Stormy Weather II

[Joseph K]

Proper rain here now - first time in a while, it seems.

[oddoneout]

Rain! There was a good amount overnight Weds into Thurs which cleared the air and managed to soak in quite well. Yesterday was summer - sunny and warm(reached 20 degrees) so rather too much drying out, but cloud came in late afternoon and drizzle to light rain turned up around dawn today. It's petering out now as the cloud breaks and moves east so by the time I need to go out I may well not need to find my waterproof at the back of the wardrobe where it has been for many weeks while the need has been for warm top clothes.

[Serial_Apologist]

Rain! There was a good amount overnight Weds into Thurs which cleared the air and managed to soak in quite well. Yesterday was summer - sunny and warm(reached 20 degrees) so rather too much drying out, but cloud came in late afternoon and drizzle to light rain turned up around dawn today. It's petering out now as the cloud breaks and moves east so by the time I need to go out I may well not need to find my waterproof at the back of the wardrobe where it has been for many weeks while the need has been for warm top clothes.

Not a drop on the cold front for us as it passed through this morning! And now, with pressure rising and already high, the chance of showers around the SE seems to be diminishing by the hour - which is worrying, to say the least, as the prospects of rain, going well into May, appear to be pretty much non-existent in this part of the world. If no rain comes this afternoon, I shall be getting the garden hose out tomorrow.

[gradus]

Rain on and off but now turning sunny late pm.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely view upstream at Twickenham - for me the most scenic part of London - taken 3 hours ago, and showing a typical sky of cumulus with stratocumulus infill above: the convective cumulus being checked at the stratocumulus level (probably about 5,000 ft) - and spreading out, indicating a "cap" or temperature inversion at that height, as pressure rises and as a result of the descending warmer air associated with the high now building to the NE suppresses the possibility of clouds reaching enough height to produce showers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers/report/459b49ff-0111-4418-b1a8-99d0bdebab92/

[Joseph K]

Quite a lot of rain this morning but it's stopped now and it's a bit windier. Better so far than last May - but that's not saying a lot.

edit - spoke too soon about the rain...

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite a lot of rain this morning but it's stopped now and it's a bit windier. Better so far than last May - but that's not saying a lot.

edit - spoke too soon about the rain...

I thought you might be. The frontal system bringing this weather ain't going anywhere fast; and I imagine you will be enjoying rather more rainfall than us, since the front is expected to weaken as it crosses the SE tonight.

Apart from the possibility of some high-level thunder on Sunday, this could be our last rain for some time. We need it - even though it has put a temporary kybosh on our exterior redecorations.

[Petrushka]

Quite a lot of rain this morning but it's stopped now and it's a bit windier. Better so far than last May - but that's not saying a lot.

edit - spoke too soon about the rain...

Same here except for the wind which has much decreased from the howling gales of yesterday when the trees were flapping about in an alarming manner.

[Serial_Apologist]

Same here except for the wind which has much decreased from the howling gales of yesterday when the trees were flapping about in an alarming manner.

The really odd thing is that the Met Office were warnings of gales, exceeding 45 mph from midday to 3pm for here. It has been breezy but nothing like this, and although there is a sharp bend in the isobars at the cold front, an indication of stronger winds along the zone of wind sheer, the pressure gradient is nowhere near steep enough to warrant these warnings.

[BBMmk2]

I think we may have a good day today!

[Serial_Apologist]

I think we may have a good day today!

Yep, nothing much of interest likely until Sunday, when it could well become very interesting indeed!

[Petrushka]

The original forecast of some fine, sunny weather for these parts next week seems to have fallen apart somewhat. Saturday and Sunday look ok but the rest is the usual mixture of cloud and showers plus what the BBC call a moderate breeze, but which tends, in my experience, to mean a howling gale. Reasonable temps though, about average for mid-May, no more than that

The forecast will probably change again before we get there.

[BBMmk2]

Yep, nothing much of interest likely until Sunday, when it could well become very interesting indeed!

Oh…. Pray tell?……

Not a bad day today, methinks.

[DracoM]

Big feature up here is WIND - burgeoning plants being run ragged even before blooming!

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh…. Pray tell?……

It looks as if we are in for some elevated thundery activity from Saturday night through to Monday, as a small upper air low advects hot air of Moroccan origin across England. This is my favourite kind of weather, Spanish Plume, with its frequently Dali-esque skies, clouds at various levels moving in different directions, strobe lightning effects when it really gets going (sometimes).

First thing this morning was ideal for a 3-mile cycle journey to the Tessa Jowell medical unit to get my annual sugar level etc blood tests, and, on the way back, popped into the local surgery for a blood pressure test, with results reassuringly within safe limits staff told me - I have been worried by visual field defect symptoms for the last couple of years, possibly signalling hypertension: it's very strange suddenly being visually subjected to blank patches and strange rippling effects lasting around 20 minutes, which I had put down to not wearing sun glasses while out, but the nice doctor couple in one of the flats here were concerned for me to get a blood pressure test.