SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on

[bluebell]

 Froze were the Days

lol I was about to visit the forum to comment on this. The meto app has heavy rain billed for now but it’s dry and patchy sun.

[alexisj9]

 Froze were the Days it's starting now here, been nice till now though.

[snowrye]

Rain again lol

[Froze were the Days]

Finally starting raining here at about 5pm...so not far out

[Bogman]

Went to Wembley last night.

It rained, and rained, and rained. 

Football was turgid.

Did I mention the rain?

[Dami]

just think if this had been snow..

no wait..

[SenlacJack]

I've not posted in a long time but can relate to some of the earlier posts about this seemingly never ending spell of overcast skies, frequent rain and dismal lack of any real sunshine so far this year.

 

 

Perhaps my memory is fading in old age but to me this seems like one of the wettest and sunless starts to the year here in this corner of the South East for some time.

It's not particularly cold in the overall scheme of things but here we are almost at the end of March and so far I don't think the temperature has even reached the 60's F yet,  flatlining around 10 to12c day after day with one or two slight lurches into 14c territory.

In the 9 years I've lived here on the South Coast this is the first year I've not at least sat out in the garden or on the seafront and felt any real warmth or started to get a bit of a tan. Temperatures aside, it's the absence of sunshine which is really noticeable.  Months of seemingly endless overcast skies have a debilitating effect on the mind for me personally and I know I'm not the only one feeling that way.

Moan over. Max today was 11c, zero sun and winds gusting to 30mph

Edited March 27 by SenlacJack

[snowrye]

Just seen a video on Facebook, some very heavy snow on dartmoor falling now

[ChillyJuju]

 snowrye Saw your words & went straight to radar and it indeed shows snow in Dartmoor. Not the only place either, Lake District on the tops and the Welsh are getting in on the action

[Dami]

@lassie23GOT THUNDER LASS!!!!!!!!

Edited March 28 by Dami

[all weather]

These winds are so strong, feel stronger than sone amber warnings we recently had!

[Hotspur62]

Another day same old weather.Pretty much like yesterday ,which was another washout with rain starting about 10.45 and finally stopped about4!!Gone to work this morning got soaked again and currently sitting in van waiting for it to stop.Reckon by 11.30 we should have a good 6 hour dry spellNever known a spell of weather like this in 20 years of doing garden maintenance (this current pattern of weather started about mid October 2023 and shows no sign of letting up for at least another 2 weeks!).Really is exceptional in a negative way although at least there won’t be any water restrictions (well the way Thames Water is being run maybe not).

 

Happy Easter everybody and let’s hope we get a nice bit of soon!

Edited March 29 by Hotspur62

[Neilsouth]

So much for the weather being better today!!!! Still blowing a gale outside 

[Freeze]

Blue skies all morning here and 12c beautiful day so far here!

Edited March 29 by Freeze

[Neilsouth]

The forecasts in a nutshell for ea/se

Dry tomorrow

Rain in east

Mainly cloudy in east

Sunny afternoon, rain in morning

 

[Stroudley]

Glorious day - sunshine, blue skies and a gentle breeze.

13.6C currently.

Good day for drying the washing...

[Freeze]

Second day in a row of blue skies, makes a difference!

[andymcpool]

Happy Easter from Balham!

[Bogman]

What a lovely day.

Shame that looks like it’s that for the weekend.

[Neilsouth]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/av/68700951 No sign of ANY high pressure all week... Flooding will become an issue

[Daniel_c150311]

there seems to be quite a few thunderstorms coming up from France later on, and there are patches of 400-1100 cape so in some area around south and that kind of area might see some weak thunderstorms later on

here's where I personally think there could be weak thunderstorms later on.

(not accurate)

  

[Freeze]

Warmest day of the year here, sunny and 15c thanks to offshore winds!

[Neilsouth]

Rather active line of storms developing far to the west, few showers coming into kent... Going to be a very wet night for some that's for sure!

[Neilsouth]

Thunderstorm south east of Deal/Dover!

[Bogman]

Damp, mizzly overcast day.