18th August 2011 Weather & General Chat

[Andy Bown]

Back from Spain where the lowest temp was 21c to a current max on a summer afternoon of 12.8c after being used to 33c - 35c!

Hardly a cloud seen for 10 days and now a day of thorough dullness and heavy rain at times!

[SteveB]

Pressure 1011.1hPa

Temp 13.3c

Max Temp 13.3c

Min Temp 11.1c

Humidity 88%

Dewpoint 11.3c

Rainfall 2.0mm

Monthly Rainfall 44.0mm

[TonyH]

Clear and very cool last night.

Rather cloudy, some sunny intervals to 1100. Sunny spells and rather warm 11-1330. Rather cloudy again since but dry.

Light to moderate variable then NNW breeze.

Min: 6.4c @ 0300

Max: 21.2c @ 1330 (1c adjustment)

Rain yesterday and today: Trace.

Currently: Cloudy, cool.

Temp: 15.7c

RH: 76%

Pressure: 1015mbar, rising slowly.

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and cloudy morning and early afternoon with a thick veil of Ast. The cloud began to move away to the south east by mid-afternoon allowing a few sunny intervals but cloud has thickened from the south west in the last hour and a half.

Interestingly the lowest cloud is moving from the north/north west whereas all the cloud above it is moving from the south west.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 14.3c

Max' today, 15.9c

Min' last night, 9.9c

Grass min', 6.8c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t, nil

Sunshine today, 0.63 hrs

Mean wind speed, 5 mph SE

Highest gust today, 21 mph SE at 1446 g.m.t

7 oktas Cst, Acu ,Cu and St fractus

Vis', 40 km.

[J10]

A second day in a row which was much better than forecast, it seems we were in the best spot, in between the heavy rain to the South East and far enough east to avoid the cloud to the west, so a dry morning with variable cloud, mostly sunny during the afternoon, mixed cloud again the evening. max temps 17C, but feeling warm in the sun.

[Kent Snow]

15.0C, overcast, light rain, wind from the N/NE, 1012mb.

[egret]

OK , just scrolled the thread and no posts from Dorset, so here you are:

8.00 torrential rain between Dorchester and Poole, but dry in Poole. Late morning to mid day 3 hours heavy rain with torrential bursts accompanied by some thunder and lightning in Bournemouth and Poole.

Afternoon overcast and drizzle / showers. Still overcast now.

Reflecting what Old Met Man commented on earlier, I too struggle to understand why Met Office did not catch onto this earlier, at 7.00 they were giving 20% chance of heavy rain, when their own radar was sending a very different picture. In effect, not even a good 'nowcast'

I would welcome some commentary (with hindsight) as to what changed and caught the forecasters out.

Edited August 18, 2011 by egret

[Jon Somerset]

Avoided worst of rain here and had steady light rain most of the day instead. Grey sky with little variance until sun appeared during setting. 12C all day rising to 13C by evening.

Ghastly.

[Isolated Frost]

Currently away from home, in Gateshead, NW Radar saying rain coming, after avoiding any rain today, it finally began here at 2100.

Currently light rain with some stronger, heavier bursts, a little bit of heavy stuff to come. About 5-10mm/hour, heavier bursts at about 15-20mm/hour.

[Stargazer]

Heavy rain from around 1100 to 1500; lighter rain most of the rest of the day but even then with some heavy bursts. Exceptionally cold too, and probably the wettest day we've had since July 2007. Maximum 14.9 (around midnight), minimum 11.4 (lunchtime). Wind moderate NE.

[Zenarcher]

Started off mostly cloudy but cleared up in the afternoon and stayed clear for the rest of the day. Was calm as well.