Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Clouding up from the south now, courtesy an elevated warm front, following a pleasantly warm morning. This could produce thundery showers - along with the cold front, which follows from the SW this evening, and then surface-based showers in the cooler south-westerlies tonight and tomorrow. Wednesday could turn very windy indeed - the more so the nearer the English Channel, as named storm Claudio makes its way up the Channel. Brolly for the afternoon walk shortly, just in case.

[Serial_Apologist]

Torrential rain here just now. Earlier on I watched incipient roll cloud forming a sort of underlay to a thickening covering of altocumulus; there are reports of flash flooding around Poole, and I've just noticed a few lightning reports from that area, so it looks like I predicted right, although there was no mention of thunder on the lunchtime BBC forecast!

[gurnemanz]

Pleased to get to choir practice and back on my bike, including a pint afterwards, without getting wet. Looking at the radar I dodged some heavy showers.

[teamsaint]

Pleased to get to choir practice and back on my bike, including a pint afterwards, without getting wet. Looking at the radar I dodged some heavy showers.

Bucketing down and high winds here in S Wilts.

[BBMmk2]

Bucketing down and high winds here in S Wilts.

Same here. Our younger puppy, Bobby, only 8 moths old, hated it. Was quite scared. Our older dog, Bertie, it’s carried on, as normal.

[oddoneout]

Very windy and rather wet overnight, and looks to be more of he same during today, possibly seeing a bit of sun. Still mild but the temperatures are definitely heading down day by day.
On the plus side it was a demonstration of what a difference the roof work on my house has made. It has had a full strip down, with new felt, tiles re-laid and the ridge tiles all relaid and mortared down. That has stopped the howling gales that used to "ventilate" (noisily) the loft space where the felt had cracked and holed, but also a bit of work on the chimney stack included re-fastening next door's unfixed metal pot so now their (redundant thank heavens) flue liner, to which it is attached, doesn't get whirled around in the chimney, banging and rubbing against the sides and getting relayed through the back to back chimney breast into the main bedroom. Rigid insulation installed on the angled part of the ceiling where it meets the outside walls (a nifty idea to get a decent ceiling height without raising the roof profile, but impossible to insulate from inside the loft) has already made a difference to cold spots in the bedrooms, but should come into its own when cold weather sets in, and I'm hoping it will solve, or at least reduce, a mould problem in a cupboard as well. It remains to be seen if birds getting under the tiles to nest will still be a problem - a disadvantage of the pantiles common here.

[DracoM]

Autumnal: sun in brilliant shafts/ big but fleeting clouds / showers/ wind / not too cold /wonderful leaf colours.

[Serial_Apologist]

Certainly last night's lashing rain and gales kept me away for a good three hours - the return to GMT served me well in recovering one of those lost hours! Twigs and small branches strewn everywhere following that. Torrential rain just now from a passing cold front, with strong winds from a gust front, albeit not quite as strong as last night. Lightning developed along a section of the front further north, but the thunder from that, being just beyond the M25 on the Essex side, did not reach here. Nice anvil back hang to the east from the associated cumulonimbus: funnily enough the amount of clag spread ahead of the squall line obscured the cloud mass type, so I've had to revise my recorded cloud type for the midday observation from simple large cumulus to cumulonimbus calvus! We'll be lucky now if the temperature reaches the forecast 16C following the tumble during the downpour, although the wind has moderated. There are still isolated cumulonimbuses (cumulonimbi!) to the west so we could still catch a few showers as the day goes on.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's going mad here right now - massive gusts of wind. It's hard to know exactly what is going on now that it is dark by 5.15, but there was a single flash of lightning way to the south of here and an audible rumble of thunder.

[BBMmk2]

I might go out on my motobility scooter today, if it stays like this.

[DracoM]

Temp here was 7C at 6 a.m., is now 5C. Wind is bitter and NW.
Market traders already thinking of packing up early.
And now..........?
3.32: drenchingly wild........... Oh, yes, wild winds and seriously cold.

This talk of temps being 12C +...? Does the BBC in London etc EVER get serious readings from anywhere but the cafes / chatrooms in and around Uxbridge?
Come on, Schafenaker, get out and SEE and FEEL, eh? And what it must be like in Scotland......................phew!

[oddoneout]

Significantly cooler today, in other words temps much more what they "should" be for time of year. The wind may have been southerly but there was a great deal of it(and due to be more so through the first part of the night), but the sun made up for it and did a good job of drying off the grass just about enough to be able to put my mower over it after lunch. Overall pretty pleasant for the volunteer gardening in the morning and the start of our winter working routine now the site is closed to general visitors.

[HighlandDougie]

And what it must be like in Scotland......................phew!

In a word - vile. Heavy showers, windy, 7C at the moment. I was in Bordeaux exactly a week ago where it was 32C.

[DracoM]

Yes, exactly!
I get my forecasts from Norway for NW England - FAR, far more accurate and better at predictions.

Try https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/hourly...ingdom/England

[Petrushka]

BBC forecast for here said 'light rain showers and a fresh breeze'. It's actually been more like a storm at sea out there for the past hour, absolutely thrashing it down with a strong wind.

I find the weather.com forecasts to be generally much more accurate than the BBC.