Cheers. It would also make the forecast timings miles out if this largely weak area of rain was the low pressure system that used to be called Bertha when it was a tropical storm thousands of miles away.

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http://www2.wetter3.de/Animation_18_UTC_05Grad/12_5.gif

You can see the once tropical air getting into SW England by 6am tommorow. 

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Still little of note. Some splodges of moderate rain such as over South Wales across to here at the moment and last nights stuff through the Irish Sea. No more than a light breeze blowing.

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Lightning in the Bristol and Englsh channel and some in S Wales. Very heavy rain here, not much wind

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http://www.estofex.org/  issues a level 2 for convective wind gusts and tornado risk.

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So far, hardly a fart from "Big Bertha" but she is undergoing development as we speak

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In the last 10 minutes its suddenly got windy in Basingstoke and we have had a heavy downpour. Watching the storms now coming in through Bournemouth which extend in a line to the SW

Heavy rain on and off since 5am here, wind got up in the last 90 minutes. Just had lightning and thunder too. Radar perhaps suggests a squall line, aligned with the M3?

Just had a flash of lightning followed by a loud long rolling clap of thunder here. Rain has been quite heavy in the last half hour and the wind has got up.

Lots of thunder here in Basingstoke at the moment

8.8mm of rain so far and a peak rate of 98mm/hr

Just plain old rain occasionally heavy, not much wind and temp 13.5c

The early light to moderate rain has now cleared. Very little damage to the house and not much flooding.

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Gusts are picking up in strength here as the morning progresses. Nowt too severe yet, but trees are a dancin'.

Light or moderate rain.

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Must admit with a total of 1mm overnight, I woke rather sceptical ....... since then had nearly another 17mm with over 11mm in the past hour ....

No wind though!

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Tropical rain here and more incoming I reckon. 12mm in last 75mins

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nice squall line developing now!

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Very heavy rain and frequent thunder and lightning here this morning.

Very rare to get thunder from frontal rain in these parts.

Clouds are moving at an astonishing rate: they must be very low.

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Latest fax chart http://www2.wetter3.de/Fax/bracknell+00.gif

The 0z NMM run had the low centre in just about the right place at 06z per the actual fax chart above

http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2014081000/nmmuk-2-6-0.png?10-07

By 12z the low is crosing the English / Welsh border

http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2014081000/nmmuk-2-12-0.png?10-07

Fax for midnight tonight suggests some very strong winds for the NE http://www2.wetter3.de/Fax/bracknell+24.gif

However there are already reports of trees being blown down on the south coast

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2014-08-10/stong-winds-blow-down-trees-in-dorest/

 

It would be really helpful if all those posting had their location on their signatures? It's no good telling us what's happening in your backyard,if we don't know where your backyard is!

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Just looked back through the last two pages and everyone has? Apart from Quantum who never does, but he lives Durham way somewhere

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Strange,not on my device?? Must be just me- sorry all!!

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Can you see the locations under the usernames on the left of the posting box? That's where most are rather than in the sig. If not I'll bring it up with Brian

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ios devices cut out side bit for some reason

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Torrential rain
Temp holding up @+16.6c

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Morning all, quite cloudy with heavy drizzle under that all too familar strong southerly wind. I am wondering what that squally stuff already affecting Southern England is going to do once that reaches here by noon time. Will we get it in the neck or it'll bypass us to thenorth of us.
The sun is forecasted to break through as we go into the afternoon - and ironically that is when I am expecting the winds to be at it's strongest here at this end as ex-Bertha continue to deepen on it's northwards journey towards Scotland and merging with the "parent" low off to the north of Scotland. Usually we get the strongest winds ahead of a depression system (the leading warm front), but here it looks like occurring at the "rear end" - behind the cold front - but at least it'll be coming in from the south west where I'll be more sheltered from it anyway.

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