the first day with a mean temperature above zero C for 9 days. Quite a cold spell was that - pity about no snow here! Oh well there's always January.... PS: 1 am? That's an early night! for me lol.

@*Stormforce~beka* It's stronger than you think! See my air and grass graph below, see the grass temp spike when the sun managed to poke through a gap in the buildings for a few minutes, and plunge when in shadow again. Very late minimum today but only down to -4.4 here, even my grass was above your air minimum! Last night it was weirdly still rising until 9 pm and got back above freezing!

Just got back from Stubbington, after rain this afternoon they had a nice little snow shower pop up around 6pm moving south across parts of Fareham down to Lee on the Solent, slight covering on pavements and some side roads now frozen over of course. Pre-school granddaughter got her first ever view of "real snow" as she put it!

Hence after an hour of really annoying rain - 1mm so far and some may still be frozen in the funnel - my back lawn is still sporting hoar frost and it's still at -0.2°C. Notr a snowflake to be seen. Not even a wetblob.

Light to moderate genuine freezing rain now here, sheets of ice forming on pavings in the back garden. -0.6°C air, -0.3 at 2 cm. Lethal !

Freezing light rain aaarghhh!!!

It's always on a knife edge down here! The radar shows light precipitation for here but really, it';s so light and fine you can't see it, and can barely feel it on the face so I've no idea what it is. More like a finely honed razor's edge, here.

-4.5 again last night, currently -1.2°C under overcast skies but the precipiutation is reluctant to get as far north as here, and the light snow shown on radar isn't reaching the ground. Having warned my youngest grand daughter of ther chance of her first snowfall, I'm starting to get a bit more gloomy about it now - so many disappointments hereabouts in recen t years.

Clear and crisp and even (frost) here with a light northerly or calm. One of the hardest hoar froists on my back lawn for a long time. Minimum last night here was a degree colder at -5.6°C which is close to my record of -6.0 during the 2018 Beast from the East (albeit not feeling anywhere near as cold!***). The only other night colder I can find here was in my pre-VP2 days at -5.7 in January 2009, so 3rd. lowest since 2005. Currently +2.1 and still rising. ***EDIT to add: last night's lowest 'wind chill' was the same as the minimum temp, -5.6, but in the Beast from the East, wind chill got down to -12.8 at 9 am on March 1st 2018 (!) so today was next to nothing in comparison.

-4.1°C here last night, lowest December temperature since 2014 (-4.6 then, 30th.). Max +1.4 so far, which if maintained is for me reminiscent of... wait for it ... 1962/3!

-3.5°C min here last night, my first air frost of the winter and on the crispy grass, it's still in evidence. Max looks like +2.9, already dropping and the grass is down to -1.5. Fabulous clear skies and a marvellous view of Mars near the moon last night!

15 mm yesterday here and another 8 mm. today so far, my previous monthly record is now but a distant memory. 228.3 so far this month which is about 268 % of the November average and 230% of any month's average. The squelch goes on. "But at least it's mild" (11°C) as they sometimes say!

Counting down to the new record! 1mm to go... 0.5mm... 0.4... 0.2 ... Done it! New all time monthly rainfall record here! Well for the 9 years I've kept accurate records anyway. At 21:50 this evening 26/11/22. So with today's 5.4 mm so far, I have just passed October 2020's total of 210.6mm. November's record was demolished a over 10 days ago. Continuous moderate rain as I write, I must be mad but this is quite exciting.

5 minutes of rain here and a bit of a breeze, 1 minute of heavy rain so 1.0mm to add to 0.4mm a bit earlier and a nice bright end to the afternoon as the sky's clearing. My VP2 is excited though as it thinks my all time (9 year) monthly rainfall record was 196mm for any month (Oct 2020) and it's been enough to break that - unfortunately, my check gauge knows better. That record should really be 210.6 mm - and it's still 6.3mm short. 6 and a bit days left to beat it.

Nothing much here after the couple of hours of quite heavy rain earlier, and outside it's pleasant enough now with sunshine, bit breezy and feeling a bit less cold than the last week .. 12.3°C max so far. The 5.8mm rain this morning got me past 200mm for the month though, I am now up to 201.6mm!

Another 16.0 mm of rain here in today's downpour, making 195.8 for the month so far. Should hit 200 mm this week. Central heating's running up the ol' gas bill now, though I'm still waiting for that first grass frost, air frost and sub 10° maximum (10.4 today - at 8:37 am!).

I was driving when you wrote that and yes, heavy to torrential rain from 4pm to 7pm, with frequent heavy showers since then. Had to collect a grand daughter from college about 7:30pm and there was widespread flooding on the roads that don't usually flood, on one big roundabout it was deep enough to be barely driveable - one or two people going so fast they were creating 2 foot waves, and another washed completely over the top of my car. Idiots. Today's total will be a bit over 25mm I estimate, so ~172mm for the month so far.

Beat you to it! 155.2mm so far this month, as I write... 6.2mm today and that's about to get a rapid boost judging by the radar!

25.4mm here in the shadow of the Isle of Wight, 148.8mm for the month to date and that's my November record (9 years) broken, exactly halfway through the month. Most of it was before noon but another 4.5mm in the showers up to midnight. Two more days like yesterday and my all time record for any month (210mm) will be under threat. Squelch.

Here's what they were trying to hide and I'm about to taste it at sunset, I think. Has turned cloudy here now as we await the 5 minutes burst of rain. Sunny intervals earlier and fog again last night complete with Southampton Water foghorns.

It was foggy down here last night, not dense but thick enough for ships in Southampton water a few miles away to be sounding foghorns. Humid too, 92 to 100% today so far and looking outside this morning you'd have thought there was overnight rain. Nice sunny day though but not quite as mild as some - looks like a 14.9°C maximum, with the month's highest of 16.4 yesterday. Unusual though, nevertheless!

Meh, tiddly little thing is that, compared to yesterday! Thanks for the reminder though, I did just nip out to clean the funnel and tippers, let's see if that fixes the under-reading. Either way, with today's 4.7mm so far in the check gauge and yesterday's 24.5mm, I've just broken 100mm for the month, 101.7mm now.