Well, the straight down incessant driving rain is slightly warmer ..
JohnnyO. o/
No hosepipe?Yup means I don't have to try and water the garden with a small watering can, silver linings and all that.
No outdoor tap that works and no easily accessible indoor one that would work with a hose.. The tap for the garden comes from next doors outside loo and has a stopcock in one of their outbuildings which turns and another stopcock which isolates it and the outside loo that doesn't turn. I haven't traced it all yet so I haven't tried taking a bar/lever to it.No hosepipe?
Glorious here today so I'm assuming all our rain is falling on @JohnnyO again.
Actually, there's no rain anywhere near you on radar, Johnny.I can see the loch, which means it's about to rain ... if I couldn't see it it would be raining.
JohnnyO. o/
Actually, there's no rain anywhere near you on radar, Johnny.
STEALTH RAIN!!
Whatever will they think of next!
Empty radar images are pretty rare when you're checking the entire UK, so I noticed it.YAY @ Chris ! High time you arranged some encouragement for an olde m8. Actually got up to around 19C by 16.00 hrs.
JohnnyO. o/
Difficult to know what to make of the last couple of gfs runs so a perusal of the GEFS (ensemble version of the American GFS model) and in particular the ecm is definitely required but until then I'm inclined to treat with extreme caution. On the face of it seems to be producing some amplification (in other words, a more meridional set-up as opposed to a zonal one) with not good results.
It follows the script until Monday with the breakaway upper trough splitting the HP (high pressure) in mid Atlantic but then it initiates the amplification with the Central European high pushing north into Scandinavia and, importantly, quite strong ridging over NE North America. This creates an upper low between Greenland and Iceland with the associated trough dominating mid Atlantic. Whilst at the same time the high pressure over the UK is moving east and the Iberian low is making a foray north.
The twin surges of the ridges continues forcing the aforementioned upper low to track south east to be just west of N. Ireland by 00 Friday (midnight Friday morning) and consequently surface low pressure to the west and north west is tending to dominate the UK with fronts traversing the country during Friday.