Stormy Weather

[Petrushka]

We had a strongly similar experience to the one at Croydon at the end of June 2009. There was a 15/20 minute downpour of biblical proportions quite unlike anything I've seen before or since and so heavy that I was unable to cross the road at a point where two downhill roads join due to the flood of water coming down. As I live on a hill it is almost impossible to get flooded but it was still a worry seeing that amount come down.

After a pretty good week it seems to be cooling down a touch though it's still 25 degrees indoors and the warm, damp evenings have brought out the snails and slugs! A few years ago one such creature ruined a couple of my CD boxes (they like the glue apparently) by chewing the edges!

[Serial_Apologist]

We had a strongly similar experience to the one at Croydon at the end of June 2009. There was a 15/20 minute downpour of biblical proportions quite unlike anything I've seen before or since and so heavy that I was unable to cross the road at a point where two downhill roads join due to the flood of water coming down. As I live on a hill it is almost impossible to get flooded but it was still a worry seeing that amount come down.

After a pretty good week it seems to be cooling down a touch though it's still 25 degrees indoors and the warm, damp evenings have brought out the snails and slugs! A few years ago one such creature ruined a couple of my CD boxes (they like the glue apparently) by chewing the edges!

You mean slugs and snails have teeth???

[Petrushka]

You mean slugs and snails have teeth???

They're often to be found in letter boxes as well and happily chew away. Your postman will confirm. I recall receiving a cheque at work once, still in its envelope but with the corner chewed away, on which the postman had written 'Snails!!!' Problem I have here is that damp, warm nights bring them out and one occasionally finds its way indoors. Slug pellets solve that particular problem but not before some damage has been done. They were particularly drawn to a Gunter Wand boxed set and made a right mess of the box.

Absolutely true.

[Nick Armstrong]

They were particularly drawn to a Gunter Wand boxed set and made a right mess of the box.

You would have thought that snails would be more attracted to recordings by Segerstam or Sir Reginald Goodall

[teamsaint]

You would have thought that snails would be more attracted to recordings by Segerstam or Sir Reginald Goodall

Or shelibidache

[Petrushka]

Or shelibidache

[BBMmk2]

Where has the sun gone?

[Serial_Apologist]

Where has the sun gone?

It's up above this cold front that's hanging around and doesn't seem in any hurry to be going anywhere, bbm. Drizzling here right now, but I can already see some much darker clouds to the north-west that suggest thunderstorms on the way, just like yesterday! I'd better get out to the shops quick, to avoid getting drenched again!

[BBMmk2]

I thought we were in for something this afternoon!

[BBMmk2]

Flaming June? Where?

[DracoM]

Well, believe it or not....oop 'ere it's fine - in between savage showers. BUT ideal for gardens which have largely dried out in late April and particularly most of May.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just now looking at the lightning map, and there appears to be a long, almost continuous line of thunderstorms running from Devon due north-east to between Peterborough and Norwich, with separate very active cells south of Norwich, and centred around Liverpool and Southampton, with numerous of reports of roads flooded and of funnel clouds (ie undescended tornadoes). The line appears to mark out convergence between winds coming from the south-east to the east of it, and from the north to the west, and it's predicted to move very slowly south-eastwards, to be centred on London tomorrow. So unless anybody else on here has any tales they'd like to tell, we may have to wait until tomorrow, when I'll be stuck in here for most of the day! As it happens it's been mostly dry across London today, apart from a couple of brief spells of drizzly rain just before lunch as I cycled my way home from Brixton, but it's very humid, with not much in the way of sunshine.

[Serial_Apologist]

Really major thunder and lightning kicking off a few miles to the west here - hard to say whether or not it's coming this far, but I'm switching off for now, for safety's sake!

[teamsaint]

After a few pleasant hours this afternoon, thunderstorms and really heavy rain here.

[BBMmk2]

We have had heavy showers and a rumble of Thor! :)