South West & Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 03/10/13 15z ------>

[Mapantz]

Wow....torrential rain...lightning and a massive clap of thunder!

Wind very strong at times...take care out there...

 

My lightning detector has been picking up a lot of that lightning, at a range of 12 - 24 miles, no thunder here though but a crazy downpour. 73mm/hr rate and 4.4mm in the last 15 minutes.

Edited October 20, 2013 by Mapantz

[Andy Bown]

Hearing deep booming thunder from the W/SW over the last 10 minutes and hoping it maintains intensity overhead as there is little chance of seeing lightning very far away due to so much heavy rain and murk.

[AWD]

That's one massive mass of showers/storms in and around Hampshire.

[South coaster]

No thunder heared in portsmouth just very intense rainfall bit disappointed really "(

[ARTDEMOLE]

Heavy rani at the moment. 14.1c

[wimblettben]

There was just a very intense downpour with gale force winds. A massive limb fell down off one of our red maple trees. I was coming back from Sidmouth at the time and saw 3 flashes of lightning. It was incredible, here.

 

All Time Highest Wind Gust: 49 mph 20/10/2013 12:46.

Wow mate that is a pretty high wind gust!

 

I have only managed 45mph over the last 2 years I have had a weather station.

 

Anyway heavy rain here now and there have been at least 6 close to medium range rumbles of thunder so far. The first three I didn't see but there were two were I saw the flashes directly overhead. I was eating some soup for lunch when I saw it out of the kitchen window.

[AWD]

Latest NW-ATD map shows where the strikes currently are, mainly over Hampshire but also recently over South Wiltshire stretching down into South East Devon and Dorset. It's slowly clearing from these areas now though;

[ARTDEMOLE]

Very heavy rain now.....13.5c.

[lettice]

Just had another hour of heavy rain, some 8mm on top of the 9mm we had early morning.

No thunder this afternoon, but brightening up again now.

Was very dark here.

Temp dropping too, its down to 14c from 17c lunchtime.

Edited October 20, 2013 by lettice

[ARTDEMOLE]

Rain eased off a bit. .Now 11.7c.

[coldfingers]

Absolutely horrendous squall just sweeping through Bognor at the moment. It was relatively windy then the rain started, fortunately just as I finished moving the lawn. Then the rain and wind went totally mad!! I was expecting a tornado here also but thankfully after 5 minutes it is just back to torrential rain. The worst squall I have seen here for many, many years and I have seen a good few!

CHIMET showing a gust up to 47knot/54mph

http://www.chimet.co.uk/%28S%28ssugix45etzrcyyvh15u1q45%29%29/Default.aspx

Edited October 20, 2013 by coldfingers

[Guest William Grimsley]

Wow mate that is a pretty high wind gust!

 

I have only managed 45mph over the last 2 years I have had a weather station.

It certainly was, though as usual, I wasn't here to see it. But, I was surprised to see some damage around. Most of our trees in the garden are very strong. Though, I have seen 47 mph with my own eyes before, here. 

 

Well, 45 mph is still very strong and can cause damage and for Somerset, that is very strong especially for in the past 2 years.

Edited October 20, 2013 by William Grimsley

[wimblettben]

It certainly was, though as usual, I wasn't here to see it. But, I was surprised to see some damage around. Most of our trees in the garden are very strong. Though, I have seen 47 mph with my own eyes before, here. 

 

Well, 45 mph is still very strong and can cause damage and for Somerset, that is very strong especially for in the past 2 years.

If you had 47mph before then I would say that this time around there is probably damage because of there being leaves on the trees producing more drag.

[AWD]

Gone very dark here with on/off sporadic pulses of rainfall, not too heavy though.

Wind has picked up however. This should be an ongoing trend through the rest of the day too according to the forecasts, with gales along some coastal areas.

[sunsetter]

Strange day weatherwise. The day started dry but was followed by some squally showers and dark skies.However these have now moved away and at the moment the sun is shining and there are patches of blue sky.

 

Total rain today so far 10.4mm

Current temp 14.5°C falling

RH 7%

pressure 1003.4mm rising slowly

wind 5.3mph SW

max gust 18.0mph SW

[ARTDEMOLE]

12.6c.Sunny Intervals. Rainfall today 5.4mm.

[karlos1983]

19.1 mm of rain today

Max temp 15.6C

Pressure currently 1005mb

[Guest William Grimsley]

If you had 47mph before then I would say that this time around there is probably damage because of there being leaves on the trees producing more drag.

No, the 47 mph gust was on 22/11/2012, so a long time ago. But, that was winter. So, there was minimal damage.

[Mapantz]

19.1 mm of rain today

Max temp 15.6C

Pressure currently 1005mb

 

You did well on the rain side of things.

 

15.6mm of rain here with a  max rain rate of 73mm/hr. Top temp of 16.7C. Max wind gust was 30mph  from the SW. 

[karlos1983]

You did well on the rain side of things.

 

15.6mm of rain here with a  max rain rate of 73mm/hr. Top temp of 16.7C. Max wind gust was 30mph  from the SW. 

 

Yes, we had 8.4mm this morning and then a further 10.7mm this afternoon in the big downpour. 

 

I would imagine places in Hampshire had some big totals today.

[Lyn-M]

3.5mm to 09.00 GMT and a further 6.5mm to dark.  Got off rather lightly I'm thinking!

[Andy Bown]

16mm from today's downpours which is getting October towards being the wettest month for a long time and this week looks, well, frankly horrendous judging by the Countryfile forecast and from the point of view of somebody who works outside.

 

I have got pretty lucky recently but that luck looks set to end, well it probably already has with the current dry slot coming overnight!

 

Any chance the rain could even hold off until mid morning tomorrow?

[wimblettben]

I got about 12.5mm of rain here for the whole day but I don't think it is exposed enouph for perfect accurate readings.

[Polar Bear]

What you saw soup outside the kitchen window? Wow that was some storm...

[George]

Met Office weather warning has been issued for parts of Cornwall and Devon for tomorrow.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&regionName=sw&fcTime=1382310000