Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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I see that we were very lucky to miss all the storms last night - this corner of Kent was a hole in the storm tracks, though from the state of my car this morning, we must have had some dirty rain. The Belgian coast was not the place to be this afternoon - storms for 3 hours that at one time looked as though they were coming this way but then went north instead.
Lew Finnis
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I am still waiting to see the violent storms they said would hit us in this area.
The Met Office still has a yellow warning for this area for early tomorrow even though there is no rain forecast, maybe time to be a little more sensible with the warnings.
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Jan, we only just missed last night - much of Kent had storms - pretty well everywhere west of a line from Folkestone through Canterbury to Faversham. Given what's brewing in France at the moment we may not have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.......
At the moment (10 p.m.) Buckinghamshire is getting a hammering.
Lew Finnis
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I could make a sand castle in the sand on my car today four hrs to clean it up
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Good old Sahara dust again!
Lew Finnis
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Vic Matcham wrote:I could make a sand castle in the sand on my car today four hrs to clean it up
4hrs vic what did you use, a toothbrush?
Arte et Marte
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I like a real clean car inside and out ,ex army.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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All I can say there must be a wall dividing our street .My next door neighbours were not cleaning their cars so the sand must have stopped down the centre of the road.Dont think it was four hours !,
Guest 1458- Registered: 16 Jan 2015
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Vic Matcham wrote:I like a real clean car inside and out ,ex army.
Ex army eh...................what is it ? A TANK!!!!!
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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At least there no sign of any storms around today - yet.
Lew Finnis
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Still got that silly yellow warning even though no rain is forecast for today
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We get the rain tomorrow, I think I might delay my shopping trip until Wednesday.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,138
And now a Kent Police warning about additional accidents on the roads over the Bank Holiday:-
Kent Police.
Think before you drink. On Bank Holidays some men drink far too much and allow their wives to drive. Ask yourself. Is it worth the risk?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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There's a lovely big batch of storms in northern France that look as though they are coming this way.
Lew Finnis
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Would that be the risk of getting home safely the drunk mound and then putting him into bed whilst cleaning up his sick
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Last nights storms never came this way - apart from a lot of rain but there's a small one offshore at the moment, not doing much. (0915)
Lew Finnis
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Just had a downpour here at Whitfield. The storm tracked through Thanet, Herne Bay and Sheppey, so we've been lucky again! Trace it here:
http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#x=;m=sat;r=0;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;n=0;
Lew Finnis
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
I am beginning to wonder if the Met Office can actually provide even a reasonably accurate forecast for this area. A look out of the window at the sky gives me as good a guess as to the likely weather for the next several hours.
It has been raining on and off all morning but they had/have no mention of rain until this afternoon and even show "sunny intervals" symbol for the 10-11.00 slot.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I got caught in the downpour about 10 am and literally got soaked to the skin, the pavement on Maison Dieu Road had deep puddles in no time.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Jan, forecasting can only give a general picture for a fairly large area - you can't account for little local variations. For example, we have just missed another storm which tracked from Folkestone pretty well along the line of the Downs to SW Essex in a belt only about 5 miles wide. Try forecasting that!
Howard, I sympathise - had I not got stuck playing a recalcitrant game on my computer, I would have got caught in that lot as well!
Lew Finnis