Wales, the Midlands & South West England Weather Discussion

[Dorsetbred]

A slight formation of mammatus on the back of a cell not long ago.

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That developed a lot better as it crossed Poole, the wife sent me some great shots of the mammatus as it crossed Poole. Her comment was "Almost as good as in the states!"

[Gibby]

A dry, cool and sunny start to the day in the West Country this morning. Currently 6.0C and no wind.

[picog]

Lovely here. Blue skies and sunshine, nice and still. Temperature around 4C.

[MP-R]

Bright sunny start after a low of 6.8C (don't know where these minima of 13C shown by the BBC are coming from!). Will today be the today? Showers will hopefully be more widespread than organised today so fingers crossed. It's been a remarkably dry convective spell here.

[Mapantz]

Currently 15.2C - feeling cooler today.

I had quite an intense shower this morning, 3.4mm fell in 7 minutes.

76.3mm for the month now.

[Mapantz]

Massive downpour with hail! Streets like rivers etc..

Holy crapola! It went mental!

Edited October 10, 2014 by Mapantz

[TonyH]

Just had a record rain rate of 153.6mm/ hour, in torrential downpours this morning!

5mm in 10 minutes with more streaming this way!

 

EDIT Not as inpressive as yours though Mapantz, we had some hail briefly too!

Edited October 10, 2014 by TonyH

[Dorsetbred]

Massive downpour with hail! Streets like rivers etc..

Holy crapola! It went mental!

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Just passed over our place along with a decent crack of thunder, setting the dog off barking...

[Mapantz]

Just had a record rain rate of 153.6mm/ hour, in torrential downpours this morning!

5mm in 10 minutes with more streaming this way!

 

EDIT Not as inpressive as yours though Mapantz, we had some hail briefly too!

It was only short lived but 3mm dropped in 5 mins or so. Back to warm sunshine again!

What a great week for the weather enthusiast?!

[Bobby]

This has to be the most thundery year for a long long time. Started with thunderstorms in January and we've had thunder, lightning every month since I think May. Probably seen more lightning, heard more thunder this year than the past few years put together. No particularly severe storms like the monsters of May 2011 and only a few were overhead but still impressive.

Had 2 downpours yesterday that gave 5mm in 10 minutes and 7mm in 10. Not much happening today though. Could be more downpours tomorrow!

Edited October 10, 2014 by Bobby

[J10]

More in the way of sunshine in between the ubiquitous showers today.

[MP-R]

Couldn't post at the time but drove into Bristol at 17:30 and was met by a thunder shower when I got there. Excellent roll cloud as it moved in off the Severn Estuary followed by one solitary bang of gunshot thunder and then a 20 minute monsoon. Roads to rivers in minutes and gusty winds. It was very dramatic and the first proper cell of spell.

 

Back home however is bone dry!

[ANYWEATHER]

A lovely day here today with sparkling sunshine and a remarkable temperature of 18.2 c making it just about the warmest area of the Uk.  Showery condition after dark though...

[William Grimsley]

Massive downpour with hail! Streets like rivers etc..

Holy crapola! It went mental!

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Woah! Just over my highest rainfall rate! Now you know what it's like!

[A.J]

no showers today, ended up very pleasant............just seen Ian F's forecast, looks like another trough will pass up from the SW overnight into parts of the West Country allowing heavy thundery showers to develop overnight.....so, after not seeing a flash over the past few days, I might just get lucky tonight!

[Lyn-M]

No rain here until well after sunset, then only for about half an hour and not very much.  Actually turned out to be a very pleasant and warm day, max at 17°C.

[Costa Del Fal]

Flash of lightning here in Falmouth just now as a shower approaches. 3rd night lightning this week!!!

[Bobby]

Possibly more thundery showers later tonight and into tomorrow. Then a respite on Sunday before a developing low swings up bringing more wet weather to much of the south on Sunday night and into Monday.

 

 

 

[Costa Del Fal]

STUNNING Lightning show right now with lightning every 20-40 seconds now. Some incredible IC Lightning and strobe type lightning really lighting up the sky here, illuminating the cloud whilst the rest of the sky is clear. Beautiful.

[Midlands Ice Age]

Good morning guys.

 

I am playing golf today and hope not to get too wet!! (everything just dried off from thursday..

 

This morning has got some light amount of stratus cloud around the moon. I know never a good sign, but it might stay away this morning. (Always the optimist!)

 

However no wind and a temperature of 3.4C, so PROBABLY a ground frost out there. I don't measure it though.

 

While talking about that sort of thing. My weather station is at a height of about 8 feet in a fairly sheltered south facing garden.

It sems to collect a huge amount of dew on the outer shield overnight. Does/will this mean I am recording a wet bulb temp inside? It is recording 99% humidity at the moment.. 

 

MIA

Edited October 11, 2014 by Midlands Ice Age

[Gibby]

A dry and bright start to the day following 2.0mm  from overnight decaying showers as they moved NE from the SW Peninsula. Currently 8.7C with no wind.

[Polar Maritime]

Very thick Fog here this morning, Temp 4.8c.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Polar Maritime

[Dorsetbred]

Heavy shower just blown through.

[lettice]

Just having a very heavy rain shower, some hail here and a very loud clap of Thunder, the house shook.

Colder today, dropped to 12c overnight and only 14c now, brrrrr

 

When are the regions changing for the winter so us in the South are back with you boys and get to read and feel the correct weather

Edited October 11, 2014 by lettice

[ARTDEMOLE]

Broken cloud. Calm 15.8c. In the  shade 13.1c.....