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  1. Three stick out for me, round here anyway. 1. Others have pointed out, the record breaking heat. Incredible to say the least. 2. There was a very thundery period for me which culminated on the 23rd of October with the trees out my window bending almost sideways. I genuinely thought they would snap and the rain and thunder I have not seen or heard for an incredibly long time. It came out of nowhere around 4:30 and it was intense. 3. Storm Eunice. But I think the wind squalls in point 2 easily topped the "oh my" moment when compared to the more constant winds of Eunice.
  2. Incredibe really, when you think of pure statistics, at the time, that ensemble must have been several standard deviations away from the mean - yet it came off. Just goes to show - there is a one in a millionth bit of merit of posting one chart from one run, of one rougue ensemble - just for that lottery ticket winning chance of it actually coming off. However, one shall never condone it (and I hardly ever post in this thread, but keep a keen eye). Ill certainly take the wild ones a tadge more seriously now though and its a good point raised by @Cambrian and something to clearly watch now.
  3. It has got extremely dark and close near me, ready to pop maybe, we shall see!
  4. Just notching 39 on my thermometer that is not "that" reliable before the sun hits it. Not a cloud in the sky here, So time yet for Heathrow to notch up a little more (looking south/southeast looks clear too).
  5. 29 in the "home office" and with a badly regulated and not to standard thermometer in the garden that is about to be not in the shade, it was sat at just over 34. The sky where I am is blue, still, but I can see the high cloud others have talked about to my south (hants/surrey border) and southwest/west. So some is on its way. Will see what, if any, effect it has!
  6. this made me chuckle, where I am fizzle is a sorry term, storms from the south, snow from the north, north west, the "m4" snowline or the m3 stormline. Definitely some fizzling as it heads inland, to be expected. But I think there may be a few westward surprises by morning the more north of the region you are.
  7. The latest Fax petty much confirms the radar I think. As I said earlier, think this will get a bit further west than perhaps thought. That is, unless, the latest radar update is true and it really has vanished the whole lot in to thin air. If I had longer and no work tomoz I would stay up, but time calls it. enjoy what you all get (here it is windy, just had a very small bit of fine snow, but intermittant clouds and clear skies otherwise.)
  8. Its interesting this, more than what was predicted...and there almost seems to be a more WSW component to it that I wasn't expecting. They will of course peter out as they head west, but seem to have NE/SW aligned bands pushing WSW to SW in places. 18z meto had a convergence zone ahead of the front and the flow perhaps just slightly more wsw than ssw. London generally could do very well a bit further west than the amber zone may intimate. Ill watch 2 more radar frames then bed it I think. But may wake up to a bit more than the "dusting" I had resigned myself to. Will know in the next 2 frames or so I reckon.
  9. Heavy rain with occasional sleet and the odd hail interlude thrown in here, im Bracknell. I am well resigned to seeing these events play out to the east of me in these set ups. But...i expect even here we will see a slight covering in the morning. One has to remember the fragility and now casting of an event like this. Several years back (2010 I think) a certain channel low and last minute red warning gave our area 30 odd cms. It originally had it further east and south of us. So for those pent up on it not following expectations...please dont be surprised!
  10. If people cannot decipher the age old message to follow trends than single perturbations of individual outputs...then this post is single handedly as good as any example as why a d10 chart cannot be taken at face value...and nor can its subsequent run variation! I regularly read this forum, but rarely post. And this one...is one of the least wordy and most effective ever...to frequent and infrequent posters!
  11. It is trying and failing miserably to really get going here. Dark, cloudy and now some rain. But rumbles are certainly aloft and/or distant. The wind has really picked up and to my untrained eye of looking up at the sky and knowing which way is north...says they are moving west...possibly even a west south west
  12. Hefty amount fallen in bracknell from this. Very unexpected and it had just about stayed as snow all day...some drizzle/sleet this pm. Can't see where this has pepped up from!
  13. There has been a decent covering in Bracknell...next postcode up rg42...a tad higher but not enough to shout about. I'd say 3-5cm. I'll take it.
  14. Weird...very light in Bracknell. The minor differences can be amazing sometimes!
  15. Lol Nick. Know what you mean. Either people are not reading the synoptics or in their heads it has gone wrong. I'm still optimistic for where I am but I thought I'd do this for giggles on the train journey I am on Waterloo..light sizzle Clapham...nothing Richmond...noting Twickenham....dandruff Feltham....patchy covering but lots of falling snow. Ashford (doesn't call but saw station)....good covering Staines....a poor patchy covering...no falling precip Take from that what you will. The setup is very hard to read though and I'm still not sure just quite how much my hometown will get
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