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Just had a shower here - only 5 minutes' worth but proper rain at last!
Feeling thundery with some meaningful rain and what looks like a potent band of convection stuff heading this way.
Must be close to an inch in the past hour from these torrential downpours. Strangely none of the local stations including official Thorney have recorded anything - they must be localised and I'm just stuck under a conveyor line
Well Thorney ended up being the offical regional wet spot today @13.8mm despite missing out on the bulk of the nearby torrential downpours. I suspect one or 2 spots might have copped inch & half easily.
Arrived here about twenty minutes ago. Thunder and heavy to very heavy rain
What I hoped would be meaningful rain is passing to the north of me.
Oh well maybe tonight's thundery stuff forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning will break the drought in South Dorset.
Quite a stormy sky here as seen on the Blackbushe airport cam. Weather station only recording 1mm today although I am sure that is too low given the downpour we had just before lunch.
https://www.blackbusheairport.co.uk/weather/
Radar of organised thunderstorms gathering over France. The low pressure system is now drifting northwards. Hopefully we get something similar!
Vorticity. pic.twitter.com/5yjA94IE2a— wxcharts - a MetDesk Company (@wxcharts) June 11, 2020
Vorticity. pic.twitter.com/5yjA94IE2a
Radar of organised thunderstorms gathering over France. The low pressure system is now drifting northwards. Hopefully we get something similar!Vorticity. pic.twitter.com/5yjA94IE2a— wxcharts - a MetDesk Company (@wxcharts) June 11, 2020
I hope so. The thundery stuff that ran along parts of the south this afternoon missed me completely apart from a few large rain drops that failed to damp the parched borders. Last nights rainy prediction failed so maybe it will be this time round? A decent thunder and lightning display storm mixed into this system would be a bonus too. The only thunder I heard last year was in December with three flashes and that was my total for the year.
Two short but absolutely torrential downpours here, only just along the coast.
Not really convection as in yesterdays synoptics but watching the rain approach is frustrating.
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
Unless the second batch forming in Northern France gets its act together, I am beginning to think it's going to be another dry day here in South Dorset. The useful drought busting rain seems to want to stay in the Channel Islands.
Not really convection as in yesterdays synoptics but watching the rain approach is frustrating. http://www.raintoday.co.uk/Unless the second batch forming in Northern France gets its act together, I am beginning to think it's going to be another dry day here in South Dorset. The useful drought busting rain seems to want to stay in the Channel Islands.
I noticed that my phone app forecast has changed drastically over the last couple of hours. It was forecasting several hours of heavy rain from 1pm. It's now showing just a 20% chance of rain for most of the day, pepping up around 8pm. You can see on raintoday how the rain band is light and patchy on it's eastern flank.
Maybe. Looking at the radar there's a line of developing thundery stuff approaching the south coast but it now seems to be moving through quite fast having been edging north at a snails pace earlier. Light rain as I type and I think I might get some more. But compared to what was forecast even no more than two days ago, it's pretty mediocre at least in my area. The interesting stuff is/was way to the south.
I think it's a case of the general position of the low was well forecast but the detail of any precipitation not so accurate.
There that seems to be it. Had a short burst of almost moderate rain and it's light and patchy stuff again.
At the rate it's now moving according to the radar, I might well head to the beach later and the wind is moderating too.
Settled the dust but still dry under the shrubs.
I'll just have to make do with my weedy 0.6 mm so far today here at Kent. So gloomy that I've got lights on indoors . . . I mean, it's bloody early afternoon in mid-June for goodness sake.