londonsnow

yes the meto winter forecast is issued at 11am on the 23rd, according to their website. will it suggest a little above or near average temperatures and average rainfall? or will it suggest several spells of deep cold and blizzards for everyone, especially around christmas. i wonder...

looks like a convective day for the midlands, and wales mostly. 2 showers in london. nondescript day, but windy

all calm now on the london front. still raining. round two is over. all eyes on the north east now

still raining heavily. sferics have died. i lie. just had a boom! but this round is on its way out i suspect

trying to watch question time and the storm above. mod rain, flashes and rumbles. nothing spectacular yet

steady rain. nil sferics spoke/wrote too soon. boom

big blobs of rain in london, and distant rumbling

yes, meto is back up, and makes for very interesting viewing for londoners

is the meto radar down?

mostly clear in sw london. very calm at ground level, much more movement at cloud level. we have round 1 moving in, but i'm cautious still about what the SE might get. we'll know in about 3/4 hrs

Does look rather nasty for the southwest in the next few hours, a very lurid radar! According to the bbc lunchtime output the northeast looks set for a deluge. the TV news crews are probably already planning a trip to York and the environs. as for London and the SE it's looking interesting overnight, a reasonable chance of something special. what's the betting that the north circular will flood and the tube network collapses. Again

I tend to agree with you there william. nothing constructive in that posters' slightly provocative style. Each to his own though. Whilst not great if you don't like washout weather, i'm finding the evolution of the late thurs/friday synoptics rather interesting. The bbc are starting to make the appropriate "one to watch" noises.

I did think that the meto were setting themselves up for a bit of a fall by using the bbq word in their summer forecast. many of us did have a lovely heatwave in June, but even down here in the SE that's a fast receding memory. Charts look fairly dire for friday and the weekend- seems to be a rather unusual set up emerging for the time of year. Beyond this event is very unpredictable.

As a shower passes through parts of london the 12z paints a very damp picture. No sign of any sustained settled weather and no heatwave in sight. St Swithen's is on Wednesday. Will it or won't it? It probably will...

maybe we'll get a bbq autumn. model signals make the next week fairly average and very british weatherwise in the meantime

Now that we have a disturbance that may just become organised into our first named storm, even hurricane, of the season (name:Ana) gearing up in the Atlantic, FI often becomes even trickier to call for models, esp the GFS which goes so far out. Makes it more interesting though Ignore most of that post!!! Somerset squall has just pointed out that the disturbance I was following is in the Pacific not the Atlantic Having said that the Atlantic is sure to kick off soon, so wariness about FI is still relevant during the season

I hadnt noticed 04e. Certainly one to watch in the next few days with increasingly favourable conditions. I think you're right somerset, we may get hurricane Ana out of this. About time after such a slow start to the 09 season which El Nino may have a hand in

This may be a daft question for a drizzley wednesday. Does a maintained thick ice sheet cool surface air any more than a maintained thin ice sheet?

I forgot to mention the green tinge to the clouds. i've seen that once before. it looked like a horror film set sky! not sure what causes it

still rumbling and flashing here in sw london. what was special about this storm cluster were the cloud formations. black plumes of cloud darting and swirling in all directions from the base. very dramatic, and quite eerie. rain finally stopped

today's main event for london and parts of the SE growing to the nw of the london area i reckon. should produce some sferics

I hope so Paul. The huge excitement in SW london town today, thus far, has been 30 seconds of drizzle. The West End seems to have got wetter briefly, going by BBC TV footage of the Traf square plinth. I guess the optimum time in london will probably be 4 to 8pm.

slow start to the season, i think the slowest since 2004. that year did however go on to deliver 9 hurricanes.

well the heatwave in greater london appears to be going out with a spectacular light show and huge crashes of thunder. yes, you've guessed it we have gentle rain and a faint breeze.

I see a meto warning was issued for gtr london and surrey around half an hour ago. not a very harsh warning, just the usual scattered storms, 15mm of rain variety