I had hoped that today would give us some much needed heavy rain. However,
today's showers gave only 2.8mm and no thunder. Yet I see that Heathrow, not
too far away, had 10mm. Now the sky is clearing again, and looking at next
week's charts, it doesn't look as though we are going to get much more for
some time.
Peter Clarke
Ewell
Epsom 55m

Peter,

Same here in Guildford. A 90min period of -RA and RA amounting to 2.5mm. No
thunder.
The bulk went to the SE earlier in the day and the NW later.

Phil
Guildford.

"Phil Layton" wrote in message
...
Peter,

Same here in Guildford. A 90min period of -RA and RA amounting to
2.5mm. No thunder.
The bulk went to the SE earlier in the day and the NW later.


.... odd that, usually *you* get the rain and we get the glancing blow!
The male blackbird outside the window is chirruping away merrily now all
the wormies are coming up to the surface!


Martin.


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Here Peter in Coulsdon we had even less with just 1.2mm of rain. No thunder
heard either.
Garden still bone dry.

Ian Currie-Coulsdon, east Surrey
www.frostedearth.com





"Peter Clarke" wrote in message
...
I had hoped that today would give us some much needed heavy rain.
However,
today's showers gave only 2.8mm and no thunder. Yet I see that Heathrow,
not
too far away, had 10mm. Now the sky is clearing again, and looking at next
week's charts, it doesn't look as though we are going to get much more for
some time.
Peter Clarke
Ewell
Epsom 55m

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:35:12 +0100, "Phil Layton"
wrote:

Peter,

Same here in Guildford. A 90min period of -RA and RA amounting to 2.5mm. No
thunder.
The bulk went to the SE earlier in the day and the NW later.

Bizarre! I drove up from Dorset this morning to Wadhurst for a late
lunch. As I drove back I thought it seemed to be getting mighty dark
ahead of me. I was on the dreaded M25 and with warnings of queues
ahead decided to come off and head down the A3 to Guildford! It was at
about 1700 IIRC and boy,did the heavens open for about 10 minutes-
everything slowed to an absolute crawl. By the time I got to a snarl
up presumably close to Guildford (I was going across to Aldershot
Garrison) the rain stopped quite quickly. The run back from Aldershot
was good - left at 2122 and arrived west of Dorchester at 2306. I have
yet to check the AWS at work to see if Dorset had anything...
Cheers Robin

"Robin Nicholson" wrote in
message news
Bizarre! I drove up from Dorset this morning to Wadhurst for a late
lunch. As I drove back I thought it seemed to be getting mighty dark
ahead of me. I was on the dreaded M25 and with warnings of queues
ahead decided to come off and head down the A3 to Guildford! It was at
about 1700 IIRC and boy,did the heavens open for about 10 minutes-
everything slowed to an absolute crawl. By the time I got to a snarl
up presumably close to Guildford (I was going across to Aldershot
Garrison) the rain stopped quite quickly. The run back from Aldershot
was good - left at 2122 and arrived west of Dorchester at 2306. I have
yet to check the AWS at work to see if Dorset had anything...
Cheers Robin

Hi Robin - a few miles can make a difference. I am located at Merrow which
is a mile or so E of Guildford. During the rain, the skies looked quite dark
to the NW, and I thought it was really going to get going! But nothing of
note.... Phil

In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 3 Jun 2005 at 19:49:40, Peter Clarke wrote :

I had hoped that today would give us some much needed heavy rain. However,
today's showers gave only 2.8mm and no thunder.

Not even *that*, here - barely enough to wet the bottom of the rain
gauge.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Phil Layton wrote:
"Robin Nicholson" wrote in
message news
Bizarre! I drove up from Dorset this morning to Wadhurst for a late
lunch. As I drove back I thought it seemed to be getting mighty dark
ahead of me. I was on the dreaded M25 and with warnings of queues
ahead decided to come off and head down the A3 to Guildford! It was at
about 1700 IIRC and boy,did the heavens open for about 10 minutes-
everything slowed to an absolute crawl. By the time I got to a snarl
up presumably close to Guildford (I was going across to Aldershot
Garrison) the rain stopped quite quickly. The run back from Aldershot
was good - left at 2122 and arrived west of Dorchester at 2306. I have
yet to check the AWS at work to see if Dorset had anything...
Cheers Robin


Hi Robin - a few miles can make a difference. I am located at Merrow which
is a mile or so E of Guildford. During the rain, the skies looked quite dark
to the NW, and I thought it was really going to get going! But nothing of
note.... Phil



And here in Fleet the rain was very heavy for a while (havent got
rainfall figures)

--
Sarah
It's an odd world I live in.

"Peter Clarke" wrote in message
...
I had hoped that today would give us some much needed heavy rain. However,
today's showers gave only 2.8mm and no thunder. Yet I see that Heathrow, not
too far away, had 10mm. Now the sky is clearing again, and looking at next
week's charts, it doesn't look as though we are going to get much more for
some time.
Peter Clarke
Ewell
Epsom 55m



You folks in the SE are in for big trouble water-wise soon as I have been saying
for some time now.

I wish I could give you some of mine, garden is damp still but at least
everything looks fresh,
10.8 mm so far this June and still light drizzle outside at 2200. I'm actually
really looking forward to the dry weather this coming week, but I sympathise a
lot having lived in a dry area (Crowthorne desert) for over 20 years.

Cheers,

Will.
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
...
You folks in the SE are in for big trouble water-wise soon as I have been
saying
for some time now.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/...es/4609621.stm

Also on 10.10 BBC1 News.....as well as the forecast being 'cut off' abruptly
in full flow for the previews - teach Alex Deakin (Ithink) who was trying to
explain why there are going to be a line of convergence showers down the UK
tomorrow...

Phil