Having just heard that 'up to 2 inches of rain is expected' (Radio
Solent) it is dry outside ( for a while before the cold front) and
have recorded a modest 7.9mm. Nothing terribly severe.
R

Robin Nicholson wrote:
Having just heard that 'up to 2 inches of rain is expected' (Radio
Solent) it is dry outside ( for a while before the cold front) and
have recorded a modest 7.9mm. Nothing terribly severe.
R

Only 4.4mm in WDorset, but it has just started raining quite heavily
again. Currently 14.6mm/hr.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

It's been wild 'n' windy here for most of the night.

Wind has been gusting to 40 mph for the last few hours and 17.0 mm of rain
has fallen since midnight.

The garden is now a disaster area and the silver maple tree has been
part-defoliated for the third time this year. What a bizarre weather year
we've had so far.

(09:05), 15.1°C, RH 95%, DP 14.3°C, 998.4 hPa (F), Wind 22 mph SSE.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:10:11 +0100, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:

It's been wild 'n' windy here for most of the night.

Wind has been gusting to 40 mph for the last few hours and 17.0 mm of rain
has fallen since midnight.

The garden is now a disaster area

Yes- I feel very lucky that my position here is sheltered from the
SW/W by a substantial wood about 200 metres behind me. The added
bonus, with no traffic, is that when it is windy on the treeline, it
sounds like I am next to the sea. It is only a North or a SE that runs
up/down the valley.

At work across the valley it is very different and a far more exposed
site - gusts on the VP are sometimes 60% higher. The main entrance
acts as a funnel and the gusts are famously high.

The latest sat image shows a marked back edge not far away - an hour
maybe -and I don't think the current total of 9.4mm is going to go up
much more. However there is an additional swarm of showers later I
think.

R

On 5 Sep, 09:10, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
It's been wild 'n' windy here for most of the night.

Wind has been gusting to 40 mph for the last few hours and 17.0 mm of rain
has fallen since midnight.

The garden is now a disaster area and the silver maple tree has been
part-defoliated for the third time this year. What a bizarre weather year
we've had so far.

(09:05), 15.1°C, RH 95%, DP 14.3°C, 998.4 hPa (F), Wind 22 mph SSE.
________________
Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amslhttp://www.ottervalley.co.uk

Not been too windy in the far SW, only a force 4-5 earlier, peaked at
6-7 at Sevenstones. Currently it's only Force 2 -3 and the suns out.
There'll be surfers rushing to Sennen before the wind picks up again.
(Currently (09:15) looks quite tempting almost calm, clean wave,
sunshine - www.chapelidne.com/php/surf_report.php , I'm sure it'll
very soon change. )

I suspect we'll get our strongest winds as the low moves away and the
NWesterly funnels around Land's End.

Graham
Penzance

"Robin Nicholson" wrote...
snip
The latest sat image shows a marked back edge not far away - an hour
maybe -and I don't think the current total of 9.4mm is going to go
up
much more. However there is an additional swarm of showers later I
think.


.... as at 0900Z, total 24hr rainfall here was 10.5 mm, with 3 mm of
that from a moderate/heavy rain shower yesterday morning. PPN has been
mainly moderate, isol heavy, since early hours, and just now (~0905Z)
we had another short burst of heavy rain. Eased considerably now, and
sky is lightening somewhat from the windward: nothing dramatic as
regards the roads etc. The drains seem to have coped!

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023