Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Hello! Is anyone there?

Or have you all been struck by lightning, or washed away by the downpours?

Anyway... for anyone interested, tomorrow morning looks the best time for any outdoor activities. Monday will probably be a repeat of Wednesday. At least Tuesday looks promisingly warm, but keep that brolly still handy.

Off now to the shoppes before the next drenching!

Set out on the bike in sunshine this morning, arrived in sunshine 35 minutes later... In between, 30 minutes of grey skies, wind and diagonal rain

Good to know about Monday

[Anna]

The Met Office have a weather warning for Sunday due to depression over Spain getting vigorous and pushing heavy rain from the South over England and Wales and also, it said winds from an unusual direction causing gales + 50mph winds. What's an unusual direction for winds then? If they're coming from Spain then surely that's a normal SSW innit?

[Nick Armstrong]

The Met Office have a weather warning for Sunday due to depression over Spain getting vigorous and pushing heavy rain from the South over England and Wales and also, it said winds from an unusual direction causing gales + 50mph winds. What's an unusual direction for winds then? If they're coming from Spain then surely that's a normal SSW innit?

... .rather like the way this is turning out to be an unusually wet drought...

[salymap]

It's very odd, rain is not wet enough to end the dry spell, we are all better off, although money seems to just disappear, nothing is what it seeems. A little bit Alice in Wonderland these days.

[EdgeleyRob]

depression over Spain

I blame Chelsea and Bayern Munich.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Met Office have a weather warning for Sunday due to depression over Spain getting vigorous and pushing heavy rain from the South over England and Wales and also, it said winds from an unusual direction causing gales + 50mph winds. What's an unusual direction for winds then? If they're coming from Spain then surely that's a normal SSW innit?

Well, it's like this, Anna.

Picture the low forming over Spain as a giant whirlpool of winds, circulating anticlockwise around and towards its centre. As that low moves north, the winds continue revolving anticclockwise around its centre; but as it deepens, the winds circulating become stronger. If - as is expected - (though the weatherpersons are a bit unsure about this) - the low centres itself in the English Channel, the winds to the north of the centre, where we happen to be, will be reaching us from an easterly, or north-easterly direction, regardless of their place of origin. QED.

[amateur51]

I blame Chelsea and Bayern Munich.

[amateur51]

... .rather like the way this is turning out to be an unusually wet drought...

Mr Denis Howell, the first (and last!) Minister for Drought must be turning in his grave

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Within two weeks of his appointment as Minister for the Drought he was appointed the Minister for the Flooding .... there can be no more successful minister of the Crown in British history than Denis Howell!

[BBMmk2]

Gawd! We had that yelloow round object in the sky today! Lovely!

[Anna]

I don't know if the worst is yet to come .......... but today, although very wet (32mm so far), has not here seen the strong winds predicted and there are no reports locally of trees coming down. Somerset seems to have been badly hit. Tuesday (for Wales) is another severe weather warning though ...

[salymap]

I've seen two reports for tomorrow morning in my area. One says it will be dry. Another says heavy showers. Although under twenty miles from central London, our weather is quite different, usually cooler and windier, but we don't have an area report of our own.

Big bin day so may risk them blowing over and put them in the front garden while it's a little dryer.

Goodluck for Tuesday, Anna.

[Flay]

Constant heavy rain here in Yorkshire. I have popped in to work to do paperwork, but find the roof of our 3 year old health centre dripping, and not for the first time. Why cannot roofs be built that are waterproof?

[amateur51]

Constant heavy rain here in Yorkshire. I have popped in to work to do paperwork, but find the roof of our 3 year old health centre dripping, and not for the first time. Why cannot roofs be built that are waterproof?

Flat roof, issit Flay?

[Flay]

Flat roof, issit Flay?

Yep. You would think they would learn....