Everyone should be enjoying comfortably warm sunny conditions until the weekend; on Saturday signs are of a beginning to a breakdown, with thundery weather again advancing from the SW and probably reaching most areas to make Sunday pretty wet. Then it's more of a slack, warm, humid showery type, with signs of a return to the nor'easterlies around June 26. Cooler nights are in the immediate offing - so people can open windows and let some of that hot air escape, though in my case it also turns out to be a matter of letting IN the mosquitoes! It seems one just can't win!
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Local Open Gardens event in our estate on Sunday: looks like the weather will just about hold, though some rain before, but not such a downpour as to ruin the roses, would actually be quite welcome, and would freshen things up a bit.Comment
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Today is the final day of the continental tropical air mass experience for Britain: tonight and tomorrow thundery troughs move from SW to NE across the country, switching winds around to a moister, still warm southerly to south south-westerly blow. Some indications of the change to come were already popping up earlier this afternoon here, with the edge of an elevated convective cell which had produced thunder in the Crawley vicinity dropping enough large raindrops to spoil temporarily a neighbour's barbecue for friends and families. Similar but more extensive altocumulus castellanus is now gathering against a deep orange sunset, and it would not at all surprise me to be woken by thunder later tonight, despite a refreshing breeze currently cooling things off considerably. It's just getting going east of the Cherbourg Peninsula.Comment
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Overcast and much cooler (19°C) in he Dales today, with a few spots of rain. Lovely day though to celebrate reaching the age of majority...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
... I now have my own North Yorkshire County Council bus pass - yay!Comment
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'Rain'? In the DALES? Blimey! I live on the western edge of same and 'rain' is a four letter word I have been yearning to see and feel since earliest MAY!Comment
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Lightning strikes have just reached Newhaven, on the South coast. Northward-moving storm, so could be here in an hour or so (unless it disperses, of course).Comment
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There was a light shower here round about dawn, but otherwise the likelihood of rain later seems to be getting less with each forecast update. The temperature is also rising noticeably, and already verging on uncomfortable in terms of the garden activities I was hoping to do today, frustrating as they have been repeatedly delayed already.Comment
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Yes, it has turned out incredibly humid today, making it feel hotter than yesterday, although that is not in fact the case. Today being my laundry day of the week, I hurriedly got the washing on the line before the present cloud encroachment - even on hot days, things take longer to dry in humid air. I then did my daily exercise in the form of a quick mile's walk around the block, then dead-headed as many of the roses I was able to manage before my salad lunch and the 1pm news. Whether or not (no pun intended there, btw) last evening's spectacular Sussex storm reached here still electrified - which I doubt, given that usually the slightest rumble triggers me into wakefulness - there was some rain here overnight. This morning it looked like a repeat of last night's weather pattern would play out; at the moment the altostratus cloud sheet from the line of thunderstorms to the south has drawn its blanket across the entire sky; but so far, the intense cell at its northernmost extent has refused to move beyond Dieppe, apart from a single strike in the Bournemouth area, probably from a separate cell, and several running N_S down the middle of N Wales, as happened yesterday. So we are still in a will it?-won't it? situation.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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Started absolutely bucketing it down about fifteen minutes ago, but it's just eased up somewhat now. Thunder too.Comment
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Yesterday was pleasant, not too hot due to intermittent cloud and a light breeze. Today is not; it's much hotter(peaked at 28 in the woodstore, possibly slightly less than that in the open exposed to the very light breeze) not just feeling hotter due to the increased humidity. Rain forecast has retreated even more. I would like to think that something useful might turn up over night, but I'm not counting on it and with more high temperatures on the cards tomorrow I shall have the hose out again for my new fruit trees, and the tomato bed which hasn't been watered since planting up several weeks ago. Today was the peas and beans, which again haven't been watered since planting at the same time as the tomatoes; with pods swelling to harvest stage they need the moisture and if nature won't oblige then I must.Comment
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There's still a slight chance today of you getting an offshoot from that chain of thunderstorms currently linking the Wash to N Wales by way of Birmingham, or from the at-present stationary line of heavy storms running N-S just west of Paris. We are in an odd position here in London under the northward extension of the cloud sheet from the latter system, which is producing steady not particularly heavy rain at the moment while at the same time suppressing surface convection.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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REAL RAIN.......................since May 11th!Comment
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And on this side o't' Pennines too!Originally posted by DracoM View Post
REAL RAIN.......................since May 11th!
No thunder so far though.Comment
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It has rained! Started about 9pm last night and continued until about 11pm. Steady, straight down, not too heavy - ie the most effective sort of rain. Pity that today is going to be wall to wall sun, moderate breeze and hot, so the plants won't have much time to enjoy the benefits before it's all sucked up again. I shall make the most of the softer ground to get the last of the seed raised veg planted out, and raid the compost bins for material to use as a mulch. The last proper grass cutting(last week was just topping the seeding grass stalks and cutting back troublesome weeds before they flowered) has dried out in the spare bin with the heat instead of decomposing so is easy to handle and isn't going to break down anytime soon if it stays in the bin so that will be coming out to be spread!Comment
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Really kicking off hereabouts right now, with two pockets of intense lightning frequency: one in the Rickmansworth area moving slowly north; another, larger, covering most of the High Weald of Kent, but a highly complex situation in which convection can initiate unexpectedly at any point. Steady heavy rain at the moment. Clearly we are at the "triple point" - winds to the north of London coming from the ENE, to the west from the north, and here from the SE. This appears to be a classic MSC - a self-sustaining revolving system plonked right over where the centre of the low which came up from Biscay last night is positioned. Poor visibility under a murky greyish-brown sky.
Well worth having had the beauty sleep disturbed to witness this!Comment
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