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

[Coast]

Grab your wellies: More floods expected as forecasters warn of six weeks worth of rain to fall before New Year

• Flooding expected across Britain, with 394 warnings and alerts out
  
• Boxing Day walkers warned of landslides on coastlines and rail tracks
  
• The South West, Midlands and Anglia at biggest risk from floods
  
• Seven inches to fall by Saturday on already saturated ground
  

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2G9aoFjEw

Edited December 26, 2012 by Coast

[stevofunnelcl]

I can backup that rockfall and landslide warning, as i went for a walk along the coast yesterday

In several areas, i saw evidence of landslip on the cliff faces

People must be very careful walking close to cliff edges

[ARTDEMOLE]

8c.Cloudy but bright ,,,So far,,,,.

[Evening thunder]

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2G9aoFjEw

Oh good grief, we won't have anywhere near that much rain before new year and most bands/showers look like passing through relatively quickly. I'd expect maybe a couple inches in some places not 7 inches! if we had that I'd recorded a record smashing 325mm this month! But then this is the daily fail we're talking about

light rain here now but this looks like passing through pretty soon here maybe only giving a 1-2mm, barely enough to make the river twitch.

[Mapantz]

Afternoon! Guess what? It's raining again! :o

Very windy today too, feeling rather cosy with my new PVC window :lol:

157mm for the month, ninth month in a row of above avergae rainfall. 2012 stands at 1333.8mm

[ARTDEMOLE]

Rain since 13:00 ...No change til next year..

[MP-R]

Torrential rain, hail and gusty winds here in Yatton at the moment. Also gone very dark. Wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder.

[Bluebreezer54]

I can backup that rockfall and landslide warning, as i went for a walk along the coast yesterday

In several areas, i saw evidence of landslip on the cliff faces

People must be very careful walking close to cliff edges

Its good to have local up to date reports but could you put your location in your profile please ?

[caz100]

A friend in Indiana USA has had a big blizzard, lets hope it pushes over our way in a week or so, so we too could have snow

[viking_smb]

I wish

[cerneman]

Drove Dorchester to Axminster today, Only issue being stretch A35 after Winterborne Abbas, Some road flooding, But actually very surprised how few issues

[AWD]

Aside from further rainfall, some very windy weather is likely towards the end of the week;

With the ground extremely saturated currently, it wouldn't take much of a wind to uproot trees etc so one to watch.

Continuing forecasts of a major warming in the stratosphere soon too;

Which I think will make for very volatile model output over the next couple of weeks, so I wouldn't think too much of any FI output, whether it shows mild or cold, as this is going to be a difficult time for medium & long range NWP output.

Don't expect any tropospheric influence before mid January anyway, more of the same for the foreseeable yet.

Hope you all had a good Christmas and lets hope for a good new year.

[viking_smb]

according to meto, there is potentially thundery weather coming our way tonight, what do the charts think?

Edited December 26, 2012 by viking_smb

[Dorsetbred]

according to meto, there is potentially thundery weather coming our way tonight, what do the charts think?

Not seeing anything thus far. Tomorrow looking wet again

[Polar Bear]

Incredible shower passed by Chichester and Bognor again today. So much rain. Christmas morning was also interesting... Am sure there was some hail mixed in. Lets see what is on tomorrow? X

[lfcdude]

Not seeing anything thus far. Tomorrow looking wet again

When is it not looking wet? Hopefully New years eve wont be though

[Polar Bear]

Oh but I see it is an absolutely beautiful night..moon is very bright, clear skies and lots of stars twinkling away...

[cerneman]

Thunderstorm heavy rain 5.30 this morning, Lightening even powered up my solar lights around pond

[divadee]

Wow the thunder here this morning was amazing! Woke me up with a jump and terrified the poor cat! The claps of thunder were so long but not really rolling thunder. A good start to the day!

[Polar Bear]

Just had that heavy band pass over us - so was woken once again to the sound of heavy patter on the window. Soothing but can't help thinking about what this doing to some with lots of flooding.

[Evening thunder]

Heavy rain for 20-30 mins around 4:30-5:00, and then saw some distant lightning flashes out my window which looks south east.

Quite windy now with showers about.

[cerneman]

Storm was overhead here, Fields are again flooded,

[Dorsetbred]

Woken this morning at 6am to the sound of thunder, was fortunate then to watch the rest of the active front go through with torrential rain, hail and more classic thunder. Nice

[littlemissy]

light blue skies and gusty winds here.The storms sound exciting, but i hope people are safe too.x

[Andy Bown]

Hope everyone is having a good week despite the conditions! I can't believe some of you have had 2 thundery mornings!

We had a heck of a hailstorm between 07.30-08.00 which settled in some surfaces but was then quickly washed away by

yet more rain!