Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

A bit overcast in Scotland....

...with the likelihood of downpours.

[Beef Oven!]

...with the likelihood of downpours.

[Serial_Apologist]

NE London is being hit by one heck of a thunderstorm as I write, I imagine!

[amateur51]

NE London is being hit by one heck of a thunderstorm as I write, I imagine!

There was a pretty big storm in NW London early this morning starting around 01:30 and still making my radio crackle at 05:00. Lots of lightning and torrential rain.

So much for the referendum, I thought

[french frank]

There was a pretty big storm in NW London early this morning starting around 01:30 and still making my radio crackle at 05:00. Lots of lightning and torrential rain.

So much for the referendum, I thought

Ha! We had a 15-minute lightning storm - no rain at all - last night. At about 10pm. That's it, then, I thought. End of the world as we know it.

[Nick Armstrong]

NE London is being hit by one heck of a thunderstorm as I write, I imagine!

I had a slightly lengthy luncheon today - as I cycled there around 1pm, it was astonishingly warm in the sunshine - with that sort of tropical, humid intensity that made one think: thunder's coming. I should think at 2.15 or so, the heavens opened and for 20 minutes or so there was a monsoon-style downpour (I didn't hear any thunder though) - the sort that had people sheltering under awnings and taking photographs of the wall of water. I kicked myself for leaving my cycle helmet attached to the bike and bike-lock outside.

But when we emerged at about 3.45 or so, it was almost as if it had never rained... The sun and blue sky were back, the roads and my bike were bone-dry... the only sign of the rain was the soaked cushioning inside my crash-hat - and even that was pleasantly cool. And a lovely sunny end to the day.

[gurnemanz]

Just played tennis for a couple of hours - amazingly dank but balmy after last night's downpour. Very pleasant playing conditions. Outside temperature in North Wilts is 16C at the moment with 90% humidity

[Anna]

It was a relief to wake this morning to a cloudless blue sky and sunshine after a week of greyness which only cleared to sunny spells late afternoon. Thursday evening, from around 10.30 onwards, towards the S, SSE, tremendous amounts of sheet lightening could be seen, this continued for about 4 hours on and off, missed us completely, perhaps some of it was frenchie's Bristol storm? Friday was much needed rain for the garden but steady rather than heavy. Aren't the evenings drawing in quickly when it's so gloomy.

Meanwhile I read just now: Check the central heating and put an extra blanket on the bed: forecasters have warned that night-time temperatures will drop below freezing this week. While the warm weather enjoyed so far this month will continue by day, with highs of around 68F (20C), the temperature will plummet by as much as 59F (15C) in some areas of England and Scotland. A Met Office forecaster said: “There will be a significant change in the weather, with temperatures in some parts of the UK dropping to 30F (-1C).
Personally I'd rather have cold and bright rather than muggy and grey!

[teamsaint]

It was a relief to wake this morning to a cloudless blue sky and sunshine after a week of greyness which only cleared to sunny spells late afternoon. Thursday evening, from around 10.30 onwards, towards the S, SSE, tremendous amounts of sheet lightening could be seen, this continued for about 4 hours on and off, missed us completely, perhaps some of it was frenchie's Bristol storm? Friday was much needed rain for the garden but steady rather than heavy. Aren't the evenings drawing in quickly when it's so gloomy.

Meanwhile I read just now: Check the central heating and put an extra blanket on the bed: forecasters have warned that night-time temperatures will drop below freezing this week. While the warm weather enjoyed so far this month will continue by day, with highs of around 68F (20C), the temperature will plummet by as much as 59F (15C) in some areas of England and Scotland. A Met Office forecaster said: “There will be a significant change in the weather, with temperatures in some parts of the UK dropping to 30F (-1C).
Personally I'd rather have cold and bright rather than muggy and grey!

Its a quite glorious day here. Sunny ,warm, perfect.

Where is this cold weather going to be? Cant see much evidence of it on the BBC weather, having checked Salisbury, London, Brecon and Glasgow.
All sounds a bit Daily Express to me........not that I am suggesting of course........

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

middle kingdom appears to be blessed with sunshine and max 18 min 9 this coming week - an utterly gorgeous day so far sun and cloud and gusty wind .... perfect for the laundry

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Like Anna (and unlike Edgey on the other side of the Pennines) we've had a gloomy, grey and chilly week, with the sun making brave but futile efforts to cheer us all up. This morning, however, its work was rewarded, and we're having a lovely day. But it's still cold! It really feels as if the we've had a sort of "leap season" and jumped ahead a month: everything looks and feels as if it's the middle of October.

[Serial_Apologist]

middle kingdom appears to be blessed with sunshine and max 18 min 9 this coming week - an utterly gorgeous day so far sun and cloud and gusty wind .... perfect for the laundry

Aha - someone else who does his laundry on the sabbath! We have a communal drying area for the 14 flats here here, with half a dozen washing lines, which the wildlife use for target practice. I had assumed it was birds taking very accurate aim from overhanging branches, but a couple of months ago I caught squirrels running along the lines, and figure it must be them; even wood pigeons scapegoating us for humanity's treating them as game don't have that good an aim!

As far as the forecast is concerned, the next week does appear to favour warmish days for most areas, and cold nights, though I would think frost improbable, with the exception of in well-known frost hollows. Whether or no (no pun) there is a big breakdown into wet and story weather in a week's time is up for grabs once more, apparently.

[Anna]

S_A is certainly right with warm days and cold nights - he just omitted to mention the incredibly thick morning mists. Yesterday was just 7.4° when I set forth and the mist had turned the spiders webs on all the bushes to wonderful ornaments - in fact they were so covered with starry threads that I realised there must be huge colonies of spiders in each and every one of them! The temperature rose to a very warm 21°, dropped like a stone overnight to a chilly 4.8° at 7am this morning, again with mist, perfectly lovely weather!

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A is certainly right with warm days and cold nights - he just omitted to mention the incredibly thick morning mists. Yesterday was just 7.4° when I set forth and the mist had turned the spiders webs on all the bushes to wonderful ornaments - in fact they were so covered with starry threads that I realised there must be huge colonies of spiders in each and every one of them! The temperature rose to a very warm 21°, dropped like a stone overnight to a chilly 4.8° at 7am this morning, again with mist, perfectly lovely weather!

Gosh - colder than here, and foggier; but you are out in the countryside of course, Anna.

Your description of the spider's web was used for the Madhyamika - a Zen Buddhist tract using the image of a spider's web covered by droplets of dew with sunlight through them to resemble jewels, each one reflecting all the others, to illustrate the idea of an interactive universe in which the component parts are forever interdependent - this being a primary principle of Buddhism. The Chinese term used is "Shi shi wu ai", meaning between thing and thing, no obstruction.

[BBMmk2]

Hey there people!!! Just arrived back from Cornwall. Lovely week down there but coming back to good cold West Sussex, and it does feel colder here than there