South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 4th July and Onwards...

[William Grimsley]

Still absoloutely chucking down here. Nearly an inch of rain has fallen so far today. 22.8 mm of rain so far today.

[Man With Beard]

Hi all, looks like there could be quite a significant rain event here, going by the radar it looks like I might be in a bit of a sweet spot too. Met Office forecasting to 70mm ... Bloomin heck! Grass was getting very yellow here so perhaps just in time.

Hadn't failed to reach 20C on any day for weeks but currently 14.1C.

[MP-R]

Rain has eased a little bit here to light rain. I think the worst has passed now with intermittent moderate bursts from now on.

[Nights King]

18mm fallen here so far although eased off a little.

[ThundersnowDays]

Double that guess I would say at least. I am on 10 mm already and now 11mm

You were right main band has passed over now and despite weakening I recorded 16.8mm and its still raining. Way above my 10mm guess.

[Barbel]

sun peeking out now near Axminster

still light rain/drizzle though

[Andy Bown]

Would you ever think it could be just 13c at approaching 15.00 in July?

 

Also, can you imagine if this Channel Low had come in winter!!

[Barbel]

Looking out the window here the clouds are clearly going East to West more quickly than before . What's happening some sort of intensification in the channel?I understand that as we are north of the low the air movement is East to West but really picked up now.

Edited July 24, 2015 by Barbel

[Nights King]

Would you ever think it could be just 13c at approaching 15.00 in July?

 

Also, can you imagine if this Channel Low had come in winter!!

 

Oh don't start us on that!  

 

Damn chilly for July though at 12c rain is light/moderate and steady now.

[Lyn-M]

Another 19.4mm to about five minutes ago, that makes 24.6 from the system so far.  Temperature is now down to 13.6°C.  Off to check July record low max temps....

[Nights King]

Another heavy area of rain has built up and moving across somerset now which should bump totals up well above 20mm

[legritter]

Yes new area of hvy rain just started here on west mendip ,no wind gone very dark .also now some thundery action across the channel and near dorset ,we could see some high totalls come mid evening ,looking particularly active further east ,and yes as some have mentioned if it were winter snow south of m4 corridor ,bring it on .

[William Grimsley]

Well, all in all a very wet day with maybe a little bit more rain to come in the next few hours. 28.6 mm of rain has fallen so far today here.

[ThundersnowDays]

We have had an inch of rain today  25.4 mm go into an inch and Ive just recorded 25.5 mm . Is this summer?

[Frosty_wsm]

What an atrocious day it's been, thought I'd time warped ahead to autumn, that's what it felt like out there today.

[Lyn-M]

This is going to be my first day with a rainfall total of over 25mm since February 2014.   From 09.00 GMT to five minutes ago the total is 25.5, but there are still showers lurking to add to that.  Temp still at 13.6°C.

[Stargazer]

29.6mm so far round here according to the university website, and the radar shows more to come.

[Andy Bown]

30mm as of 20.00 when I checked the gauge, the wettest day since mid October 2014 and the wettest July day since my recording began in 2005! And still raining now!

 

Off to Cornwall in the morning, extremely grateful it will be a fine day considering Sunday looks awful and God forbid Michael Fish's Net Weather forecast shows a repeat of today on Wednesday!!!! So hopefully it won't be too showery Monday/Tuesday!!!

[knocker]

Fine morning with some large Cu. Temp 13C and wind NNW 13mph

[SteveB]

Well yesterday was wet, 29.1mm of rain fell meaning it was the wettest day I've ever recorded.

[William Grimsley]

In total, a whopping 29.6 mm of rain fell here yesterday. The wettest day of the year so far!

[ARTDEMOLE]

32.1mm on weather station.. Two manual rain gauges had 40mm in each.   2.4mm. this morning.

Now scattered cloud  with sunshine. Breeze 11km.h N. Westerly. Temperature 19.3c.. Humidity 60%rh.

[Evening thunder]

Davis says 32.0mm overall from the system here, while my manual gauge read 35.3mm. 

 

I'm sometimes surprised when people mention totals such as 25-30mm being the highest they've recorded, we usually get at least a couple daily totals around that per year here. 2012 gave 3 instances of totals around 60-75mm in 24 hours, though that was unusual as the only other occasion of 50mm+ in my records is March 2013. 

[Lyn-M]

Final total for the whole system to 09.00 today was 33.3mm, the 24 hour total to the same time was 28.1mm.  That's the highest daily total since 27mm on February 4th 2014 and the highest July total since 29mm on 27th 2013.

 

Still cool today but at least it's dry.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Scattered cloud. Sunny. 21c.