Wetterfrosch

I believe we might be lucky today, not that it would last longer than a day from what i can make out. Carpe diem - Seize the day!!!

Just slackened off here now to a mere mizzle but in the hours to 9 am my rain gauge collected 23.8 mm and 13.2 mm since then but no sign of a yellow warning from the MetO - It's only Eryri/Snowdonia where such things are considered normal, I guess. What about the poor souls in places like the Conwy Valley that's rather susceptible to flooding? As a result of storm Jocelyn and the aftermath of the Isha flood barriers were apparently deployed in Conwy town. Then too the heaviest of the rain was largely confined to the uplands, so what's different now?

i noticed the silence as well but I'm sure that the children will wake up again before too long to throw their toys at each other before February is out.

Strange to see the rainfall forecast below (presumably based on GFS?) but the MetO warning issued for northern England. Have just taken my 9 o'clock reading which already amounts to 23.8 mm with no chance of precipitation easing any time soon? Has the child to fall into the pond first before the MetO reacts? Can't imagine my location being such an outlier!

Seems that Eryri and Lleyn will be awarded the 'main prize' on Monday, just look at those rainfall totals. Might just stay in bed!?!

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to venture out for a romantic stroll under the stars and the full moon if wasn't so utterly miserable today with low cloud and persistent drizzle? Better close the curtains and light a candle or two!

Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus i bawb/Happy St Dwynwen's day to you all! Have a nice evening, enjoy a candle lit dinner and a good tipple with your dearest person!

This may well have to do with the exact position of the low and the resulting wind direction. For me it's the south to southeastern winds that are often ferocious and prone to cause damage to my roof while amazingly westerlies sound fierce but have considerably less impact at ground and even roof level. For a former colleague of mine it was the opposite in the Porthmadog area which tends to get battered by west winds. Just to add to my previous post re. yellow warning for rain, it seems that our 'rain capital' at Capel Curig got a whopping 58 mm in the 12 hours to 18.00 and Lake Vyrnwy 35 mm in the same time span. To trump these figures, Capel Curig's 72 hour total has reached 156.2 mm which must surely cause considerable flooding downstream and have people in areas like the Conwy Valley worried sick. I wonder if in the summer we will be getting concerned about a long drought as in previous years - never a half measure on this island!!!

Is it not a little late for the MetO to issue their yellow rain warning? Imo it was clear days ago that we would get another soaking today, made even more worse by the preceding storm related rainfall totals. UK weather warnings - Met Office WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

Quite right, Mumbles got up to 77 mph.

Nearest weather station from my house is Caernarfon airport which has now reached 81 mph gusts, not surprising really as it's right next to the beach which I am luckily not and I'm noticing the difference. Had the car out at lunch time for a test drive after a repair and it was already buffeted by the wind, so by now high sided lorries will be rather vulnerable on open roads and on bridges. Therefore, the amber warning is out for a good reason imo.

On my other main source for weather info I have just spotted a list of real time trends of surface level pressure which tells me that in the three hours to 14.00 on Tiree island the barometer fell by 10.9 hPa and that may not be the steepest fall yet! Down here in Hen Gymru the notorious hot spot of Capel Curig has now reached gust of 80 mph.

You have got a point there - I'd better get higher up my ladder to keep them dry!

For forecasts I tend to stick with MetOffice, occasonally cross checking with BBC. For actually reported gusts I go to wetteronline.com and click 'Latest wind speeds' in the 'UK Links' box which currently shows Capel Curig at 73 mph and Aberdaron at 61 mph plus a few stations further south in their 50's.

Rainfall total midnight to midnight came in at 38.8mm, still raining! Should I start growing webbed feet?

Admittedly, the Davis weather stations are most certainly the best and most accurate the serious amateur can buy but has a price tag that not all of us can afford. The big advantage is that the wind sensor is separate and can be mounted much higher than the rest of the suite. We had one in my former workplace and I'm proud to have managed to place the wind vane at top of a 10 m high steel pole secured with three steel cables fastened at ground level. It's a pity that most weather stations now have all sensors in just one suite so the wind is always measured far too low or the rain and temp far too high. Apart from that general flaw, the Ecowitt stations appear a fairly good alternative to me.

Oh yes, I did!!!Although the covering is barely more then a cm or two it seems to have created some very treacherous roads in the area. As it happens, this morning I was tasked with taking a friend from here (south of Caernarfon) to catch a train at Bangor but getting there proved a bit tricky. No problems on main roads here out in the sticks (amazingly!) but main road over Felinheli bypass was log jammed and so was the route through Y Felinheli itself where apparently a four car crashed had happened, involving even a police car. Last resort was a detour through Bethel which, with some considerable care, got us there, albeit 20 minutes later and so my friend had to take a later train to London which now involves two changes. At least we got there in one peace. Can't believe how many roads didn't appear to have been treated recently. Another point here to make is that although this mornings snow was less than Tuesday morning's I notice that it's in no hurry to melt any time soon despite temps currently at 2 C whereas on Tuesday it melted fairly quickly during the day. I guess the lower night time temps on minus 3 to 4 C preceding the event produced much a drier snow. Will be very icy in the morning, so i'm just glad I don't have to commute any more!

Some decent snowfall here this last half hour, didn't take long to turn the road white!

I wish it would! In the meantime, I don't look forward to next week's potentially stormy interludes. MetO output is currently modelling 61 mph gusts for Sunday teatime in my area! Close the shutters and pull up the draw bridge!

Lady Luck has been kind to me tonight - after two failed attempts of first frozen rain and then graupel the first proper snow shower in a long, long time has just delivered a good 2 cm of cover of pristine snow, can't remember when this last happened IMBY it's so long ago.

So had we this morning at long last. Quite treacherous underfoot as it had fallen on wet pavements that had frozen at the same time. Hope to see some more later tonight and possibly Thursday as well before the return of the wet and windy dross.

I find it a bit weird for the warning to run out at 3 o'clock in the morning. Surely, even small amounts of snow/ice won't start melting before 9 am?!? Do the MetO assume the wind to be strong enough to dry roads out so quickly or blow any flurries to the verges in the first place?

My own reading came in at 1792.1 mm her in Dyffryn Nantlle, 112 percent of my 20 year average.

Wow, that's some total which i have never reached even here at the edge of Eryri over the last 20 years. 2093 mm was my highest in 2009. Feel sorry for all the poor souls who have been so badly affected by the floods but relieved to have got away lightly (so far!). Looking forward to a quieter period now! - bring on the cold! The one effect that recent storms have had here is that they have made my telephone cable rub against some roof tiles so that I finally lost my internet connection before New Year's day and which has only just been repaired again, hurray!! Have a good new year all!

With hindsight and in the light of the damage done at Stalybridge (and other damages we just haven't heard of yet!) an amber warning would have been justified imo. Despite the 39 mm of rain of this event I have only just crossed the 200 mm threshold for December, thanks to the continuation of the jet stream's southerly track which most days caused the bulk of the rain to fall further south from here. Annually I'm now heading towards the 1800 mm mark which I might just make before the year is out. In the mean time there's room for a short respite today and tomorrow with just a few showers and winds easing before the next system makes landfall on Saturday. Have a good day all, and take it easy!!