No storms here. Some to the east and south but 18 consecutive days without rain.

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Has anybody else had zero rainfall and not a single downpour or thunderstorm this August or is it just me in my bit of S.Essex? 

Wait I lied, there was 1.2mm of early morning drizzle to break the duck!

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 All this information yet it was not right as the lines of storms never really formed.

 This is his comment today.

Quick Update, Significant convection has not materialised and the cloud has been very slow to break up. Well surely that is an important part and should have been allowed for. Not saying i could do any better but it shows the limitations even 24 hrs out with all the model info.

Jesus christ. Don't read his forecasts then, but I think they're a great read. He did include caveats about clouds and temperatures. Try reading it again. 

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Has anybody else had zero rainfall and not a single downpour or thunderstorm this August or is it just me in my bit of S.Essex? 

Wait I lied, there was 1.2mm of early morning drizzle to break the duck!

Nothing here in Lowestoft so far this month (although the storms were not far away early morning of 14th, but just had few drops of rain). We tend to get ours if the winds are from the westerly quarter of the compass, plus imports from the south. I suspect we'll be on a firing line for storms in the new week.

July was a non thundery month, which is very unusual.

Has anybody else had zero rainfall and not a single downpour or thunderstorm this August or is it just me in my bit of S.Essex? 

Wait I lied, there was 1.2mm of early morning drizzle to break the duck!

Nothing except a few drops of rain yesterday morning from a storm south of here. 

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Jesus christ. Don't read his forecasts then, but I think they're a great read. He did include caveats about clouds and temperatures. Try reading it again. 

You are right, it is a good read but then so is the Beano

Storms breakung out by Darren (retron) that might come this way.

 

You are right, it is a good read but then so is the Beano

Ffs, thank goodness for the block feature. 

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Storms breakung out by Darren (retron) that might come this way.

Scrub that, again. Nothing to get things going. 

 

Ffs, thank goodness for the block feature. 

 Yes indeed.

It is now quite bright with hazy sunshine as the Folkestone Rain Deflector remains at maximum efficiency.  Only 1.4 mm from a spot of rain early this morning.

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It is now quite bright with hazy sunshine as the Folkestone Rain Deflector remains at maximum efficiency.  Only 1.4 mm from a spot of rain early this morning.

A bit of luck that might kick off some activity for you Ian.

The cloud has been a storm killer.

Nothing here in Lowestoft so far this month (although the storms were not far away early morning of 14th, but just had few drops of rain). We tend to get ours if the winds are from the westerly quarter of the compass, plus imports from the south. I suspect we'll be on a firing line for storms in the new week.

July was a non thundery month, which is very unusual.

Almost certainly. I'm coming up to Suffolk from next Wednesday for a short break and do some astrophotography!

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Scrub that, again. Nothing to get things going. 

I blame it on the Estuary Phil! (makes a change from the Government for me eh ;-)

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I had to go to Chelmsford late this afternoon and as we approached the city the sky became very dark. Whilst queueing in jams at the Army & Navy roundabout, several forks were observed, but the ground around us was not overly wet.
Traffic on the roundabout was slow, and as we snailed round it we could see exit roads flooded with the water rising. We carried on towards the city centre towards the cricket ground going through several batches of floodwater on the way. A bit further on we saw a fire engine trying to help a car stuck in floodwater.
On the way back, as soon as we were out of Chelmsford the roads became relatively dry. Writtle and Chelmsford has just got a mention on the 10.30 forecast having a month’s rain in a few hours.
When we arrived at Chelmsford we must have caught the back end of the storm, but could never have imagined how bad it was. Within a road things changed so quickly from a few puddles to flooding, it was so localised.

 

I blame it on the Estuary Phil! (makes a change from the Government for me eh ;-)

Yes it does have quite an effect, very local at times but can help on occasions, the Thames streamer in winter come to mind.

To be honest viewing the country over this period some areas have seen ‘great storms’ that have gone on for a number of hours. I think quite a few of us have also felt at times we maybe staring down the barrel of a good storm, only for it to die a death. On the radar I’ve observed a number of little one crack storms that have popped up, only to disappear straight away. Whether that’s a lack of shear or what, but some ingredients were missing in this very humid air, little or no sunshine for the past two days being another one.

There is a lot of activity heading north towards NW France and expect this lot to affect our shores for a good part of the day tomorrow.

Without wanting to sound like a scratched record, I'm praying the rain will miss us tomorrow. We've had more than our fair share now.

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Without wanting to sound like a scratched record, I'm praying the rain will miss us tomorrow. We've had more than our fair share now.

Divert some this way, please! just a brief shower yesterday, and today's forecast shows some promising storms in the Channel moving north -  midd-day and evening - and both sets disappearing the moment they sight the Channel coast.

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Looking at the lightning and rain maps it really seems possible I'll see and hear my first summer thunderstorm in two years sometime today.

A milestone in weather watching if it occurs.

But as I've come to realise the electrical storm deflectors have been remarkable in their consistency during this time. Well at least for this tiny part of Dorset.

 

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