Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

16C outside and feeling pleasantly warm in the sun. Still feeling chilly indoors, however, where the winter jumper is necessary. Occasionally breezy.

Similar problem here the last couple of evenings. I would have liked to put the woodstove but only have a few logs left until I can get a refill. The actual temperature inside wasn't as low as it felt, and the thermostat would have had to be turned up a long way to get the CH on, so I added thick socks, (yet)another top layer and repaired to the sofa with a thick wool blanket. Today it's really warm outside and with any luck the sun and warm air will have an effect on inside temperature at last. In the meantime it's excellent weather for getting through the pile of washing that has built up.

[BBMmk2]

A lovely day today.

[Serial_Apologist]

A lovely day today.

Not quite as warm as yesterday - cool easterly off the N Sea. But good enough for an afternoon of languishing on the west lawn (he wrote, suggesting some palatial estate, which this is not!).

[Old Grumpy]

Not quite as warm as yesterday - cool easterly off the N Sea. But good enough for an afternoon of languishing on the west lawn (he wrote, suggesting some palatial estate, which this is not!).

Maybe not in The Big Smoke, S_A, but record breaking temperatures of 20C oop 'ere in't North

[Serial_Apologist]

Maybe not in The Big Smoke, S_A, but record breaking temperatures of 20C oop 'ere in't North

You deserve it, OG, after the winter you've endured. Yesterday I did a 20-mile round trip on the bike. Today I intended taking it easy, giving the old legs a break, but first thing was so beautiful I took a long route home from getting my vapes at the local Sainsbury's. 9.30 is "first thing" here in S London on a Saturday! I'd almost forgotten how enjoyable it is to get out into nature early in the morning of a sunny spring day, when trees and hedgerows are just coming into leaf, and hardly anybody is out and about. I added another 5 miles to yesterday's total.

[oddoneout]

Plenty of sun yesterday, but the air was chill so not as warm as it might have been. I wasn't too fussed as I was busy in the garden. Today is set to be more overcast and more air movement so will be cooler, although should be pleasantly warm by afternoon they reckon.
Rain overnight would be welcome to wash out the dust and freshen up the garden - the top couple of inches of soil are getting very dry, and waterbutts are nearly or completely empty.

[BBMmk2]

Another lovely day, down here, in West Sussex!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Another lovely day here.

If only Ms Stoatfoe and I weren't suffering with colds - no positive test for Covid though, which is good.

[DracoM]

Best day for weeks.
Washing to Dry weather - top quality

[Joseph K]

Yes perfect weather - 18 and sunny with a nice breeze, much like the last couple of days.

[Serial_Apologist]

Shame about today's thin sheet of cirrocumulus weakening the sun's effectiveness, or I would have been out on the lawn again this afternoon - the temperature is in fact a degree higher than yesterday. Tomorrow the wind goes around to a sou 'westerly with a drop to temperatures still a few degrees about the 13C normal for mid-April, before the easterly/nor'easterly resumes on Tuesday and is expected to last the entire week, with high pressure to the north and low over France, so making it unlikely that oddoneout's need for some precipitation will be met.

[Old Grumpy]

Shame about today's thin sheet of cirrocumulus weakening the sun's effectiveness, or I would have been out on the lawn again this afternoon - the temperature is in fact a degree higher than yesterday. Tomorrow the wind goes around to a sou 'westerly with a drop to temperatures still a few degrees about the 13C normal for mid-April, before the easterly/nor'easterly resumes on Tuesday and is expected to last the entire week, with high pressure to the north and low over France, so making it unlikely that oddoneout's need for some precipitation will be met.

Love the last two lines,S_A...


First thing that came to mind when I read it was someone from the cast of Last of the Summer Wine [or similar] saying "we've a need for some precipitation" in a thick Yorkshire accent.

[Serial_Apologist]

Love the last two lines,S_A...


First thing that came to mind when I read it was someone from the cast of Last of the Summer Wine [or similar] saying "we've a need for some precipitation" in a thick Yorkshire accent.

Now when I were a lad..............

[teamsaint]

Shame about today's thin sheet of cirrocumulus weakening the sun's effectiveness, or I would have been out on the lawn again this afternoon - the temperature is in fact a degree higher than yesterday. Tomorrow the wind goes around to a sou 'westerly with a drop to temperatures still a few degrees about the 13C normal for mid-April, before the easterly/nor'easterly resumes on Tuesday and is expected to last the entire week, with high pressure to the north and low over France, so making it unlikely that oddoneout's need for some precipitation will be met.

So it is France’s fault that the weather will get cooler this week ?

[oddoneout]

Overcast and cool seems to be the order of the day, although the mandatory wet Bank Holiday doesn't seem to be likely here. I had already rather thought watering duties will be the order of the day for this week before I read SA's post, so now will have to get the hose rigged up to fill the waterbutts at the bottom of the garden which are not going to get any free top-ups soon enough to help. My new neighbours have already cable-tied a hose to the other side of my chain link boundary fence. They put up a greenhouse a few weeks ago and have since added two collection barrels for the roof runoff, but apart from one brief violent episode it hasn't rained since, so after a lot of trips up and down with watering cans they now understand why I have lengths of hose rigged up on my side of the fence!