chrisbell-nottheweatherman

Cheers Malcolm; we need the rain, and, provided I don't get storms too close to my location (mild brontophobia came back for me a few years ago when I was brought out of a dream around 5 a.m. by a positive CG strike around 300 yards away), some nice lightning wouldn't go amiss.

Indeed; just posted that in the storms thread.

Yes, not noticeably humid here in Norfolk.

On radar, the northern part of this front or whatever it is has weakened massively.

Still in the club for 2022.

Can anyone possibly explain the difference between these two measures and their relevance to atmospheric instability, please? I've read articles online on theta-e but they make it sound so, for the want of a better word, random - take this parcel of air, raise it, lower it, cool it, warm it, add it to a Sunday roast and you can calculate something that roughly equates to dewpoint is about all I understood of them! Theta-w is, I understand, based on the wet-bulb temperature, and therefore is also related to dewpoint in the sense that moister air will have a wet bulb temperature closer to that of the dry bulb value to to a lack of evaporative cooling. Cheers!

Thanks mate for that summary!

Yes, I'm following those.

Any thoughts as to arrival times for storms in my area?

Been out all day, so missed the conversation here - I presume storms are still expected to drift NE overnight?

Cells in Channel further east - could they affect my area?

Have you seen the increase in lighting actvity over Sussex heading our way?

Might well be something for you later.

Petrichor.

True!

Ironically, those outside Norfolk are often referred to by Norfolk natives as "furriners".

I'd always trust radar over modelling.

I was being light-hearted, hence the emoji. I actually think they might affect more of E. Anglia than you suggest, but we'll see.

FYI, there is land on the far side of the Thames Estuary - it's called "East Angular" and people, like me, live there.

Are you at Uni ATM? Might get the cells that have appeared SW of the main area of ppn.

Met Office no longer involved in BBC forecasts apart from Warnings. Forecasting now comes from MeteoGroup which is a European company owned by an American group. I'm reliably informed that they mainly foreast from the ECMWF model.

Here in Norfolk I think we're slightly closer to you than North London is, so you might see ours if they last.

Storms are currently in Channel opposite Brighton.

23.4C at my nearest Weather Underground reporting site, with 65% RH.

Strange.