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It was just the relentless rain of 13-14 which drove me to near despair! For 2 months there was hardly a day where I didn't get soaked walking to lectures. Vile winter that was. I would have taken a boring, mild southwesterly by February. It got to the point where I didn't care whether it was cold or not, I just wanted dry weather.
I'd be happy never to see a winter like that again.
I'll probably seem like a nutter to some but I found that winter relatively exciting and certainly interesting from rain and wind point of view (and rivers levels, being into hydrology/geography and doing a dissertation on rivers.. just a shame we build on floodplains), and wish I was here in Devon to see some of the big storms we had.. I had been waiting ages to see/record such storms, the sea must have been spectacular at times.
Having said that I did get a bit fed up of the lack of cold/snow/frost, and my ideal winter would be one with plenty of cold/snowy spells after I have got my storm fix in late Autumn.
As for this winter, well I don't really know what will happen so can only talk about what my hopes might be (better/more potent cold spells)
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Foggy start again with a min of 3.6C, now clouded over. Yesterday was hazy with the sky only properly blue if you looked upwards, weak sun, and limited visibility.. so the high had become quite dirty really.
Time for a different form of interest and a new airmass to refresh things.
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I guess it must be as I have often noticed it's low readings. I assume they would check that it's correct.
Ravensworth got down to -2.7C on the 2nd according to the Met Office.
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Hope the unsettled wearher is toned down. Looks dreadful.
This high has been lovely but can get a little boring after a while, as long as it doesn't end up cloudy for days I'm fine with it.
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Not experienced by myself, but an amazing range at Braemar yesterday (1.10.15). -2c to 22.7C! Braemar was both the warmest and the coldest place in the UK on the same day.
That also happened on the last day of September, with Braemar going from -1.3C to 24.0C. In fact this was both the coldest and warmest temperature recorded in the UK during September!
See http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries
The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 24.0 °C was recorded at Braemar (Aberdeenshire) on the 30th, and a minimum temperature of -1.3 °C was recorded at Braemar (Aberdeenshire), also on the 30th. -
We seem to have a thing for 20.5C ranges here..
28th Mar 2012: 20.5C (0.3C to 20.8C)
29th Mar 2012: 20.5C (-0.2C to 20.3C) (so it fell 21.0C from the 28th to the 29th.. guess that would be a day in the 0900-0900 system).
13th Jul 2013: 20.5C (8.7C to 29.2C)
Also:
24th May 2010: 20.3C (4.6C to 24.9C)
19th Apr 2011: 20.0C (1.9C to 21.9C)
As for this year..
15th April: 19.9C (2.2C to 22.1C)
7th April: 19.8C (-0.7c to 19.1C)
20th Apr: 19.4C (-0.6C to 18.8C)
Most of these could have been a couple degrees higher if it wasn't for the onset of a sea breeze, being a few miles from the coast.
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Also everyone seems to forget how sunny last winter was. Record winter sunshine if I recall correctly, nowhere near as bad as the horrors of the 13/14 winter.
Even that was sunnier than average for most in England, which defeats the idea that proper Atlantic driven weather is generally grey and dull.
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Braemar had a min of -1.3C and a max of 24.0C yesterday, quite impressive. I'm sure the BBC forecast said it was both the lowest and highest temperature anywhere in the UK in September! That also shows how it was quite a bland month temp wise though.. like most of summer here.
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Hello,
I live in Dolton, North Devon, alt 106m, I have a fairly basic rain guage in our fruit garden and so far for September I have recorded 140mm of rainfall. This seems very high although the Rivers round here have risen dramatically during the month and the met office rainfall radar has shown some big rainfall build ups in this area and so it may be correct.
Does anyone else in this area keep rainfall records it would be interesting to know if anyone can corroborate my readings.
That's interesting as there has been a lot less this side of Devon at about 60mm, however I think it has been wetter on the NW side of the county and remember one day being much wetter up there so it could be correct. August was very wet here having 157mm.
Santon Downham had a min of 0.4C and a max of 18.7C yesterday, the lowest and highest temps respectively for the East of England. Impressive diurnal range: would that have been beaten anywhere in the UK this year?
I think it would have been, in fact my own station had a min of 2.2C and a max of 22.1C on the 15th April. Similar ranges on the 6th (-0.7C to 19.1C), and 20th (-0.6C to 18.8C).
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Had about 75mm here which caused some flooding but not nearly as bad as July and November form similar falls thanks to the otherwise dry September. However I had of course just started uni at Egham, Surrey where it was just a normal rain event.
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Pretty chilly this morning with a min of 3.3C (although only just beating the unusual 3.6C at the end of July). We've also had a couple traditional foggy starts followed by pleasant sunshine recently.
I know I will be very unpopular for wishing this but I actually hope we get a wet and stormy November/early December period with the jet digging south.
I quite agree, that would be a progression I'd like, a mobile/stormy Autumn with a reasonable amount of interesting weather followed by a cold/snowy winter.
Although I'd like some crisp sunny days and misty starts, there's not much I'd dislike more than a bland high-pressure dominated autumn with lots of cloud, limited temp variability and not much other weather to provide interest, coming just after the bland summer (IMBY), where high pressure in such a position this summer would have provided much better weather.
