Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Likewise here, near Brighton. We've had all seasons in one day!!

[DracoM]

Yup, same 'ere.
Grey volleys of sleet, rain, quite warm sun, and then truly biting cold. Plants shell-shocked. Disarming sunset. Frost tonight? But will there be too much wind for my fleece to stay over the tender plantlets?

[Petrushka]

One really heavy shower turned from rain to sleet then to snow in the space of a few minutes in Derby this afternoon. Then, as DracoM notes, a really biting cold with a wind to rip your face off. Temperature was 6 degrees at 17.30. This is desperate stuff for end of April and there seems to be little sign of any improvement. Bank Holiday Monday already a write off (again).

[cloughie]

Not a good day, today. Sun where are you?

Was a sunny day with blue skies today but coupled with a cold wind but a good day for sorting out the greenhouse!

[Nick Armstrong]

[Serial_Apologist]

Right now as I write, there's a good old thunderstorm doing its biz right over Bournemouth - the second day in a row they've been clobbered by severe weather. Are any of our friends on here down that way?

I'll not be retiring there!

[teamsaint]

Right now as I write, there's a good old thunderstorm doing its biz right over Bournemouth - the second day in a row they've been clobbered by severe weather. Are any of our friends on here down that way?

I'll not be retiring there!

Horny lives down there, I think.
meanwhile here in Salisbury ( ish) it's nice and sunny, if cool.
Had a nice mid afternoon cuppa on the newly created sun trap patio.



Love John's weather forecast stone. Might get one myself.

[Serial_Apologist]

Horny lives down there, I think.
meanwhile here in Salisbury ( ish) it's nice and sunny, if cool.
Had a nice mid afternoon cuppa on the newly created sun trap patio.



Love John's weather forecast stone. Might get one myself.

Southampton's getting that storm now - just as well you're away, TS!

[Serial_Apologist]

Southampton's getting that storm now - just as well you're away, TS!

And now our turn! Really loud bangy thunderstorm been going on over south and west London for the past hour, blinding lightning every couple of minutes - taken me completely by surprise, I have to admit! The odd thing is, remarkably little rain. Someone else must be getting the lion's share.

[Petrushka]

Thunder and a terrific hailstorm over Derby this afternoon and still cold at 8 degrees though the wind has mostly gone. There seem to have been some very localised hailstorms today with places a few miles from one left completely dry.

[Nick Armstrong]

And now our turn! Really loud bangy thunderstorm been going on over south and west London for the past hour, blinding lightning every couple of minutes - taken me completely by surprise, I have to admit! The odd thing is, remarkably little rain. Someone else must be getting the lion's share.

Strange wasn't it.... Sudden fusillade of flashes and bangs in West London just after 8pm. I looked at the 'Real-Time Lightning' map, and it was very very localised - apart from something going on just north of Manchester, all the action was sitting over Richmond Park....

[greenilex]

Hard frost at six am, May Day a couple of days away and and what, oh what shall we do for dew?

If we should happen to be in the dew-pond business.

[DracoM]

Super hard frost oop 'ere. But night of fabulous stars, and hazy sun this a.m.

[Serial_Apologist]

The link below shows footage of a plane being hit by lightning on the approach to Heathrow during yesterday evening's thunderstorm. Apparently there was no serious damage and no one was hurt. Usually such a strike would burn a small hole in the part of the aircraft hit, though there have of course been cases of planes catching fire when a fuel tank was struck. What's unusual about this strike is that the lightning continued down to earth.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lightning-strikes-plane-near-heathrow-7850835

[Petrushka]

I don't think that I can recall an April so cold and dismal as this one. Certainly, there have been isolated days in Aprils past that have been grim but nothing on this sustained level of awfulness. I can remember snow in April before (and in June!) but it never lasted and things quickly picked up. Some heavy rain today, strongish wind and cold!