East Anglia & The South East Regional Discussion - Part 2

[Snowangel-MK]

And to think that the media once again had to over panic the nation a few weeks back over a drought.

Well if the Express is right the rain we are having now won't get us out of the drought long enough to survive the heat wave of the summer !

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/316206/Sizzling-barbecue-summer-to-scorch-away-miserable-May

[Anthonyb]

Well if the Express is right the rain we are having now won't get us out of the drought long enough to survive the heat wave of the summer !

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/316206/Sizzling-barbecue-summer-to-scorch-away-miserable-May

Makes u wonder exactly how much rain we have to endure before we are officially drought free.

If the country was flooded and there were reports on news of ruined houses and residents swimming down the street we would still be told - "Sorry more rain needed I'm afraid" - pathetic!

My grandparents live in Spain and its been very dry there - much much dryer than here and yet - no hose pipe ban/ no mention of drought and u only have to look at the Spanish landscape and it's dry and yellow - yet look at England's and it's green and wet - go figure

[Steve C]

Well if the Express is right the rain we are having now won't get us out of the drought long enough to survive the heat wave of the summer !

http://www.express.c...y-miserable-May

The Express definitely has a strategy of putting shock headlines to try and get sales, whether it's to do with extreme weather or house prices etc. I guess it's trying to pick up the lost readership of the Daily Sport!

[Anthonyb]

Watching breakfast news: "a months worth of rain is due to fall in the next 24hrs"

The environmental agency say the hose pipe ban will stay in force.

Even in one of the wettest places in Europe we still manage to believe that we are in a drought. It really is laughable.

Woken up this morning in my new house and the rain continues to fall outside :-(

[Steve C]

Light rain on the drive in to work, now picking up in intensity.

Local radio (BBC Essex) said that Saturday would be sunshine and showers and Sunday likely to be dry, a few minutes ago.

Carol Kirkwood said wet and windy weekend on Breakfast News.

I'm thinking that maybe the low pressure must therefore be to our west. Time to check the charts for myself...

[Azores Hi]

What I want to know is. When are we going to get some proper rain?

[Coast]

What I want to know is. When are we going to get some proper rain?

You've not been outside or looked out of the window then yet I take it AH????

7.8mm in 4 hours in Eastbourne!

[Steve C]

Met Office Charts for Saturday and Sunday.

I guess the local forecaster is taking a bit of a flyer to predict a dry Sunday, this far out, with the proximity of the low pressure, but he could be right.

Edited April 25, 2012 by Speed67

[Azores Hi]

You've not been outside or looked out of the window then yet I take it AH????

7.8mm in 4 hours in Eastbourne!

I was laying in bed listening to the rain lashing against the window this morning and thought that if ever there was a time to hit the snooze button it's today!

Looking at the radar today I can't remember the last time I saw so much precipitation in the south, and watching all that water running down the gutters and into the sewers it just seems so wastefull that 99.9% of todays rainfall is going to end up going straight out to sea!

[Coast]

Looking at the radar today I can't remember the last time I saw so much precipitation in the south, and watching all that water running down the gutters and into the sewers it just seems so wastefull that 99.9% of todays rainfall is going to end up going straight out to sea!

It's turning our nice, refurbished workshop at the new factory, into the Burgess Hill Lido currently........

[snow raven]

It's certainly a nice day for ducks today, that's for sure!

[tinybill]

What I want to know is. When are we going to get some proper rain?

looking at the radar to day lol tv saying a month of rain coming

[Kent Snow]

More like mid autumn than mid spring out there. The garden has come alive recently with all this rain.

[Steve C]

Definitely coming down hard now.

Edited April 25, 2012 by Speed67

[Snowangel-MK]

Only 5mm here so far, no where near as much as I expected, I guess the worst may be still to come but it's certainly more rain than we have had for a long time - the garden looks lush !

It's actually been quite pleasant sitting in the jacuzzi hot tub at the health club this morning looking out the window at the pouring rain.....it's a hard life

[Snowangel-MK]

It's turning our nice, refurbished workshop at the new factory, into the Burgess Hill Lido currently........

Would you like me to send you my floaties ?

....I don't really need them, I have my own built in buoyancy aids

[tinybill]

wild and wet!!!

[abruzzi spur]

Just stopped raining here, been pretty steady for at least 6 hours, though not torrential. Wind still quite strong. Off to Windsor for a meeting (no, not with her) no doubt the lovely M25 will be fun......

Sky still very threatning, in a sort of 'watchyoulookin' aht?' type of way.

AS

[Suburban Streamer]

I continue to believe that it's the government that is putting this country under water worries with there over crowding of immigrants.

Anymore and this island will sink so we will all be under water anyway.

Too easy to blame everything on immigrants. U do know there was a pretty serious drought in the 70's don't you? When there were thousands of less immigrants.....so what caused that drought? Lack of rainfall and huge leakages perhaps? Just like this time. When we see the stats about how much water is lost by water companies every day its pretty obvious that when that is combined with low rainfall we will end up in a drought.

I said all this in the drought thread a few weeks ago but for some bizarre reason some people are allergic to that thread :/

Sorry mods I won't mention this again

Onto the weather. I've missed out on any tstorms so far, only managed 2 rumbles last week despite being surrounded by tstorms! Hoping today delivers

[Steve C]

Red rag to a bull post above, but I'll not bite, as I said I wouldn't discuss any more.

Looks like we'll have the wettest day for a considerable time here. Still raining moderately heavily.

[Bluebreezer54]

First rumble of thunder here today ( only the 2nd in two and a half weeks ! ) but 24.0 mm's of rain so far.

[Snowangel-MK]

Blue sky and sunshine....I wasn't expecting to see either today !

[Steve C]

Blue sky and sunshine....I wasn't expecting to see either today !

Yep, rain stopped here and it's brightening up. I guess we might have heavy showers later.

[Steve C]

Interesting 'hook' of cloud nearby. I wonder if it portends anything..

[Anthonyb]

Red rag to a bull post above, but I'll not bite, as I said I wouldn't discuss any more.

Exactly what I was thinking

Blue sky and sunshine....I wasn't expecting to see either today !

Bring in the blue sky, seen enough water to last me a life time!

No point having showers of there not torrential with thunderstorms... Lol