SE England and EA Regional Weather Discussion

[Mark wheeler]

Got caught out by the heavy rain this evening . It looked quite a small area of rain on the radar , it slipped from the north west and right across the Wimbledon area leaving me soaked . Oh well I'm looking forward to some snow we've been starved for so so long . My 4 year old asked what does snow feel like . Aaarrrrrggghhhh I'm becoming obsessive with the white stuff again .

[lassie23]

Feeling a bit colder, glad November hasn't been wintry though. According to weather lore winters that start in November are usually over early, leaving mild dross from January on wards

[Dami]

Already had some birthday rain. 

[Ben Lewis]

Slit wrists time in the Model thread. GFS 0Z moves towards the Euros. It was obvious that was going to happen.

Possibly a nice high setting up over the UK next week, cant complain. Dry and fair for my morning runs and dog walks, as long as the Atlantic train is absent I'm happy.

[alexisj9]

9 minutes ago, Ben Lewis said:

Slit wrists time in the Model thread. GFS 0Z moves towards the Euros. It was obvious that was going to happen.

Possibly a nice high setting up over the UK next week, cant complain. Dry and fair for my morning runs and dog walks, as long as the Atlantic train is absent I'm happy.

Nothing wrong with a high over us at this time of year, are we on the southern side of it?

If so do not expect the weather to be to warm, it's quite cold to the east of us.

[Ben Lewis]

3 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Nothing wrong with a high over us at this time of year, are we on the southern side of it?

If so do not expect the weather to be to warm, it's quite cold to the east of us.

I do not expect it to be warm. I'm happy because its a good possibility of being Dry. Nothing worse than mild Atlantic rain soaking the ground when your an outdoor type like me. 

 

[Emz by the Thames]

Wind warning folks

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?WT.mc_id=Twitter_Warnings_Rain&tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1479340800&regionName=se

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

3 hours ago, Dami said:

Already had some birthday rain. 

Many happy returns!

[Daniel*]

Happy Birthday Dami  

"A brief spell of very strong winds is expected as a line of heavy rain moves eastwards over the UK during Thursday afternoon. Whilst most places will miss the worst a few spots may see gusts in excess of 70 mph." - UKMO 

Very localised I presume.

 

[Blessed Weather]

And a Happy Birthday from me too @Dami.

The band of rain seems to have pepped up in the last hour or so. It's looking like quite a few of us will have a short, sharp spell of squally rain. I see from the radar grab (below) there was a couple of flashes of lightning in the North Midlands, but there's been no activity for a couple of hour's now.

[Reefseeker]

Squall line just passed through Uxbridge. Many leaves aloft and folks battling across the car park; the sun is out now.

[runboy]

Thunderstorm in NW Norwich! Not had rain this heavy for a long time.

[lassie23]

Heavy rain just pushed through here, swear I saw some snow flakes mixed in.

[Swave Snow]

1 minute ago, lassie23 said:

Heavy rain just pushed through here, swear I saw some snow flakes mixed in.

 

I think it was just very heavy rain.

[lassie23]

Just now, Swave Snow said:

 

I think it was just very heavy rain.

Hallucinating

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

39 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

And a Happy Birthday from me too @Dami.

The band of rain seems to have pepped up in the last hour or so. It's looking like quite a few of us will have a short, sharp spell of squally rain. I see from the radar grab (below) there was a couple of flashes of lightning in the North Midlands, but there's been no activity for a couple of hour's now.

You spoke too soon, Malcolm; as runboy reports, there have been two cells of sfreics within this squall line - one over northern Norwich and one to my south.

[Methuselah]

Squall just gone through...No thunder but a lot of rain and hail; leaves are piled in drifts, all over the place.

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Drove through it on my way back up from the south coast got pretty hairy at one point when we couldn't see 10 feet in front of us with leaves flying over the motorway looked like it was snowing at one point but it was all leaves. Very very windy when we got to exposed bits of the motorway 

Track and intensity of the 2 lows for this weekend and early next week is still up in the air. 

[Ben Lewis]

LOL... So Dramatic.

Bit of rain and a few gusts of wind. Sun back out after half an hour. 

 

[Blessed Weather]

56 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

You spoke too soon, Malcolm; as runboy reports, there have been two cells of sfreics within this squall line - one over northern Norwich and one to my south.

I wonder if I have a special power - whatever I say the weather does the opposite! I'll just pop over to the Model thread and post that there's no chance of severe cold and snow affecting the UK this winter. 

[Dami]

Had some heavy rain and it's a bit blowy, now clear. Wore new hat, cosy coat and some new-ish boots to do the school run. I was warm as toast.

Noticed on way home we have at least 5 planes at different attitudes circling round. One was quite low down too, and even without glasses i could clearly see it. 

Still awaiting new boots to arrive. perhaps they are on one of the planes.

[alexisj9]

No squall here, just a bit of rain, been windy and showery all day here.

However what the heck is all that mess heading along the coast behind the main stuff?

[JennyJane1]

3 hours ago, Ed Stone said:

Squall just gone through...No thunder but a lot of rain and hail; leaves are piled in drifts, all over the place.

Can confirm, had to go to hospital and nearly got blown off my feet and drowned, umbrella is a casualty.

[slater]

2 hours ago, Blessed Weather said:

I wonder if I have a special power - whatever I say the weather does the opposite! I'll just pop over to the Model thread and post that there's no chance of severe cold and snow affecting the UK this winter. 

Lol, the model thread does make me laugh always chasing cold, they have hardly mentioned about the heavy rain expected in our area this on Sunday

[bluebell]

4 hours ago, lassie23 said:

Heavy rain just pushed through here, swear I saw some snow flakes mixed in.

Ha that's funny earlier on at work a really aggressive squall line came marching through. The office base I'm at faces right on the sea front, so you really feel the effects there. I pressed my face against the window and shrieked 'I think it's snowing a bit to!' Caused a brief flurry of excitement amongst my peers before they realised it was all a part of my lurid snowy weather fantasy disorder! I work for a mental health service and planning to submit weather fetishes of any kind as a formally classified mental health diagnosis!