Severe Weather - Monday 17th Oct

[Polar Bear]

there does seem to be rather a hole appearing in the band of rain doesn't there?

What hope have we of ever ending this drought if even the most actice of weather fronts cannot penetrate the 'dead zone's' rain sheild?

*groans*

Hey all

Just checked the rainfall radar and this front is moving quite fast isnt it! FRo 7.30pm to 8pm it has covered some ground.

I am probably stating the obvoius and would welcome some comments.

PB

[Andy Bown]

Stunning long squall line on the radar!

[sunny scunny]

It's just started chucking it down, but it won't last for long.

[Liam J]

Pretty clear here, feeling chilly in the wind and the heating has been turned up a notch!

Recorded my 2nd highest gust since January 2005 today @ 76mph which is the third highest I've ever recorded. The boxing day storm 1998 still untouched @ 91.3mph and January 2005 @ 88.4mph

[Terminal Moraine]

It looked impressive on the radar but nothing to get excited about here as the squall line passed through. A few minutes of fairly heavy rain and a rapid decrease in wind strength.

[picog]

Squall line just arrived here, rained for about 30 seconds, and now nothing!

Edited October 17, 2011 by picog

[A.J]

Just passed through here, TBH, not a lot to report, marked decrease in wind, and 5 minutes of light/moderate rain

[Marcus_surfer]

It's passing here now, gales then a decrease in wind with torrential rain

[Costa Del Fal]

Squall just reached here. 5 minutes of very heavy rain, strong Breeze but as ever no proper wind here but decent rain. Soaking wet in about 30 seconds!

Radar showed the squall intensified right over us for a change! Rarely does here see intensification of rain where no where else does!

[itsnowjoke]

Raining here but nowt to shout about. Windy but not as windy as. a hour ago. Temp 10c

[cyclonic happiness]

I really wish it would get a move on!

That fat cow of a neighbour of ours is standing at the bus stop across the road, and I'd hate for her to miss it!

[Isolated Frost]

I really wish it would get a move on!

That fat cow of a neighbour of ours is standing at the bus stop across the road, and I'd hate for her to miss it!

Never laughed so much for quite a while. Cheers for that ch!

[itsnowjoke]

I would like to say good evening to all.

[Polar Bear]

you got to admit that squall line looks pretty cool on the radar. Hope someone keeps several shots of it for future ref. PB

[SP1986]

Nothing much happened here, a little rain went through, heavy for roughly half a minute, and then it moved away, not much wind associated with it either.Only 4.1mm of rain recorded.

Edit: That 4.1mm is today entire rainfall.

Only 2.3mm fell during the 'event', The other 1.8mm fell in showers throughout the day.

[TonyH]

Lack of warnings seems right by the sounds..

[AderynCoch]

I was caught in it as it passed through at about 6:30pm. It went directly from dryness to torrential rain in a matter of seconds, though you could see things gradually deteriorating from the northwest. It moved through pretty quickly though, and it's gone decidedly chilly. Very windy either side of it too.

[Liam J]

All in all a very interesting day, and in some locations pretty severe by any standards in terms of wind speed especially for Northern parts of NW England. I recorded storm force 10 mean speeds of around 55mph+ and a top gust of 76mph just ahead of the cold front which did not produce any dramatic rainfall and passed very quickly.

I find it quite odd that warnings barely mentioned the wind speeds when model guidance in the run up to todays event showed confidence in extemely windy conditions affecting places, instead warnings focused on rainfall which was nothing of note really. However storm force winds and gusts towards 80mph is very noteworthy in my book.

Perhaps it was the fact that there wasn't a wide area at risk from damaging winds so the impact would be deemed small.

Edited October 17, 2011 by Liam J

[wimblettben]

I have just checked our local weather forecaster Ian Ferguson and was quite shocked to see him say that when the rainband crosses us later that wind gusts will range from 45-55mph!

Now that is very strong gusts for us in the south and it is quite rare for him to mention speeds that strong.

[cyclonic happiness]

Passed by here now with very heavy rain but next to no wind though.

The best thing to see is how the wind changed direction within the space of around 30 seconds, that in itself is worth watching.

There was an impressive temperature drop too!

[Raytheon]

Yeovil, Somerset - gunna stay up for this one. Only question now is can it get here before the thread times out midnight

Cool with a light breeze at the moment

Edited October 17, 2011 by Raytheon

[Wilxy]

Not far away from us now and very strong winds at the moment will be intresting once its passed through.

[TonyH]

Yeovil, Somerset - gunna stay up for this one. Only question now is can it get here before the thread times out midnight

Cool with a light breeze at the moment

Probably just before midnight for you, however its fragmenting and thinning all the time.

[Arnie Pie]

Tonights squall line as it passed through Birmingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRP3wHQyiyU

there wasn`t no thunder by the way

Edited October 17, 2011 by Arnie Pie

[J10]

Very windy here today with Winds at Mumbles* average over 40mph for much of the day, and with gusts peaking at over 60mph around 8pm. However over the cold front passed though the temps dropped 4c in a hour, and the winds have completely died. Pretty wet as well with around 15-20mm of rain, most of this in the past 6 hours.

* Notorious for high winds to be fair.