Well, as I alluded to last Friday the "first sustained rainfall for the S.E"
didn't happen. But last night's News 24 forecast at 12.30 a.m showed rain
moving up from the South to cover Kent, Essex, Suffolk and South Norfolk.
"This may linger all morning in the S.E and be heavy at times the further
East you are before moving out in to the North Sea"
Didn't even get a mention this morning. There appears to have been some rain
on the Kent coast so maybe it was the graphics that were skewed but the
commentary on them certainly gave an impression of widespread rain across
the region. Not bad for an eight hour forecast!

Dave, S.Essex. 20.2C, 72%RH, 0.0mm

Dave.C wrote:
Well, as I alluded to last Friday the "first sustained rainfall for the S.E"
didn't happen. But last night's News 24 forecast at 12.30 a.m showed rain
moving up from the South to cover Kent, Essex, Suffolk and South Norfolk.
"This may linger all morning in the S.E and be heavy at times the further
East you are before moving out in to the North Sea"
Didn't even get a mention this morning. There appears to have been some rain
on the Kent coast so maybe it was the graphics that were skewed but the
commentary on them certainly gave an impression of widespread rain across
the region. Not bad for an eight hour forecast!

Hey, we got 0.3mm this morning! And I'm sure I heard some thunder off in
the distance.

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We got rain last night, enough to soak our bathroom floor anyway - went to
sleep with the Velux window wide open, to get a bit of cool air, and woke up
this morning to rather a large puddle (

Surfleet, South Lincs

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Jim B
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
.uk...
Well, as I alluded to last Friday the "first sustained rainfall for the
S.E"
didn't happen. But last night's News 24 forecast at 12.30 a.m showed rain
moving up from the South to cover Kent, Essex, Suffolk and South Norfolk.
"This may linger all morning in the S.E and be heavy at times the further
East you are before moving out in to the North Sea"
Didn't even get a mention this morning. There appears to have been some
rain
on the Kent coast so maybe it was the graphics that were skewed but the
commentary on them certainly gave an impression of widespread rain across
the region. Not bad for an eight hour forecast!

Dave, S.Essex. 20.2C, 72%RH, 0.0mm

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
Dave.C wrote:
Well, as I alluded to last Friday the "first sustained rainfall for the
S.E"
didn't happen. But last night's News 24 forecast at 12.30 a.m showed
rain
moving up from the South to cover Kent, Essex, Suffolk and South
Norfolk.
"This may linger all morning in the S.E and be heavy at times the
further
East you are before moving out in to the North Sea"
Didn't even get a mention this morning. There appears to have been some
rain
on the Kent coast so maybe it was the graphics that were skewed but the
commentary on them certainly gave an impression of widespread rain
across
the region. Not bad for an eight hour forecast!

Hey, we got 0.3mm this morning! And I'm sure I heard some thunder off in
the distance.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail

Just a few spots here (between 0425 and 0645 gmt) barely enough to set off
the wetness sensors.

My rainfall total this month so far is 8.4 mm. It looks like being the
dryest July since I began in 1995.

Unusually, you seem to have caught more of the showers than I, here at
Boughton-under-Blean.

Clive May wrote:

My rainfall total this month so far is 8.4 mm. It looks like being the
dryest July since I began in 1995.

Unusually, you seem to have caught more of the showers than I, here at
Boughton-under-Blean.

My monthly total so far is 19.3mm which equals January 2006 as the
driest months since I started recording in September 2004. Nearly half
of that total - 9.4mm - was recorded in one exceptionally heavy shower
on the 27th. We were on the western edge of that shower - it mainly
passed to the east of us, so I guess Boughton-under-Blean wasn't
affected by it at all. I wonder if the rainfall totals further east
would have been higher than here during that shower!

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was recorded in one exceptionally heavy shower
on the 27th. We were on the western edge of that shower - it mainly

Jonathan Stott
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Was that the storm that hit herne bay head on?

Blizzard wrote:
was recorded in one exceptionally heavy shower
on the 27th. We were on the western edge of that shower - it mainly

Was that the storm that hit herne bay head on?

Possibly

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"Dave.C" wrote in message
.uk...
Well, as I alluded to last Friday the "first sustained rainfall for the
S.E"
didn't happen. But last night's News 24 forecast at 12.30 a.m showed rain
moving up from the South to cover Kent, Essex, Suffolk and South Norfolk.
"This may linger all morning in the S.E and be heavy at times the further
East you are before moving out in to the North Sea"
Didn't even get a mention this morning. There appears to have been some
rain
on the Kent coast so maybe it was the graphics that were skewed but the
commentary on them certainly gave an impression of widespread rain across
the region. Not bad for an eight hour forecast

A wave feature on the front was forecast that simply didn't materialise.
I believe these things are fickle and hence difficult to forecast.

Here, there wasn't as much rain as I thought. would happen yesterday
evening.
Iwasn't expecting anything particularly wet but I inspected the ground this
morning
and the soil was still dry barely a cm below the surface.

Today things have returned to sometthing more akin to an 'average' summer
day,
if such a thing exists. Sunny start, the cloud building to give a brief but
sharp shower
around midday, but some sun again in the afternoon.
Temp has reached 22.0C, cool by recent standards but still a little on the
warm
side on average.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Ooooooooooh ain't it grand when passions rise :-)

Check this thread on TWO:

http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocomm...howThread.aspx

Daily Express - Daily Star & the rest of the 'comics' seems to have
created a bit of a stir

Weather & Politics don't mix.

Read: Hurricane Katrina (Summer 2006)

After reading through the entire thread

Brian Gaze..... putting his foot in it, several times. Doh !!

Wonder if he really means to write that way, or does he always come
across as a wind-up merchant