On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather.

Well, excepting next Saturday (which could be yet another decent
Saturday, at least in the SE) it will be the last weekend with a
sensible amount of early-evening daylight until next February....

Nick

On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather. Nice out there. A mild breezy southerly
and 17C. Pleasant. However a steadily falling barometer with a
southerly and increasing high and mediium level cloud never augurs
well!

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Country Tracks forecast of weather for the week ahead on BBC, given by
Liam Hutton at 1150

'SW England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday will widely receive
40-50mm of rain but some places more,
hazardous driving conditions...'

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon

On Oct 23, 4:59*pm, Len Wood wrote:
On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:





On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather. Nice out there. A mild breezy southerly
and 17C. Pleasant. However a steadily falling barometer with a
southerly and increasing high and mediium level cloud never augurs
well!

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Country Tracks forecast of weather for the week ahead on BBC, given by
Liam Hutton at 1150

'SW England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday will widely receive
40-50mm of rain but some places more,
hazardous driving conditions...'

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

We'll see. the first proper storm for ages, hopefully! It certainly
looks wet. Windy too! A steady force 4/5 presently and it has backed
ENE.

The rain looks to be arriving a litttle quicker than forecast. Some
patchy stuff appears to have reached you already, Len.

On Oct 23, 4:59*pm, Len Wood wrote:
On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:





On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather. Nice out there. A mild breezy southerly
and 17C. Pleasant. However a steadily falling barometer with a
southerly and increasing high and mediium level cloud never augurs
well!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------*--------------------
Country Tracks forecast of weather for the week ahead on BBC, given by
Liam Hutton at 1150

'SW England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday will widely receive
40-50mm of rain but some places more,
hazardous driving conditions...'

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Liam Dutton not Hutton

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Freddie wrote:
I'm now looking at next weekend as we have a break at Stratford-upon-
Avon, ans the charts are looking quite promising, although I must
remember I will no longer be in the deserts of the SE.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

I think you'll find the "deserts" extend further than the south-east.
Here in Shropshire there is a distinct rainfall deficit - under 270 mm
this year.

------------------
Wow! 268mm, that is low. Does that compare well with other local
stations?

Dave

It is lower than local stations - but that is mainly because my part of
Shropshire has genuinely had less rain than other parts. For example, North
Shropshire received far more from the showers in the NW'lies that we've had
on and off in the past three weeks (but that is normal, as the wind needs to
be veered N'ly for south Shropshire to be affected by Cheshire Gap showers).
I can think of other situations in the past few months where the area south
of Shrewsbury has missed out on the rain - purely by chance, or bad luck or
whatever you want to call it. Even making a casual observation of the
condition of meadows and people's lawns in the Shrewsbury area, you can see
that the south has had less rain than the north. There was another thread
on here about 6 weeks ago whereby my observations of the driest areas were
confirmed by others who had visited the local area.

If you look at the rainfall total maps on the Met Office site
(http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomacts/) you will notice the
persistence of a "dry blob" over Shropshire and the extreme West Midlands in
the past 2 or 3 months.

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL
http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

On Oct 23, 6:11*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Oct 23, 4:59*pm, Len Wood wrote:





On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:

On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather. Nice out there. A mild breezy southerly
and 17C. Pleasant. However a steadily falling barometer with a
southerly and increasing high and mediium level cloud never augurs
well!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------**--------------------
Country Tracks forecast of weather for the week ahead on BBC, given by
Liam Hutton at 1150

'SW England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday will widely receive
40-50mm of rain but some places more,
hazardous driving conditions...'

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

We'll see. the first proper storm for ages, hopefully! It certainly
looks wet. Windy too! A steady force 4/5 presently and it has backed
ENE.

The rain looks to be arriving a litttle quicker than forecast. Some
patchy stuff appears to have reached you already, Len.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Total 32.7 mm in the 24 hrs to 1800 in Wembury.
No record broken.

Oct record stands at 39.8 mm on 11 Oct 1993. Obs began in 1985.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon, 83 m asl

On Oct 24, 8:08*pm, Len Wood wrote:
On Oct 23, 6:11*pm, Dawlish wrote:





On Oct 23, 4:59*pm, Len Wood wrote:

On Oct 23, 1:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:

On Oct 23, 12:48*pm, "Freddie" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

But we've been fooled before...

Yep, haven't we just!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

Oh yes we have! We can certainly do with the rain here, but as to the
amount and extent; I think it's a wait and see. "Prolonged torrential
rain" is not what the MetO are presently forecasting, but like I say,
let's see.

So many people out today! I think they've seen tomorrow's forecast and
they are making the best of what is probably the last weekend that has
anything like summer weather. Nice out there. A mild breezy southerly
and 17C. Pleasant. However a steadily falling barometer with a
southerly and increasing high and mediium level cloud never augurs
well!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------
Country Tracks forecast of weather for the week ahead on BBC, given by
Liam Hutton at 1150

'SW England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday will widely receive
40-50mm of rain but some places more,
hazardous driving conditions...'

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

We'll see. the first proper storm for ages, hopefully! It certainly
looks wet. Windy too! A steady force 4/5 presently and it has backed
ENE.

The rain looks to be arriving a litttle quicker than forecast. Some
patchy stuff appears to have reached you already, Len.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Total 32.7 mm in the 24 hrs to 1800 in Wembury.
No record broken.

Oct record stands at 39.8 mm on 11 Oct 1993. Obs began in 1985.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon, 83 m asl- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

27mm here. A foul and a wet day, but nothing out of the ordinary. Less
than an inch at Haytor, BTW. Less rain the further east that you went
and nothing more than a wet day in East Devon.

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 at 07:45:03, Paul Hyett
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Indeed. I'm hoping for the first day for 3 months with 5 mm rainfall.

But we've been fooled before...

And were again.

A mere 3mm here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 at 07:45:03, Paul Hyett
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Indeed. I'm hoping for the first day for 3 months with 5 mm rainfall.

But we've been fooled before...

And were again.

A mere 3mm here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Only 1.5 here - died out dramatically as it came north!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL
http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

On Oct 26, 6:52*pm, "Freddie" wrote:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 at 07:45:03, Paul Hyett
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Indeed. I'm hoping for the first day for 3 months with 5 mm rainfall.

But we've been fooled before...

And were again.

A mere 3mm here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Only 1.5 here - died out dramatically as it came north!

--
Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSLhttp://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/cumulus/

More rain today than the supposedly "torrential" day of the 22nd. 27mm
in Dawlish. Glad I'm in Yorkshire; mind you, it's grim up 'ere !