Atlantic Storms And Lows - Summer 2012

[Liam J]

Horrific weather for this stage in June! Prolonged intense rainfall for most of the day with no let up, westerly winds increasing all the time with gusts over 40mph now. Rivers are rising fast around here with a flood alert issued by the Environment Agency in the last hour.

Leaves are being ripped off the trees and blasted all over the place, water is collecting and running out of the fields in torrents washing all sorts of debris down the roads.

Very acceptable if we were currently in mid November!!

Edited June 22, 2012 by Liam J

[Aaron]

It's rather windy here

[Liam J]

Winds gusting 55-60mph here now, road conditions are terrible along with the heavy rain and tree debris being blown all over the place. Not a bad winter storm..... Oh yeah it's the 22nd June!!!

[Aaron]

Gusting to near 50mph here, was not expecting this

[weatherobsuk]

We've been on the southern edge of the LLC all day. Rain on/off and gusting winds but 7 miles to the south in Buxton all they've recorded is 25mm of rain. A complete contrast to the downpours we've had up here with the Beeb mentioning over 100mm has fallen in parts of N.Ireland and Cumbria.

[Liam J]

A bit of a mess in places...

[Hodr]

Absolutely lashing it down here. Gust of 59.4 MPH recorded, wind speed 38.8 MPH and 19.5mm of rain so far today.

Edited June 22, 2012 by Hodr

[Kent Snow]

Fairly blowy day here today. Max gust near work was 48mph. Not bad for mid June!

[Bobby]

A bit of a mess in places...

A good image to sum up this summer so far.

[ZONE 51]

Further warnings are out for more heavy rain in the areas that have aready seen alot today.

Edited June 22, 2012 by ElectricSnowStorm

[ZONE 51]

Just wanted to show you my map i made early morning, but a connection issue stopped me from uploading it, i used 3 preciptation models and wind charts.(i didn't zone the wind warning areas)

It certainly was rough here today, must have been at least 40mph, i would expect the indicated 50-55mph on the south coast occured, il check back on the data.

Edited June 22, 2012 by ElectricSnowStorm

[Liam J]

Max gust of 61.3mph here last night, very stormy for late June wouldn't you say! Lots of debris ripped off the trees.

[ZONE 51]

Heavy rain now affecting many areas.

Edited June 24, 2012 by ElectricSnowStorm

[ZONE 51]

Heavy rainfall continuing into the morning for many areas, although clearing to sunshine and heavy showers as we get into the afternoon, some of this rain likely to add to any flood problems already occuring and also cause some local flooding/lots of surface water in most areas, some periods of the rain are very heavy from an active weather system

It could also become very gusty in places especially southern areas and this includes sunday afternoon

[ZONE 51]

radar snap here shows how widspread the rain is now

Rainfall radar: UK (high res)

Sun 24 Jun, 00:30 BST (23:30 UTC)

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The days ahead there is potential for yet more rainfall, please keep up to date with the forecasts.

[Storm Track]

Evaporation (Boiling Water)

A cup or jug of boiling hot water thrown into a air will almost instantly freeze in midair and create a shower of tiny ice crystals. There are several reasons behind this phenomenon. First, the near-boiling water is already close to becoming steam when it is thrown into the air, which means that the water molecules are much closer to evaporating into the vapor state than they would be if the water were cold.

So if you are carrying a cup or jug of boiling hot water thrown into a air can cause cyclones and hurricanes, just maybe major snowstorms are same to like the Plains in the USA with the severe storms, droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes etc.

[Liam J]

Evaporation (Boiling Water)

A cup or jug of boiling hot water thrown into a air will almost instantly freeze in midair and create a shower of tiny ice crystals. There are several reasons behind this phenomenon. First, the near-boiling water is already close to becoming steam when it is thrown into the air, which means that the water molecules are much closer to evaporating into the vapor state than they would be if the water were cold.

So if you are carrying a cup or jug of boiling hot water thrown into a air can cause cyclones and hurricanes, just maybe major snowstorms are same to like the Plains in the USA with the severe storms, droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes etc.

Hmmm Interesting, id say its highly likely this may just be in the wrong thread buddy? Don't go throwing boiling water on yourselves !! I've seen boiling water thrown into air at minus 30 in Poland and it evaporated instantly but I wouldn't try it any other time!

Edited July 3, 2012 by Liam J

[Sainsbo]

Amber warning out for the next 3 days from the MetO, expecting up to 80mm of rain on saturated ground. Maybe more floods to some the weekend?

[Robbie Garrett]

Another stormy low coming through Wednesday!!

[Coast]

Another stormy low coming through Wednesday!!

Quite a bit of coverage on this one coming through now Robbie:

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74133-stormy-wednesday-15th-august-2012/

[Sainsbo]

Not sure where to post this, so I'm sorry if this isn't the right place. Invest 93I looks like in a few days may begin intensifying as it moves WNW. Although not forcast to intensify much over the next 48 hours, after that it looks like it may intensify to a tropical storm/hurricane. But after looking on Weather Underground, the models show it's path may be across the UK. I know it is still a very long time away, and things could change greatly, the models haven't changed much in the past few days. S what do you think, possibly some more windy weather next week soemtime?

[Zenarcher]

A very windy day,

Southern Ireland recording 55mph gusts, Scilly Saint Mary's just recorded 45mph with a gust of 59mph which is high for August. Elsewhere across the country places are reporting 30 to 40mph gusts.

[Zenarcher]

Top gusts today across Western and Northern Scotland from Met Office stations,

Lerwick 67mph.

Kirkwall 63mph.

Loch Glacarnoch 54mph.

Altnaharra 51mph.

Stornoway 47mph.

South Uist 45mph.

[Zenarcher]

Interest is increasing on the ex hurricane Leslie, so I've decided to make some charts that are trying to pin down the path it may take.

6 computer models based on today's 12z run below,

Most of them are going for a Northerly track near Canada and eventually passing by Greenland and Iceland.

The next chart is the GFS member ensembles tracks,

Most of them agree with the models by heading North over Canada and into the Greenland and Iceland area. Some show the track to be going more into the Atlantic and about 4 of them showed it cross the UK.

[Coast]

GFDL:

HWRF:

117 hours lead:

All models:

NHC offical: