East Anglia & The Southeast - Regional Discussion

[john pike]

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ukmo2.php?nh=0&carte=1594&ech=0&archive=0

ukmo rainfall prediction for the weekend to sunday

tomorrow looks dry

saturday am showers pm dry but cold

sunday pm onwards very wet

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ukmo2.php?nh=0&carte=1007&ech=0&archive=0

850 upper temperatures look chilly to me

to give an idea of temperatures

tomorrow looks fairly dry temps 8-11 degrees in the south east

saturday dull and chilly

8-9 degrees

showers on and off although a drier afternoon

sunday warmer but with heavy showers

monday again slightly warmer

heavy rain with strenghtening south westerly wind

[Guest archiesmummy]

Thanks jp informative as usual! Don't eat too many chocolate eggs this weekend!

[john pike]

Thanks jp informative as usual! Don't eat too many chocolate eggs this weekend!

thanks archiesmummy

me and chocolate mmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?mode=2&ech=6

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?mode=2&ech=204

calling a drought is like washing your car or the start of the cricket season

[john pike]

nothing exciting for cold or warm lovers

plenty of precipitation on the ensembles

which will at least help the drought

[Anthonyb]

Beautiful in the sunshine across London town today. Just had a coffee outside in a t shirt.

I'm glad it never turned that cold this week, apart from yesterday's chilly day and this mornings frost its been relatively mild.

Fingers crossed to a warm April end

[Suburban Streamer]

Beautiful in the sunshine across London town today. Just had a coffee outside in a t shirt.

I'm glad it never turned that cold this week, apart from yesterday's chilly day and this mornings frost its been relatively mild.

Fingers crossed to a warm April end

Hope u had a jumper for the afternoon!

Some hope for May....according to gp

[john pike]

18z ensembles

average to below average temperatures

very wet which will help the drought

happy easter all

Edited April 8, 2012 by john pike

[Anthonyb]

18z ensembles

average to below average temperatures

very wet which will help the drought

happy easter all

:-( not liking that.

I guess media and Internet can stop making out we are the new Sahara now. Pathetic - considering we are one of the wettest islands in Europe.

Hoping for a hot and sunny may

[chionomaniac]

Rain, beautiful rain!

[Anthonyb]

Having looked at the charts and just watched BBC news tv forecast.

Apart from tomorrow there isn't really any significant rain for our part of the woods.

Sunshine and showers from Tuesday onwards.

Fine by me - rain can go do one for the next 4 months for all I care.

Edited April 8, 2012 by Anthonyb

[Suburban Streamer]

Having looked at the charts and just watched BBC news tv forecast.

Apart from tomorrow there isn't really any significant rain for our part of the woods.

Sunshine and showers from Tuesday onwards.

Fine by me - rain can go do one for the next 4 months for all I care.

Sunshine and showers tues - Fri. But slow moving so places that do get hit will get a good soaking. And looking at the precip charts from ecm and gfs pretty much anywhere in the UK could get showers this week.

I'm still hoping for a lil t storm in the mix too or failing that then a crack of thunder will do!

I'm gutted the frost last week has killed my Virginia creeper. it was covered in shoots last weekend grrr

Ah well Happy easter everyone

[Anthonyb]

Sunshine and showers tues - Fri. But slow moving so places that do get hit will get a good soaking. And looking at the precip charts from ecm and gfs pretty much anywhere in the UK could get showers this week.

I'm still hoping for a lil t storm in the mix too or failing that then a crack of thunder will do!

I'm gutted the frost last week has killed my Virginia creeper. it was covered in shoots last weekend grrr

Ah well Happy easter everyone

Agree and likewise if your not in the path for showers - long sunny spells all day. A very hit and miss affair as some have said over on the MOD thread.

Well hopefully fingers crossed we don't get anymore frosts and after the next 7 to 10 days or so we start seeing a gradual warm up.

Edited April 8, 2012 by Anthonyb

[Guest archiesmummy]

4days after the hosepipe ban and its rained all day here! and still raining! Lol...I know not near as much as we need but talk about kiss of death!

[Suburban Streamer]

4days after the hosepipe ban and its rained all day here! and still raining! Lol...I know not near as much as we need but talk about kiss of death!

It's a shame it had to come on a bank holiday tho its been pretty light here all day I even managed a couple hours in the garden

The heavier rain is gathering in the sw now should hit us soon. Hopefully the winds aren't too gusty....I'm not ready to lose the blossom yet....or to clear up the mess it leaves!

[Suburban Streamer]

Looking at the gfs cape and Li charts and also the netweather storm risk section, I remain hopeful for a little something electric tues-thurs with perhaps wed/thurs looking our best chance.

Tho I won't hold my breath!

[Guest archiesmummy]

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1441.gif

Nicked this off Twitter...is it true could produce snow?

[Eskimo]

http://www.wetterzen...cs/Recm1441.gif

Nicked this off Twitter...is it true could produce snow?

Quite possibly yes, the uppers are cold enough there to produce snow right down to lower levels.

[john pike]

fax chart for friday and saturday

friday

http://www.meteociel.../fax/fax96s.gif

cold north easterly wind

528 dam right down to north of london

precipitation over the south but would be rain

saturday

http://www.meteociel...fax/fax120s.gif

cold sourced north-north easterly flow

528 dam line covers the whole of the uk (long way south)

looks dry but will feel very cold

chart posted by archiesmummy

http://www.wetterzen...cs/Recm1441.gif

if this follows on from how the fax charts look snow would be a possibility

18z ensembles

http://www.wetterzen..._London_ens.png

these are cold and plenty of precipitation still showing here

Edited April 10, 2012 by john pike

[Suburban Streamer]

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1441.gif

Nicked this off Twitter...is it true could produce snow?

Uppers -4 not quite cold enough for snow i think we need uppers of -8 for snow this time of year, maybe -6 would do but might be marginal low down - I think.

It would produce snow further north though.

It's fi and plenty of time for it to improve.....or not!

144 ecm uppers:

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php?ech=0&mode=0&map=0&type=0&archive=0

Edited April 10, 2012 by Suburban Streamer

[john pike]

gfs uppers here are -6 to -8 on 18z

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?ech=6&code=0&mode=1

150-162

would be a close call

as suburban says these will change

Edited April 10, 2012 by john pike

[Anthonyb]

Quite possibly yes, the uppers are cold enough there to produce snow right down to lower levels.

Not cold enough no way for snow in the south. Perhaps northern England and scotland.

Don't be surprised to see the cold uppers change once we get nearer the weekend, as it always does, downgrade!

[Snowangel-MK]

What a difference a day makes...why it couldn't have been like this yesterday when I was down on the south coast

On the plus side all my containers and rain butt are full to overflowing so although it probably hasn't done much to help the drought situation I have got some rain water to use

[Hughsey]

Lots of convection on the radar, although nothing really in EA. Lovely day outside and am hoping to see a heavy downpour/thunderstorm sometime today or tomorrow, netweather forecast gives me a reasonable chance. Eyes on the radar.

[Anthonyb]

Well it's 15:45 and not one shower yet!

Beautiful long sunny spells outside... More of this please

[Mike Storm]

very black to my west lol