Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

April. now Spring has arrived, surely?

[Serial_Apologist]

April. now Spring has arrived, surely?

For just 2 days.

Make the most of it!

[DracoM]

Grey, rain, miserable oop 'ere.

After the recent spell of dry weather - good two plus weeks up here - it was amazing to feel that with barely half a day of rain, the fells were instantly as soggy and saturated underfoot as if it had been raining non-stop for weeks.

Last December's deluges are clearly going to be a major factor in safety on the fells, walking there, gardening, repairing flood damage etc for many, many months and more.

[BBMmk2]

SA, yes! Morning lovely, around lunch time, started to turn for the worst! Same again today. April, after all. May?

[Serial_Apologist]

SA, yes! Morning lovely, around lunch time, started to turn for the worst! Same again today. April, after all. May?

Much too early to say, BBM. The coming week looks, for once, completely normal for the season: fresh westerlies, alternating rain, wind, showers and dry days, temperatures still not high enough to switch off the heating. Unless you're tough, of course.

[BBMmk2]

Certainly warmned up, SA! Popped weon to Sainsbury's, just now, and didn't need my fleece!

[Serial_Apologist]

16 degrees max here in S London this afternoon, and a very nice garden lunch. I then got caught in a torrential thunderstorm cycling back from my friend's place in Camberwell, just after 7 this evening. He'd suggested I stay awhile until it was over, but I reckoned the best thing was to brave it, because from the extent and slow approach of the cloud bank and its blackness it would, by the looks of it, be a long time passing. Half a mile up the road I was in the middle of it - torrential rain, lightning strikes within half a mile, wind gusts strong enough to blow my cycling cape right over my head at one point! Yet by the time I hit Dulwich Village - only a mile's journey - the rain had stopped. All I had to bother me was my saturated trouser legs!

I haven't cycled through conditions as extreme as that in probably 30 years!

[BBMmk2]

Poor you SA! I don't think the thunder was forecast? We certainly had torrential rain yesterday, at around that time! I thought the weather was supposed to pick up, rather?

[Serial_Apologist]

Poor you SA! I don't think the thunder was forecast? We certainly had torrential rain yesterday, at around that time! I thought the weather was supposed to pick up, rather?

You're right - it wasn't, BBM. There's a post mortem taking place on a weather site I go to to work out whqat went wrong - one contributer saying, "I looked at the weather chart this morning, and said to myself, this one spells thunder!".

[BBMmk2]

You're right - it wasn't, BBM. There's a post mortem taking place on a weather site I go to to work out whqat went wrong - one contributer saying, "I looked at the weather chart this morning, and said to myself, this one spells thunder!".

:)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Rain overnight in this bit of the Pennines, and rather overcast this morning, but the sun emerged at around eleven and it's been a very pleasant day since. My frog reappeared in the pond, two snake's-head fritillaries in flower today - and a goldfinch feeding off the ivy hedge. AND proper, decent sunlight in the evenings now, too. Quite, quite lovely.

[BBMmk2]

The rain certainly wasn't forecast today!

[DracoM]

Rain overnight in this bit of the Pennines, and rather overcast this morning, but the sun emerged at around eleven and it's been a very pleasant day since. My frog reappeared in the pond, two snake's-head fritillaries in flower today - and a goldfinch feeding off the ivy hedge. AND proper, decent sunlight in the evenings now, too. Quite, quite lovely.

Pretty well exactly the pattern here too. Rain now, and deffo colder and windier.

[Petrushka]

They say it's going to get cooler over the next few days. We haven't much noticed it getting any warmer up here to start off with though any slight rise in temperature, supposing it to have taken place, was rather ruined by the chill wind. Get your money on soft ground horses for Saturday's Grand National it looks like some heavy rain moving across!

[DracoM]

Well, they said 'showers', but what's THEIR definition of 'showers' I'd like to know??
It is absolutely rodding it down here, and has been for an hour, plus vicious westerly. Temp 6C max.