Stormy Weather

[greenilex]

Yesterday it was dry and sunny for our midday anti fascist demo at the Bargate - a great big heartwarming success - but I left my phone in the cafe and got completely soaked going back for it in the afternoon.

Feels like late autumn here, not at all like July. Suppose we have a kink in the jet stream again...

[BBMmk2]

Is El Nino at work, still?

[Pulcinella]

Well, the wind has dropped here, and for once the forecast shows no rain, so this might just be the afternoon for a bike ride.
A surprising 19.42 kWh on the Sunny Jim meter yesterday (it seemed gloomier than that), but June's total was lower than April's, though slightly better than last year's August and September totals.

[Petrushka]

The wind has dropped here too and it's a pleasant sunny morning though with plenty of threatening cloud lurking about. Reasonably warm but nowhere near July standard. The past week has felt more like late September or early October and due to the rain and thick cloud the evenings have been much darker than one would expect at this time of year thus reinforcing that impression.

[DracoM]

Big wind oop 'ere, fleeting sun, louring clouds, washing out. I am an idiot.

[Serial_Apologist]

Cool summer temperatures are rather analogous to sitting on the floor; when autumn comes one doesn't have so far to fall.

[LeMartinPecheur]

We've managed to have lunch outside, and coffee, and a quiet read here in E Cornwall. First time this year.

Must be something to do with leaving the EU I guess

[BBMmk2]

We've managed to have lunch outside, and coffee, and a quiet read here in E Cornwall. First time this year.

Must be something to do with leaving the EU I guess

Steady on! :)

[Petrushka]

This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again. It isn't cold and the strong wind from yesterday has gone but the constant heavy rain, lack of sunshine and low temperatures mark this summer out as already a complete write off. We've only had perhaps a couple of days since June 1 with temperatures exceeding 21 degrees and hardly any completely dry days at all.

Whatever has happened to the glorious summers of my youth and early adulthood? It's not just looking through rose tinted spectacles; my diaries bear witness to those great summers. What has happened to the prolonged hot, sunny weather we had in the 1960s and 1970s? The last truly great summer we seem to have had was 1995 and even that wasn't a patch on 1975 or 1976. Tolerating a very long winter in the hope of a good summer seems to be no longer something we can do.

Depressing and dire. Think I'll play some music to cheer myself up!

[BBMmk2]

Not much of a summer at all, Pet, agreed! The long balmy days, where have they gone?

[Serial_Apologist]

Low cloud, drizzle, muggy but not cold just about sums up how this summer's turning out this year. At least the grass is a lovely lush green, the woods and bits of countryside London forgot to build on smell great after any rain, and only the potted plants outside need any watering.

By the way, I've no idea what's happened to the BBC weather website: it didn't update beyond 2 pm when I went to bed last night, and today I can't get any charts up at all!

[mangerton]

Low cloud, drizzle, muggy but not cold just about sums up how this summer's turning out this year. At least the grass is a lovely lush green, the woods and bits of countryside London forgot to build on smell great after any rain, and only the potted plants outside need any watering.

By the way, I've no idea what's happened to the BBC weather website: it didn't update beyond 2 pm when I went to bed last night, and today I can't get any charts up at all!

This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again.

Petrushka wrote that yesterday. I copied it to save me typing it again, as it sums up the situation here perfectly. This must be one of the wettest weekends Dundee has had. There's been a steady downpour here all day, and for most of yesterday. At 9.00 pm last night, and the rain was as heavy as I've ever seen it. The road outside was flooded, and the water was running down hill in torrents.

SA, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the lack of BBC weather charts. The BBC weather forecasts recently have been a disgrace. Yesterday Scotland was to be "cold and damp". See my remarks above.

[Serial_Apologist]

This must surely be the worst summer on record. As I write it's absolutely pouring down yet again.

Petrushka wrote that yesterday. I copied it to save me typing it again, as it sums up the situation here perfectly. This must be one of the wettest weekends Dundee has had. There's been a steady downpour here all day, and for most of yesterday. At 9.00 pm last night, and the rain was as heavy as I've ever seen it. The road outside was flooded, and the water was running down hill in torrents.

SA, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the lack of BBC weather charts. The BBC weather forecasts recently have been a disgrace. Yesterday Scotland was to be "cold and damp". See my remarks above.

The Countryside forecast predicts it settling down midweek, then getting really warm at the weekend.

[mangerton]

The Countryside forecast predicts it settling down midweek, then getting really warm at the weekend.

Yes, but for where? Weather forecast on R4 at 5.57 tonight again lumped "N Ireland and Scotland" together. So weather in Yell and Enniskillen will be the same. Yeah, right.

The forecaster also said "temperatures between 16º and 23º", so not much of a difference there.

I'm paying £146 a year for this drivel!

[DracoM]

Absolutely shovelling it down oop 'ere. Fells invisible, wind driving.
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