"ronaldbutton" wrote in message
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Dunno what's going on everwhere else ,but here in suburban Essex my AWS is
showing 31,5mm at 2005 BST ,and it's still chucking it down ! (too wet to
check the Snowden)

RonB Woodford Green

Several flash warnings issued in the last hour
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ngs.html?day=1

Radar imagery shows a narrow but intense band eseentially slow moving in a
line from Essex to Dorset. The GM T+12 500mb/vorticity field suggests it's
loosely tied to a narrow strip of upper forcing on the northern flank of the
vortex over France
http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/ind...500_12_12Z.png

Jon.