South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 08 Feb 2021 Onward

[Frosty hollows]

That radar is a thing of beauty right now

[jtay]

Mental 10 minutes. Pots and garden furniture everywhere. 

Power has gone and we have a huge double rainbow.

 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Dying down now.

[jtay]

On 31/10/2021 at 08:54, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Dying down now.

Yep. Blue skies now.

Power hasn't come back.

[sunnijim]

39 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Yep. That short period was some of the roughest I've seen here for a long time! It went nuts.

Noted Isle of Portland with a 78mph gust!

[R Alto]

20 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

It's like the eye of a hurricane lol . I'm in it now

Hold on to to your hat!

[Bristawl Si]

Clearing skies to my south west

[Andy Bown]

35mm this morning! But very little wind so a very interesting period of contrast in our region! 

[sunnijim]

32 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

Noted Isle of Portland with a 78mph gust!

Now showing a gust of 87mph at 9am! Quite incredible.

Further along the coast in Brighton  our strongest gusts for several months at 64mph.

[Frosty hollows]

Could there be a sting in the tail? Been keeping my eye on this hook

[R Alto]

7 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

Now showing a gust of 87mph at 9am! Quite incredible.

Further along the coast in Brighton  our strongest gusts for several months at 64mph.

Wow!

You can see in the radar images the circulation crossing the Dorset coast. It will be interesting to see further analysis of this.

When it comes to gales it nearly always the unexpected events that are the most interesting down here.

[MP-R]

Quite the deluge first thing safely bringing October’s total to the highest of the year, now beating May.

Interesting feature down south. Did another low form within the flow perhaps?

[Mapantz]

Just been in the garden to inspect any damage - thankfully none - apart from a lot of leaves. It surprised me to be honest. The wind seemed very low level and everything was moving in all directions. I must've done a good job putting up my fence 18 months ago.

A rather violent and interesting morning!

[knocker]

Brilliant satellite image from METOP-C overhead at 2021/10/31 10:06 UTC Showing the low over N. Ireland and the frontal system

[Dorsetbred]

Some local flooding this morning Canfrod Heath Rd has about 6-7inches of water cover the whole rd, bins blown over as it gusted 40mph around 8am, lots of things moved in the garden due to the gusts,..

Meanwhile before the showers arrive, it looking good, so garden time for a while..

Beachcam shows a fair amount of white water even now..

Edited October 31, 2021 by Dorsetbred

[Dorsetbred]

On 31/10/2021 at 09:50, R Alto said:

Wow!

You can see in the radar images the circulation crossing the Dorset coast. It will be interesting to see further analysis of this.

When it comes to gales it nearly always the unexpected events that are the most interesting down here.

Right in the eye at around 09:15

 

Confirmed nicely with the wind speed measurement

Local reported gusts:

But WAY DOWN on the rainfall totals

[knocker]

51 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

Right in the eye at around 09:15

 

Confirmed nicely with the wind speed measurement

Local reported gusts:

But WAY DOWN on the rainfall totals

 

[Man With Beard]

Well I can quite believe those wind speeds. Far stronger than I'd expected in the Solent, lots of large branches down locally, even a brick wall (though made me doubt its construction quality!)

[Skullzrulerz]

 

 

 

[Guest]

Some images on the Bournemouth Echo website. Some pretty big tree damage in places. Luckily It looks like no one has been hurt

LIVE: Trees fallen and roads flooded after heavy rain and strong winds hit Dorset

WWW.BOURNEMOUTHECHO.CO.UK

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Live updates: Trees fallen and roads flooded after heavy rain and strong winds hit Dorset

 

Edited October 31, 2021 by Alderc

[Dorsetbred]

The cloud on the left having dropped an intense shower has cleared the beach!

[sunnijim]

2 hours ago, R Alto said:

Wow!

You can see in the radar images the circulation crossing the Dorset coast. It will be interesting to see further analysis of this.

When it comes to gales it nearly always the unexpected events that are the most interesting down here.

Must agree,and this is not a M.O bash by any means,however,their warning on Friday seemed to unusually go out of its way to say winds were not going to be an issue with todays system,more the hour or  two of rain.( 3 or 4 hours of rain eventually)

Unfirtunately, being quite so specific for once  on both those issues has proved a little over confident!

[Guest]

Shower just blasted through here, hail, very heavy rain and winds gusting to at 50mph. 

[matt111]

That feature just missed here as it headed NE but it still got very windy for a time earlier.

Mostly sunny now having missed all the showers that followed the earlier rain but still quite windy. 14.4°C

[knocker]

Very windy with a quite a few light/medium rain showers