On Aug 26, 12:29*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Nick wrote:
Southampton - Around 2100BST: clear sky still visible to north; around
2030BST, some patches still visible more or less overhead. Just
started raining quite heavily, none of your prolonged Ci/Cs/As
sequence with this one...

Can't remember a time when we've had so many frontal waves moving in
from the SE into Atlantic air repeatedly. This "back side of the
plume" setup must be highly unusual.

Nick

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I was thinking the same earlier Nick. I may end up with higher than
average rainfall this year and so far most of it has come from the S/S.E
or from the North Sea.
Dave, S.Essex

Yes, by contrast the bog-standard Atlantic systems moving W to E have
been very weak, producing a lot of cloud but little rain. The first
two weeks or so of this month were like that here.

Back to the current event, about an hour (I would guess - I was half
asleep) of extremely heavy rain here at (a guess) around 1am. Nothing
on the headlines about it though, so I guess it hasn't been comparable
to last Thursday's.

Nick