Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

Winds gusting to 40+ mph are not good news. I fear my climbing beans and some very tall toms are going to be casualties. Regardless of such obvious damage the way the wind is sucking the long awaited moisture out of plants and the soil is bad news as well. Yesterday afternoon when I got back from work the toms were all droopy leaves from the tumbledrier wind, the first time they have shown such obvious signs of water stress. They are looking better after a night to recover, but I think I may have to get the hose on their bed as the chance of rain is minimal as always.

[BBMmk2]

Winds gusting to 40+ mph are not good news. I fear my climbing beans and some very tall toms are going to be casualties. Regardless of such obvious damage the way the wind is sucking the long awaited moisture out of plants and the soil is bad news as well. Yesterday afternoon when I got back from work the toms were all droopy leaves from the tumbledrier wind, the first time they have shown such obvious signs of water stress. They are looking better after a night to recover, but I think I may have to get the hose on their bed as the chance of rain is minimal as always.

Something like that down here too!

[DracoM]

.......and here.

[LezLee]

Light rain plus the window-cleaner. Windy. Temp 16°, I'm considering putting the electric fire on.

[Pulcinella]

Picnic on the meadow in front of the house or even eating in the back garden abandoned as FAR too windy: friends coming to lunch so we'll just have to spread ourselves around the table indoors to keep our social distance that way. I can see from the window that one of our local book groups has been brave enough to have their weekly meeting outdoors by the lake: they're all jolly well wrapped up though.

[DracoM]

Wild, wild, wild day here.

[Serial_Apologist]

Storms which formed over W London a couple of hours ago are spreading out in clusters and heading your way, Joseph, so you might well be in line for one, or two. Reports from the Putney/Twickenham area are of torrential rain and hailstones the size of large marbles; the clouds were certainly impressive and loud bumps of frequent thunder audible from here. It will be interesting to see if the large clusters over N France take the same route later this evening, and just manage to miss us, or maybe they'll lose power crossing the Channel, as often happens with surface-based storms. These really need local generation to sustain. Temperature now 28 C after maxing at 34 C before the thunder kicked off - almost bearable!

What was surprising, given the severity of the weather, was that only around 20 secs of Twitterage seems to have been recorded from inside that storm. However, today someone has posted some beautiful time-lapse taken from maybe 15 miles to the west of the storm cloud as it grew - all 40 seconds of which is provided in the link below. Take 40 secs out to watch this most beautiful sight of a big thunderstorm developing out of medium sized cumulus into a huge, textbook anvil-shaped cloud, reportedly reaching a height of 48,000 feet. That is high for a cumulonimbus at our latitude: even in the tropics they don't grow much higher than 60,000 ft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PikghKYwaS0

Today has been very windy here, though not as bad as I had been expecting. One of the neighbours was commenting just now on the unusualness of high winds accompanying such high temperatures - up to nearly 24 C here in London, which, it's true, would not have been known in the UK on a polar-maritime airstream, a couple of decades ago.

[BBMmk2]

We’ve had some rain already today. Similar to yesterday, perhaps?

[gurnemanz]

Bright sun first thing, then a rainstorm, now sun again, but still breezy and not warm at 17C. Decided it was a long trouser day.

[DracoM]

Violent, almost manic storm last night - one hour of drench and rage.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Cheered up a lot in E Cornwall after a wet and windy start. Still breezy, cloudy but patches of real sun. Could change in an instant and, this being Cornwall, probably will

[oddoneout]

The wind is taking longer to moderate than forecast yesterday, and the rain clouds look set to miss here again, being to N and S. Lot of damage to foliage and seeds/fruit, and things getting very dried out as well as shredded - not helpful at this time of year when it's not in most plants' best interest to put out new foliage.

[Bryn]

The wind is taking longer to moderate than forecast yesterday, and the rain clouds look set to miss here again, being to N and S. Lot of damage to foliage and seeds/fruit, and things getting very dried out as well as shredded - not helpful at this time of year when it's not in most plants' best interest to put out new foliage.

Masses of immature acorns blown from the oaks in this area, along with a fair few branches. I spent most of yesterday in a conifer plantation. It is dense enough for the many tall, spindly trees to act as mutual protection against the wind. Some very considerable swaying involved, though. I was pretty much constatly showered with pine needles and the occasional cone.

[DracoM]

Violent winds sweeping in billows of thick rain......then...nowt! All Quiet on the Western Front...
........Ten minutes later, another whipping! Drumming on the roof.

Hey ho!

[Serial_Apologist]

Definitely early signs of autumn in the coming week, with more strong winds from a southward-steering low and lots of rain for the north on Tuesday into Wednesday, and N/S high pressure blocking to the west coming in on Friday, swinging winds into a more northerly type, which we haven't seen since spring.