On Jun 11, 8:38*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:16:30 -0700 (PDT), Nick









wrote:
On Jun 11, 11:56*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Togless wrote:
Looking at the rain radar, there has been a fairly persistent 'tail' of
heavy rain running down roughly through Basingstoke, Winchester, Chichester
kind of area, and a few miles out to sea. *A friend who lives in Bosham is
unable to drive to work in Portsmouth due to flooding, and is looking
nervously at the very full mill stream running past his house. *Any idea why
this belt of heavy rain has been rather stuck over the same area for hours
instead of moving across the country, as the rest of the rain in the South
seems to be doing?
If you look at the radar stepwise you can see it is the result of the
centre of the small LP being located such that the perimeter is rotating
over that area perpetually replenishing the rainfall.

On what would I guess be the western edge of this in Southampton.
Since about 0900 it's been dark to the east and lighter to the west.
Heavy but not exceptional rain here. Good job it's Monday not the
weekend, that's all I can say!

A mere 27 mm of rainfall here so far today in *West Fareham, and a
maximum of 11.9. Five days in January were warmer than today here!

--
Dave
Fareham

More significantly perhaps, I'm wondering whether how our sunshine
record this month compares to January's at the same time.
From estimates I'd guess we're running at under 2 hours/day in
Southampton so far, while January ISTR being sunnier than average,
I'd guess 2hrs/day is about average for January.

I think next week is looking rather better but the first half of June
has been shockingly bad for a combination of cool, dull, wet here,
even by the standards of recent times. Only late June 2007 in recent
years was as bad, and I'd struggle to remember anything this bad in
1985-88:
I don't think even the "Hurricane Charley"period in Aug 1986 had as
little sunshine as this.

Nick