After a beautiful barbecue summer s day on Tuesday, and good sunny spells
yesterday morning, the lunchtime BBC radio 4 forecast promised an afternoon
soon becoming cloudy with localised rain, and stressed that it would feel
cooler than previous day, but the sunny spells continued until cloud
increased rapidly around 1800Z . Temp had been 23C. Just discernable
drizzle for about 5 minutes at 1930Z. So another useable barbeue early
evening, and again no measureable rainfall.
Overnight and Today so far no measureable rain, despite the radar showing
rain getting very near. There have been some good sunny periods again but
cloud has thickened in last hour with again some brief tiny rain drops, but
radar currently shows us sitting in a very small zone with no echoes.
Still seems certain that some rain will reach us but nothing yet. All
surfaces currently remain dry.

NSS Mid Suffolk 161050Z

On Jun 16, 11:52*am, "Jennik" wrote:
After a beautiful barbecue summer s day on Tuesday, and good sunny spells
yesterday morning, the lunchtime BBC radio 4 forecast promised an afternoon
soon becoming cloudy with localised rain, and stressed that it would feel
cooler than previous day, but the sunny spells continued until cloud
increased rapidly around 1800Z . Temp had been 23C. *Just discernable
drizzle for about 5 minutes at 1930Z. *So another useable barbeue early
evening, and again no measureable rainfall.
Overnight and *Today so far no measureable rain, despite the radar showing
rain getting very near. *There have been some good sunny periods again but
cloud has thickened in last hour with again some brief tiny rain drops, but
radar currently shows us sitting in a very small zone with no echoes.
Still seems certain that some rain will reach us but nothing yet. *All
surfaces currently remain dry.

NSS Mid Suffolk 161050Z

You should get rain, perhaps a reasonable amount, this afternoon,
looking at the rainfall radar. Your chances of rain tomorrow and into
Saturday are looking good as well. However, it has looked like you'd
get lots of rain and it hasn't really happened - last Sunday was a
classic example of the forecast not matching the outcome. It's the
kind of thing that happens in an Atlantic set-up in summer in the east
though isn't it?

If you could move about 50 miles southwest Jennik to Woodford Green, we
could have shared the 15.5mm I collected between 0815-and 11 o'clock
today,and actually it's raining again now.so far this month around 60mm so
no drought warnings for this part of Essex

RonB


"Jennik" wrote in message
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After a beautiful barbecue summer s day on Tuesday, and good sunny spells
yesterday morning, the lunchtime BBC radio 4 forecast promised an
afternoon soon becoming cloudy with localised rain, and stressed that it
would feel cooler than previous day, but the sunny spells continued until
cloud increased rapidly around 1800Z . Temp had been 23C. Just
discernable drizzle for about 5 minutes at 1930Z. So another useable
barbeue early evening, and again no measureable rainfall.
Overnight and Today so far no measureable rain, despite the radar showing
rain getting very near. There have been some good sunny periods again but
cloud has thickened in last hour with again some brief tiny rain drops,
but radar currently shows us sitting in a very small zone with no echoes.
Still seems certain that some rain will reach us but nothing yet. All
surfaces currently remain dry.

NSS Mid Suffolk 161050Z