Evening thunder

For me it has to be the Freak hail storm that hit the Ottery St Mary area of east Devon overnight 29th - 30th October for the most memorable anyway. Staying in West Hill (near Ottery) that night not being able to get to sleep until about 2:30am because of heavy hail hitting the skylight and very bright lightning/very loud thunder every 10 seconds or more frequent was quite an experience. Some of the aftermath was quite amazing too including a lane blocked by mud/hail 8 foot deep and big chunks of the bank and hedge next to the road missing. The River Otter got higher than ive ever seen it although I didn't see it at that point near its highest just saw the pics. Apparently The Kings School, Ottery recorded 187mm of rain!!! Met Office report Here Of course many homes were flooded and and lots of damage done by floods so I'm not sure if it was my favorite or not just the most memorable for most people around here! The night into the 13th December there was more flooding problems again as 40mm of rain fell onto probably frozen ground with some very heavy rain. The ice day on the last day of the year was also quite good. Snow back in April although not nearly as much as further east and it didn't really settle here was just almost the only snow we got. Just picking some examples of events I remember not sure which was my favorite but the hailstorm was definitely the most memorable and extreme and was about the only exceptional event of the year as well as being the only decent thunderstorm.

Rainfall recorded by my Davis VP2 weather station in the small village of Harpford. January: 86.4mm February: 27.8mm March: 112.2mm April: 66.8mm May: 98.6mm June: 44.1mm July: 105.3mm August: 100.8mm September: 90.8mm October: 110.8mm November: 56.2mm December: 73.0mm Yearly Total: 972.8mm About 122.8mm above the average total for Teignmouth.

late aswell but ill have a go at 2.6c

Temp got down to -5.4c here earlier before misty low moved in which has brought the temperature up to a balmy -3.5c! Light breeze with this cloud now which meant the windchill a short while ago was -6.7c As of 7:40 Temp: -3.5c Humidity: 92% Dewpoint: -4.6c Windchil: -5.4c Wind: 3-7mph Pressure: 1027.0 mb Max today: -3.4c @ 7:38 Min today: -5.4c @ 6:18 Rain today 0.0mm

About 5 minutes ago from Model thread: 415 User(s) are reading this topic (257 Guests and 3 Anonymous Users) Ooh i wonder what the latest model run is showing...

A very interesting thread here SH, which i like to read through when i get the time to. Its nice to have reports from other places in the world than the UK. some great pics especially in the last report, that was a nice looking supercell. I must admit this thread sometimes makes me feel a little jealous too. wish we had more good storms here in the summer. Have a great new year

After a night like yesterday - cloud constantly drifting in off the channel which stopped a frost and causing the temperature to rise to 2.9c, as we approach sunrise the sky suddenly almost completly clears but with very little time for a frost to form. :wacko: Temp just dropped to 1.7c high of 2.9c at 7:42 low of 0.3c at 1 minute past midnight.

Ramp level 6 - Netweather crashes! :lol:

The colour of this text says a lot about the weather here today and most of the last week. As of 9:00 Temp: 7.9C Dewpoint: 6.3C Humidity: 90% Wind: Calm 0-2mph Wind dir: ESE pressure: 1034.5mb Max temp today: 9.1C @ 02:23 min temp today: 7.8C @ 08:33 High gust today: 10mph @ 02:08 Rain today: 0.0mm Average temp has been gradually getting cooler by about 0.5 - 1C for the last 5 days with little day-night variation due to the cloud and AC gloom

Come on guys this is a very good LRF IMO. If you expect every little detail in a forecast like this to be correct then you must be living in la la land. Anyway here on Friday night my anemometer at the bottom of a valley and not very well positioned (being slightly sheltered from the South and NE and not as high as it should be) recorded a top gust of 42mph which although not the worst by any means is notable. we also had a fall of 40mm of rain in less than 12 hours (which probably only occurs on average once a year or less.) The weather is far too complicated to know with any certainty and detail what will happen over a whole season! Its nice to have a forecast of what might happen with the weather and well done to them for sticking your necks out and constructing a good forecast. Its more than the Met Office say anyway who just say 'Above average but less mild than last year' don't want to sound like I'm having a rant just trying to post my thoughts and don't want to offend anyone. I meant to say this earlier but a nicely put together forecast which is coming along very well so far. I know I couldn't have made a forecast like this and if I had it would have most likely gone quite wrong. Be interesting to see if the rest of the forecast verifies as January in particular sounds quite interesting.

Yes would be the answer Its currently -4.1C here the coldest of the winter so far. :lol: touched -4.2C just before 6am but has leveled out about -4C since Weather: mostly clear. Sky: 2 octas stratocumulus Temp: -4.1C Dew: -5.2C Humidity: 92% Pressure: 1022.4mb Wind: Calm 0mph

Cold and very frosty here now -3.6C I must say the temperature has been fluctuating quite a bit here too and im on the bottom of a valley floor. At 6:50 the temp was -3.6C then at 7:05 it was -2.9C now its -3.6C again. its been doing this more than usual through the night.

Well from near todays max of 8.2C the temp has dropped 4C in the last hour! ..and is now at 3.9C. I have a feeling it could be a tad chilly tonight.

