At least today I can go on my motorbility scooter for my apppointment at my local hospital for my zometa infusion treatment. Tomorrow we are going out to lunch with friends, the weather doesn’t look too great for that!
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Afraid not Bbm - the thundery stuff looks likely to organise itself more widespreadly as warmer more humid air spreads up from the south - from where amazing footage emerges of a hail thunderstorm over Paris yesterday: icefloes coursing (sp?) through the narrow streets, up to car axles, people wading down corridors to the Metro.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
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... yes indeedy -Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostAfraid not Bbm - the thundery stuff looks likely to organise itself more widespreadly as warmer more humid air spreads up from the south - from where amazing footage emerges of a hail thunderstorm over Paris yesterday: icefloes coursing (sp?) through the narrow streets, up to car axles, people wading down corridors to the Metro.
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I was in central London today. Warm but a bit of a cooling breeze. However, although it seemed fairly quiet traffic wise, the air quality seemed noticably poor.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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My goodness SA!
Not very nice today. Especially as we are going out for lunch!Don’t cry for me
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Bit of a foretaste of what's predicted for the weekend when I was awoken at about 3 o'clock by loud thunder, which continued for about 20 minutes and was accompanied by very heavy rain - more than half an inch in an hour. The M25 between Westerham and Redhill was reported as part-flooded this morning. Apparently the storm only affected N. Surrey and London westwards, Bbm's area just missing, with no rain from it at all!
Luckily the rain cooled off the air considerably, because it's almost saturated here, with much of what weather people nickname "clag", low stratus or high fog if you prefer, above which the just about visible middle layers still look unstable and bubbling up, so I expect we'll have a repeat performance sometime this afternoon or tonight.Comment
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It was a very heavy thunderstorm here along the lines of Redhill-Westerham.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Dry, warm, windy [NE] and almost cloudless here.Comment
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It's creeping up your way, so make the most of it Draco!Originally posted by DracoM View Post
(Actually it doesn't for now look as though Scotland, the north and northwest are going to be as badly affected by this thundery spell as the south, southwest and Wales in particular. I have to say the outlook suggests this is going to be an unusually prolonged spell of semitropical-type weather for this country; normally, once the overheated atmosphere has discharged in thunderstorms, colder Atlantic air gets sucked into the vacuum caused at low levels by convection. The shallow lows causing the stormy conditions in the first place then wind themselves up in a deepening process which tends to whisk them away in a north-easterly direction, where they join up with the general jetstream-driven circulation, and in turn the westerlies that have been left waiting out in the Atlantic "in the wings" sweep in, bringing back the cool airstreams that normally define our "temperate" climate. The reasons this isn't happening this time, or is, but more gradually, reflect the fact that the jetstream has become weakened. Debate is open among the professionals as to what extent this may be a symptom (rather than cause) of global warming. Either way it accounts for the greater predominance of easterly winds and northerly high pressure blocks over the past few years, and this in turn makes for greater sporadicity in terms of very dry and very wet periods, and which areas are affected. It's all most fascinating!)Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 24-05-18, 13:13.Comment
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It's cracking the flags here on the West Lancashire coast.Comment
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<< It's creeping up your way, so make the most of it Draco! >>
Well, sorry for you all darn sarf, but it's still cloudless up here and even warmer.Comment
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Just You Wait...Originally posted by DracoM View Post
I'm just now looking at the Blitzordnung Live Lightning Maps, and at a sight of continuous lightning flashings all lined up on the French and Belgian side of the Channel like the German army at Dunkirk, waiting to invade!!!Comment
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Quite a washout here yesterday! I think for the next few days as well! heatwave coming on? who said that? They were lying!Don’t cry for me
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It's quite overcast here but having been on to RNIB to discuss my retinoschisis - and they were wonderful - I realised that I was repeating myself in conversations on a point that was not the main one in my head. It was on light bulbs and sunshine. The flashing persistently occurs only in artificial light. Consequently, I spent just under a hundred pounds yesterday at the local hardware shop on the last old light bulbs they had in stock. I had gone over to the new ones very late last year. I'm not saying the bulbs are the root cause because they are not or that the problems have miraculously gone away. But there does appear to be a significant difference. It could be mind over matter but I'm not so sure. Shame they are unlawful.Comment
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