Stormy Weather

[Uncle Monty]

Yes, same here. The allotments are heaving a huge sigh of relief. Dogs refusing to go out. (They will jump in any available river or pond, but are terrified of a bit of rain )

[salymap]

Yes, at last a really heavy shower; the first for many weeks. Hurrah.

[antongould]

Is it still coming down as it were? Have the coalfields of the Grey North escaped this magic?

[salymap]

No news of the coalfields here Anton, although I believe there were some in Kent years ago. You willhave to concentrate on your US holiday or Lady G may drag you away from your messages to go shopping.

It's breezy and sunny but not so warm this morning. Best wishes

[greenilex]

Morning all. Quite mild and sunny here today. Hope we escape the towering cumuli for a while.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..mild sunny breezy white clouds blue sky threat of rain the perfect spring day in the middle kingdom ... my mate in Phoenix is boasting of 101F ....while Mississippi is under water ...

[Mahlerei]

Garden gasping, so some cumuli would be most welcome :)

[Chris Newman]

I guess the night rain at the weekend in Wiltshire was very heavy as the rivers (Avon, Nadder and Wylie) are deep again. Then again I expect the water board closed the sluices as well to trap the water.

[antongould]

No news of the coalfields here Anton, although I believe there were some in Kent years ago. You willhave to concentrate on your US holiday or Lady G may drag you away from your messages to go shopping.

It's breezy and sunny but not so warm this morning. Best wishes

My daughter thinks the coalfields have had some heavy rain but she's not sure!!!!

Who could forget the Kent coalfields?

[greenilex]

Grey here and a bit drab today...enjoying Breakfast programme.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i remember childhood holidays in Northumberland with my uncle and walking miles and hanging around the machinery in open cast mines ..... heaven ... and for a London street kid the very definition of fresh air .... which it is today in the middle kingdom, fresh that is, with some breeze and cloudy ... but not the North Sea!

[salymap]

The seasons seem hopelessly mixed this year. We had July in March/April, now in May it's gone back to late March/April weather. I just hope that earlier weather wasn't our summer

[marthe]

The seasons seem hopelessly mixed this year. We had July in March/April, now in May it's gone back to late March/April weather. I just hope that earlier weather wasn't our summer

We're having the same muddled seasons here saly! Today the weather is windy (blowing briskly from the north-east) and drizzly! It's hard to know what to wear these days when it's too cold for short-sleeved blouses and too late in the season for heavy woolens and corduroy. I'm still wearing all my wooly stuff at home but make do with "transitional" outfits when dressing for work. New England spring is often much too brief, going from winter to summer without much spring in between! I feel sorry for school groups that are having their spring field trips, often outdoors, during May.

Elinor Wylie describes New England spring in her "Puritan Sonnet" as "That Spring, briefer than apple blossom's breath..."

[salymap]

Hello marthe, yes it is a job to know what to wear and I'm at home most of the time. I went into short sleeved blouses for a bit but am back to my favourites, thin polo necks and trousers. Windy but quite sunny today. As Mahlerei says, {he lives a few miles away], the ground is gasping for rain.

[antongould]

We in the UK are famous for our obsession with the Weather and yet in the US they have a major TV Channel - the Weather Channel which covers nothing else. Would such a channel survive in the UK I wonder?