South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 17th June 2013 onwards

[BLUNT]

Sat24 is showing quite alot activity in France moving North

[Coast]

Sat24 is showing quite alot activity in France moving North

 

Netweather detector:

 

[sunnijim]

Not sure their performance has been a yardstick for the last 24 hours though.....

And that in a nutshell is what we are paying for! If i took the radar grab to the local primary school i'm sure one of them could produce a simuler forecast,and probably have performed at the same level as our forecasting agencys over the last few days.Get a bunch of weather fridge magnets and have a guess at what might happen via the interactive board,year 4 vs Ukmo.

[Kent Snow]

First few rain drops just reached Canterbury. Very grey and a heavy atmosphere.

[donna-m]

Morning all,

Temp low compared to yesterday at 17c. Low grey mucky cloud and getting darker by the minute.

Humidity sitting at 82%

Thundery headache finally gone after 2 days so thats a bonus

[Coast]

Mind you, the Met O forecast wasn't specific about when we would see anything for today, just from the 'early hours' and even then adding a caveat about certainty:

 

 

Issued at: 

1142 on Wed 19 Jun 2013

Valid from: 

0005 on Thu 20 Jun 2013

Valid to: 

2355 on Thu 20 Jun 2013

 

There is a low risk of isolated thunderstorms breaking out across southeast England, East Anglia and the east Midlands during Thursday from the early hours onwards giving some intense downpours. These could give 15-20 mm of rain within an hour and 40 mm within 3 hours very locally. However many places could stay dry. 

 

The public should be aware of the risk of localised surface water flooding.

 

An unstable, warm and humid airmass originating from the continent  will cover the region during Thursday. In these situations, developments are very finely balanced as to whether heavy showers or thunderstorms will break out or not.  Although many places may miss the worst, where thunderstorms do occur they could give some locally torrential downpours.

 

[Reefseeker]

High cloud here in Uxbridge, thin enough to create a bit of shadow and allow the sun to pop through from time to time; the haze in the distance across to the M40 and beyond is much heavier today than yesterday with the countryside further away obscured.

 

A bit conflicted about the storm activity. I love storms, as does my son aged 13, but tonight is 'our' night when he had planned to buy our fave sandwiches from Subway and go for a picnic in the green area at Stockley Park, before a drink from Costa and then off to special needs judo. Will a cracking storm make up for it? Possibly. Hmmm, well, any storm had better be cracking if it's going to ruin the picnic!

[JMTD]

I'd be shocked if we didn't see any today, seems near on certain now, which means that's the entire day ruined.

 

Roll on the ******* winter.

[stainesbloke]

Well after yesterday's beautiful sunshine and warmth, today is looking pretty uninspiring. 50 shades of grey and not the exciting kind!

[Kent Snow]

Rain increasing in intensity now. Under darker oranges on the radar now.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Kent Snow

[Captain Shortwave]

Clouding over after a bright morning. It's coming......perhaps 

[Reefseeker]

Just looked at the radar, that looks like quite some rainfall coming into the far south east now; let's hope the lightning over the 'other' side makes it to 'our' side as well. Of course carefully avoiding the homes of those who don't like thunderstorms

[Kent Snow]

Pouring down!

[BLUNT]

Why is Sat24 showing different from Nerweather then? looks more like heavy rain then?

 

[Neilsouth]

Chucking it down

[BLUNT]

Plenty of activity moving North not sure if it will make into Essex??

[Keraunic]

Not sure their performance has been a yardstick for the last 24 hours though.....

Yeah...I'll believe it when I actually SEE it over the house. Mornin each. Boring night, boring morning.....weather is booooooooring. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated and bitterly disappointed with these French storms and channels and things. Have a good day everyone.

[Weathizard]

Dire and murky here, better get some storms to make it worth this dirge, come back Mr sunshine

[Tom Jarvis]

Well it looks like I now have to eat my hat lol

[Mesoscale]

I had to get up early today as I couldn't stand staying in bed any longer as my room felt like a fernace, I had to jump in the shower to cool off. Thats what you get though when you forget to open a window before you go to sleep ha.I have noticed over the past few years that late June seems to be a good time for some thunderstorms, we had a cracker in June 2011 during Wimbledon and in 2009 we also had great one in late june.

[Snow Queen one]

So dark here i have had to turn my kitchen light on.  Had an hour of moderate rain so far.  Just on the edge of the ppn no thunder and now it is still and muggy.

[Biggin]

V Muggy here. Lightish rain just started. That is all

[Tom Montalbano]

Just popped out for my lunch in Croydon and its just started raining. Looking very gloomy to our E/S.E.

 

If any of you are off to Ascot for ladies day, hope you have a lovely afternoon and make sure you back a few winners.

 

No topical tips from me today, Coast is your man!

 

Regards,

Tom.

[Coast]

No topical tips from me today, Coast is your man!

 

 

Not really! I'll go for a huge outsider based on the way I did that one the other day. So it's the race after the big one at Royal Ascot, The 16.25 Britannia stakes and:

 

29 Le Deluge 

 

Because we didn't get one overnight!! 

Edited June 20, 2013 by Coast

[Snowangel-MK]

As an aside, myself and at least two other NW members will be going for a drink on 27th July (Saturday evening) in a pub called the Fishermans Return, located in Winterton on Sea, on the Norfolk coast, a few miles north of Great Yarmouth.

 

Everyone welcome to join us.

 

 

Absolutely, we can't guarantee the weather but there will be some good food, company and plenty of ale on offer...and you never know there might even be a storm chase Norfolk stylie too  !

 

 

http://www.fishermansreturn.com/index.html