Stormy Weather II

[Joseph K]

After a sunny morning, from around midday it's been cloudy with a nice breeze. Still, it's warm enough to make me feel a bit right now.

[Serial_Apologist]

After a sunny morning, from around midday it's been cloudy with a nice breeze. Still, it's warm enough to make me feel a bit right now.

Much the same here - but the cloud hasn't stopped the temperature topping out at a hot 28 C in the past hour, despite a breeze having got up.

There seems to be high certainty that we will be in for some thunderstorms of the high base (elevated) kind, from Wednesday afternoon on into the night, and possibly continuing into Thursday. They will be coming up from France - some question as to which parts of the country will be affected, but at the moment it appears most likely to be central S England, the south east, London and East Anglia.

[oddoneout]

Rather a difficult day. Quite a lot of cloud which made for pleasant temperatures but then suddenly shooting up to very hot when the sun appeared. There was a fair bit of stop/start at work as folks doing some of the outside chores tried to find shade when the sun was out and resumed tasks when the cloud came back. Volunteer gardening tomorrow morning should be OK if as forecast - fair amount of cloud knocking the highs back.
Would be good to have some rain, the astonishing surge of growth the past two weeks is beginning to struggle with continued high temperatures and the breeze, which have taken a lot of moisture out of the upper levels of the soil.

[DracoM]

Early sun..................now? Gloom, which then gave way to sort of dusky sun / cloud

[BBMmk2]

Another hotty today!

[Serial_Apologist]

Yellow warnings now out for the thunderstorms now likely to break out from tomorrow through to Saturday. Most unusual for a such a weather situation to persist for so long without the Atlantic jet breaking through and quickly pushing the unstable heat source east, I would have thought - I've not seen it in more than 60 years of amateur observing.

[Joseph K]

Very nice - 20 degrees, sun, a breeze...

[oddoneout]

Going to be excessively hot according to the forecast. Coupled with the pollen overload that rather dictates an indoor day for me after a couple of necessary errands first thing.

[BBMmk2]

Very nice - 20 degrees, sun, a breeze...

Been far too hot for me. Today 25C, still too hot for me.

[LMcD]

Been far too hot for me. Today 25C, still too hot for me.

While I think it would be dangerous for any individual or organization to gain control over the weather, it would be nice if the maximum temperature could be capped at 25C!

[gradus]

Nice morning not too hot and ideal for planting out the O&S that I haven't got round to yet.

[vinteuil]

nice morning not too hot and ideal for planting out the o&s that i haven't got round to yet.

...o&s???

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[oddoneout]

...o&s???

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Odds and Sods?
A term used by the grown-ups which I was scolded for using, but not told why. A puzzle for some time to a child who was familiar with the term peat sods and turf sod, and I still think it says more about the minds of the grown-ups than whether it was an inappropriate term for me to use.

[vinteuil]

Odds and Sods?

... ah! - I wondered whether O&S was an abbreviation used by gardeners for 'onions and shallots', or possibly 'oregano and sage', 'okra and scorzonera'...


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[Joseph K]

Flawless blue sky. Nice breeze.