Stormy Weather

[greenilex]

Now warm enough to eat breakfast muesli and tea-time pizza out of doors - brilliant, when I remember the long frowsty months of indoor crumby telly meals.

[BBMmk2]

We havn't a garden, unfortunately but ate al fresco at a friends' garden yesterday evening. A lovely chicken pasta meal, with lemon tart and ice cream for afters!! :)

A glorious day today

[Serial_Apologist]

We havn't a garden, unfortunately but ate al fresco at a friends' garden yesterday evening. A lovely chicken pasta meal, with lemon tart and ice cream for afters!! :)

A glorious day today

It's always nice to have a pot plant or two around the house, though.

Temperatures already 23 C at noon here, with the forecasters hedging their bets on predicting rain this evening with talk of "scattered thunderstorms".

[Petrushka]

Once again, the BBC forecasters are understating the temperatures. We were promised early morning temperatures of 15 degrees but it was actually 21 degrees at 8.30. by noon the promised 22 degrees had become 27 degrees and felt it. Despite the sudden cloud cover later on it still felt very warm. A few spots of rain this evening - just after I'd watered the plants, but nothing more.

[Anna]

I well remember you asking about katabatic flows when I first posted on this thread, Anna.

Yes indeed S_A, and it's also thanks to your expert tuition that I now know all about Katabatic flows, the Foehn Effect and lots more weather facts!! You are a

Yesterday here was the hottest day of the month at 24.7°, early evening it became very dark which resulted in a very short but heavy shower around 7pm. However later on from 10.00pm onwards there was constant lightening (horizontal, not forked) but no thunder towards the NE, veering around to NNE, quite a good light show that lasted for about an hour and a half. Today is quite breezy, lots of fluffy white clouds, nearly 21° as I type this, promise of a shower early evening again.

My Raymond Evison patio clematis is in flower, looking very lovely as are my troughs of geraniums. I've planted up 3 hanging baskets and some nemesia (which I didn't realise was so highly perfumed) in a tub and hung a planter on the fence with a variegated nasturtium and something else with small yellow flowers which I've forgotten the name of!! Trouble is, the constant watering .........

[amateur51]

We havn't a garden, unfortunately but ate al fresco at a friends' garden yesterday evening. A lovely chicken pasta meal, with lemon tart and ice cream for afters!! :)

A glorious day today

Sounds a lovely evening Bbm.

Overcast here & I'm trying to judge the best time to dash (ok, totter) to the shops for a much-needed list of basics.It's been threatening rain for quite a while

[Nick Armstrong]

much-needed basics

Well you will saunter off and live the high life in the south of France!! You must expect to get back to basics with a bit of a bump!!



Welcome back - hope you had an excessively good hol?

How are the temps. here compared with the jolly old Rhône-Alpes?

[amateur51]

Well you will saunter off and live the high life in the south of France!! You must expect to get back to basics with a bit of a bump!!



Welcome back - hope you had an excessively good hol?

How are the temps. here compared with the jolly old Rhône-Alpes?

I was repeatedly told we were in Drome-Nord, as it goesb but what do I know?

Weather was wonderful, extremely warm but with pleasant occasional cooling breeze

My basics were sorely depleted by my leaving a new litre of milk out of the fridge

Edit: here's the rain, like stair rods

Not hit Lord's just down the road apparently, listening to TMS

[Nick Armstrong]

I was repeatedly told we were in Drome-Nord

You were doubtless in both, since "Le département de la Drôme fait partie de la région Rhône-Alpes"

[amateur51]

You were doubtless in both, since "Le département de la Drôme fait partie de la région Rhône-Alpes"

Aaah bit like the mystery that is Middlesex?

[Nick Armstrong]

Aaah bit like the mystery that is Middlesex?

Perhaps more that you can be both in North Norfolk and in East Anglia simultaneously...

[amateur51]

Perhaps more that you can be both in North Norfolk and in East Anglia simultaneously...

No thanks

[Nick Armstrong]

(I love the north Norfolk coast... )

So where's this sun we were promised?!

[BBMmk2]

Greeat! Britten country, Cali? Pubs very good, I expect as well?

Lovely day here. Havn't seen Trooping the Colour yet, save for later. (Jamming session!!)

[Nick Armstrong]

The Norfolk reference was purely illustrative, Bbm!