South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 4th July and Onwards...

[MP-R]

Hoping it brightens up pdq. Grey drizzly start here.

[Andy Bown]

Heard some Yanks bemoaning the dull drizzly morning in Bath today, so told them it happens very regularly before a sunny afternoon. Would love to have seen them again when it was cracking the flags from midday onwards!

[Rich_Clements]

What a difference 24 hours makes   wall to wall sunshine and the wind has dropped considerably, a bit chilly but cant have everything.

[ThundersnowDays]

7th August 2015

Today had clear skies in the morning but has clouded over as the day went on.

Temp: 20.C

Rainfall: 0mm

I will be going to Cumbria for a week so will not post daily updates in that time.

[knocker]

Cloudy for most of the day but very pleasant now with  some Cu and Ci. Feels quite warm with a temp of 17C

[knocker]

Very fine morning. Clear sky, temp 13C and a northerly zephyr.

[ARTDEMOLE]

Clouding up now. Hazy hills. 22c.

[knocker]

Cloudy with St and very slight rain. Temp 14C a slight south westerly.

 

[tinybill]

watching the  BBC 5 day forecast on BBC news  last night this could be our last hot  day they suggest we could be into thunderstorm ally  this week!!!  so go and enjoy!!!

Edited August 9, 2015 by tinybill

[ARTDEMOLE]

Cloudy with some breaks allowing a little sunshine.   22.7c.

[A.J]

hot and sunny yesterday....was very warm under cloudless skies this morning, now mainly cloudy with the odd chink sunshine, still warm though and feeling distinctly muggy at 23C......tonight see chances of outbreaks of showery rain pushing up from the south west, and as I posted in the convective threads, my thoughts are the odd embedded elevated thunderstorm tomorrow morning can't be ruled out (judging by the hi-res modelling)

[Lyn-M]

On the Countryfile forecast this evening, Helen Willets showed the distinct possiblity of a thundery break down of the weather in this neck of the woods from Wednesday on.  So, why does the MetO forecast for my location now give any clue to this set up at all? 

 

Confused of Sherborne!

[knocker]

Another grotty morning. Cloudy with slight rain and very muggy. The worst of the rain is through here. Temp 16C with a southerly zephyr.

[Lyn-M]

Rain started here at 08.30 and dumped 14.9mm to  a few moments ago.  Still more to come.

[Bristawl Si]

After Summer's brief visit on Saturday now back to gloomy skies with light rain.

Looking ahead it seems we're in for a v changeable weather pattern.

No sign of even a few days of sun and real warmth.

Despite some of the eternal optimists in the Mad disc thread showing charts with HP and other more technical posters a couple of weeks ago promising an August of sun and warmth i see nowt of the sort.

Once again this Atlantic-facing island confounds the 'experts' when it comes to medium or long range forecasting.

Have a great week all.

[William Grimsley]

Another load of rain today here. 19.8 mm of rain has fallen so far today here. No thunder which is a shame.

[Dorsetbred]

Local rag had an article on heavy raain the area today. along with Helen Willets last night, and.......what do we get 4.1mm.  ROFL Heavy rain, not 'ere mate.

Edited August 10, 2015 by Dorsetbred

[Lyn-M]

Final total here was 23.1mm, you'd hardly know now though, it seems dry again.  Should be able to mow the lawn tomorrow!

[Andy Bown]

19mm here in only 3 hours or so and some brief flooding on the roads due to run off thanks to the dry, hard ground.

 

Beautiful evening now and a great summer day to come tomorrow, then Ian's Points West forecast had strong mention of thundery activity moving North from late Wednesday into Thursday.

[knocker]

Supposed to be sunny this morning but cloudy with thick Ci. Temp 12C and calm.

 

[MP-R]

Hmmm... bright sunny start? Nope. Havnig told my Mum to stay at home and enjoy the sun and do her day out shopping tomorrow instead, it looks like the days have swapped. Better clear up quickly.

[Rich_Clements]

Oh another chilly start, anyone would think Autumn has arrived early. 

[Andy Bown]

Overcast with lightbulb sun all morning thanks to the front being probably 100 miles nearer than forecast yesterday evening.

[Evening thunder]

24.8mm here from yesterday morning's heavy rain. This was well forecast locally by the Met/BBC charts.

 

In contrast this mornings cloud was not with Altostratus overspill from the front to the south.

 

Only 16.1C now after an overnight low of 9.6C

[jtay]

Rain here now. Not heavy, but still a shocker of a forecast.