South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 6th December and Onwards...

[Frosty hollows]

Raining now, but I'm convinced it was preceded by some sleet. Temp on the up with the rain passing through

[Nights King]

Steady sleet falling here at the moment. 

[Costa Del Fal]

8 hours ago, cornish snow said:

Depends what you mean by decent.

Have seen snow settle lots of times in a north west flow.

Far more common here than snow fall in any Easterly set-up. 

Yes, a couple of brief flurries past by last winter didnt it. Remember last February I think it was, we had snow for about an hour in Penryn and did settle on some surfaces. Did not settle closer to sea level in Falmouth though. Think they came from a cold WNW/NW flow. The beast from the easterly quadrant is always tricky business as the battle line always seems to hang around the Cornwall through to Ireland sector.

[jethro]

2 hours ago, fergieweather said:

PS It'll be interesting to see if we get some hill snow in parts of W Country/SE Wales/Cotswolds tonight, as per some MOGREPS members. It's not a firm signal but sufficient members of that suite have it for us to be watchful. 

It's currently just rain here up in the Mendips.

[dancing daisy]

Evening all! 

Well I just popped into the mod thread and its champagne all round so the pub run must have been good. 

[Mapantz]

Torrential rain and hail here, just gone crazy!

[katemart]

Bloody thunder here, now. This is just weird.... 

Hope the pub run verifies for once!

[Frosty hollows]

Pulses of heavy rain here too. Working at this time of night I'm not happy, in fact I'm quite sad

[Stormyking]

16 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Torrential rain and hail here, just gone crazy!

You got thunder out your way? We can here grumblers out that way!

[Mapantz]

4 minutes ago, Stormyking said:

You got thunder out your way? We can here grumblers out that way!

I think it was over near Christchurch..

[Stormyking]

2 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

I think it was over near Christchurch..

Theres been a few towards Bournemouth, poole and weymouth too, the maps havent picked up all the stirkes

[Mapantz]

Nothing exciting,  I just managed to get to the record button on my phones cam app. lol

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4A3F01F5A34A06D2!12426&authkey=!AAl1MqOdPy2onL8&ithint=video%2cmp4

Edited January 11, 2016 by Mapantz

[Hector the Convector]

Loud crack of thunder woke me up at 1.45am. Wouldn't be surprised to hear more looking at the radar..

[katemart]

3 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Nothing exciting,  I just managed to get to the record button on my phones cam app. lol

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4A3F01F5A34A06D2!12426&authkey=!AAl1MqOdPy2onL8&ithint=video%2cmp4

Wow, that's more like an alien invasion than rain!

 

[Nights King]

Well it isn't going to change, still sleety rain i'm off to bed.

[Mapantz]

1 minute ago, Nights King said:

Well it isn't going to change, still sleety rain i'm off to bed.

Me too. I have to be up in half an hour! 

[knocker]

Cloudy. Temp 5,6C and a zephyr from the WSW.

Nothing has altered my view this morning that we could be looking at a week of anticyclonic dominance from this weekend heralding a period of quiet cold weather, with quite severe frosts, Prior to that will be the transition with the possibility of some snow in some areas but the detail of this will be unclear until nearer the time.

[knocker]

10 hours ago, Earnest Easterly* said:

 

Miserable in knocker land.

The metropolis in sunnier times.

[Dorsetbred]

Morning all. Currently:

Temp  3.9°C

DP   (Wet Bulb :3.5°C )

Rainfall  13.9 mm

975.6 mb  Rising Slowly

Partly cloudy

[fergieweather]

Chilly start! Well, an interesting few days coming-up... especially given how modelling is struggling with nearer-term features, with confidence low into medium range. Indeed, just last night UKMO noted how a combination of factors *could* mean effectively colder conditions being in-situ across the next 15 days (note models inevitably lean to shunting colder blocks aside far too quickly). So, we might be in a bit of a rut for at least a while, trying to nail-down awkward local detail when it comes to rain v sleet v snow. Forewarned and all that....!!

[shaky]

1 minute ago, fergieweather said:

Chilly start! Well, an interesting few days coming-up... especially given how modelling is struggling with nearer-term features, with confidence low into medium range. Indeed, just last night UKMO noted how a combination of factors *could* mean effectively colder conditions being in-situ across the next 15 days (note models inevitably lean to shunting colder blocks aside far too quickly). So, we might be in a bit of a rut for at least a while, trying to nail-down awkward local detail when it comes to rain v sleet v snow. Forewarned and all that....!!

Well fergie your right the models were very progressive in trying to get rid of the cold way too early!!this morning the models are much better if you like cold weather!infact it gets colder as the high comes over us this weekend and winds swing around to the east slightly!!

[knocker]

12 minutes ago, fergieweather said:

Chilly start! Well, an interesting few days coming-up... especially given how modelling is struggling with nearer-term features, with confidence low into medium range. Indeed, just last night UKMO noted how a combination of factors *could* mean effectively colder conditions being in-situ across the next 15 days (note models inevitably lean to shunting colder blocks aside far too quickly). So, we might be in a bit of a rut for at least a while, trying to nail-down awkward local detail when it comes to rain v sleet v snow. Forewarned and all that....!!

Interesting times and you will earn your crust this week

[jethro]

Cheers Ian, look forward to your updates as I rapidly lose the will to live trying to decipher reality from the wishful thinking and dreams in the MOD thread. 

[Dorsetbred]

I suspect that Jethro & Knocker will wait with baited breath on every word from Ian this week, as their reputation as naked dancers 'hangs' by a thread

[Lyn-M]

14.1mm from overnight and probably no thunder as I usually wake at the first slight rumble/flash and I've slept solidly from half eleven to half seven! 

Our small streams are well up again, hopefully not cutting us off as we have to venture to Yeovil this afternoon!