South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion

[Dorsetbred]

Morning All, after some mist overnight the low of 10.5°C at: 05:13, has eased up slowly to 13.5°C, RH97% and light air movement from the SW.

The layer of St is back again with most of the area covered under a veil of cloud.

[dr weather]

11 hours ago, dr weather said:

Some chance of severe weather tomorrow afternoon. Fingers crossed. 

 

Netweather's Nick Finnis confirms the possibility:

 

Severe Convective Weather & Storms Forecast - Netweather.tv

WWW.NETWEATHER.TV

 

[Dorsetbred]

Some pings down in the SW approaches

[mike5900]

Hammering down.

Now thunder. 

[Rich_Clements]

My colleague in Hereford says it’s all kicking off there

[Andy Bown]

Frequent thunder South of Warminster. Storms aligned straight along the A303!

[nettie]

A report from Exeter where my daughter is plenty of thunder and heavy rain there.

 

[dr weather]

All happening N and S of me at the moment - grrrr!

[nettie]

Just had a rumble here ! Started raining to.

[SteveB]

I can see the usual stormshield is doing it's job for us in W-S-M.

Seems to be decaying before it gets to us, but to the South & East the storms are going strong.

[Andy Bown]

Genuinely hilarious! The one day I am going out at 16.30 is the one day a storm is approaching my location at the same time!

[jtay]

T&L sliding just West of here, heading to Salisbury.

[Dorsetbred]

The wind suddenly started to increase "Aha, rain on the way, thinks I". Wrong, this little puppy had 5 drops and that was it, which was fortunate as I still had about 10mins work to do in the garden.

As for the good stuff, it looks as though it will miss us (in the main). Is it going to another one of those "Close but no cigar summer and storms, I wonder?".

Edited May 9, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[jtay]

And another cell to the South now.

[jtay]

Big hail here now.

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by jtay

[nettie]

Raining with thunder sounds like it's going passed us again seen a couple of flashes. Better than earlier which was one rumble and a minute  of rain. 

[Dorsetbred]

Well, I can certainly say it's been a good storm day FOR SOME. I can also tell you where it hasn't RAINED or any storm, LOOK

And this outlook for the BCP area from the MetO & BBC seem amiss, as the sun breaks through at the moment:

Met Office

10am – cloudy, 13C
11am – cloudy, 14C
12pm – cloudy, 14C
1pm – cloudy, 14C
2pm – cloudy, 14C
3pm – 50 per cent chance of light rain, 
4pm - 80 per cent chance of heavy rain, 14C
5pm - 70 per cent chance of heavy rain, 13C
6pm – cloudy, 13C
7pm – cloudy, 13C
8pm – cloudy, 13C
9pm – cloudy, 13C
10pm – cloudy 12C
11pm – clear, 11C

BBC

10am – thick cloud, 13C
11am – thundery showers, 14C
12pm – thundery showers, 14C
1pm – thundery showers, 14C
2pm – light rain showers, 15C
3pm – light rain showers, 14C
4pm - light rain showers, 14C
5pm - light rain showers, 14C
6pm - light rain showers, 14C
7pm - light rain showers, 14C
8pm - light rain showers, 14C
9pm - light rain showers, 14C
10pm - drizzle, 12C
11pm - clear, 11C

Edited May 9, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[Frosty hollows]

What storms? Beautiful sunny evening with blue skies here after a grey afternoon 

[offerman]

Thanks to the person who gave the rainfall. Total updates about a place called Newton.. at last count I think it was in the 60s millimetres I wonder how much they have had now? 

[Frosty hollows]

59 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

What storms? Beautiful sunny evening with blue skies here after a grey afternoon 

Ummmm I take that back! From nothing we now have a little home grown storm. Mainly thunder here, but looking very wet on the other side of the river

[Dorsetbred]

1 hour ago, Frosty hollows said:

What storms? Beautiful sunny evening with blue skies here after a grey afternoon 

Yup, same here, blue sky and warm sunshine.

[dr weather]

And the winning county in today's storm-dodging contest: North Somerset!

[SteveB]

North Somerset is the place to live if you don't like thunderstorms or snow. 

I really need to move  

[Dorsetbred]

1 hour ago, dr weather said:

And the winning county in today's storm-dodging contest: North Somerset!

I challenge you on that as its been dry and sunny here this afternoon. Here's pluvometer readings as proof.

And solar chart for today

Edited May 9, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[Frosty hollows]

2 hours ago, Dorsetbred said:

Yup, same here, blue sky and warm sunshine.

Spoke too soon. It's actually hammering down here!