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My Billy No Mates shower has passed through, the most threatening of the clouds have gone and the sun is out again.
From an IMBY perspective, let’s see what this evening brings but for those currently getting the action.....enjoy.
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Just started raining here but looking at the radar it’s a rogue shower with most of the activity still about 10 miles to my south and west.
TBH after yesterday’s mopping out I’m happy with missing the heaviest of the rain but I would like to see a decent thunderstorm to add to yesterday’s funnel cloud.
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Dry and sunny here but some amazing cloud formations and very dark down towards Manchester way.
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8 minutes ago, damianslaw said:
A couple of heavy downpours here but nothing especially heavy or long lasting, nor thundery. Heard a few distant rumbles. The showers have banded in lines today, some places have got lucky and escaped, others a persistant deluge. Also marked difference, east of Pennines, dry.
Tomorrow could bring widespread long lasting heavy downpours anywhere.
Agreed
while we were clearing water out of the conservatory, my daughter was sat in her garden only 10 miles away in West Yorkshire.
they haven’t had a drop of rain all day.
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After a two hour deluge it’s stopped raining here.
what the final rainfall figure was, I don’t know but we’ve emptied a large mop bucket six times with water that flooded into the conservatory so if someone needs a bit of water, it’s free to anyone who wants to collect it from the Irwell.
should be well on it’s way towards Bury by now.
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Well that should save me watering the plants tonight
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7 minutes ago, Snow free zone said:
looking at the current radar images its groundhog day x 3 here
And here
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1 hour ago, East Lancs Rain said:
Yes it was nice opening the curtains to overcast skies and dampness instead of the usual bright and sunny skies we have got so used to. Wonder how long it will be before we get fed up of it and start moaning about the rain again!
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Am I ok to be fed up of it already
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Temperature briefly reached 26c before dropping back slightly which according to my unofficial sensor makes it the warmest day of the year so far here.
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1 hour ago, cheshire snow said:
The breakdown looks very brief Wednesday looks like the day that the gardens will receive some welcome rain however temperatures of 17c wont feel cold,Thursday looking like a decent day with sunny intervals,and then friday looks settled with unbroken Sunshine and temperatures starting to nudge up again then its into FI but high pressure looks like dominating once again
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I can stand a brief breakdown and as you said, the gardens really need some rain.
just hope your right with the swift return to dry and sunny although a suppose some wet weather would keep more people at home which can only be better in fighting the virus.
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3 minutes ago, Rush2112 said:
22° according to my garden thermometer. For those of us who like these conditions, we are really being spoilt for spring. The first day of meteorological summer is upon us but already I'm noticing more cracked, parched ground. My mums lawn is beginning to turn yellow and one of her dhalias has snuffed it. Clear blue sky earlier, fair weather cloud now bubbling up.
Yeah we reached 22c today, down from 25c yesterday and 24c on Thursday but still not bad for May.
just a shame about the breeze which’ as well as taking the edge of the feel of the heat has been blowing a lot of dust about.
anyway a couple more days of dry, sunny and warm weather before signs of a breakdown in the middle of next week.
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33 minutes ago, carinthian said:
Costa del Fylde, currently England's Hot Spot with Blackpool topping the chart with 26.1 c. Great to see the NW getting some nice weather.
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According to last nights news it is is also pretty much the nations hot spot as regards Coronavirus cases so let’s just hope that the hot, sunny conditions don’t attract crowds to the beaches and promenade.
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59 minutes ago, Had Worse said:
No rain here and the brook is down to a trickle.
Mossy Lee a mile past Old Glossop
Streams around here are the same to the point where some have now completely dried up.
Some of the damage to local river banks caused by Storm Ciara is still visible but looking at the amount of water going down them now, it’s difficult to imagine just how much rain is needed to cause that destruction.
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13 minutes ago, Snow free zone said:
Yes agreed. Any kind of E in the wind direction for us here and you can more or less forget about rain. Even in the cooler spells we managed some sun to take any chill off the temps.
Just like Damian said above, at the moment there doesnt seem to be any half way house, its either bone dry or your left wondering when the rain is going to stop ...... nothing in between.
I doubt it’s a long term pattern change but maybe the British climate Is turning into something similar to that of most of the planet where seasons aren’t just a case of hot and cold but with major fluctuations between wet and dry.
I don’t know whether I’d fancy a Caribbean climate with heavy showers almost every day between June and September then pretty much dry for the rest of the year but a Southern European one of hot and dry summers followed by plenty of winter rain has its advantages.
