Wales, The Midlands and Southwest England - Regional Weather Chat

[cyclonic happiness]

Nice gap in the rain bands!

Hope we get the gap here. I made our garden centre's plant areas look awesome yesterday. Heavy rain like that will bash all the flowers down and spoil the look of the place.

We should be safe here though.

What's the worst that could happen? :-p

[stevofunnelcl]

Radar colourful tonight

No sferics... so it's the good 'ol thundery rain coming up from the south tonight

 

Most of the rain lately, has fallen during the night around these parts

[Mapantz]

5 to 10mm went out of the window! 17mm fell in 1hr 45mins LOL

 

[Dale Hay]

The rain's just started here.

[knocker]

Cloudy with 8/8 Ns and St. Moderate rain

 

Temp 10C

 

Wind easterly 14 mph

 

Pressure 999mb falling

 

http://www.sat24.com/en/fr?ir=true

Edited May 22, 2014 by knocker

[Stormraider]

Number of strikes just over the Welsh border where the rain is fairly light, but nothing to the East?

[William Grimsley]

Torrential rain all of last night, here. Not a single flash of lightning or rumble of thunder. I woke up at 02:00 to the sound of continuous torrential rain on the roof.

[conor123]

Ahh back to business as usual, nothing much here overnight, the weakest part of the front hit us so just drizzle now.

[Polar Maritime]

Moderate/Light rain here for the last hour or so giving 3.2mm, Temp 8.5c N/W 6mph.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Polar Maritime

[Bishop Brennan]

Morning all 

 

Phew that was some rain we had last night, a good old-fashioned deluge. 10.3mm recorded for today already, and it's only eight o'clock

 

Bish

[Supacell]

I think the Midlands may be in the best place for thunderstorms today so some us may get lucky. BBC forecast has some pretty dramatic looking precipitation for 7pm around Nottinghamshire/west Lincolnshire!

[picog]

Some light rain last night and that was it.

[Bishop Brennan]

Dry here now, but this cloud cover doesn't seem to be shifting yet.

 

No sunshine = no warmth = no fireworks.

 

Bish

[TonyH]

I find in these situations the cloud breaks from about 11am.

Edited May 22, 2014 by TonyH

[Polar Maritime]

Sun starting to burn through here.

[Lyn-M]

18.2mm overnight here, no storms.  Not liking the look of what is heading this way from the Cherbourg peninsula right now.  May well have our name on it this time....

[TonyH]

Coventry had 17.4mm last night (10am) and nearby Church Lawford 16.8mm (up to 0700). Wettest day in Coventry since January:

http://bws.users.netlink.co.uk/

 

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&ind=03544&ano=2014&mes=5&day=22&hora=6&min=0&ndays=30

Edited May 22, 2014 by TonyH

[Mapantz]

Currently 14.5℃ and dark to my south.

Well, last night's rain was pretty spectacular. I certainly wasn't disappointed! I broke a record, 177.2mm/hr rain rate.

Here's a poor video of a bit of flooding that started to occur .. The sound doesn't do it justice, it was deafening!

Edited May 22, 2014 by Mapantz

[knocker]

The METO rainfall for today. Might be a bit dodgy around Southampton otherwise not that bad. Still have moderate rain here.

 

 

[Bishop Brennan]

18.2mm overnight here, no storms.  Not liking the look of what is heading this way from the Cherbourg peninsula right now.  May well have our name on it this time....

 

Yep, I reckon it's heading straight at you - lucky so & so.

 

I wonder if it might reach the West Midlands? Seems to be building all the time.

 

Bish

Edited May 22, 2014 by Bishop Brennan

[TonyH]

Probably on course for South Wales Bish, Midlands should have its own showers and storms by early afternoon.

[Andy Bown]

The only hours I do not want thunderstorm today are between midday until 15.00 as I will be doing exam invigilating so unable to enjoy what happens, currently the storms in the Channel look to get here around 13.00!

[Bobby]

Currently 14.5℃ and dark to my south.Well, last night's rain was pretty spectacular. I certainly wasn't disappointed! I broke a record, 177.2mm/hr rain rate.Here's a poor video of a bit of flooding that started to occur .. The sound doesn't do it justice, it was deafening!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgt8Tz2YLJk

 

We had a measly 8mm here (first test of my new pro raingauge!) - 25-30mm was forecast early yesterday. It was very heavy for a brief time though. The band rapidly fizzled out as it hit Blighty didn't it.

[Dorsetbred]

Looking interesting over the channel right now with a hook formed nicely

Edited May 22, 2014 by Dorsetbred

[jtay]

Some activity has just popped up ahead of the main cell. It's providing some decent rumbles to the south of here.

 

This snap is looking that way, towards the New Forest.