Stormy Weather II

[doversoul1]

It became very close in the afternoon. The sort of weather that aggravates bees.

[LeMartinPecheur]

It became very close in the afternoon. The sort of weather that aggravates bees.

So you'd prefer it more beecalmed would you dovers?

[doversoul1]

So you'd prefer it more beecalmed would you dovers?

Cold, wet and nasty when I want to get on with the garden

[BBMmk2]

Going to be very hit today. Means me and MrsBBM will be going down to the park today and get a Mr Whippy, with a flake in it!

[oddoneout]

Here, in South Lakes, STILL raining, busy wind, yukky, fells invisible, spotting paths etc ahead for literally THREE days tricky to impossible so genuinely dangerous and taxing for walkers, YET still the BBC forecasts bleat on about 'clearing' and 'brighter periods' blah blah blah

Do these guys EVER get out of their offices, or take note of local reactions?

And this has been half-term holiday week and this area is a huge for walkers etc.
Interestingly, the Lake District locals are telling walkers to be VERY careful based on their own assessments.

So that's where all our rain is! Oh for a bit of moderation in matters meteorological. The bit of rain we had in my bit of the East on BH Monday was not only extremely local(at work 20 mins downpour plus a couple of minor drizzle episodes, came home which is about 1.5 miles away to find the garden bone dry) but continuing wind removed any benefit very quickly. Today my back door thermometer was at 38 at 11 am, has dropped to 25 since being put in the shade. This evening will be spent in a major watering exercise just to keep newly planted veg alive, ditto pots waiting to be planted out and several permanent planters. Watering the veg beds will make for more mole activity, which leaves plants hanging in voids and drying out - and so we go round and round...

[DracoM]

Wish you could have some of mine..........because....yes, it's raining again here, but westerly wind has largely dropped.

[Serial_Apologist]

Interesting article here, supporting what I've been saying in my uneducated way about the unusual meanderings of the jet stream, and how this is causing the normal progress of the weather systems we depend on for our characteristic weather to lose momentum and seize up, so that our weather keeps getting stuck in a groove:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524141647.htm

[BBMmk2]

Another warm day today?

[oddoneout]

Another warm day today?

And how! Apologies to those not so blessed(!) but nudging 30 in the shade at 9-30am made outdoors not very appealing. Fortunately I'd had an early start so had managed to get some of the gardening tasks on my list done before needing to retreat indoors. I expect that the seaside will have an end of half-term boost as families head to the coast; the wind's in the right direction to make that a pleasant prospect this time. The forecast suggests there could be heavy rain this afternoon - I'll believe it when I see it, and in any case a cloudburst will be of limited use for the garden.

[DracoM]

Well, dull, showers, cloudy, westerly building.
You can always tell it's going to be rough up here when you see gulls feeding in fields miles and miles from the coast - getting out of the nasty stuff they know is coming!!

.....and here it is!! Wild, wild winds and great billows of thick rain. In the middle of the St Davids CE rpt, too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well if I'm not mistaken, the cold front I was half expecting to produce thundery rain has effectively leapfrogged us here, having provided dramatic skies briefly which then fragmentented into mackerel formations, the temperature having dropped from 26 and a bit celsius, just on the magic 80 farenheit, to a refreshing and still pleasantly warm 22.

That's it for above-average temperatures for the forseeable - next week looks to be unsettled, particularly in the north and west, and pretty windy tonight and tomorrow, especially for the NW, but with little in the way of much-needed rain down here. Mowed grass alongside pathways is already getting that yellow look we had last summer.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm sorry to have to say that in all the years I've been observing the weather, the charts forecast for the next week must be the worst I've ever seen for June.

[DracoM]

High velocity westerly up here is systematically wrecking new plants in the garden.
Sun, cloud yes, but the wind is wild, forecast via www.yr.no is for this to continue and for there to be seriously heavy rain mid-week.

June? Huh!

[oddoneout]

High velocity westerly up here is systematically wrecking new plants in the garden.
Sun, cloud yes, but the wind is wild, forecast via www.yr.no is for this to continue and for there to be seriously heavy rain mid-week.

June? Huh!

More often than not in recent years 'flaming June' has been a sarcastic comment in this part of the world.

[teamsaint]

Bright ‘n breezy here.

forecast looks a bit poor for the next week , doubtless due to the ongoing cricket.