SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

[Tn9]

1 hour ago, Neilsouth said:

Calling it a bust for East Kent compared to what was expected! Looks like that huge mass of rain from an OLD MCS did some damage to the potential. Whereas West of us faired better

Not really ...it rained which is godsend but not much really and I've circled my one bang that was it ..

[Dami]

Got woken up by a storm which kinda went and came back, lol

@lassie23had thunder!

[Captain Shortwave]

Not much thunder and lightning but there have been a few close CGs that have meant that I am certainly not sleeping through this.

[Vortex3929]

I wasn't woken by storms but the ground looks wet. What I didn't see, I can't miss I suppose. 

[lassie23]

4 hours ago, Dami said:

Got woken up by a storm which kinda went and came back, lol

@lassie23had thunder!

so did i

[Norfolk Sheep]

I was right, another drizzlefest. The only person who has ever got a storm forecast remotely correct for Norfolk is Dan. 

[Eagle Eye]

Really didn't get much. Zoomed in too badly to get a good video of one of the only two bolts that weren't just flashes.

 

 

[Hotspur62]

Had thunder and lightning here from about 12.30 to about 1.30 but the really big stuff seemed a few miles west of us.nice drop of rain which the garden appreciated as well

[Dami]

19 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

so did i

and did you get the RAIN? Wow did it rain here.

[Lauren]

A failure as expected but at least got some rain.

[Blessed Weather]

Having run through the radar for overnight I'm impressed with the number of storms around. Unfortunately for me they seemed to skirt around my location - but hey ho!

Here's how it looked at 00.10, 01.10 and 02.10 this morning:

 

[Neilsouth]

6 hours ago, TN9 said:

Not really ...it rained which is godsend but not much really and I've circled my one bang that was it ..

 

So basically it was a bust then and you just confirmed it...  LOL

[Tn9]

9 minutes ago, Neilsouth said:

So basically it was a bust then and you just confirmed it...  LOL

Yea ..but I've come to work in Eltham and these photos show I mean about dry ness 

Edited September 18, 2023 by TN9

[alexisj9]

44 minutes ago, TN9 said:

 

Yea ..but I've come to work in Eltham and these photos show I mean about dry ness 

Yep, not much water deep, may be up to 20cm or so at the top. Even that was dry till today here. The two warm spells, and not much rain in-between here. Or before in August either.

[Harry's House]

Heard only one clap of thunder all last night, at 1123 pm to SE'ly. Reasonable amount of lightning before midnight. Had a short period of heavy rain some time after midnight.

[Captain Shortwave]

Early cloud has cleared and it is at the moment sunny. Not sure what we will get from the cold front, there does seem to be some scope for something quite active (though it will probably not be thundery).

As for last night, I think the storm was losing some of its electrical activity by the time it reached here, still there were a few decent strikes.

Edited September 18, 2023 by Captain Shortwave

[throwoff]

Well, the days are starting to feel a little shorter, I figured it was time to come out of my annual Summer NW hibernation.

Now, wheres those FI snow charts!?

[Norfolk Sheep]

Got the grass cut with 10 mins to spare before what passes for a "thunderstorm" (??) appeared. Well, one rumble and some moderate rain, so quite a severe weather event in these parts. 

[Blessed Weather]

Nice rainbow earlier this evening as a heavy shower moved away east. Even a faint double rainbow showing:

[Blessed Weather]

For the record, some info on the rainfall from the overnight storms in East Anglia, courtesy of Dan Holley, Weatherquest:

Heavy rain and thunderstorms affected many parts of the region overnight, with the greatest accumulations in a corridor from London to Cambridgeshire and west Norfolk — where some gauges recorded 30-40mm. Bedford (Thurleigh) recorded a wind gust of 46mph at 02:04.

Source: https://x.com/danholley_/status/1703661987543068702?s=20

[Weather-history]

Two newspaper articles on thunderstorms that hit  parts of  SE of England  from around the 28th August 1823.

 

   

 

[Tn9]

21 hours ago, alexisj9 said:

Yep, not much water deep, may be up to 20cm or so at the top. Even that was dry till today here. The two warm spells, and not much rain in-between here. Or before in August either.

Yea especially by trees ,it will dust again in couple of days if no more rain , looks like with what was in dumper they had more rain than me in Tonbridge but only soaked in a fraction 

[Tn9]

18 hours ago, throwoff said:

Well, the days are starting to feel a little shorter, I figured it was time to come out of my annual Summer NW hibernation.

Now, wheres those FI snow charts!?

Well what with the oscillating 3.4 flipped I with my season predictability...EN SO not much at all ..the high flies south with the swallows..so odds on nothing ..lol 

[lottiekent]

Very windy this morning, feeling autumnal 

[alexisj9]

Was windier yesterday here so far, but the showers are quite heavy. Coat weather today for the first time since end of may