Weather warnings part 2 - will they fade away, or is bad weather set to remain?

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

new thread. other one full.

I was wondering how you lot could see all the warnings but all I could see was last weeks non existent warnings.... apparently my computer needs to tell the met office what the date is (or something) except my computer thought it as last weekend.

fixed and back in the thread now.

frosty here in the w mids. brrr.

Good morning weather watchers - absolutely pouring here in Wales (nothing unusual there I know) but sustained rain now since about 4am when it woke me up - on top of rain on top of rain - if its coming the way of Somerset/Thames then batten down the hatches and keep safe as its consistent heavy rain - no let up in the last 2 hours.

We had half a rainbow yesterday after the only downpour of the day.
1 degree in the night but 4 now so no frost/ice. Still blustery and wondering if my rose arch has fallen apart again after makeshifting it yesterday.

thats confusing blackeyed! Just logged on and have a short while before I need to get ready for work.

Wednesdays storm looks to be tracking further north than expected. If it were to remain on the current forecast track, the worst of the wind would be through Ireland, northern midlands and NE England with heavy rain across the UK, but especially southern Wales and the south of England.

Actually, if it followed gfs then the NW of England would also be badly hit by the wind.

So:

Today: - heavy rain, especially in the south but also NW scotland. Snow risk for northern and welsh hills is quite substantial and overnight tonight even lower levels in the midlands may see some. Strong winds - perhaps squally for a time. (so dont be surprised if the weather suddenly gets 'exciting' briefly.

Tomorrow: The storm now seems to take a more northerly track even than the met office predicted. If this remains the case the worst winds will be for Ireland, northern Wales and a swathe up through northern england and southern scotland. High mean speed winds with gusts of 70mph-80mph in those areas, 50-60 elsewhere. Please dont underestimate the effect of these winds. I will post later if the path moves back. Unfortunately it seems to make no difference to the expected rainfall and once again heavy rain will occur, affecting those who are flooded further.

Thursday: A quieter day, showers about but winds calmer.

Friday/Saturday: The storm is there. Not especially windy but another bringer of heavy rain over friday night. This storm just doesnt sit right with me, its coming from a slightly strange angle and I think we need to be prepared for surprises. Not a scientific feeling, just a bit of a gut one. Hopefully it will turn out to be nothing.

Longer term: well no big storms show which is good news, but the rain doesnt really vanish, just in general becomes less intense.

I will be back when I can today. Busy day I'm afraid.

Worcestershire here. It is pouring with rain.

Mid-Somerset - horizontal rain like needles, blowing a gale, even the dog was glad to get home today.

Not great in Dorset, got very wet just taking the kids from my car into school, it's was raining so hard, the playground was like a lake and the roads like rivers, I don't think I have seen rain as heavy as we have had in the past 2 months other than in the carabbean (tropical storms). Apparently if it does stop raining anytime soon it will still take until May for the floods to fully go down and for the ground to dry out.

Hope everyone's staying safe and following instructions from the environmental agency and met office.

Kent here, its been pouring for the last 3 hours and the wind is picking up.

Im so sick of rain

West Sussex here , grim again , everyone is so fed up and we aren't even flooded . It just feels so relentless .

People are just so down .

south west Surrey, really windy

Been snowing in Staffs. Feeling nervous about tomorrow's gales. We've got off lightly so far, have been feeling so sorry for all the poor souls who've been copping the worst of it.

w mids heavy rain here and has been for a couple of hours at least. maybe not as intense as a thunderstorm but still plenty of it.

Worcestershire. Just has a snow flurry too. the rain has stopped. For now.

oh and now we have hail too. it is coming from the north west which is unusual

and snow flurries here too

I have unexpected time off so I can have a look. Rainfall totals not too high though.

'Interesting' weather here (Leicester) Started off with several hours of rain (temps up to 6.3C at 10.57am) but in 1/2 an hour, we've had hail (just as I was unloading the shopping ~ didn't know hail could hurt that much!) and now we're having snow flurries and we're down to 1.8C. Bit of a temperature drop there!

South Derbyshire and it's been snowing for the last hour, large flakes, and it's covering my lawn. Temp 0.9C. Buggeration.

Snow showing up nicely here.

They just said on the bbc that the jet stream that is stuck over Southern England should move northwards in about 3 weeks to where it should be.

How can they know that?

It's welcome to bugger off.
Sooner rather than later!