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Never attached pics here before -- so please forgive me if all goes wrong .. At last some pics of the events June 28th off my camera. My camera time is fast, but I've put correct time on the titles. Here's four pics when the big storm came up from the WSW. about 3pm. This thunderstorm sneaked up on us, though MW radio had been crackling for much of the day before.. Never saw the tops of the cloud nor any retreating features. Actually, rarely saw the tops of any clouds that day. Just two brief occasions at other times, morning and evening -- which I caught on camera and will post separately. Can anyone help? Is there a wall cloud OR a shelf cloud coming towards us, showing up on nearer picture 3.13pm? Storm would be climbing up into the Bowland fells at that point, having come up from Preston direction. First thunder heard from that side 3pm First spots of rain 3.10pm. Gusty wind got up about that time onwards.. Thunder much nearer about 3.50pm and spell of very heavy rain then. Black clouds all around as the other picrures show..

Squeaked through on the last day .... Record wet June here. 213.0mm (since readings started here in 1968) Previous record was June 2007 with 210.0mm. Only 5 completely dry days. 3 more days with traces recorded.

Record wet June here. 213.0mm (since readings started here in 1968) Previous record was June 2007 with 210.0mm. Only 5 completely dry days. 3 more days with traces recorded. Fields locked up with uncut grass. TM is right. Very cold slow growing in May and early June. Little to cut till mid June. The very intensive chaps, with slurry and fertiliser drenched force fed grass, got silage done late May. and had good growth subsequently. In the slightly less rainy week, 17th -- 20th June, a few grabbed some silage but damaged their fields. It's said that in 1958 some folks up here didn't get their hay till autumn. I remember big floods that year, but wasn't living in the uplands then. Hope we aren't going to have that kind of year.

Still got to download pics of the storms from my camera. But we missed the worst as they brushed past here. Will have a look before long. Some superb Youtube videos from Redditch and Hinkley. T This from Melton Mowbray -- Also I've been sent this Weather radar for 28 June 2012 Apologies if these have been posted`already.

200.7 mm so far this month after reading gauge at 10BST . Only 8.9mm collected this morning for the previous 24hrs. We were just brushed by the big storms yesterday. Daily rainfall readings made here since 1968. June record 210.0 (June 2007) might be broken. After so much suffering and sodden gardens and farmland, it would be a great shame if we missed by the odd mm or so. Just some beefy showers needed before Monday at 10BST. All the calendar months have their maximum totals since autumn 2000, except March and April. Is there a message in that? Or just one of those things?

Would be a bit wet and wild on the top of Longridge Fell on Friday There was a strong gusty wind in the afternoon to add to the misery. Would be in cloud also. I look across towards that way and never saw the fell all day. I nipped out to empty the bottle in the 5" gauge here at the edge of dark thinking it might overflow in the night. Was about three quarters full.. There is a back up can below it, but I didn't want the hassle of trying to measure from it next morning. We have an old Dines autographic tipper here also which gave an interesting printout that day. As I mentioned in an earlier post. I'll hope to catch the EA officer when he comes to download their electronic tipper here. Unfortunately tippers in heavy steady rain miss a bit!

Thanls for these notes. Very interesting. I wonder if the Met Office data you quote is for Friday only, or for their rain recorders "day" which would normally start /end 9GMT ? Friday only here for the continuous deluge 5am to midnight, as I've already posted, had 85.4 mm. But the amount to be entered on the Met Office card for the 22nd is 72.4 mm. The spare bit goes into the total for the 21st. That's the second wettest Met Office "day" here since the gauge came in 1968. Beaten by Dec 6th 1983, when we had 76.3 mm. Suspect we might have had the wettest and longest non-stop rain though. However there might be a period of two consecutive days in October 1980 which was worse. 70.1mm on the 26th and 65.6mm on the 27th. Considerable damage at that time. An old mill dam was washed away. But like you say -- that was Oct not June! One week to go. Current monthly total is 188.2 mm. We might yet beat the wettest June 2007 which had 210.0 mm.

Spurry, we must be mad to live up here in the NW! Surprisingly, not yet rotted. Been here nearly 50 yrs and elsewhere in Lancs many generations before that. Grand day now and drying out well, though bowled some big looking clouds across to Yorks in the early afternoon.

It's a sad wet life in NW England. Someone has to volunteer to watch the rain and there's not much else to talk about.. Nice when it stops though. Like today. Bright and shiny and well washed..

I heard a report of someone in lower area about 5 miles NE of Preston who recorded "3 inches". A relative with reliable kit and AWS observations who lives 2 miles east of Carnforth (N of Lancaster) said he had "70.5mm in 24 hours". Further north, another relative in S.Lakeland, between Kendal and Windermere, picked up 42.2mm at 10BST this morning for previous 24hrs. The rain episode started here abut 5am on Friday. At 10 BST there was 17.1mm already in the daily gauge, but some would have fallen at various times in showers in the previous 24hrs. To judge from the reading on our old Dines autographic gauge on the same site, about 13mm had fallen between 5am and the official 10BST pickup time. Thereafter followed non-stop rain till evening. So for here 13.0 + 72.4 = 85.4mm for the whole event. The Environment Agency keep an elecronic tipper here also. I'll request a print out when staff visit to download. I'd expect places on the western upslopes of Bowland and Rossendale would have had similar or greater amounts. Likewise higher places east of here. Seems the OlympicTorch tour on Friday was in the thick of it.

