Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Mirabile narratu!!
A sprinkle, yes, a veritable sprinkle.................faded, but yes, I stood in it with some joy! As did my plants!

I was astonished to see dozens of people in shorts and t-shirts adorning the green swards at Glasgow University in a live lunchtime BBC news report earlier. They must be having some micro-meteorological sort of heatwave up there at the moment!

[Pulcinella]

Hurrah here too: some very welcome rain.
Fairly gentle, so with luck it will soak in rather than run off.

[LMcD]

Hurrah here too: some very welcome rain.
Fairly gentle, so with luck it will soak in rather than run off.

We've had 1.2 mm of rain so far this month, so if you have any to spare or can persuade some to head more or less SSE .......

[oddoneout]

We've had 1.2 mm of rain so far this month, so if you have any to spare or can persuade some to head more or less SSE .......

Request seconded. I had to get the hosepipe out yesterday as there was too much watering of pots(mostly plants waiting to be put in the ground when it's not so dry...) to face with cans up and down the garden, but ran into problems with the temperature being so low that it wouldn't unwind off the reel properly. Then I found that it had cracked, but again, because it was so cold trying to put a connector on to fix the two bits together was an almighty struggle as the pipe wasn't flexible enough. Just as I was thinking that a kettle of hot water was going to be needed I succeeded, and then began the slow process of getting the water through the kinks in the pipe to get to the plants. The strange thing is that the past couple of nights have been frost free but despite that it has felt colder first thing because the sun has not got through and the breeze remains very chilly.

[cloughie]

Just heard strange sounds on the roof and windows -it was water falling from the sky!

[LMcD]

Request seconded. I had to get the hosepipe out yesterday as there was too much watering of pots(mostly plants waiting to be put in the ground when it's not so dry...) to face with cans up and down the garden, but ran into problems with the temperature being so low that it wouldn't unwind off the reel properly. Then I found that it had cracked, but again, because it was so cold trying to put a connector on to fix the two bits together was an almighty struggle as the pipe wasn't flexible enough. Just as I was thinking that a kettle of hot water was going to be needed I succeeded, and then began the slow process of getting the water through the kinks in the pipe to get to the plants. The strange thing is that the past couple of nights have been frost free but despite that it has felt colder first thing because the sun has not got through and the breeze remains very chilly.

8 or 9 trips round the garden with a pretty full watering can every other day, added to other gardening activities, allows me to claim, with some justification I think, that I'm getting enough exercise. Petroc has just informed us that East Anglia will once again enjoy the best of the sunshine - ggrrrh!

[BBMmk2]

A cloudy but still cold day, this morning. I wonder when we will have warmer weather?

[oddoneout]

8 or 9 trips round the garden with a pretty full watering can every other day, added to other gardening activities, allows me to claim, with some justification I think, that I'm getting enough exercise. Petroc has just informed us that East Anglia will once again enjoy the best of the sunshine - ggrrrh!

Yes, I muttered at that gem. But even with that "best" it is going to be cold today thanks to a strong NE wind - which of course will take yet more moisture away. The weather forecast as always takes the view that rain bad, sun good, regardless.

[Joseph K]

Well, a healthy dose of rain (which fortunately had stopped some time before going for my walk) seems to have ushered a more lush, spring-like atmosphere in the air.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just a few spits and spots from an incontinent thin altostratus layer which made a blob of the midday sun, now totally obscured by saturation level stratus clag. Temperature max 12 C - 2.5 C below mean, moderate nor'easterly. Bank Holiday Monday now doesn't look promising, but for a pessimist any permitted sense of euphoria comes when they turn out to be wrong.

[DracoM]

And WOW! Is it cold or what?

[oddoneout]

And WOW! Is it cold or what?

Tell me about it! Going to be Michelin outfit at work tomorrow as it's still outside work only, and much of that waiting around for visitor action.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tell me about it! Going to be Michelin outfit at work tomorrow as it's still outside work only, and much of that waiting around for visitor action.

Make sure to get some film crews in for that!

[BBMmk2]

A lovely day, at the moment, so I hope so, because, after yesterday’s deluge, we need some respite!

[LMcD]

A lovely day, at the moment, so I hope so, because, after yesterday’s deluge, we need some respite!

What's a deluge?
Lovely and sunny, and dry, here - again.