Stormy Weather

[EdgeleyRob]

September will be fantastic - soon as the schools go back!

When I think back to my school days I seem to remember the summer holidays as 6 weeks of wall to wall sunshine.
Is it just my memory playing tricks or was it so ? (63 to 74).

[cloughie]

I usually love Autumn as well, mellow mists and fruitfulness and all that. I know I've never had a heavier crop on my little apple tree and also have never seen the brambles so laden with blossoms - what a pity I don't make apple and blackberry pies! I'd be tempted to make bramble jam, but I don't eat jam either! Is it possible to make chutney with eating apples I wonder?

Often seems to be the case cloughie, that we get an Indian Summer but the best weather I can remember so far this year was last two weeks of March when it was absolutely beautiful (I was down in Sussex)

Too true - a sort of Indian pre-Summer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was up at 2am this morning, hanging out of the window, hoping to see the Perseids ....... but although facing East I couldn't hang out far enough in order to veer towards the North enough. I really should have gone outside but didn't want to worry the neighbours! Maybe some time after midnight is best, I know they finish around 3am each night. I think tonight is the last chance of viewing?

I don't think so, Anna: we've missed the peak (11th - 12th Aug) but they're still visible for another week or so. I believe the best time to see them is just before dawn (I think the position of the Sun illuminates them whilst not lighting up the background sky).

http://www.spacedex.com/perseids/

(My neighbours - and their cats - are quite used to my being out in the front garden in the "dead of night", gazing up at the sky. As long as I don't make a noise, they don't mind.)

[mangerton]

September will be fantastic - soon as the schools go back!

Schools went back here today, and yes, it's been a lovely day.

[Flay]

I believe the best time to see them is just before dawn (I think the position of the Sun illuminates them whilst not lighting up the background sky).

I had completely forgotten about these - hopefully I will see something tonight. They are self-illuminating as they burn up. I'm quite sure sunlight has nothing to do with it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I had completely forgotten about these - hopefully I will see something tonight.

Cloud cover over the Pennines has meant that nothing could be seen here on the two best nights anyway! Much clearer at the moment, but "partial cloud" forecast for tomorrow morning.

[marthe]

You may not have been able to find "Harchlands" - here is the website of "Hatchlands"

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hatchlands-park/

EDIT: I see Vindepays laid his cloak over the muddy typographical puddle for you first... Typical, gent that he is

Thanks to both of you for pointing me in the right direction; also to BBM for the first mention. You are all such gentlemen!

[BBMmk2]

BBM, good luck with the weather for your visit to Harchlands. What sort of instruments do they have in the collection? Brass or all sorts? Another glorious day here in RI. Time for me to go outside and do some gardening, hedge trimming actually. The privet has become unruly and needs a bit of taming.

Well Marthe, a slight case of Bbmish there Martye! Or a typo! I meant to have said Hatchlands Park! :) it's a truly wonderful place to visit! The amount of keyboards that were on display were mind blowing! Keyboards that were owned or played by the likes of such luminaries as Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart . Or owned by Mahler. Elgar etc! It's endless!

[BBMmk2]

Oh I missed that one. The best collection of early keyboard instruments I have visited [several times] is Finchcocks in Kent, home of Richard Burnett.

Well worth a visit also Bbm. Afternoon all........

Yes I know Of that place. My brother has been there and he said its very much well worth a visit to!

[marthe]

Chucking it down here in Newport! We're in the midst of a band of wild thunder storms. Fingers crossed that the power doesn't go out. Afternoon gardening gig with lady gardening friend has been postponed. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to The Pastoralists on CoTW later.

[Serial_Apologist]

Chucking it down here in Newport! We're in the midst of a band of wild thunder storms. Fingers crossed that the power doesn't go out. Afternoon gardening gig with lady gardening friend has been postponed. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to The Pastoralists on CoTW later.

It looks like you are in for a succession of these frontal systems, gradually introducing cooler conditions between today and Sunday, marthe.

Something similar (probably less dramatic! ), is coming our way in the next hour!

[marthe]

S_A, I'm looking forward to those cooler conditions! Good luck with your own dramatic weather. Things have calmed down here for the moment but we did have great drama and flickering lights a little while ago.

[Anna]

Something similar (probably less dramatic! ), is coming our way in the next hour!

Are you going to have what I've had? It was ok first thing when I left then from 10am it torrented down, real stair-rods, non-stop, hills disappeared, until around 1pm, before slowly clearing to just cloud and a weak and sickly sun trying to break through now. It was a real November morning, although warmer of course. Doubt if there is any hope of Perseids viewing tonight. Did anyone see Hale Bopp? That was wonderful, still remember it although it was ages ago.

[gurnemanz]

Are you going to have what I've had? It was ok first thing when I left then from 10am it torrented down, real stair-rods, non-stop, hills disappeared, until around 1pm, before slowly clearing to just cloud and a weak and sickly sun trying to break through now. It was a real November morning, although warmer of course. Doubt if there is any hope of Perseids viewing tonight. Did anyone see Hale Bopp? That was wonderful, still remember it although it was ages ago.

Heavy torrents thwarted my bike trip to our weekly market here in North Wilts - so no fresh fish tonight. It has stopped now and is almost sunny, so some hope for a bit of tennis this evening. A forecast I heard mentioned the possibility 30 degrees C for the weekend.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Similar weather to Anna's here: a hot, sunny morning then it started to rain at 1.00 pm and it's bucketting down now.

I tried to see the Perseids last night at 10:30, and again at 4.00 am - good, clear skies (and plenty of stars) but rather too much light pollution from the streetlamps, and I'm not sure if the streaks I saw in from the corner of my eye were just wishful thinking. Well, maybe next year!

Oh, I remember Hale Bopp: a pea-sized milky smudge in the sky - much better than Halley's effort managed (and I'd been waiting since 1969 to see it. Not much chance of seeing that "next time round"! The first comet I ever saw was Kahoutschek's in the early 70s - anyone remember that?