Stormy Weather II

[Pulcinella]

Like April here: sunshine and showers, at the same time, so we have a lovely big rainbow.

[DracoM]

Lashing it down here.

[BBMmk2]

Same here! What a difference a day makes!

[DracoM]

Fells scarcely visible, gloops of rain, ever-present breeze to make sure you get soaked.
.........and now, fair lashing it down and wind risen.

[BBMmk2]

SA, I thought we were going to get rain today?

[oddoneout]

A bright and breezy day, such a relief after yesterday, which was damp and cold from the off and slowly got wetter and windier as the day went on. I was on playground duty at work, shelter was limited, tedium was plentiful, punctuated by mad bursts of activity to do the hourly cleaning and sanitising. The idea of doing the Wednesday volunteer gardening in the wet as well didn't appeal. Tomorrow doesn't look appealing, certainly in the morning, here's hoping the promised improvement in the afternoon happens. At least I don't have to do playground duty again until Saturday(which isn't looking promising), so a decent break until I get cold and soaked again!

[DracoM]

Fierce short showers close to hail, and on the horizon a huge mass of nastiness.

[Serial_Apologist]

A clap of thunder, just at the moment I was getting ready for my regular afternoon stroll, put paid to it. Wind and heavy rain followed seconds after, leaves smacking against windows, and then a second thunder clap, probably cloud-to-cloud, like the first: though the lightning was very vivid, it was a couple of miles away. What had initially appeared from the dimensions of the cloud mass to be a large weather system - part of a north-south chain of showers moving east right across the country - turned out to be over in ten minutes. Nevertheless it brought hailstones the size of large marbles in parts of the West Country. The temperature here fell from 13 C to 8 C in as many minutes. Now it's dry (I think), but dark, of course! I might now just take a short walk, my daily doctors orders - and get a different perspective of the district illuminated by street lights from the more familiar ones.

I wouldn't count on tomorrow's warm frontal rain clearing E Anglia before late afternoon, oddoneout. Warm fronts tend to trail a lot of claggy low stratus with accompanying drizzle at this time of year. But they're "promising" temperatures up to 16 C in the warm sector on Friday, and even 18 C for Saturday, before the clearing cold front blows us back to square one.

[DracoM]

Well, it's 7C here at the mo, clearing a bit - moon / cloud / Mars etc, but staying dry enough for my night ramble?....hmm...not sure.

[BBMmk2]

I thought today was supposed to be wet? Still plenty of time, I think!

[BBMmk2]

Looks like the massive troubles yesterday seems to have been solved! Applause!

[DracoM]

Yes, up here, Thursday was one of the most appallingly torrential days, all driven by vicious westerlies.
Rain like great billows of smoke across field and fell for hour after hour.
AND
weekend looks more or less the same.

At the mo..............sun, bouncy cloud and that's it...........at the mo!!

[oddoneout]

Very mild here today and dry(well not precipitating anyway). Am hoping, in vain I suspect, that the band of rain forecast for tomorrow doesn't move faster than expected, as the thought of having to spend all day rather than just part of it getting rained on at work does not appeal. The higher temperatures will be offset by the high winds, and if there is rain in the mix as well...

[BBMmk2]

This weekend is going to be quite stormy. Begun now, by the looks of it! Storm Aidan, here we come. Named by the Irish Met Office.

[DracoM]

Wet, wild and mld.