Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

I’ve found that the two best bringers of rain are hanging washing out and washing the car. Almost a guarantee!

My dad used to claim as such, too. He called car washing our equivalent of indigenous people's rain dances, and would tell car washers, "You know you'll make it rain, don't you?"

I think we will have some rain down here this evening and tonight - mid-height cloud is spreading up from the south, making the sun watery.

[BBMmk2]

The dull days have returned!

[gurnemanz]

Some much needed rain here today; but it wasn't needed just 10 minutes after I'd hung the washing out!

Better down here yesterday with spots of rain arriving just as we took the washing in around 4pm. Not so far enough serious rain to affect the garden much.

[cloughie]

Better down here yesterday with spots of rain arriving just as we took the washing in around 4pm. Not so far enough serious rain to affect the garden much.

Some overnight rain here but a gentle breeze, some cloud cover but some sun around. 12C

[Serial_Apologist]

Some overnight rain here but a gentle breeze, some cloud cover but some sun around. 12C

Rain's predicted here for this afternoon, though it is brighter than one might expect in the vicinity of frontal rain. Very hard to judge owing to a visually impenetrable layer of stratus clag covering the entire sky. Rather chilly, very poor visibility here in London.

[Petrushka]

Unpleasant chilly wind pushing down the temperature which is supposed to be 13C but feels much colder. No sunshine at all today and poor visibility this morning too.

All very different from last week!

[BBMmk2]

Unpleasant chilly wind pushing down the temperature which is supposed to be 13C but feels much colder. No sunshine at all today and poor visibility this morning too.

All very different from last week!

Agreed. Similarly, down here, too.

[DracoM]

Snow here, temp -3C, blistering NE wind.

[Serial_Apologist]

Snow here, temp -3C, blistering NE wind.

DracoM's cry from the other side of the advancing front! It hasn't reached here yet, and the temperature has reached 12 C - a couple of degrees above what was forecast for the area. The weather will hit us this afternoon, and carry on through the night, although any snow we get will probably be out of the way by the time daylight arrives.

That doesn't rule out snow falling in any showers that filter in off the North Sea in a strengthening NNE wind. And it looks like it will continue on the cold side until early next week, when the Atlantic jet "wins", putting us into a more changeable régime.

Incidentally, the south of Spain and Portugal, which have been enduring a 2-year drought, have had record-breaking rainfall over the past two weeks, and that is far from over yet.

[oddoneout]

The wind is picking up, increasing the impact of the rain (which may turn to sleet later apparently) and the temperature has plummeted even before allowing for wind chill. On the plus side it took longer to reach here than originally forecast so my Wednesday outdoor volunteer slot went well - grey but dry and very little breeze - with the rain proper holding off until after 1pm when we were all ready to pack up anyway.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

A rather autumnal chill to this morning's little tour of the Salisbury-Amesbury back roads. I'm rather glad I didn't set out before 11am, as it might have been wintry. And I wouldn't have had the chance conversation with a fellow cyclist alerting me about "Sting Hill", named partly for what it does to your calves and partly for the proximity, as I learnt, of the mansion inhabited by a certain Mr Sumner.

[oddoneout]

Snow (or rather graupel) at 7am following a sharp overnight frost (-2 backdoor thermometer), falling from cloud which was breaking in places to show pretty blue and pale pink, and a light breeze. That has now (7-40)rapidly deteriorated to strong NNE winds bringing horizontal wintery solids (asstd, but currently big fat snowflakes). The forecast suggests that should quickly clear and sun break through but the wind remaining with the inevitable effect on temperatures. I hope so as the car needs fuel and I need shopping before tomorrow.

[DracoM]

Snow at lower levels and searing NE wind but also sun.

[Serial_Apologist]

Snow at lower levels and searing NE wind but also sun.

Sleet last night by the time I went to bed, and snow from a passing shower over N London this morning (not here, though); the wind now increasing at times to near-gale force northerly. Only the second instance of snow falling in London this winter - the last occasion being on Feb 24 when I recorded snow falling briefly during an afternoon thunderstorm. Temperatures can fall 7-8 degrees in minutes at this time of year in weather of this kind.

[Joseph K]

In London this morning I went for a walk in Regent's Park, during which time the snow and rain started and it became increasingly windy. During the journey back to Brum it has alternated between sunny and dark with blizzard.