An air frost here this morning with a min temp of -0.7C Currently beautifully clear and sunny with a clear blue sky and frost melting in the sun. Just some high cirrus to the far south and southwest as of 9:55 Temp: 1.3C Dewpoint: 0.3C Humidity: 93% Wind: calm 0-2mph N Pressure: 1014.2mb min today: -0.7 @ 8:20 max today: 7.2C @ 0:14 max gust today: 17mph @ 0:23 rain today: 0.0mm

Nothing at all down here as usual. All we've had is a few mins of sleety rain when it was still dark last tuesday morning. In fact November came in just above average here.. last time I saw settling snow here was March 2006 which was just a dusting. before that Nov 05 was quite good in places round here.

Already down to 0.6C here with a frost already forming. Shame we have this low coming in through the night otherwise it could have got very cold tonight. Max today: 5.1C @ 14:24 Min today: -0.7C @ 7:25

Some November 2008 Weather Stats... Highest Max: 15.2°C, 59.4°F (15th November) Lowest Max: 3.3°C, 37.9°F (29th November) Highest Min: 10.8°C, 51.5°F (15th November) Lowest Min: -2.5°C, 27.5°F (29th November) Highest daily mean: 12.3°C, 54.2°F (15th November) Lowest daily mean: 1.1°C, 33.9°F (29th November) Monthly mean: 7.9°C, 46.3°F (Near or slightly above average) Mean max: 11.0°C, 51.9°F Mean min: 4.3°C, 39.8°F Avg wind speed: 4.4mph Max wind gust: 36mph (23rd November) Rainfall: 56.2mm (below average) Max daily rain: 15.8mm (10th November) (more or equal to) Days of rain > 0.2mm: 25 (Quite a lot of these days were 0.2mm of dew or frost melt) Days of rain > 2mm: 8 Days of rain > 20mm: 0 Minimums under 0C: 4 Maximums under 5C: 2 Maximums under 10C: 8 Days with sleet/snow falling: 0 Days with thunder heard: 0

This morning was quite interesting as I think we had a small case of freezing rain/sleet here because it started raining with a bit of sleet mixed in about 6am and brought the temperature up from around -3C to 1C however the ground was still cold which meant that cars and roads ended up with a thin layer of ice on them in places. quite dangerous on the roads I would guess for the short while it lasted and you couldn't tell what was water and what was ice at times. it had melted by around 10am I think now its cold wet and miserable here. temp: 5.2C Dewpoint: 4.0C Humidity: 92% Wind: calm Pressure: 1003.6mb rain rate: 1.0 mm/hr Max temp today: 6.6C @ 11:58 Min temp today: -3.2C @ 03:50 High gust today: 19mph @ 12:08 Rain today: 7.6mm

The temperature here seems to have leveled out at about 2.3C for now. got down to -2.5C last night but then rose to just below freezing as a breeze picked up just before 7am, Thick white frost this morning. Just as I type this the temp rises to 2.4C B) Frost all gone now with a fresh breeze blowing. As of 12:15 temp: 2.4C Dewpoint: 0.8C Humidity: 89% windchill: -1.4C wind: 9mph gusting 25mph wind direction: North pressure: 992.1mb

A very nice day with a min of -2.2C this morning and a frost although not too frosty then a clear sunny day with a max of 7.3C. although the temp rose to around 0C just before the sun came up. Now clear and calm with an air frost already formed and a temp of -0.7C. as of 7:20pm Temp: -0.7C Humidity: 89% Dewpoint: -2.3C Wind: calm 0mph 'gusting' 2mph Pressure: 1028.8mb High temp today: 7.3C @ 13:30 Low temp today: -2.2C @ 06:43 Max gust today: 22mph @ 10:25 rain today: 0.0mm

This is Amaising! Thunderstorm here with lightning about every 10 seconds with incredible Hail! had about 20 mins of heavy hail earlier which left it all white outside! then it eased to heavy rain and now back to incredible hail again which is stopping and starting in short bursts. lightning getting quite clost with loud thunder! im about 3 miles from my own house staying at friends which also means i dont have my camera or readings from my weather station! 2 really close strikes now with thunder a split second after lightning! using laptop unpluged and i think its bye till this is over!

Dry and bright with some sun atm after yesterdays 38mm of rain here. The river Otter has gone down a lot but the river Exe is still very high this morning http://eathorvertonwebcam.org.uk/index2.html thats a great webcam to see the height of the river Exe, yesterday evening it was over the fields you can see in the corner of cam 2! Stats now as of 9:00 Out temp: 14.6C Dew point: 12.8 Humidity: 89% Pressure: 992.9 hpa Wind: 3 gust 6mph (S) Rain today: 0.0mm

Yep can confirm that as it runs about 50 - 100 meters behind my house! been some really torrential downpours today. Here's some pics i've taken today - taken directly off my camera so hard to pick the best ones. These were taken about 4:30 this afternoon and the river has come up more since then taken from my house a bit later on Tried to take pictures a short while ago of the river and just down the lane from me where the lane is under more than 2 foot of water from the river - but it was too dark then so they didn't come out very well. 38.0mm of rain here since midnight :o Edit: repeated an image twice and added the wrong image :o

I don't have much to show for any thunderstorms around here... mainly because there haven't been any good night time storms since summer 2006 here. this is a freeze frame from a storm near here sometime in June but that's all ive managed to capture so far. The quality isn't great.

Mild, damp and overcast just like the last 4 mornings. road is damp from overnight drizzle. Out Temp: 15.9c Dewpoint: 14.6c Heat index: 16.2c Humidity: 92% Wind: 1mph 'gusting' 3mph NW-SW pressure: 1022.1 hpa Min temp today: 15.0c at 05:07 high wind gust: 7mph at 06:46 rain today: 0.2mm