autumn sun

started to rain. distant thunder heard. Wonderful lightshow now

Bit of a light show to my south now. Still no thunder heard

More lightning- no thunder heard yet in N London. Breeze has picked up

Seeing occasional lightening to the south from here in North London

Not much from the London storm at the moment to be fair but atmosphere is alive so who knows..

From southgate n London just saw lightning and distant thunder

moderate snow now in southgate north london.

I notice on the bbc forecast that the snow peps up again in London lunchtime tomorrow-why is this seeing as the front moves away. My guess is instability from the easterly near the front but still learning- is this correct?

not much in Southgate, N London. Looking at the radar it seems to be slowing progress north now. Close but no cigar maybe. Looks good for tomorrow though

covers on at Wimbledon-and a severe weather warning out for Greater London

well for once I was happy I got away without a deluge! was at Hyde park to see Neil Young and could see all the activity skim us. Got a bit of rain but only the edge. Haven't read the whole thread but saw frequent lightning around us-I guess we were pretty close. Thankfully we were spared! And Paul McCartney came on to do Day in the Life with Neil at the end-what a day!

Absolutely. Nothing can take the memories of Sunday and Monday away for me

seen two urban foxes walking down the road like they own the place and they are never so visible around here- must be confused by the snow

Southgate is really getting hit at the moment

Nice pics I love the cloud shooting up at the start and at 25 secs on the video

I read Paul Simons in The Times today about the ice storm of 1940 and wondered if there was any more info about it..I am sure there is but cant find it on netweather . Like all of his articles I always want more so if there is a link much appreciated! thanks The link to the Times is here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle3034452.ece

Thanks for your replys-I just seem to remember reading somewhere that the reason why the forecasters didnt read sooner the dramatic drop in pressure in the low pressure in 1987 was because they didnt have the readings out in the Atlantic at the time- I assumed they didnt have the raw data out there at the time but wrong I guess Cheers for the links...

Hi There, Following on from the stormy weather of last weekend there was alot of talk of the readings from the buoys out at sea. I posted on the storm site and was directed here so hope someone could help here- who puts them out there and why in the positions they are in? What do they record and how do they survive the weather esp in the Atlantic! Also am I right in what I heard that it was a lack of them that led to to a major problem forecasting the 1987 storm? cheers!

This is why I like this place- I dont often contribute and often 'lurk' but its nice to come home after a hard days work and find things that are utterly enthralling weatherwise or indeed spacewise! More photos please! btw does everyone have this? http://www.codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp

I had a paper round and it was windy but the worst must have missed us cos I finished it ok! . But the thing I most remember was coming back and turning on breakfast news on the BBC and they must have set up an emergency studio and Nicholas Witchell was the only one around giving the latest situation so I knew then it was pretty serious. I had radio 1 on later and the guy on at the time - Simon Mayo perhaps- was asking live on air for the DJ who should have been on previously to phone in and tell them he was ok because he hadnt turned up. I assume he was ok!! Has the 'wink' been trademarked then? I think Anne Robinson should be told!

I think Rob is like your best teacher at school making what could be a dry factual broadcast into something which captures the real beauty of the weather to the layman. Dan can be like that though a little less of the 'speckly showers' or 'heat of the day' for me. Change the record!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/05/rem...now_stopp.shtml I've often wondered if this had happened before! a few jumpers needed this weekend!

See that alot at the cricket- happened last sunday. A shower scuds across the ground and it's like a mexican wave of umbrella's