Stormy Weather

[Petrushka]

Rain rain go away !

It isn't going away from here! It's tipping it down like it's St Swithin's benefit year now. There must be some red faces about in the weather forecasting business amongst those who predicted a May drought.

[Serial_Apologist]

Awoken at 2 am by a ferocious gale here and loud clatter: the family upstairs' expensive buggy, always left on the walkway, (I've friendlily warned them it could get nicked), had tumbled down the stairs and was careering adrift into walls and ballustrades. And so, donning dressing gown and braving the conditions, I plonked the damn thing under cover down in the basement area, note under the door.

The weather charts leading up to Sunday are now all over the place, suggesting that none of the professionals has a clue what is going to develop. Maybe it's time I took a sabbatical!

[DracoM]

Well, national weather website tells me it is 11C with cloud cover where I live.
Actually, it's 5/4C, the north wind is battering away and it is sheeting down with rain.

How can a national website be so at variance with local conditions?

[eighthobstruction]

no sunshine for next 10 days....

....gloves and scarf getting threadbare....

[gurnemanz]

no sunshine for next 10 days....

....gloves and scarf getting threadbare....

...gloves, woolly hat and coat + waterproof jacket with hood for a five minute bike ride to our weekly High Street market. Chilly, wet and breezy, but I did get a couple of nice-looking mackerel and some fresh veg for my pains. Now recuperating with Hummel on CoW + a cup of coffee.

[gurnemanz]

no sunshine for next 10 days....

They also predicted no rain in May.

[Serial_Apologist]

They also predicted no rain in May.

Was this the Daily Depress again? I don't recall any such prediction, quite the reverse, or, in my case, the reserve!

[BBMmk2]

Rain Rain, go away and NEVER come back again!!!

[Anna]

Late yesterday afternoon I said I was waiting for the severe weather event to happen. Well, it did around 7.30pm when 'normal' rain turned into very heavy rain for over 2 hours (in fact so heavy it knocked the satellite signal out for nearly an hour) It then stopped but started again in the early hours, surpisingly yesterday evening there was still no wind here. The rain total until midnight was 18.55mm and overnight 6.6mm so nothing excessive and at the lower end of Met Office predictions. I seem to have been on the fringe of the worst, thank goodness.

Today has been bright spells but the chill wind has come back so warm coats are still needed, although temp at moment is showing over 10° but some cumulusnimbus building rapidly. I think tomorrow is forecast to be reasonably good for most of the UK but the weekend decidedly dodgy although forecasters seem to be a bit unwilling to commit at the moment (as S_A mentions above) I feel that after a 5 month Winter we'll be into Autumn before we know it .....

[cloughie]

After the storm of yesterday, today calm and sunny, only 11 degrees however.

[Serial_Apologist]

Late yesterday afternoon I said I was waiting for the severe weather event to happen. Well, it did around 7.30pm when 'normal' rain turned into very heavy rain for over 2 hours (in fact so heavy it knocked the satellite signal out for nearly an hour) It then stopped but started again in the early hours, surpisingly yesterday evening there was still no wind here. The rain total until midnight was 18.55mm and overnight 6.6mm so nothing excessive and at the lower end of Met Office predictions. I seem to have been on the fringe of the worst, thank goodness.

Today has been bright spells but the chill wind has come back so warm coats are still needed, although temp at moment is showing over 10° but some cumulusnimbus building rapidly. I think tomorrow is forecast to be reasonably good for most of the UK but the weekend decidedly dodgy although forecasters seem to be a bit unwilling to commit at the moment (as S_A mentions above) I feel that after a 5 month Winter we'll be into Autumn before we know it .....

Anna - it was probably calm because at that moment you were right in the middle of the low. In spite of what you say you had a lot of rain by any British standards - more than the half inch we received here. Someone is Shropshire had posted to the BBC an early morning photo of their garden under a couple of inches of snow, shown on the 1 pm news! Winds have dropped here, temperature has reached a reasonable 13 C, and from a quick look outside it appears likely to stay dry for the rest of the day: I can't see cumulus growth penetrating the inversion, indicated by a pretty solid layer of altocumulus at about 8,000 feet.

[teamsaint]

Just in case anybody has any influence, I need a dry sunny day a week on Saturday, for a potential day at the cricket.

perking up here, around 13/14 degrees, sunny (sort of) and no rain.

It could hardly have perked down though.

[Anna]

Anna - it was probably calm because at that moment you were right in the middle of the low. In spite of what you say you had a lot of rain by any British standards - more than the half inch we received here.

Yes S_A, but in the league tables of rain - British standards go out of the window when compared solely to Welsh standards of precipitation!! It's a bit like football, Premier League verus the Npower Second Division - no-hopers in the rainfall stakes!
Anyway, the black clouds have scuttled away and it looks as if it may be a rather nice evening as there's just some fluffy white ones with darker undersides (must gen up on my cloud formations!)

[eighthobstruction]

In Wales the rain just lingers in the tops of the trees .... just in case....

....<bound to be needed sooner or later, I'll just hang around>....

[BBMmk2]

Your not having a great day then, Anna?

After an earely fog, cleared to bring a most plesant day indeed. Myself and MrsBBM, took ourselves out for the day!