Stormy Weather

[mangerton]

Another glorious day here in northern parts - well, it would be; I'm at work.

Had a jolly day yesterday - out for lunch. Roast beef, not trad for Easter, but delicious nonetheless.

Anna, your lunch sounds delicious too, especially the rice pud.

[Serial_Apologist]

Much, much warmer than yesterday here - that's a bad sign when the barometer stays low, and, on cue, huge mountains of cauliflour cumulus started bubbling up fast around midday, with very threatening blackness just to the north, but no thunder to be heard. All this has now drifted westwards leaving hazy sunshine and a temperature of just under 18 C feeling much warmer than that owing to high humidity. Our mauve lilac is just bursting into flower, the larger sycamores and oaks slowly catching up with their neighbouring hornbeams and horse chestnuts, and I just now spotted an enormous bumble bee, black, white and orange-banded and over an inch long, buzzing its way drunkenly across the path to some dandelions. Some of the regular roses are already in bud here!

[Thropplenoggin]

Much, much warmer than yesterday here - that's a bad sign when the barometer stays low, and, on cue, huge mountains of cauliflour cumulus started bubbling up fast around midday, with very threatening blackness just to the north, but no thunder to be heard. All this has now drifted westwards leaving hazy sunshine and a temperature of just under 18 C feeling much warmer than that owing to high humidity. Our mauve lilac is just bursting into flower, the larger sycamores and oaks slowly catching up with their neighbouring hornbeams and horse chestnuts, and I just now spotted an enormous bumble bee, black, white and orange-banded and over an inch long, buzzing its way drunkenly across the path to some dandelions. Some of the regular roses are already in bud here!

I spotted flowering blooms on a climbing rose in St Albans today. Indeed, our potted rose gave us its first incarnadine inflorescence in early April.

[marthe]

Lovely Easter yesterday. Spent part of the day with my mother who was in good form, bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked. The HH and I had ham, asparagus, sweet potatoes for dinner, and Lemon Tea Cake for dessert. Today is Marathon Day in Boston, MA. The sunny, cool weather is perfect for this long race. Let's hope that all goes well this year. For the folks in Massachusetts, today is also a holiday so the 26 mile route of the Boston Marathon will be lined with supporters. As a child, I lived in two "marathon" towns: Hopkinton, where the race starts; Wellesley, where Wellesley College girls cheer on the runners as they pass by the college. I wonder if Hillary Clinton ever did that? Maybe she was too busy protesting. We "townies" not only cheered the runners, but handed out cups of water as well.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely Easter yesterday. Spent part of the day with my mother who was in good form, bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked. The HH and I had ham, asparagus, sweet potatoes for dinner, and Lemon Tea Cake for dessert. Today is Marathon Day in Boston, MA. The sunny, cool weather is perfect for this long race. Let's hope that all goes well this year. For the folks in Massachusetts, today is also a holiday so the 26 mile route of the Boston Marathon will be lined with supporters. As a child, I lived in two "marathon" towns: Hopkinton, where the race starts; Wellesley, where Wellesley College girls cheer on the runners as they pass by the college. I wonder if Hillary Clinton ever did that? Maybe she was too busy protesting. We "townies" not only cheered the runners, but handed out cups of water as well.

Speaking of townies, there was a story from the newspapers in this morning's Today about a family who moved to an old one-time vicarage in the countryside. Soon after moving in, the man complained about the neighbouring church clock chiming out the time every quarter of an hour. Evdentually the authorities agreed to the clock only announcing the hour, but apparently even this was too much. Some people, eh??!!

[marthe]

S_A, darn city slickers! In our case, townies were those who lived in the town (or the "ville" as some Wellesley girls call it) as opposed to the college.

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A, darn city slickers! In our case, townies were those who lived in the town (or the "ville" as some Wellesley girls call it) as opposed to the college.

The ville as opposed to the coll. I suppose that's preferable to the uni?

[marthe]

The ville as opposed to the coll. I suppose that's preferable to the uni?

Good one! A Wellesley girl would never go to Uni...unless it happened to be MIT or Harvard.

[amateur51]

Much, much warmer than yesterday here - that's a bad sign when the barometer stays low, and, on cue, huge mountains of cauliflour cumulus started bubbling up fast around midday, with very threatening blackness just to the north, but no thunder to be heard. All this has now drifted westwards leaving hazy sunshine and a temperature of just under 18 C feeling much warmer than that owing to high humidity. Our mauve lilac is just bursting into flower, the larger sycamores and oaks slowly catching up with their neighbouring hornbeams and horse chestnuts, and I just now spotted an enormous bumble bee, black, white and orange-banded and over an inch long, buzzing its way drunkenly across the path to some dandelions. Some of the regular roses are already in bud here!

Roses and clematis in bloom here, strawberry plants in flower, bees and white flutterbyes, great tits, starlings, and sparrers all visiting the fat balls and a robin tucking into the seed-feeders, a purple lilac in bloom down the road in NW6 - marvellous.

Suddenly rather mild here today and dry-ish, whereas yesterday was soggy, soggier and soggiest and pretty nippy too.

[EdgeleyRob]

Glorious sunny day in North Cheshire today.
It felt quite hot when out walking the dogs this afternoon.

[eighthobstruction]

Lime trees in blossom....one of my favourite green colours....

[BBMmk2]

Rather a mixed bag, I think today. Sunny i9ntervals, with showers, probably.

Had a lovely day yesterday. Went pout for a walk in the afternoon, whilst in the morning, worked on my project.

[Pabmusic]

We've had a few miserable days - overcast, showers, temperatures as low as 24 degrees C (!!!) - but today it's a lovely, sunny 30 degrees.

[DracoM]

Good Grief! Rained here in Ultima Thule for the first time in any meaningful way in a fortnight.

[Serial_Apologist]

Slow deterioration towards the weekend expected, with lower temperatures leading up to a cold unsettled end of month, and beginning to May, with north/north-westerly winds. So make the most of the next couple of days, heeping the brolly to hand and making sure to dodge any showers.