Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Apparently, we are going to get a thunderstorm today!

[Joseph K]

I accessed three different apps/sources of weather info on my phone, each one saying something different.

[cloughie]

Looks like ‘twill be show’ry all day here. Judging by what’s happened so far some may be heavy.

[gradus]

Sunny so far.

[Nick Armstrong]

I accessed three different apps/sources of weather info on my phone, each one saying something different.

A common occurrence for me... BBC weather & the Met Office often being in direct contradiction of one another, with the Norwegian weather app frequently differing again (and getting it right)....

[oddoneout]

Neither Met nor Beeb forecasts entirely correct for here - but that's down to being lucky enough to miss the showers which are all around. It's been warm rather than just not cold(shock!) and mostly sunny. Occasional cloud masses have gone across but apart from a couple of spots no actual rain, although places not too far away will have had a brief burst from what I can see of the dark clouds on the horizon.
Made the most of it in the garden - much to the annoyance of one of the blackbirds who scolded me frequently for working in his territory.

[Serial_Apologist]

Neither Met nor Beeb forecasts entirely correct for here - but that's down to being lucky enough to miss the showers which are all around. It's been warm rather than just not cold(shock!) and mostly sunny. Occasional cloud masses have gone across but apart from a couple of spots no actual rain, although places not too far away will have had a brief burst from what I can see of the dark clouds on the horizon.
Made the most of it in the garden - much to the annoyance of one of the blackbirds who scolded me frequently for working in his territory.

Further north - around Yorks, Lancs, Derbs - wind convergence has been producing lively thunderstorms since this morning, with little in the way of wind to move them on, whereas down here showers have been merging, mutually stealing each other's potential thunder! Lack of sunshine between is also cutting off ground-up convection: if anything is going to happen it will have to be as the centre of this low traverses us this evening, puling in stronger winds in its rear.

[oddoneout]

Further north - around Yorks, Lancs, Derbs - wind convergence has been producing lively thunderstorms since this morning, with little in the way of wind to move them on, whereas down here showers have been merging, mutually stealing each other's potential thunder! Lack of sunshine between is also cutting off ground-up convection: if anything is going to happen it will have to be as the centre of this low traverses us this evening, puling in stronger winds in its rear.

No thunderstorms but an impressive, fortunately brief, cloudburst late afternoon, which all cleared away to a sunny evening. There are some impressive clouds gathering now and the forecast is for a "damp evening and night" so I think the luck may have run out on the shower dodging - not that it matters at night so much.

[BBMmk2]

I feel for people who are working and wait for the weekend to arrive and find that the weather hasn’t been kind to them. Typically, the weather, at the moment has changed.

[Joseph K]

I feel for people who are working and wait for the weekend to arrive and find that the weather hasn’t been kind to them. Typically, the weather, at the moment has changed.

Indeed, it's all over the place again - alternating sunny and dark clouds with rain and hail.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thursday and Friday not looking at all good anywhere - but there are some signs of it warming and drying up a bit after the weekend, Good! - I want Saturday to mark my transition from hot winter meals to summer salads!

For the moment, strong convection, helped by ground-up heating during this morning's sunny intervals, is making for rapid cumulus growth, and a few cumulonimbus towering up over the black cloud bases now approaching from the west: thunder already reported in the vicinity of Reading, and a couple of clusters along the HS2 route-to-unfortunately-be. I expect to be back here reporting in the next few hours.

[oddoneout]

Dull, not too cold and dry so far although the clouds have threatened all morning and might come to something later on.
Although it is good news that (most of) the indoor spaces at work can be open to visitors this kind of weather makes managing the covid restrictions difficult. If the heavens open people make a dash for cover and the one way system isn't intended for large numbers all coming in at once so distancing becomes a problem.

[Petrushka]

Very dull and dreary here with a fair bit of rain through the morning. An occasional weak sun finds a gap amongst the murk but we are still stuck in weather more typical of mid-March with no sign of any let up until the end of next week if the BBC forecast is to be believed.

[gurnemanz]

Very dull and dreary here with a fair bit of rain through the morning. An occasional weak sun finds a gap amongst the murk but we are still stuck in weather more typical of mid-March with no sign of any let up until the end of next week if the BBC forecast is to be believed.

Actually getting cooler. 15 max today but Met Office predicts going down to 12C max for coming Sunday.

[Serial_Apologist]

Big rain spots from a small thunderstorm now heading towards Dorking - could just make out the rumbles from when it was crossing the M25 a few minutes ago. A pleasant 16 degs C now reached in the gentle air. Nice anvil clouds appearing all around. This doesn't look like the last of it, as the (non-frontal) convergence short-wave trough moving in from the NW later this afternoon will force more upward pressure into an already charged atmosphere. Another of these troughs, circulating around the filling low off Cornwall, comes in from the SW tomorrow.