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What is windshear

Thanks so much

Had a quick look and there was a trough running across the area with a large amount of windshear - rather good conditions for forming storms.

A lot of wind shear showing around the cold front on New Years eve. One to watch.

Bump if I forget!

Thanks

Tomorrow I'll have a better look for you, because it was a bit dramatic from reports!

It was a rather active cold front I believe. They can be pretty potent. We had similar in the early hours of Christmas Day, but with out the fires.

Sorry to hijack slightly but does anyone know what hit east Dorset this morning? Massive cracks of thunder that started 2 major fires local, with v strong wind and rain, which stopped suddenly v soon after. Thunder was 6.15am. I assume it was just a localised storm and not anything more exciting like Armageddon

It does a bit! More dramatic I think as we are right on the beach overlooking English Channel so we can see the weather systems coming in over the sea from quite a distance. And then another and another and another . There is no shelter from the weather so when it hits it hits hard!

Holding out for better weather. A little bit of sunshine and it is absolutely blissful here. Earlier in December I was on the deck barefoot in just a t-shirt because the sun is so strong. <reminisces and hopes>

It would be so nice to be able to let this thread die a death.

Crickey starfish, it must feel a bit apocalyptic down there!

Thanks for posting that Gloria. A bit late of them but glad they've issued it at last. We live on the south west coast path and there have been many landslips and some landslides locally. One that cut off a nearby village for a couple of days, another that has made a group of holiday cottages completely inaccessible and no chance of them being safe soon, one that filled several houses half a mile down the road full of mud two days before Christmas and another two that blocked the lane out of our village. And that's just the ones I've seen within a few miles of us.

There are landslide and rockfall warnings for along cliff edges etc, for the SW.
<sigh> things just don't seem to be getting any better weather~wise

Bugger! Heading off shortly.

Rain warnings issued for each day up to Sunday for the sw I'm afraid.

mum travelled up yesterday and although exeter station was closed she got a train from taunton/tiverton (she cant remember which ) with on problem and no delays! So have hope, anyone travelling!

Another horrible wet day for the poor SW.
And there are some travel problems and flood warnings for Scotland too.
More pictures of the flooding.

Will do

From my obsessive monitoring of the Environment Agency river station data I see that the brooks and river nearest me are still rising, so I imagine that might be the case further SW too.

Jenai, I'd keep a close eye on any road disruption, I don't think the situation is going to start to stabilise for another couple of days.

We're meant to be travelling down to north Devon on Wednesday. I'm hopeful it's not so SW to be an issue and that the flooding will have cleared.

Still keeping an eye though (hence checking Kitten's threads

Thank you for that info Gloria.
Appalling weather today - fog, high wind and driving rain. Nasty.
bbc report covering some of the issues check before travelling.
Not so much rain on Monday, but still enough to cause further flooding in the south and south west.

Have already posted this on the Christmas thread, this is about the First Great Western train disruption in the SW. Note this bit: First Great Western advise customers with non-essential travel to not attempt to travel West of Taunton in either direction.

Some pictures of the flooding from the BBC website.

The village next to me in Devon is flooded very sad for all the people living there and all the shop owners too!

Lots and lots of flooding here in Cornwall. More rain on its way in now I think and no idea where it's going to go. There are new rivers forming before our very eyes as water from the hills is running off and down through our village to the sea. Lots of landslips too so it's not great out there. Anyone planning on coming to Cornwall for Christmas check your route carefully.

No change in the picture. Saturday looks awful but Sunday dries up before the next onslaught that night.

amber warnings out

Thanks- I'm keepng an eye on the waether reports!