Looking like a filthy end to what has been a depressingly damp and very windy day as the squally cold front start to "trail" over Kent producing one long rain streamer. Also as the wind veer ever so slightly more closer to westerly I can hear the rain lashing against my famed west-facing hobby room window.

Truly disgustingly vile stuff, even the air stinks of that salty brine scent. Roll on March and hope we fare better by then. 

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Yes much calmer here too but still overcast.

Another squal running thru here... a shadow of the main one earlier. But still dumped alot of rain in about 10 mins. My weatherstation reported about 4 mm

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8 flashes of lightning with at least 2 instances of shotgun thunder! Brilliant little winter thunderstorm!

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Becoming quite gusty again now after a fairly calm hour with heavy rain on and off. The gust record from my garden was broken today after a long standing 36mph, the strongest today was 40mph 14:25.

 

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I'm really not one for drama-queen hyperbole, but what went through here had all the characteristics of a squall line,  and certainly looked like one on the radar. Not as potent as the one that moved through around 11.15 this morning, but seemed a squall line nonetheless. 

Be interesting to get the thoughts of Kevin, Russ & Martin on the Wirral, and Bolty.

 

 

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I'd certainly say that today's lines have been squall lines. They've exhibited all the classic features of them - a noticeable increase in windspeed, stronger gusts and torrential rain. This morning's was one of the best I've seen in this country, and this evening's brought several instances of lightning and thunder in the middle of February, as well as the other factors mentioned before.

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Agree with Saint & Bolty for reasons given above. Also they were (if I'm correct) series of cold fronts, the air aloft becoming progressively colder after each squall lines passes, uplifting the milder moist airmass ahead of these into lines of Cb clouds. Vigorous convection was occurring overland as well as the seas, the former despite little or no Sun heating the land up. Anyway, be interested to see what others say.

We seemed to avoid most of the rain and squalls today...
Just a typical winter gale. Mean wind between 40-45mph gusting to 67mph. Very stormy looking sunset, all yellow and mauve.

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I think the squall line has arrived

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More of a rain event I think for Cumbria -  yes it gusted near 60mph but I havent read any reports of damage.

 

BUT rainfall totals are huge, these are not strict 0900-0900hr totals but 24hr totals

Shap - 125.8mm

Keswick 99mm

Warcop - 54mm

Me in the rain shadow 29mm

Will be good to look at the end of the month for the likes of Seathwaite, Honister etc for their daily totals

River Eden has now burst it banks in Appleby, flooding homes and other area like Shap, despite its altitude have also been affected by flooding

A rough day and perhaps an Amber warning for rain should have been issued

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This storm certainly caused a lot of havoc with this weekend's sporting fixtures with a lot of the horse racing and rugby league matches being cancelled because of it. It didn't affect men's rugby union or men's football in any way which means that the men's Six Nations' Championships matches were unaffected and of course, I was able as planned, to watch Hibs playing in the men's Scottish Cup.

However, a lot of the women's football matches were cancelled because of this storm and in England, this included all of the games in the English Women's Super League (which is the top division down there in the women's game). Here in Scotland, there were a number of SWPL Cup (which is the equivalent in the women's game, to the men's Scottish League Cup that is currently branded as the Bedfred Cup) which were cancelled because of this storm.

In the rugby, even today's women's Six Nation's Championships match between Scotland and England was cancelled because of this storm. As is the case with the equivalent fixture in the men's tournament, Scotland were due to have the home advantage in this one, but with that game taking place in Glasgow instead of Edinburgh. I have heard that this game will now take place tomorrow afternoon behind closed doors, but the fact that there has been so many sporting postponements shows just how bad this storm has been in terms of its impacts.

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Storm Ciara's winter thunderstorm from Manchester:

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Very eventful day, amazing squall line, thunder and lightning

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After a calmer period it is stormy again here. 

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Very rough day here. 72mph gusts.

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Another hailstorm has just come through here, although the winds are a lot lighter now compared to earlier.   Hail very quickly started covering the ground but seems to be easing down now & more to rain.

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The rain seems to have developed more of a west to east component delaying its departure from the SE.

I was in Liverpool this PM and second line was mild in comparison to this mornings squall, did look stronger across the Wirral and 5he rivers show it,!!

Martin

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I had to smile, talk about appropriately named!  

Nottinghamshire police are dealing with a large number of incidents relating to storm Ciara.  Superintendent ‘Paul Winter’ said .......  

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What a day's weather. Remarkable and memorable

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We only had a bit of rain and a few gusts. Looks like the squall broke up just before it reached here.

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Indeed, taking its sweet time to get here and I'm still in this wind field but think the strength is lessening somewhat. Probably pep up again when the rain band does eventually arrive here later this evening.

5.8 mm so far today, not at all exceptional in terms of rainfall amounts. 

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Once more we have lashing rain and hail with horrendous gusts. Nearly 24 hrs of this now. The A65 is impassable and I've had to drive over the dark moors to get home with lightning flickering in the distance its been such a bad storm here

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I’ve just run through the 12z GFS for this week. It’s crazy how long the isobars remain tight. I guess there is always a risk of another squeeze from small developments in the flow.

The next two weeks look very unsettled

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