Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely hot summer day in London, with a warm breeze to bring some relief from the strong sun.

Perfect for the cycling event...

I had a gig by a friend of mine to attend today at the Princess of Wales, Primrose Hill, not realising this to be taking place. The police were being exceptionally obstreporous in their dealings with pedestrians and other cyclists like me, just wanting to get across C London in an ecofriendly leisurely way. I found myself in the near-surreal circumstances of cycling up an empty Sloane Street and Park Street. Anyway I only managed to make it for the two final numbers of their set. On heading back, roads around the Embankment were still taped off at 6 pm, and I was told to dismount and walk across Chelsea Bridge.

Oh and by the way, Battersea Power Station is now virtually invisible from that point and anywhere west, hemmed in by the hideous multistorey blocks of flats in the way that had been immediately obvious from the "artist's impressions" for the scheme. With the railway line between me and it, I was unable to ascertain what has become of the Battersea Dogs Home, located as it was in the BPS precinct.

[teamsaint]

made to walk? bonkers.

central London is a rich mans building site right now.

Lovely day here. 23/24 degrees. little bit of cloud bubbling up late on.


need nice weather and some sunshine for the end of the week, around Wickham please, S-A !!

[Petrushka]

After three unexpectedly pleasant days (if hardly up to August standard) it's been almost as pleasant today, but ruined by a fierce wind that had the temperature knocked down a few degrees. It's calmed down now but we really shouldn't be having this strength of wind in August!

Oh and the nights are fast drawing in as well

[BBMmk2]

Don't know what anybody else thought, but yesterday was rather humid and very close, well at least the latter part of the day, ie afternoon onwards. My chest was suffering a bit and had an asthma attack during the night. The weather today, however, is much better. Dare I say, fresher?

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't know what anybody else thought, but yesterday was rather humid and very close, well at least the latter part of the day, ie afternoon onwards. My chest was suffering a bit and had an asthma attack during the night. The weather today, however, is much better. Dare I say, fresher?

Yes BBM - a cold front pushed on through in the early hours, having hung about all day yesterday, at the same time taking away the muggy maritime tropical air which probably triggered your attack; and we now have a fresh WSW-erly associated with a deep "dart board" NW of Scotland, which I imagine to be bringing them pretty awful weather conditions. Frankly, August doesn't look promising anywhere.

[BBMmk2]

Yes BBM - a cold front pushed on through in the early hours, having hung about all day yesterday, at the same time taking away the muggy maritime tropical air which probably triggered your attack; and we now have a fresh WSW-erly associated with a deep "dart board" NW of Scotland, which I imagine to be bringing them pretty awful weather conditions. Frankly, August doesn't look promising anywhere.

Thanks, Sa, as ever. This whole summer not much cop! :(

[alycidon]

Yes BBM - a cold front pushed on through in the early hours, having hung about all day yesterday, at the same time taking away the muggy maritime tropical air which probably triggered your attack; and we now have a fresh WSW-erly associated with a deep "dart board" NW of Scotland, which I imagine to be bringing them pretty awful weather conditions. Frankly, August doesn't look promising anywhere.

Yes, I can sympathise with you, BBM, it was quite muggy and humid in the Great Glen yesterday. Today, in contrast, there is a strongish breeze, and plenty of sun, too. Certainly, we have not got what SA is suggesting, and it is reminiscent of a pleasant late September day. I do hope we get back to August, though. I feel as though I've not had any proper summer as yet.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm afraid predictions for October to December don't look good either, with something of a repeat of 2013/4, eg. on the mild side but very wet and windy, if calculations on the consequences of the current El Nino underway are anything to go by.

[DracoM]

Dreadful here in NW this a.m. Now just cold, grey, windy and miserable.
Summer? Huh.

[Petrushka]

Only just into August and this Summer can already be considered a complete write-off. Apart from a couple or so reasonable days, we've never really got out of winter. Another day of pulverising wind here and one or two heavy showers. With no more than 4 days at most since last October without strong winds SA's news predictions for October to December hardly come as a surprise.

[Serial_Apologist]

From what I can make out from various sources, occurrence of El Nino tends to stir up the N Atlantic circulation, making for a faster jet stream. El Nino is expected to peak around October/November: this one is quite a strong one, or expected to be. Once it declines and the trade winds each side of the Pacific Equator return to their more usual SE/NE flow, the abovedescribed knock-on effects tend also to decline. And so, if this is right, our weather patterns here should revert more to normal somewhere around spring of next year, barring some other unforseen occurrence!

[Anna]

Last Tuesday, in the weather report column, The Times had this paragraph:
"On the bright side it's been a great Summer for wind turbines. Met Office figures show that there have been only eight days of calm this year, measured across 20 weather stations, and none of these calm days was recorded in Summertime"

Here it's been an exceptionally wet and extremely windy day, if it were not for the temperature being around 16° you would have thought it well into November.

[BBMmk2]

I was just thinking today, would all this have something to do with El Nino?

[Serial_Apologist]

Magnificent thunderstorm just now passing as I write. Not so much for intensity of rain, or amount of lightning (just a couple of strikes but they were nearby) as for the dramatic sky, with a brilliant complete double rainbow set against an orange-brown backdrop of heavy rain, while overhead the clouds have taken on tinges of purple, turquise and salmon pink, as though composed by Messiaen! This is the sort of weather someone with my level of interest waits to see - thunder was barely mentioned for the SE, so I'm quite chuffed with predicting this one; and several of my co-tenants have come rushing out with cameras.

[alycidon]

Oh, dear! After an indifferent humid day with plenty of heavy showers, we now find ourselves beset by a thunderstorm - of all things! We have lived in the Inverness area for twenty-eight years and they are not common up here. I think that I can only remember about half-a-dozen in that time.

Help! I'm frightened!