Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - May 2012

[scotteboi]

And its starting to fire up! ....but work tomorrow an all that, so window open and up the wooden hill !

Good luck to all staying up for a few more hours!

[Eskimo]

Already at 12mm here now, our river is already at a high level.

[suffolkboy_]

So...I went out for a mini storm chase...came up trumps when I saw Framlingham Castle get hit only 300 yards away. Almost got stranded though....we've had over and inch of rain here in less than 2 hours....worst flooding I've seen in a long time.

[Andy Bown]

Goodness no posts since half past 1!!

It seems there has been a continual thundery area of rain feeding into East Anglia, with it very slowly edging North through the night. Quite an active area just off the coast there at the moment and there have been sporadic sferics inland through the night.

BBC main weather at 10:30 showed the rain and any embedded storms around the M4 corridor northwards up to Birmingham area overnight into the morning. If you south of the M4 your not going to see anything other than some drizzly rain & murk, the actions further north than originally forcast by the MET & GFS,

That has indeed been largely the case and there is a dry slot, however what wasn't forecast last night was the heavy line of showery rain stretching from Sussex to the Bristol Channel. Not expecting anything thundery from it here but it looks like we're going to have heavy rain on and off in Wiltshire for a number of hours!

Edited May 3, 2012 by Andy Bown

[Coast]

Nice to see a tiny bit of activity from Essex into Suffolk overnight which was just about where the charts for yesterday were indicating.

Nothing of note on any dedicated sites today and little on the charts as it settles down to a quiet convective period until next week really according to current GFS:

Thursday onwards in the South

Possibly Tuesday in the North

Lower possibility from Tuesday onwards for Scotland

Still a bit of rain to come, but if you want action you either need to be on the NW US Storm chase, or get yourself into Europe tomorrow!!!

[essex coast matt]

Had 25mm of rain since 7pm last night, lots of local flooding in north essex,A12 shut at mo,just drizzle here now

[legritter]

i put my hands up ,only had about 10mm here up to 9am .expected 25/ 30 plus odd storm ,didnt stay up mind so dont feel knackered . perhaps something might happen late sat /sun ,but weather looks interesting for a while yet .cheers

[staplehurst]

Significant flooding in Suffolk and Essex last night, here's the overnight totals at various stations in the area:

Charsfield 35.0mm

Brooms Barn (Bury St Edmunds) 24.0mm

Woburn 22.0mm

Wattisham 21.4mm

Andrewsfield 20.6mm

Rothamsted 15.0mm

Writtle 14.0mm

[Sprites]

Significant flooding in Suffolk and Essex last night, here's the overnight totals at various stations in the area:

Charsfield 35.0mm

Brooms Barn (Bury St Edmunds) 24.0mm

Woburn 22.0mm

Wattisham 21.4mm

Andrewsfield 20.6mm

Rothamsted 15.0mm

Writtle 14.0mm

26mm here near the town centre,ive found easterlies often have a thundery potential even during oct-november..

[Coast]

Got to be time for a new thread??!!! Hang on folks here it is!

http://forum.netweat...may-2012-part-2