Stormy Weather II

[Petrushka]

Proper chucking it down on the Metrollopes today - not at all forecast until the ‘forecasters’ looked out of the window and saw what was happening...

A fine day here, almost spring-like. The sun is warming, which makes a nice difference, and the heating is turned off (for a while). Currently 21C indoors, probably half that outside.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Fine day here as per Cloughie's report, after a very wet and windy weekend. Though the temperatures were said to be high-ish it really didn't feel like it even indoors. We did however have one visitor last night who may even then have been convinced that spring was indeed at hand, one very large wasp

With the weather as it was we were puzzled as to whether it was late hibernating or out of bed early. Despite 'help' from our cat we managed to capture it and put it outside, where it is presumably enjoying the sunshine today as much as we are

[oddoneout]

Fine day here as per Cloughie's report, after a very wet and windy weekend. Though the temperatures were said to be high-ish it really didn't feel like it even indoors. We did however have one visitor last night who may even then have been convinced that spring was indeed at hand, one very large wasp

With the weather as it was we were puzzled as to whether it was late hibernating or out of bed early. Despite 'help' from our cat we managed to capture it and put it outside, where it is presumably enjoying the sunshine today as much as we are

Likely a queen wasp tempted out of hibernation. They like folds of fabric so unused curtains and the like may harbour them.

[DracoM]

Wonderful Spring day here.
Out in the garden, and almost everyone passing chatted - ah........the sun does everything for us.

BUT then I see mighty rain is forecast for us up here - moon out, stars out, sun all day today..........hey ho...sigh!

[Serial_Apologist]

Likely a queen wasp tempted out of hibernation. They like folds of fabric so unused curtains and the like may harbour them.

Easily mistakable for a hornet - the giveaway being the wasp's black and yellow colouring, hornets being brown and a duller shade of yellow. She will be out and about for a month or two, casing the joint for somewhere to make home.

It's been very dull and quite misty, with a low stratus cold base indicating high humidity with the slow passage of that cold front, which has been giving Wales and parts of the NW so much anguish over the past 3 days. The weather peole are predicting temperatures possibly reaching 17 C on Wednesday for E Anglia and the SE, albeit with a blustery southerly wind. And it should remain on the mild side for the rest of the month - though not as mild as that. It has been amazing to see how quickly the first daffodils have sprung into flower here, following the cold weather. Some wonderful displays of crocus, too.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Easily mistakable for a hornet - the giveaway being the wasp's black and yellow colouring, hornets being brown and a duller shade of yellow. She will be out and about for a month or two, casing the joint for somewhere to make home.

Pretty sure it was a wasp though panic stations weren't conducive to close colour-matching It didn't buzz at all - do hornets? I thought they had a reputation for it.

[oddoneout]

A grey and rather cool morning became a damp afternoon, rather disappointing, but probably unrealistic to expect a rerun of Monday. Met Office report here currently not showing such high temperatures for later in the week, but I think most would be happy to settle for not as cold as last week, and staying dry - especially those folk in several locations currently wading through sewage as the drains give up under the surplus water load.

[Serial_Apologist]

My "official" nearest weather station is always quoted on the BBC site as being St James's Park - 6 miles away! - we used to have a couple which were nearer, one a mile away in W Norwood; I don't know what it takes to get de-commissioned/de-consecrated!

This - could you believe it - is the sole official weather station for central London - the one in St James's Park! People at UKWW are suggesting that the failure to maintain the white painted exterior might well be giving readings higher than they should otherwise be.

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/foru.../page__st__525*



* You need to scroll down the page to Msg #533 - it's the photo at the right hand end, which you can click on to enlarge.

[Nick Armstrong]

temperatures possibly reaching 17 C on Wednesday for E Anglia and the SE, albeit with a blustery southerly wind.

.... with the joys of Saharan dust, it seems, which was apparently responsible for the eerie gloom from around 3.30 this afternoon...

[BBMmk2]

.... with the joys of Saharan dust, it seems, which was apparently responsible for the eerie gloom from around 3.30 this afternoon...

We had that too. It’s made the windows dirty as well!

I think we have a good day today!

[cloughie]

Breezy and overcast today but mild. The Sahara dust blowing in from the South has interestingly left more deposit on the windows on the N side of the house. Mild is also an interesting meteorological word and applied only to temperature - it can be blowing a hooley, but if it is warmish then it referred to as mild.

[oddoneout]

Bright and (very) breezy. Bit of a shame about the wind as it's making things rather chilly, but doing a good job of drying things out, which s I've mentioned before is important currently.

[DracoM]

Grey, rain, blowing a hoolie up here.
And temp dropping like a stone..............wow!

[Pulcinella]

Some amazing shots of today's sunrise on offer here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/56168416

[Serial_Apologist]

You tend to get the most spectacular sunrises and sunsets in association with mid-layer cloud types: altostratus (as if pallet knife paint applied horizontally) and altocumulus (bubble wrap cloud or mackerel sky) as the other types are either too thin (high cirrus) or too coarse (low stratus, stratocumulus rolls); but a sky of breaking convective clouds can also impress, especially following a day of showers or thunderstorms. Cirrostratus (cirrus spread out into a sheet) can give haloes, mock suns and sun pillars at sunrise or sunset, but for sheer drama there's nothing that can quite match altocumulus and altostratus, as those pics from this morning show.