South West/Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 1/1/14 18z ------>

[kernowman]

Just looking at the radar, got some heavy rain moving in from the direct south into Cornwall shortly, just what we need.

[dec10snow]

Some lovely news on twitter from Ian (sarcasm if no one realised!!):

W COUNTRY Still some uncertainty on W-E position of heaviest rain tomorrow but either way, unhelpful rain amounts for #Somerset especially

Edited January 18, 2014 by dec10snow

[ARTDEMOLE]

5.6c with very light breeze. Looks like rain soon in Taunton area. Maybe 02:00 In the morning before it gets to PSJ.

[Argyle1980]

Raining here in St Mawes ...

Joy!,

Looks like we are going to get a soaking this evening .

[somersetsnow]

If only all this Rain was Snow………I wouldn't have to burn my Sledge (as some one said) 

[tinybill]

hi just vising  looking  at  the radar seems a lot of of  very heavy showers heading to your area to-day stay safe and dry if you  can!!!

[karlos1983]

Finally it now seems nailed on that Winter is coming!

[lettice]

Grey out today and from the forecasts looks to be dry today here with a little shower later tonight and then dry Sun and most of next week.

Hope we get some dry weather, just to dry everything out and so I can get past the mud in the garden to start getting the veg plots ready.

 

We had 28mm yesterday in total, just 1mm today early morning, 123mm for the year.

[Frosty1]

Morning all. Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but there is a great article on the BBC news web page about the suns declining activity and possibly heading towards a Maunder Minimum. Well worth a read especially if you are a coldie like me.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Cloudy. 8.2c. Breeze gusting to 12.7 km/h. Mainly Southerly...

[Mapantz]

9C and dry at the moment. The rain situation is still unfolding at the moment, a lot of the models are quite different to what the radar is showing coming out of France.

[karlos1983]

Looking at the radar to the south, looks like Purbeck could be in line for that shower activity, about 1pm I reckon

[Barbel]

Heavy rain for past 1 hour, hail and gale force wind on coast at Axmouth. Unpleasant!

[Mapantz]

Looking at the radar to the south, looks like Purbeck could be in line for that shower activity, about 1pm I reckon

It looks like it'll pass just west of me, maybe some drizzly bits soon, might have to wait until later unless there a slight shift east.

[karlos1983]

It looks like it'll pass just west of me, maybe some drizzly bits soon, might have to wait until later unless there a slight shift east.

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From what I could make out it has been moving East, as well as obviously North.

More like 2pm tho

Edited January 18, 2014 by karlos1983

[Bristawl Si]

Lashing it down, here, in Dartmouth.

We've beat a retreat to the Royal Castle Hotel bar and tucking into a bottle of red.

[Mapantz]

[Dorsetbred]

All of a sudden it's gone dark, and started hissing down. Mind you, not bad we've had a clear day until now!

Edited January 18, 2014 by Dorsetbred

[karlos1983]

Very dark here now

[Mapantz]

From what I could make out it has been moving East, as well as obviously North.More like 2pm tho

After all that, the heavy stuff looks like going east of me now. :lol:

[Cakie]

We just had a very sharp shower with bit of hail in, it's gone off to Dorset way now

[Mapantz]

Just had 6.2mm from a reasonable cloudburst. 186mm for the month. I'm willing the rain on now, it may as well going out on a record.

[Dorsetbred]

Soakaway has had enough it's just spilling out all the time. Time to plumb the downpipe on to the drive.

[Lyn-M]

So far today, we've only caught the very edge of one of the lines of rain and it's produced a teaspoonful in the gauge.  Hope it holds out like that for the rest of the evening and night, but I doubt it.

 

Feeling much the same as Mapantz about at least getting some sort of record out of all this dross!  Definitely going to be the wettest January since 2000, but need a drop more to beat last month's total to be wettest month of any name in the same time.

[dec10snow]

Been a lot of rain here today, seems to have been on and off all day, but being very heavy when it does fall!

Morning all. Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but there is a great article on the BBC news web page about the suns declining activity and possibly heading towards a Maunder Minimum. Well worth a read especially if you are a coldie like me.

Assuming you mean this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806