Stormy Weather II

[Petrushka]

A much better morning here after the shocker of yesterday. Don't feel 100% after yesterday's second Covid vaccination so a blow of fresh air should hopefully wake me up!

[Serial_Apologist]

Good grief, actual warmth! The sun is rather fitful but no matter, being able to go outside without bundling up in several layers, and being able to put the poor seedlings outside without them getting shrivelled or shredded by bitter winds, is a bonus. Perhaps I can risk re-sowing peas and beans that failed in the cold and drought.
Hoping for a bit of dry now so that the grass can be cut. I know it's "No mow May" but as a hayfever sufferer that has limited appeal...

I'm wondering if you are located far enough north to have caught the edge of this morning's remarkable elevated thunderstorms that came up from France?

[oddoneout]

I'm wondering if you are located far enough north to have caught the edge of this morning's remarkable elevated thunderstorms that came up from France?

No, all quiet as far as I know- and I was up early.
Rather windy today but at least not nearly as cold. In any case an email this morning from family in Scotland containing the words - Northerly gales, snow on hills, ice-climbing at weekend - reminds me that things could be worse...

[Serial_Apologist]

If you're anywhere north-east of Birmingham, in a line going north-west from roughly Leicester to the Lakes, and anywhere north-east of that, you're likely to be experiencing or to have experienced a thunderstorm by now. And it doesn't look good for the rest of this week, I'm sorry to say.

[DracoM]

Here on NW high ground, sweepings of strong rain on NW winds, then sort of clearances, but heavy clouds.

[Joseph K]

If you're anywhere north-east of Birmingham, in a line going north-west from roughly Leicester to the Lakes, and anywhere north-east of that, you're likely to be experiencing or to have experienced a thunderstorm by now. And it doesn't look good for the rest of this week, I'm sorry to say.

We experienced thunder earlier. The weather has been all over the place again, but always windy.

[Petrushka]

If you're anywhere north-east of Birmingham, in a line going north-west from roughly Leicester to the Lakes, and anywhere north-east of that, you're likely to be experiencing or to have experienced a thunderstorm by now. And it doesn't look good for the rest of this week, I'm sorry to say.

To the north of Birmingham here and we are getting some very heavy showers alternating with some sunny periods but I've abandoned going for a walk today as the showers are too frequent. No thunder as far as I can tell but it would have to be loud enough to penetrate the traffic noise and double glazing here!

[BBMmk2]

I wonder if we’ll get any thunder today?

[oddoneout]

Hoping the forecast showers take their time reaching here so that we can get a good run at the volunteer gardening slot. At least it's significantly warmer than last Tuesday - into double digits.

[DracoM]

Pretty well cloudless still up here! Crikey - what next?
BUT
www.yr.no predicting rain from Noon.



...................but for once - and it is rare - they got it totally wrong. Sun/ plenty of cloud / but warmth all afternoon!!

[Petrushka]

Torrential downpours here from noon together with the odd clap of thunder. Won't be going anywhere today.

Now coming down as heavy as I've seen it for many a year and the wind has picked up. It's like a storm at sea out there!

[Serial_Apologist]

I wonder if we’ll get any thunder today?

Probably not this far south - Petrushka's area seems to be getting the brunt of the convective energy today, as the showers forming over the warm land surfaces and pushed northwards come across winds of more south-easterrly origin, and the meeting point surface air has nowhere else to go but upwards. It is, however, much warmer hereabouts than officially forecast - 18 C at noon - and the forecasters obviously haven't been outside to see what's actually going on!

[Joseph K]

Torrential downpours here from noon together with the odd clap of thunder. Won't be going anywhere today.

Now coming down as heavy as I've seen it for many a year and the wind has picked up. It's like a storm at sea out there!

It was like that here at that time too. Some time around 2 it cleared and the sun came out.

[Petrushka]

It was like that here at that time too. Some time around 2 it cleared and the sun came out.

It's now sunny and calm, as if nothing had happened.

PS: 5.23pm. Big storm going on as I type. Very heavy rain, thunder and lightning and as dark as night.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very poor weather here today following two days mostly dry: several hours of rain this morning giving way to heavy lumpy skies of cumulus growing and flattening out into stratocumulus infill, and quite cold. The SW region seems to be experiencing the clobbering today. Tomorrow offers a nondescript and rather cool interim before the next low and associated frontal system sweeps in on Saturday, taking residence to the NW before secondary features swaddled in wrap-around occluded frontal systems swing in from the NW and lurk right over the centre of the country for most of the rest of next week, bringing showers or longer periods of rain and temperatures only reaching May averages at best in any fitful sunny intervals. All this meterological misery is down to the Atlantic jet, which has been well to the south of the UK during the recent cold weather, being predicted to be slow-moving - hence not shifting those pesky lows - and shifting slowly northwards to be right over us all next week.

As to thereafter, there are vague signs after the 20th of the Azores High at last getting its act together and the Greenland High retreating Polewards - in which case, while the weather regime remains "zonal", i.e. coming at us from the west, there is a greater chance of a return at last to normality, with ridging from the south-west bringing up pleasantly warm Maritime tropical south-westerlies and rain-bearing fronts pushed further north, or weakening into relatively innocuous features when they cross the UK. While this is further ahead than models can accurately predict, and with the cautionary proviso of climate change tending to upset the apple carts these days, changes in weather type are pretty commonplace at the start of June.