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I don't really see anything to be excited about this high pressure for me considering the BBC 10 day forecast has continual 16/17C maxima and mostly cloudy conditions (i.e bland weather), as do other on-line forecasts (Although some e.g. those based on GFS have more sun).
I'd welcome pleasant warmth into the 20's but even the ECM reflects how temps don't always reflect uppers from now on, with it only going for the high teens on the now only two days where 10C+ uppers are over us.
This should have happened a month ago. Still, I guess there may be some nice misty mornings and pleasant sunny days if we're lucky (though it may be a hazier atmosphere than sunny conditions in a westerly flow).
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While people are mentioning storms from last year I cannot help but mention the night exactly a year ago (18th Sept-19th Sept) when we had a storm between 18.00-20.00 and then a fantastic electrical storm late evening until around 02.00! It was, locally, better than what had happened on the 17th-19th July!
I remember driving to a local hill with a view NE and watching distant lightning flickering away (including forks!) from an intense storm around the NE Somerset area!
I also saw frequent lightning (every few seconds) flickering in cloud tops to the south in the early hours, and we then had a decent storm the next morning here although not quite as intense as the evening one over the Wiltshire/Somerset area.
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This year has been completely different from last
Same here.. however this year has been awful for convection when last year was great!
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This is boring.. rain band pivoting with us stuck right on the edge, so we just get stuck with light/moderate rain all afternoon but without any interesting rates/totals.. unlike just to the east.
Also means the river won't do much as ever recently whenever the ground gets wet so it would, any decent rain totals avoid up-catchment areas.
Thank god this isn't snow!
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Shame the SW is not in the risk zone like it was shown to be a few days ago.. especially as this originated over the Atlantic. Seems the SE and the continent even get the best storms/interesting weather from maritime sources lol
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The Met Office doesn't have a great record with these sort of predictions, who remembers back in 2003 after that summers record breaking heat that we (in the uk) should expect those sort of temperatures (100+F) to occur in 1 in every 3 summers.... 15 summers later and it aint happened again, so whatever long range models they use I for one would not take them too seriously............
Funny I must have gone into a coma and slept a few decades to know the outcome of those sort of predictions.
However sometimes I think it can be a bit misleading when people say '1 in 3 summers as hot as 2003', for example, as they are usually referring to mean summer temps (i.e ~2C higher than the current norm), which doesn't necessarily mean it will reach 100F+ every 3 years.
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Oops - will fix that now...
Edit - should now be working, was setup for full and lite, but not for radar extra initially, sorry about that!
No worries and thanks
There's some interesting downpours around down here this evening so fancied a peak!
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Sounds like an exciting development!
Reading Anyweather's post is the link meant to be live now? as I get
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If I remember correctly there was high pressure to our west around the start of September, so I wonder if calmer conditions there enabled some slight surface warming before more unsettled weather mixed the water up again and the cold anomaly re-strengthened a bit.
Just an idea and I'm not sure if the sea would have become calm enough out there but I know such occurs in the seas around the UK during calm summer spells, with surface stratification enabling sea surface temperatures to exceed 20C locally in the open ocean off the SW in 2014.
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Funny how now we finally get this south-easterly it's when the continent has just lost it's interesting temps and storms it seems to have had for so long..
Still, it is giving some very nice weather.
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I'm not that surprised considering there have been a few 'nowcasts' like this in recent times:
The question is would any other provider that gets the contract and the models it uses have done any better?
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Probably only 3.5/10 here. It didn't even reached 25C once IMBY, first time in my 2008-2015 records. 2012 for instance reached 27.3C in late July (and 27.5C in May). The highest was 24.6C here, and William Grimsley on this forum lives a mile west of me out of the valley and didn't exceed 23.4C! (and that was at 1:34am on the 1st July, so the highest temperature of the entire year there was in the middle of the night!!!
)There was not really any consistent warm spells, just the odd day here and there. For example a couple days around 24C in August and one more at 22C were the only days above average during the month... I did record my highest min on 1st July, otherwise cool minima were a feature and we had possible record minima at the end of July (sort of interesting but you get those temps any other time of year).
June was ok, around average for maxima, quite sunny I think and dry. July was a bit cooler and duller than usual. August was cooler and duller than usual, and very wet.
There has also been a major lack of any convective/thundery shower days with good convective skies, only a couple days recently over the whole summer! Thunder nothing special, mainly weak or distant though one overhead on the 22nd (from elevated storms).
The generally quite bland theme combined with being disappointing for proper warm spells means it gets a rather low score.. it's kind of felt as though part of summer was 'missing'. This made all the more frustrating by what has always seemed within a few hundred miles on the near continent...
So overall, not quite as poor as some 2007-2012 (though my stats suggest perhaps it has been for temperature), but much worse than 2013/2014 which were good summers here.
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After another record was broken in the uk this summer
image.jpgWhat about the record max in the same month, if we're simply talking records here?
South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 4th July and Onwards...
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Posted · Edited by Evening thunder
Mostly cloudy, showers around. 1.4mm of rain today.
It's odd, yesterday and today virtually all showers/downpours heavy enough to be of any interest are going east of here, sometimes by literally a mile or so.. It's as if there's some topographic feature to the south controlling where they form and their track, rather than just flat sea surface..
The few showers coming this way tend to be the ones that weaken/die.