Hopefully Dave had had his allocated rainfall for the Autumn used up in one go today.
Indeed, the squall line broke up just as it moved onto Kent this afternoon, and then magically reformed again over the southern half of the North Sea and the lightning skirted around us. As a result of the Kent Rain Deflector having some effect, I only got 6.3 mm today . . . not that I desperately needed it anyway!
The in-your-face strong south west wind is now abating and there is some brightness to my west as the ragged back end nears.
Originally Posted by: idj20
It's been similar here today. We did have some driving rain with an odd brief heavy burst around noon, then it was mostly dry this afternoon. Heavy squally rain and thunder was to the NW of us, which never arrived here, then as that died away to the NE, more squally heavy thunderstorms developed to the SE of us. The in-your-face strong SW wind is now beginning to abate, but it's remaining cloudy here.
It's also been warm and very muggy today.
Going back to Aug 24, we had a few rumbles of thunder in the afternoon, which then became just heavy rain for over an hour. Strangely enough, there was only little to no convection below 2000 m; they seemed to be more of mid level type clouds, unlike those of today.
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26 August 2015 17:13:52
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