Southwest & Central Southern England Regional Discussion 18th December 2012>

[lfcdude]

Happy Christmas...Hope you will all remember it come boxing day

So why are you all not at midnight mas.... haha

[Mapantz]

I have struggled to get thunder and lightning here for years and then it comes along on Christmas day .. hail as well! :lol:

[divadee]

Merry Christmas to you all. Woken up this morning not by the kids but by lightening (no thunder) and a massive hail storm. The wind was fierce. Keep safe all those traveling today.

[Coast]

Merry Christmas to you all. Woken up this morning not by the kids but by lightening (no thunder) and a massive hail storm. The wind was fierce. Keep safe all those traveling today.

Nice surprise for you guys, transferring on to us maybe later?

[Snowkissed]

We had a very close lightning strike here early this morning - I have never heard thunder on Christmas day so I thank Thor for his gift

[cerneman]

That was wild wet Christmas morning, Hail rain high wind and thunder,

[Dorsetbred]

Watching the hail deluge at 02:30, could feel the temperature fall. What a cracker of a downpour everything went white briefly. A white Christmas (of a different type)

[divadee]

Watching the hail deluge at 02:30, could feel the temperature fall. What a cracker of a downpour everything went white briefly. A white Christmas (of a different type)

I must of slept through the hail about that time. It woke me up here at about 6.55 this morning. With a couple of cracks of lightening mixed in.

[gottolovethisweather]

Happy Christmas guys n gals and divas too.

Here's to a Thunderclap or two more to add to the party atmospphere.

[Mapantz]

Rivers of hail when i was walking home this morning, 6 or 7 rumbles of thunder and about 5 flashes of lightning. A very nice surprise!

15.2mm of rain today.

[Evening thunder]

Happy Christmas to everyone on here

Rivers of hail when i was walking home this morning, 6 or 7 rumbles of thunder and about 5 flashes of lightning. A very nice surprise!

15.2mm of rain today.

That's quite a bit. Great site by the way, I also just noticed your yearly accumulation is just 0.6mm more than what my Davis VP2 thinks ours is here.

[cerneman]

Had nice sunny spell with temps around 13c,Drizzle now and breezy, Tentative indications in models of some pattern change around start January, Just hope move away from this constent wet pattern, Fed up of moaning about the rain,need something new to moan about,

[Dorsetbred]

Had nice sunny spell with temps around 13c,Drizzle now and breezy, Tentative indications in models of some pattern change around start January, Just hope move away from this constent wet pattern, Fed up of moaning about the rain,need something new to moan about,

Wow 13C, that's warm, it's 8.1C here! Max'd at 8.5C

[AWD]

Temperature 8.1c here with overcast skies & the odd brief sunny spell.

Looks like another crop of showers could form over Cornwall later and spread through Devon, Somerset & Dorset on a trough ahead of tomorrow's front!

Edited December 25, 2012 by AWD

[Dorsetbred]

Temperature 8.1c here with overcast skies & the odd brief sunny spell.

Looks like another crop of showers could form over Cornwall later and spread through Devon, Somerset & Dorset on a trough ahead of tomorrow's front!

Umbrella's at the ready, lets hope it's active as some of the earlier showers from today, they packed a punch

[Cakie]

I thought I heard hail last night. Wind is just picking up so may be in for some more?

[cerneman]

Wow 13C, that's warm, it's 8.1C here! Max'd at 8.5C

Think have positioned my temp gauge sensor wrong,

[Dorsetbred]

I thought I heard hail last night. Wind is just picking up so may be in for some more?

U

You probably did, it was white outside our place at 02:30 this morning with hail

Think have positioned my temp gauge sensor wrong,

It's not in the front room is it....LOL

[EML Network]

Hail ?? my god that was more marbles being thrown at my window at god knows what time in the middle of the night, although I had to be reliably informed by one of the guests staying over as I was out for the count, this was later confirmed by my Father in Law later this morning.

Would be interesting to hear from anyone else close to Brighton, as both our guest and the future father in law both were of the opinion that the hail was marble sized

[Cakie]

Oh goodie, it's raining again

[cerneman]

U

You probably did, it was white outside our place at 02:30 this morning with hail

It's not in the front room is it....LOL

Think it in direct sunlight, Rarely sun was out when posted reading, Or got rubbish gauge

[khodds]

I got an umbrella for Christmas. This MUST mean we are due some non-wet weather now?! Wishful thinking.

Merry Christmas all x

[Lyn-M]

After the last very wet spell before this one, I bought some new wellies.....that didn't work, did it? Jolly glad of them over the last ten days though! BTW, it's piddling down again right now, but I don't need to go out.

[tinybill]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/weather-landslide-alert-amid-floods-rain-075156598.html#U3lqOLB

just be safe

[Snowangel-MK]

http://uk.news.yahoo...98.html#U3lqOLB

just be safe

indeed take care if your going out on a Boxing Day walk along the coast !

Landslide and rockfall warning for south-west England

A rare landslide and rockfall warning has been issued for south-west England by the British Geological Survey (BGS).

The BGS has concerns about the stability of cliff edges and cliff sides because of the quantity and intensity of the recent heavy rain.

It is worried about people going for Boxing Day walks, and is advising extra caution near cliff edges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20842890