Last significant rain on 15th June, Only 1.7 mm on 20th June and 2.6
mm recorded at 0900Z yesterday from an overnight shower. Lightning
seen ovenight 1st - 2nd.

After the Hot Spell with no showers or thunderstorms - the change to
'fresher air happened yesterday with no further measureable
rainfall.
Once again the GFS 020600 Z run covered all East Anglia and westward
with 3 hourly totals of 3 to 4 mm through the day. I drove to and
from Cambridge during the late morning and early afternoon of
yesterday and there were a few spots of rain in places but I could see
no roadside puddles anywhere.
I look at the GFS because it seems to be the most comprehensive advice
on the Web, and realise it is using gridpoints but I'm surprised how
wrong it was again for only only a few hours ahead.
There does seem to have been a repetitive pattern over my specific
part of ther country during the last two summers and again this year
that repetedly storms move up the East Coast and locally produced ones
form just inland and nothing happens here! I can catorgorically say
that I have not had any deluge type rainfall here through the recent
wet summers, though I've witnessed some very close to home.
Now looking very parched - Mid Suffolk NSS

"Jennik" wrote in message
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Last significant rain on 15th June, Only 1.7 mm on 20th June and 2.6
mm recorded at 0900Z yesterday from an overnight shower. Lightning
seen ovenight 1st - 2nd.

After the Hot Spell with no showers or thunderstorms - the change to
'fresher air happened yesterday with no further measureable
rainfall.
Once again the GFS 020600 Z run covered all East Anglia and westward
with 3 hourly totals of 3 to 4 mm through the day. I drove to and
from Cambridge during the late morning and early afternoon of
yesterday and there were a few spots of rain in places but I could see
no roadside puddles anywhere.
I look at the GFS because it seems to be the most comprehensive advice
on the Web, and realise it is using gridpoints but I'm surprised how
wrong it was again for only only a few hours ahead.
There does seem to have been a repetitive pattern over my specific
part of ther country during the last two summers and again this year
that repetedly storms move up the East Coast and locally produced ones
form just inland and nothing happens here! I can catorgorically say
that I have not had any deluge type rainfall here through the recent
wet summers, though I've witnessed some very close to home.
Now looking very parched - Mid Suffolk NSS

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Pretty much the same here in the last two or three years. Yesterday's rain
went up the East coast having been directly to the south of me up and till
the last moment. Did get one genuine downpour on the 26th June and some
useful rain on the 15th but the general pattern for S.Essex is the one that
you describe. Many people reading this will say - that's East Anglia for
you, which is true to some extent, but we are missing downpours and the two
days of rain type scenarios.
Dave
www.laindonweather.co.uk

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:03:11 -0700 (PDT), Jennik
wrote:

Last significant rain on 15th June, Only 1.7 mm on 20th June and 2.6
mm recorded at 0900Z yesterday from an overnight shower. Lightning
seen ovenight 1st - 2nd.

After the Hot Spell with no showers or thunderstorms - the change to
'fresher air happened yesterday with no further measureable
rainfall.
Once again the GFS 020600 Z run covered all East Anglia and westward
with 3 hourly totals of 3 to 4 mm through the day. I drove to and
from Cambridge during the late morning and early afternoon of
yesterday and there were a few spots of rain in places but I could see
no roadside puddles anywhere.
I look at the GFS because it seems to be the most comprehensive advice
on the Web, and realise it is using gridpoints but I'm surprised how
wrong it was again for only only a few hours ahead.
There does seem to have been a repetitive pattern over my specific
part of ther country during the last two summers and again this year
that repetedly storms move up the East Coast and locally produced ones
form just inland and nothing happens here! I can catorgorically say
that I have not had any deluge type rainfall here through the recent
wet summers, though I've witnessed some very close to home.
Now looking very parched - Mid Suffolk NSS


?? I'm in Mid Suffolk and on early Friday morning all hell broke loose
- around a hour of thunder, lightning and heavy rain. I recorded 23mm
and I guess most of that fell betwen 2 and 3 am.

Newspaper report (the flooding mentioned was well to my east so this
wasn't one rogue shower)

http://tinyurl.com/nm5gq2

I have to say , though, that by 9am, it was hard to see where all that
rain had gone - scarcely a puddle on the road and the garden still
like concrete.

John