Stormy Weather II

[Pulcinella]

The yr.no site is forecasting 18 mm of rain for us here in York today!

[Petrushka]

Feeling very oppressive here, cloudy but with zero wind. In short, classic thunderstorm symptoms! Storms are due here from around noon so I've already been on my daily constitutional.

[oddoneout]

The yr.no site is forecasting 18 mm of rain for us here in York today!

Well I hope things don't get too bad.A family member is over from Holland for the music festival, having just come through Storm Polly on Wednesday. Experiencing further very bad weather won't have been on the agenda!

[Old Grumpy]

The yr.no site is forecasting 18 mm of rain for us here in York today!

First 0.18.mm have arrived...

...just as I was commencing assembling some wooden garden furniture complete with power drill, extension cable and all - luckily I managed to get it all* inside in time!

* The electrical equipment that is, not the furniture.

[Bryn]

Long-rumbling thunder, here in Braccan Heal, now.

[Serial_Apologist]

Long-rumbling thunder, here in Braccan Heal, now.

Indeed - it's been showing up on UKlightningmaps for a few hours now, having crept up from the S coast around Southampton. This is high-based stuff, yielding impressively dramatic lumpy cloud bases, and yes, suddenly very heavy rain now as I write. Hope my upstairs biking enthusiasts heeded my warning just now!

The official forecast is for even livelier stuff later on this afternoon as the cold front "proper" passes through, but often what happens is that a pre-frontal trough (such as this one) is where the main action takes place, and this drains vital energy away from the following front. This mostly depends on a sufficiently strong cold westerly at height forcing additional upward thrusting energy into the rear of the cold front acting as a re-booster. It will be interesting to see.

[Joseph K]

Disappointment. I was expecting thunder today, that's what it said yesterday and this morning. Now it just seems like lots of rain...

[Petrushka]

Lighningmaps is showing major storm activity around the Wrexham/Chester area and it doesn't seem to be moving much. There's been some rain here but it's all petered out and we'll have to see what transpires during the course of the afternoon/evening.

[oddoneout]

The thunder storms and heavy rain forecast this morning have now disappeared completely. Good news for the couple of big outdoor events in the area but we could have done with some more rain as the sudden heat and active airflow have dried things out again.

[Serial_Apologist]

What had been the main thunder zone this morning has transferred back to the main front, which in any case was just a few miles behind the pre-frontal trough, and is now generating thunderstorms in a line running north through the Welsh borderlands, Lancs, Cumbria and on up into western Scotland, with a few clusters forming further back, off Cherbourg and on towards Paris. Still a chance here for more storms as we are in the vicinity - the wind's dropped out completely, with a partly broken mid-level altocumulus convectiive layer which appears to be regenerating to the south. It feels for all the world like the Tropical House at Kew out there - I don't think some washing I pegged on the line earlier is going to dry, somehow!

[gradus]

Drizabone here ( S. Suffolk) save for a few drops early afternoon.

[Pulcinella]

Drizabone here ( S. Suffolk) save for a few drops early afternoon.

Our rain didn't materialise either.

[Joseph K]

I spoke too soon. The past hour we've had thunder and lightening. Rain too - and now it's pummelling it down!

[Joseph K]

Well, it's perhaps a tad cooler than one might expect at this time of year, but I don't mind at all. My favourite sort of weather in fact.

[Bryn]

Well, it's perhaps a tad cooler than one might expect at this time of year, but I don't mind at all. My favourite sort of weather in fact.

Enjoy it while you can. If the jet stream drifts northwards in the coming few weeks, things will not be so pleasant.