South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion - December 19th 2012>

[john pike]

Hi mk

Its ok I'm caged up tonight

Ha ha :-)

[Mark Neal.]

Evening hope all of you are well, haven't been online been very busy but i'm back. Oxford now starting to see flood issues again as River levels begin to rise... Not good at all. Hope all of you have had a good Christmas!

[Bluebreezer54]

Thames Barrier shuts for the first time in two years to prevent flooding in London

The Thames Barrier is one magnificent piece of engineering thats for sure.

On a totally seperate note I can't seem to activate 'smileys', that whole area appears 'faded out' on my screen. Any idea why folks ?

[greenhithe]

hello just seen the news with the snow affecting the us will affect us later

it seems we get the same weather after a few weeks

[john pike]

tomorrow rain in the morning clearing all south east by about 2pm

very strong south west wind

8-10 degrees but feeling cold

friday night

still a strong south west wind

hopefully staying dy

not cold

saturday

after a dry start

more rain on the way in the afternoon

drying up mid afternoon

a mainly westerly flow

feeling cold

saturday

more heavy rain but moving through quite quick

strong mainly westerly wind

under 528 dam air

will feel cold but no frost due to the wind

sunday

strong westerly wind

starting dry but more heavy rain due late afternoon

6-8 degrees

monday

gusty westerly winds

heavy rain from lunchtime

leading to gusty heavy showers

not too cold around 10 degrees

tuesday

west north west flow

feeling quite cold

looks wet am

dry lunchtime and the odd shower late pm

all in all typical AUTUMN weather

high pressure attempting to build to our west

hopefully being sucked north from the low pressure in the atlantic

[john pike]

i just want to post these

i keep seeing people saying really warm with these uppers

however expect to see these

not cold but not nothing to write home about either

would also be cold at night

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

hello just seen the news with the snow affecting the us will affect us later

it seems we get the same weather after a few weeks

I wouldn't take that as gospel. Just the media stirring things up with their mythological ideas !

Any system moving out of the States, cold or warm, will be modified by the sea temperature in the Atlantic, and will fall on us as the same old stuff, persistent rain and wind!

[john pike]

still plenty of rain up to the 1st

showing a lot dryer afer -high pressure in control

warmish on the 2nd then temperatures slowly dropping towards end of run

hope fully we will see the end of this blasted rain

however

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

around 2am more heavy rain and looking to be getting more intense as it heads our way

Edited December 28, 2012 by john pike

[john pike]

144 gfs temperature (maximum) for the 2nd 18z

this the same chart from the 12z earlier

i could understand this in fi but at 144 it does not feel me with a load of confidence

[Steve C]

Morning all.

Light rain here; in fact the type of weather I'd describe as dross.

Ridiculously quiet at work. I suppose the benefit being that I can get on with things. The disadvantage being that I can think of many things I'd rather be doing.

[chilly milly]

Morning all! 6.9c here and raining. Same as it ever was.....

Mr P where is your ramp chart? Or weren't there any last night? ;(

[Coast]

Morning all you regionals!!

Raining like fury here, damp and dark means getting out all the waterproofs again as I've so much I want to do outside today.

So who's on to Turkey curry, soup or pie now?

Edited December 28, 2012 by Coast

[Coast]

A new record has already been set for England with 1,095.8mm falling in the year up to Boxing Day. Localised flooding BBC weather forecaster Mike Silverston said much of the UK would see heavy rain and strong winds heading into the weekend.

Up to 40mm of rain is expected fall in the South West on Saturday, with Wales and areas of north-west England expected to see between 60-80mm. He said because of the continuing saturated state of the ground this might lead to further localised flooding.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20856619

Any New Years eve revellers could be caught in the heavy rain if they're outside:

Edited December 28, 2012 by Coast

[Kent Snow]

Another default day of this winter so far. Raining, grey and mild.

[Snowangel-MK]

Morning all,

Dross is a good word to describe how it is here too Steve, it's not even proper rain just dull damp and grey !

[lottiekent]

Damp and drizzly here, almost forgotten what a day with dawn to dusk sunshine is like!

[Coast]

As our friends north of Hadrian's Wall say dreich!! Will it ever stop raining?

[Keraunic]

Mornin each. It's raining..........end of.

[Timmytour]

Tweet just seen..

Met Office @metoffice 10m

Friday fact: The deepest snow recorded this year was 16 cm, at Malham Tarn and Buntingford on the 5 February bit.ly/12DNJlh

ah...the memories of that bitter winter we had last year in Hertfordshire :-)

Calling it with four days of the year still to go......sometimes the models can inspire confidence!

[gottolovethisweather]

Tweet just seen..

Met Office @metoffice 10m

Friday fact: The deepest snow recorded this year was 16 cm, at Malham Tarn and Buntingford on the 5 February bit.ly/12DNJlh

Perfect Storm's home town too. Where is he? If he ever complains about not seeing some decent snow again, he's in trouble.

Mind you, what that does show, is how poor it has been for lying snow but I can certainly remember many other years lacking much of the white stuff too.

Roll on 2013, I think it will be a good one, I can feel it in my flood water.

Edited December 28, 2012 by gottolovethisweather

[Coast]

So here's the dilemma;

Go out for a long walk across country in the pouring rain, with a wet smelly dog and mud up to my armpits. Or stay in with a selection of fine English and Continental cheeses, crisp crackers, some tawny + ruby ports and lush home made sloe gin, watching a re-run of Zulu?

You can see where this is going.......

[Snowangel-MK]

You can see where this is going.......

I've already made my plans for later..... sausage rolls, smoked cheese and twiglets, some nice drinkies, and a DVD

It was good to get out earlier though, it's not a very pleasant day but it isn't actually raining here, I called into the shops on the way back and got a cashmere jumper in the sale..... I'd had my eye on it before Christmas but had resisted so that was a result

[classylady]

I'm having another Christmas day here as my sister and her children are down!! Turkey due out of the oven in an hour, table laid and wine chilling...........no pressies today though...........sis has gone to pick up mum and dad........Oh by the way it's dark, wet and miserable outside.........

[Mark Neal.]

Very wet month here so far, at this stage with still 4 days left.. Rainfall for December is 111.4mm- Wet, Wet,Wet... Roll on high pressure and dry conditions, I need my ballooning fix!

[tinybill]

been out and about my local river has bust its banks all over fields, well looking at the BBC weather at lunch time weather looking very dire for 2-nite ,