South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 17th March 2013 18:00>

[Tom Jarvis]

Anyone seen the pics of the hail in America tennis ball size

Another pic of hailstones that fell in Clinton @NWSJacksonMS pic.twitter.com/LoH5UoqCgd

— Will Hammons (@whammo3)

March 18, 2013

[chionomaniac]

Interesting situation south of London this evening. I have been watching some extremely slow moving moderate showers remain in the same position all afternoon/evening, leading to some areas building up over 25mm in 6 hours - quite localised precip, but such that could lead to local flooding should it continue. One to watch dare I say - and one that can catch out many.

[Tom Jarvis]

Yes had some very heavy rain here field is flooded lol

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Interesting situation south of London this evening. I have been watching some extremely slow moving moderate showers remain in the same position all afternoon/evening, leading to some areas building up over 25mm in 6 hours - quite localised precip, but such that could lead to local flooding should it continue. One to watch dare I say - and one that can catch out many.

we have had a lot of rain today.. Local river very high fields and local park flooded..

[Tom Jarvis]

Anyone watching stormscape live he is heading to some very mean storms

Edit storm he is now targeting has been tornado warned

Edited March 18, 2013 by Tom Jarvis

[Tom Jarvis]

Storm scape live has a tornado!!!!!

[Keraunic]

Oh, no more snow pleeeeeeease! I want a little bit of warmth now like it has been today in Naaaaaarich. It's been lovely and spring like. B***er off snow and freezing cold.

[Bluebreezer54]

we have had a lot of rain today.. Local river very high fields and local park flooded..

You certainly seem to be right amongst some of the most spectacular weather events as alluded to in an earlier post.

[fluid dynamic]

Had some seriously prologed heavy rain and showers here today, as many have said. Quite exciting to witness the first thorm i have seen for a good many months, tremendous black clouds with their toes hanging down (as I like to think of them) !

There is some serious doubt about what we are about to receive down here, probably the most doubt I have seen all winter from the forecasters.

[tcc]

Interesting situation south of London this evening. I have been watching some extremely slow moving moderate showers remain in the same position all afternoon/evening, leading to some areas building up over 25mm in 6 hours - quite localised precip, but such that could lead to local flooding should it continue. One to watch dare I say - and one that can catch out many.

Yes Chion, Just played footie in East Grinstead, car temp said 3C and there was definite sleety splodges! Heavy throughout from about 8.30 till 10.00 when I left. Within a couple of miles towards Crawley it stopped and lots of fog! Now just light rain here in Tilgate, very localised with lots of flooding in East Grinstead.

[Bluebreezer54]

Storm scape live has a tornado!!!!!

trying to follow that link, but cant spot the car on the map ?!

[stewfox]

Snowman still there pleased to see. Guess it will go in next 24hrs

[Guest archiesmummy]

My met office app showing 10c for Fri.....humph

[Tamara]

Some great pics and videos in the Scottish regional thread - and they have a lot more snow to come

Edited March 18, 2013 by Tamara Road

[Eskimo]

My met office app showing 10c for Fri.....humph

I can hear the sound of the models flip flops.

[alexisj9]

I can hear the sound of the models flip flops.

I don't mind the models flip floping just as long as they remember to stop with the low undercutting south enough for us all to have snow lol, had enough rain today already.

[john pike]

http://www.weathercast.co.uk/services/ensemble-forecast.html?eps=london

models are all over the place at present

will update fax etc tomorrow night

Edited March 19, 2013 by john pike

[john pike]

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/03/201331785050917332.html

[Gary_R_Walker]

Good morning. Light snow falling here on the cliffs.

[Coast]

Morning you lot!!

A proper grim start to the day here and I need that Summer sun more than ever. So lots of different conflicting information about the potential for another throw of Winter in our region at the end of the week and not helped by Georgina Burnett ( ) this morning on BBC South East Today weather at 6.25am, saying snow for the end of the week??!!!

models are all over the place at present

They really are John, but I'll go and grab some charts to see what the latest thoughts are.

[snowblizzard]

I think this is definitely going to be a record breaking long model watching season for all of us 'coldies'

Possibly, 5 full months (1st Nov - 31st March)

Usually, by now I've submitted to Spring conditions but it looks like continuing into next week!

Amazing synoptics just lately.

Edited March 19, 2013 by snowblizzard

[Coast]

The best I can get from the overnight GFS run is for tomorrow:

Of more interest for me from the latest run is this one for Saturday:

Mmmmm electric

UKMO have rain for us tomorrow:

A lot of rain coming into Friday:

NAE have rain for tomorrow too:

NMM have rain early on and then clearing tomorrow;

So I can't really see anything currently for us for the next couple of days and little evidence at the moment that our region will see the white stuff at the end of the week. Go 100 miles to the North and they could be lucky, but bisect the country through the East to West Midlands and down from there, not much it seems.

Edited March 19, 2013 by Coast

[Coast]

Convective weather thoughts for today:

http://forum.netweat...00#entry2646729

Maybe some hail and a few more rumbles?

[Average Joe]

Morning you lot!!

A proper grim start to the day here and I need that Summer sun more than ever. So lots of different conflicting information about the potential for another throw of Winter in our region at the end of the week and not helped by Georgina Burnett ( ) this morning on BBC South East Today weather at 6.25am, saying snow for the end of the week??!!!

They really are John, but I'll go and grab some charts to see what the latest thoughts are.

Ahhh....dear Georgina...I do love you, BUT I really don't know where this snow you speak of is coming from!!

[Coast]

Ahhh....dear Georgina...I do love you, BUT I really don't know where this snow you speak of is coming from!!

A warm front?