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2 hours ago, Snow free zone said:
Interesting reading the above .... since the start of the covid lockdown (end march) its been notably dry here in this part of the NW. Little or no frontal rainfall, we had a thunderstorm late March i seem to remember but as for prolonged rainfall nothing of any note since the floods in Feb. Looking at the forecast for the next 7 days there's no rain on the horizon either.
Reservoirs - well below normal levels
Incredibly dry and incredibly sunny.
It certainly hasn’t been day after day of warmth up here and some some days have been decidedly coolish especially back in April and parts of early May when we had a nagging easterly wind but some decent heat has certainly arrived now and the 25c my thermometer is showing is plenty warm enough for me.
all I all though, I can’t remember a better period of spring weather.
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7 minutes ago, johnholmes said:
Not sure why you say as the end of your first sentence?
Most in northern England were above average levels only a couple of weeks ago according Yorkshire and Trent authorities?
Sorry John but in the north west region, the reservoir levels are well below average and approaching the same point where they brought in restrictions a couple of years ago.
i can’t speak for other regions although a couple of local Pennine reservoirs owned by Yorkshire Water are also getting pretty down.
TBH my initial statement was a little Tongue in cheek and more to do with the irony of water restrictions usually being followed by a change to wet weather but it has been exceptionally dry in this part of the country and one of the driest extended periods I can remember.
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8 minutes ago, damianslaw said:
Once again we have flipped for extreme wet to extreme dry, this has happened quite a few times though to perhaps not quite the same degree dry to wet and wet to dry, but still notable. A flip happened March 95, after a very wet period culminating in a very wet winter, we then had a very dry period, notably so in the summer, the extended dry spell lasting until Spring 97, then a flip back to very wet...
A lesser extreme flip happened in Spring 05, not long after the very wet January, a change to more blocked dry conditions lasting through until Autumn 06, then a lengthy wet period again.. becoming brokered in the winter of 08/09 a bit, but then followed a very wet November. A flip then occurred to a dry period culminating in the very dry Spring 11, thereafter a generally wet spell ensued, with a blip in March 12 which was very dry, a very wet 5 month period thereafter..
Even the very wet autumn and exceptional rains of Dec 15, were followed by a drier second half to winter with quite a bit of high pressure.
We seem to get stuck in long sustained patterns thanks to a buckled jetstream. No coincidence this is happening at a time of solar minima, just like the 95-97 period, and the 07-10 period. Periods of abnormal dry and wet.
One that still sticks in my mind was the breakdown that followed the long hot summer of 1976.
3 months of heatwave and drought followed by one of the wettest Septembers on record certainly topped the reservoirs back up again.
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1 hour ago, cheshire snow said:
Looking fantastic for the week ahead although some in the MOD already looking for the breakdown Really?? of course this spell will break down eventually but lets enjoy it whilst we can.
Really do think the MOD Thread should be split again into the 7 day outlook and then the day 8-16 day who think a day 12 chart will verify (that includes the winter season as well)
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The breakdown to wet and cool conditions will come either as we move out of lockdown or a hose pipe ban is introduced and looking at reservoir levels and given at least another week of dry conditions , I can see that not being too far away.
it will be interesting to see what the rainfall totals for May end up being, probably under 10mm for parts of the region and that is on the back of an exceptionally dry April and long dry spells in March.
February’s floods seem a long time ago now.
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Just reached 22c here.
i can just about remember holidays abroad and maybe some day I can enjoy one again but this sort of temperature suits me fine.
anyway the grass is cut so time to crack open a cold
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15 minutes ago, carinthian said:
Whats the weather like this morning in the North west ? Hopefully, sunny and less windy !
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Clear blue sky, light breeze and getting pretty warm here.
No doubt the usual honeypots will be busy with visitors today but TBH the scenery in the Rossendale Valley takes some beating on days like these and thankfully I can enjoy it by leaving the car behind and walking from my front door.
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1 hour ago, Ramp said:
I'll take that, just seen the first glimmer of sun today too
Same here, It always feels much better when rain clears and the sun puts an appearance in.
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The rain has stopped but after the weather of recent weeks, it’s still a bit of a reality check.
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Not the nicest of weather here at the moment, damp breezy and cool.
hopefully something a bit drier will move in but looking at the radar, this is forming right above my head so it could hang around for some time.
anyway much as I don’t like wet weather, it will help the gardens.
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11th of May and it’s trying to snow here.
North West Regional Discussion 3 June 2020 onwards
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After a dry start the forecast showers have reached here, absolutely hammering it down at the moment.