South West/Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 27/2/14 18z----->

[knocker]

HR Modis at1145. Courtesy "NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland" http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/

[karlos1983]

Temperature dropping rapidly, sleety mixing with the rain in Longham at times.

[Nights King]

Well that weather warning fell on the stony ground..

 

Not even on the highest ground, winter leaves on a damp squib!

[offerman]

Wouldn't surprise me because it was cold and the initial precip was very heavy around midnight - 01.00, we were woken by rain.

 

Could be interesting as the heavier stuff edges S/SW this afternoon, temp down to 3.7c now and a colder NE wind digging in.

Me to Andy, Its getting a bit heavier here now than it was and odd bits of sleet now mixing in to.

[Dorsetbred]

Now down to 4.3°C, temp falling slowly as the next rain band heads our way.

[Lyn-M]

Raw cold here this afternoon after a reasonable morning with sunshine.  Much of the returning rain has missed us here in the Somerset/Dorset borders and what did fall was only rain.

[The Enforcer]

Overnight minimum of 3C, so not even close. Maybe this will be like the early 1970's with an absence of winter snow, but plenty of snow threat in spring?

[Stormyking]

Fantastic day of weather here again, another 2 rumbles of thunder, lots and lots of hail, mixed with sleet (sleety hail) Torrential rain and in between some love sunshine

[Andy Bown]

MINUS 0.7c at the moment! The lowest temperature since a morning in January (exact date escapes my mind at the mo) with a very pretty sunrise thanks to high cloud due to the weak front out West.

[karlos1983]

Got down to -0.8c

630.4mm of rain fell imby this winter.

[Thermohaline Conveyor]

The dynamics for snowfall on Friday were not even marginal, with the exception of the upper level temperature support, the BL and surface was too mild.

[ARTDEMOLE]

White with frost at 06:10 with a temperature of 0.2c.   Now reading 9.0c. In the shade it reads 3.1c.

[Nights King]

One of the coldest nights this winter/spring last night at -2.1c now that's just pathetic really that I can even say that.  

[Wilxy]

Hello all nice to see some familiar faces in here . 

 

Not a bad day really been sunny most of the day but cloud has slowly invaded during the afternoon, pressure is 1001.1hpa.

Hope the current models are right in bringing some settled drier weather for the south which is much needed latest GFS keeps the high pressure to the south throughout FI but its subject to change.

[Nights King]

I see the met office have now dropped the hill snow out of the forecast for sunday/Monday

[ARTDEMOLE]

Clear .Calm. 5.1c

[Andy Bown]

Totally rank day! Drizzly morning and now lashing rain with increasing wind - and that's before the main front arrives which looks very active right now! What a massive contrast to yesterday's perfect Spring conditions!

[Nights King]

Totally rank day! Drizzly morning and now lashing rain with increasing wind - and that's before the main front arrives which looks very active right now! What a massive contrast to yesterday's perfect Spring conditions!

 

Yes looks like some heavy rain inbound  

[dancing daisy]

Currently sat in my car in a pub car park waiting for the rain to stop lashing it down. I'm going to miss my carvery if I wait aren't I.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Raining here until 21:00.  8.1c.

[Mapantz]

Yellow warnings for rain, covering all of our region.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1393804800&regionName=sw

Thunderstorms mentioned, I'll take that!

[Nights King]

Yellow warnings for rain, covering all of our region.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1393804800&regionName=sw

Thunderstorms mentioned, I'll take that!

 

Heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms with hail will affect southern parts of England and Wales during Sunday night and Monday. Some of the showers will become aligned into bands producing longer spells of rain, with some snow possible over the higher ground of southwest England and south Wales

 

Another half chance I suppose

[Evening thunder]

At home for the weekend and had some torrential rain about ah hour ago in this band of otherwise mainly heavy rain. Mostly cleared now with the rain eased to a steady moderate.

[gottolovethisweather]

Yellow warnings for rain, covering all of our region.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1393804800&regionName=sw

Thunderstorms mentioned, I'll take that!

 

Blimey this Thunderstorm aspect has crept up on me unexpectedly, I'll put up with yet more rain if I can get a few rumbles out of it.  I have a slight headache too, surely not a Thunder head. Much drier signal for our region from Tuesday/Wednesday onwards and it may well last a long long time. Hopefully won't detract from our chances of continental imports this year either, they are well overdue.

Edited March 2, 2014 by gottolovethisweather

[gottolovethisweather]

Heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms with hail will affect southern parts of England and Wales during Sunday night and Monday. Some of the showers will become aligned into bands producing longer spells of rain, with some snow possible over the higher ground of southwest England and south Wales

 

Another half chance I suppose

 

The snow risk was there, should one look at a post of mine from a couple of days back but I'd ignored it for now, thinking we has snow no chance of it occurring. Snow is slowly being put out of my mind now, but that doesn't mean I'd say no to a few flakes and a good covering for a day or two. 

Edited March 2, 2014 by gottolovethisweather