So far this summer mostly worn winter clothes up here, as also in recent summers. Got down to shirt sleeves for a while last Thurs, 21st, when we reached 21.4C. Alas the "heat" brought out the biting clegs, just another problem as if we hadn't enough with the dreadful midge plague this year. Just invested in some midge headnets and new waterproof overtrousers. It's the only way forward ... Apart from a few days in late March and in late May there's been no pleasant conditions. Anyway it's not raining yet here. Must be thankful for that.

Some rain stats .. Rain recording daily here for Met Office since Sept 1968. 10 of the calendar months have their maximum totals in the years since 2000. The two still to succumb are March (max in 1981) and April (max in 1970) Some grumbles but no real stats -- Deteriorating summers since 2007, either too wet or too chilly. Cloudy weather the norm. We have been short of sunshine these last 12 months. Farming in the NW hills becoming very difficult. Soils cold and wet. Field drainage requiring constant attention. Whenever the sky is clear of cloud we seem to be under a regular stream of contrails. So often these expand into great veils. Our precious sunshine lost. Is anyone researching? Does anyone care?

Collected 72.4 mm at 10BST today for previous 24hrs. Rain turned showery in the night, dry since 6am. Grey all round, though cloud base is above the fells. Windy.

SW corner of the Bowland Fells. Thought the MetO daily gauge here might overflow before morning, l so decided to empty it at 9pm. Measured 55.4 mm (10am to 9pm) and that's on top of the 17.1mm collected this morning.. Still raining heavily, so there'll be more to measure tomorrow morning to complete the "day". Water here eventually finds its way into the Ribble. Floods already in many places along Lancs rivers. A worrying situation.

Atrocious. Never stopped all day. Really heavy rain drilling down at present with a very wild W wind. Rain firing off the roof in drifts. Meadow gras flattened. Max temp today only 12.0C. Now 11.0C. Pressure riisng.

Just had a peep at the gauge. I reckon we've had about 20mm since 10am. So that's upper30s mm now for this current rain event. Still bucketing down.

SW corner of Bowland. Picked up 17.1mm from the MetO gauge at 10BST this morning for previous 24hrs. Been lashing down ever since. Wind since noon gone strong and gusty. So far this month we've has 110.1mm. June average 98.8mm. (since 1968) Wettest June was in 2007 with 210.00mm. OlympicTorch sailing through Lancs lowlands out west.

Sept so far 161.7mm. Sept average since 1968 is 134.3mm. Only one dry day so far this month. Record wettest Sept was last year with 274.3mm. Same MO site, same daily gauge throughout. All the calendar months, other than March, have their record wettest totals since October 2000. The rainfall has increased up here.

Mardatha. When I was a student .... and that was a long long time ago .... we used to be puzzle over the notion of Continental Drift. Memos often tucked away in the back pages of a text book. Some simple evidence seemed to be there, but no mechanism had been found. Of course Continetal Drift has been subsequently well researched, understood and accepted and renamed plate tectonics. Or are there some who would challenge the findings? So on to the Gulf Stream. Such an important subject in muy view. Personally, up in these parts, I've found the last 3 awful summers and the last 2 cold winters "interesting". I've seen it written or heard it said, that if the Gulf Stream seriously slowed we could have a climate in the UK similar to that of Newfoundland. Now and then, when I remember, I've been comparing daily readings / forecasts between the UK and Newfoundland and we haven't been that much different this summer, certainly not up here in these chilly wet NW hills. Seems simplistic, but, for starters, I can't see how we can lose so much ice in the Arctic so quickly without it having some sort of knock on effect on weather patterns elsewhere. While most uf us can only puzzle, I just hope some serious research is taking place and findings published. Does anyone have a link to any research already undertaken on the Gulf Stream?

What hopes tonight? Has anyone clear sky? Cloudy here alas so far. Image courtesy Spaceweather.

Next Monday, Tour of Britain Cycle Race, Stage 2, scheduled to go from Kendal to Blackpool via the western fringes of the NW Pennines. Do they ever cancel stages? Seems to me it could be very dangerous up here for riders, supporting vehicles and thousands of spectators on exposed and tree lined country lanes.

We are due a big blow. Not had a serious one for a bit. As for ex Hurricanes --- Remnants of Hurricane Danny crashed through these parts Sept 2 and 3 2009. Brought some trees down. I also remember tail end of Hurricane Charlie hitting us late July or very early August mid 1980s. Flattened my sweet peas and drenched a relative cycling over Carter Bar on his way to Edinburgh.

Another poor summer. Short of sunlight and warmth. Top temps on 3 June, with max 26.6C. Very few days felt hot. Too much rain up here. Wettest day 10th Aug with 70.0mm. Only 23 dry days in the 3 "summer" months. Poor production from the veg garden for 3rd year in succession. Hoping for a warm dry autumn.

Well, is it relevant or isn't it? That's the whole point CR. Have a look at the link. There's quite a lot about Japan and Fukushima there. . I was hoping some experts on here could have commented. Is the fluctuation shown in Germany associated with rain-out from weather systems in the last month or so? And where did the radiation come from? I suspect Fukushima must have contributed some.

Has anyone comments to make on this? http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/07/mapping_the_dynamic_changes_of_nuclear_radiation_over_germany.html#extended Interesting video on that link showing results from German geiger counters. Natural or man made effects? Any connection to Fukushima?