Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

MCS for short! :)

Actually BBM, in full it's Sub-synoptic Mesoscale Convective System - but I didn't want to scare Anna!

[Anna]

Actually BBM, in full it's Sub-synoptic Mesoscale Convective System - but I didn't want to scare Anna!

I think you trying to convert me to your radical politics is a far more scary proposition than getting to grips with any meteorological jargon!!

We finally had rain yesterday, starting in the early hours, heavy but not torrential, tailed off by breakfast to light, stopped by 11am and totalled 30.7mm, just over an inch, wish it had been more (for gardening purposes) but it was dark at 9pm! Today started sunny and bright, very cloudy now and not too warm but I think generally getting better? (well, we live in hope)

[Serial_Apologist]

I think you trying to convert me to your radical politics is a far more scary proposition than getting to grips with any meteorological jargon!!

The politics of experience coupled with the back-up of evidence, Anna.

We finally had rain yesterday, starting in the early hours, heavy but not torrential, tailed off by breakfast to light, stopped by 11am and totalled 30.7mm, just over an inch, wish it had been more (for gardening purposes) but it was dark at 9pm! Today started sunny and bright, very cloudy now and not too warm but I think generally getting better? (well, we live in hope)

Sunny here right now, just small fairweather cumulus around the horizons, and 17 C. It looks dry for the whole of this week too.

[mangerton]

Actually BBM, in full it's Sub-synoptic Mesoscale Convective System - but I didn't want to scare Anna!

S-sMCS? I had one of these after work with ice, lemon, and tonic. Delicious!

OT, when I left for work at 7.15am, the rain was coming down in buckets. Didn't feel so bad, working on a Sat. By the afternoon though it had cleared, and it's been a glorious evening.

[BBMmk2]

Techno :)

[Serial_Apologist]

BBM's either onto something - or on something.

[BBMmk2]

Probably the latter, SA! :)

Typical, weekend gone and lovely weather (Thank goodness for school holidays! :) )

[Serial_Apologist]

Probably the latter, SA! :)

Typical, weekend gone and lovely weather (Thank goodness for school holidays! :) )

Well it was duller than November here yesterday, and barely over 18 C, but today's much brighter, if still a tad cool. Tomorrow we're supposed to be on the boundary of some rain edging back from the east

I feel so sorry for school kids, hardly back from their hols to be confronted by cheerful "Back to School!" notices everywhere advertising uniforms etc. I'm sure they put up the prices of satchels at this time of year: I paid £17 for one the other day, and I'm sure my last one, which had finally unstitched itself, was only a fiver 2 years ago.

[Petrushka]

We've had some reasonable, sunny weather up here since Friday but some heavy cloud as well. Temperatures holding up to around 21 degrees in the daytime but falling sharply at night to around 10. It's not really up to what we expect in August is it? It feels more like an acceptable day in April.

It has, I think, been the most disappointing Summer for some time and, let's face it, it's more or less over now no matter what happens. While reasonably dry, there has been no sustained heatwave at all and temperatures have been well below average, in some cases worse than that. There have been no balmy Summer evenings at all and very little chance of catching the sun. The strong wind has been the most obvious feature of the Summer. A huge disappointment is my verdict.

[Serial_Apologist]

The wind has now completely dropped out, following a warm and breezy, but quite humid day here, leaving a patchwork sky half covered with evenly-spaced altocumulus, awaiting triggering into high-base thunderstorms expected to creep their way northwards from France up the spine of the country tomorrow afternoon as overheated continental-tropical air from the Med ("Scirocco") destabilises, as happened last weekend. Temperature's still 21 C.

From there on it's downhill all the way I'm afraid, with much cooler rainy and windy weather invading the entire country for several days from Sunday on.

[BBMmk2]

That's not fair, SA! :(

[Serial_Apologist]

That's not fair, SA! :(

Indeed BBM - rainy, not fair.

I think we might just hit 27 C here this afternoon, meaning it must be over 30 and stifling among the tall buildings in the centre of Town. Two lovely Brazilian ladies are out sunning themselves on our lawn and jabbering away in Portuguese, a language one might think one could understand from a smattering of Spanish, but it's a very different language in many ways.

[Anna]

We've just had the mother of all thunderstorms here, first flash and rumble at 5.00pm and then stair rods, impossible to see through, hills disappeared and couldn't see past the garden hedge. A really violent, damaging, flash flood type of deluge I haven't seen for a while accompanied by almost a tornado wind and then it moved up NW - confirmed by the real-time map!

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime

Previous it had been airless, so oppressive and over 25°, almost impossible to breathe it was so close. But - as quick as it came it went, looking brighter now! Think we've got more to come (btw, I was looking at the Yorkshire Post yesterday - don't ask why - and it had a headline "Spanish Plume to hit West Yorkshire")

[teamsaint]

Blimey!!

Lovely hot day here, with just a bit of cloud.
Had a nice day a Lepe beach.

Clouding over now though.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes Anna - assuming it wasn't a small tornado, that wind would have been an outflow downdraught, or draft I've just now turned to the lightning map to see the severe storms really kicking off all the way from the Forest of Dean and via Brum, Lees and the W Riding towns all the way up the Pennines right now! No signs here of convective cloud as yet or of that oppressive feel; the temperature maxed out at a pleasant 26.5 here, 31 in St James's Park.

There appears to have been a single lightning flash in the vicinity of Stonehenge about an hour ago; a new grouping of storms is just south of Plymouth, probably due to follow that same line NNE.