South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Big rain now ...

[jtay]

Horrible out there. Just got soaked, but the House Martins and Swallows are back. Loads of the in the meadows by the Avon in Downton. So worth it.

[dr weather]

42 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Someone remind me what month we are in?!

January. The software went wrong just as the clocks were about to go forward.

[MP-R]

Feels more like a late October or November afternoon/evening. January actually felt like January!

[Mapantz]

A wet end to the month, and a wet beginning to a new one./.

 

[Skullzrulerz]

UK weather warnings

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, snow, wind, fog and ice. Choose your location to keep up to date with local weather warnings.

Following recent wet weather, further rain is expected on Thursday night and through Friday. This will be persistent and, at times, heavy with 15-25mm of rain fairly widely across Devon and Cornwall. These accumulations are likely to bring areas of standing water and the chance of some flooding on Friday. The rain is likely to slowly ease during Friday evening.

Yellow Warning of rain in effect from 6am-6pm tomorrow.

 

[Wynn D Woo]

I seem to have nodded off and then woken up in October...wet'n'windy again today

[Dorsetbred]

Winding itself up nicely for later

 

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[Andy Bown]

Drizzle, shower, drizzle, persistent, shower, downpour, shower, drizzle, downpour, persistent.

Anybody else literally fed up of rain? 

[Dorsetbred]

2 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Drizzle, shower, drizzle, persistent, shower, downpour, shower, drizzle, downpour, persistent.

Anybody else literally fed up of rain? 

Not raining here! (Yet) Change of month soon change of weather..

 

[AWD]

The local duck population of Westbury currently loving life.

Big downpour passing through and not more than a metres walk to a nice big puddle!

[Andy Bown]

Ludicrous here in the last 20 minutes , copping a back-building red/pink radar echo.
 

Even I have resorted to the tumble dryer today after 2 wet days, now this and bearing in mind tomorrow looks dreadful then Saturday poor!
 

It was fine until midday, rain gauge has 21mm in the 3 hours since then!! 

[Dorsetbred]

35 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Ludicrous here in the last 20 minutes , copping a back-building red/pink radar echo.
 

Even I have resorted to the tumble dryer today after 2 wet days, now this and bearing in mind tomorrow looks dreadful then Saturday poor!
 

It was fine until midday, rain gauge has 21mm in the 3 hours since then!! 

You sure you not making this up? Not a drop of rain so far today, it has missed us as it trudged on it's SSW to NE route across Warminster!

[Dorsetbred]

Nicely developed "Eye" to the storm

With a buoy off the SW coast of Southern Ireland measuring 982.1mb, still over 1005mb here, , just over 20mb gradient.

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[Andy Bown]

1 hour ago, Dorsetbred said:

You sure you not making this up? Not a drop of rain so far today, it has missed us as it trudged on it's SSW to NE route across Warminster!

Nope. 6 hour accumulation.

[Dorsetbred]

1 minute ago, Andy Bown said:

Nope. 6 hour accumulation.

Drippin'

[matt111]

Mostly cloudy and breezy but dry so far as all the showers have passed well to the north. Reached 12.0°C, currently 11.1°C

[dr weather]

It was a decent day here until about 2pm, t-shirt weather at lunchtime in the sun.

Back to heavy showers again. The nasty stuff is now tickling Cornwall and will probably arrive here in the wee hours.

Edited March 30, 2023 by dr weather

[Dorsetbred]

Storm 'Mathis' appears to have become a little organised as the "Eye" has disappeared, with the overall shape, having become less compact..

[Rich_Clements]

Evening all, roll on summer

[*Stormforce~beka*]

1 hour ago, Rich_Clements said:

Evening all, roll on summer

What makes you think we are getting a summer this year? 

[Andy Bown]

Did I dream the decent day we had on Monday!? Yet even that was bookended by drizzle early & late.

Shocking this morning.

[Wiltshireweatherwatcher]

What a complete and utter **** month March has been weather wise. Far from being a spring month, it’s been a continuation of a pretty bleak winter. Storm Mathis rounding it off nicely.

As for putting the clock’s forward. The only change I’ve really noticed this time was that it’s darker in the mornings! Yet to see the benefit in the evenings because the weather is so poor.

To end on a positive, it looks like an improvement is on its way, just in time for Easter. 

[Dorsetbred]

Well.....that was a classic "Storm in a teacup" wasn't it?

Minimum pressure 981mb, max wind speed 43mph, and that was across the southern UK. I bet the French meteo are pleased they named it before anybody else

Don't forget the the heavy rainfall (all 12mm of it). Once it lost it's "eye" yesterday it went to pieces, ah well, there we go..

Looking quite passive this morning..

Moving on, the opportunity to increase the rainfall total still exists, looking at the radar this morning..

And looking slightly "choppy" this morning...

Edited March 31, 2023 by Dorsetbred

[Dorsetbred]

12 hours ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

What makes you think we are getting a summer this year? 

From earlier...

It’s worth remembering that despite the general cooling effect La Nina has been ushering in for the last two years, 2022 was still the fifth hottest year on record.

The hottest year ever was in 2016, a year when El Nino was in effect – which tells you what kind of impact the weather phenomenon can have.

It’s worth remembering that the last El Nino between 2014 and 2016 triggered crop failure and hit the food security of more than 60 million people around the world.

2023 is already expected to be hotter than 2022.

According to the BBC, professor Adam Scaife from the Met Office hammered home this message by saying: “Global average temperature over the last three years has been at near record levels, but it would have been even higher without the cooling effects of a prolonged La Nina.”

So, get those fans and coolers at the ready!