South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 19/01/2018 Onwards

[khodds]

Zilch in the way of showers here. Blooming cold though!

[lettice]

What a lovely blue sunny day today, 7.1°C
Quite breezy, 15-19mph W, with many 25-28mph gusts.

If you want snow, loads on the Olympics now falling, it started settling on the Luge track and may have thrown the shock medal result.

[Frosty hollows]

Popped over to Wantage and caught a snowy shower yet the thermometer in the car is telling me it's 6C .Really?

[Barbel]

Numerous hail showers near Seaton today, great fun.

[Frosty hollows]

Radar is showing those showers SE of Oxford as rain.  They're not. They're a mix of snow, ice and hail and they sting!!! Been up on the ridgeway watching the showers and there are some cracking cloudscapes. Really interesting weather today

[SteveB]

Just had a brief soft hail shower.

One managed to escape the clutches of the Welsh mountains and Bristol Channel 

[Thundery wintry showers]

41 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

Popped over to Wantage and caught a snowy shower yet the thermometer in the car is telling me it's 6C .Really?

It's not that unusual in this type of showery setup with cold upper air temperatures (850hPa < -6C), especially as we head towards spring and solar heating increases.  A shallow warm layer near the surface and relatively low humidity (dew point below zero) can allow sleet/wet snow to reach the surface despite temperatures well above freezing.  In March/April/May I've sometimes seen showers of wet sleety snow start with the temperature starting at around 8C, although in heavier showers the temperature usually falls sharply as the shower gets underway.  I also observed it once in South Tyneside on 18 February 2012, although in February 5-6C tends to be the upper limit (due to weaker solar heating) in most cases.

Edited February 11, 2018 by Thundery wintry showers

[Climate_Eyes]

Thanks TWS. Indeed, just had a nice fairly intense few minutes of hail and snow here at around 5C and a DP hovering around 0.

[lettice]

3 hours ago, Evening thunder said:

 

I used to have the 'Home and Dry' app for IOS with radar and forecast maps etc. It does cost £3 but was worth it for me as I really liked it 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/home-and-dry/id654608885?mt=8

I just wish they'd do an android version but they never have! 

Looks ok, but would prefer to try it first and would really like it to be on both Android and iOS.

 

[Leon1]

woah woah woah! heavy snow showers here!

[khodds]

1 minute ago, Leon1 said:

woah woah woah! heavy snow showers here!

Just seen that shower go through from a distance. Still nothing here though ?. Has it settled?

[Leon1]

no too warm, somehow it managed to snow at 4c, ill try and send a video

[Frosty hollows]

35 minutes ago, Thundery wintry showers said:

It's not that unusual in this type of showery setup with cold upper air temperatures (850hPa < -6C), especially as we head towards spring and solar heating increases.  A shallow warm layer near the surface and relatively low humidity (dew point below zero) can allow sleet/wet snow to reach the surface despite temperatures well above freezing.  In March/April/May I've sometimes seen showers of wet sleety snow start with the temperature starting at around 8C, although in heavier showers the temperature usually falls sharply as the shower gets underway.  I also observed it once in South Tyneside on 18 February 2012, although in February 5-6C tends to be the upper limit (due to weaker solar heating) in most cases.

Thanks. I was really surprised as the temperature was much higher than I've seen snow fall. The temperature is up and down at the moment. As we drove home the temperature dropped to 2.5c and following another wintry shower the temperature is back up to 5c!

[Frosty hollows]

4 minutes ago, khodds said:

Just seen that shower go through from a distance. Still nothing here though ?. Has it settled?

It's not settling here. They're just brief but potent showers

[jy]

Still dry here,but hey,a nubile model called Shannon Entropy catwalking weather sites,raising eyebrows and blood pressures,anything known of this gal.May be a mate of Kate Moss and one to watch.

[Leon1]

video: probably wont work but oh well and sorry for shakiness  

snow.wmv

[Leon1]

by the end of the snow shower, the temp had gone from 5.2 to 3.9, and is back up at 4.9 now!

[festivalking]

Snow shower here ?

[jtay]

Incoming...Take two.

Let's have another go.

[jtay]

It looks tastier over Salisbury, so that'll slide North of here.

And the Red Kite has just appeared.

Edit. Got sleet in the sunshine.

If the South West forum was to form a band. We could call it 'Sleet in the Sunshine'. Anyone play tambourine?

 

Edited February 11, 2018 by jtay

[ThundersnowDays]

Very nice clouds around today. I was driving near Radstock and there was a minute of marble/pea sized hail but no was no rain in that shower just hail. Looks like there were some intense showers around. 

Edited February 11, 2018 by ThundersnowDays

[jy]

Jtay send some sleet to Desperation City lol

[ThundersnowDays]

Back home and just had a minute of tiny hail and no rain in the shower again. 

[Leon1]

more please!

[jtay]

3 minutes ago, jy said:

Jtay send some sleet to Desperation City lol

Sent that last lot to Romsey. Will try again after the Rugby.