Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Rather a windy and nippy day, today.

[oddoneout]

I know! For two reasons I can't make up my mind as to whether or not to cycle up to Burgess Park for today's and tomorrow's Radiate Windrush Festival: lets of dreadlocks music, Caribbean food stalls, and wafty substances too I expect!! They're charging £15 quid entry, with family increments, and only free for under fives and over seventies! My mate (60) has just rung to say he can't afford it! And in any case it might well rain. Funnily enough they're charging fifty quid entry for a similar type event in posh nearby Dulwich Park - must be in order to keep the hoi polloi out!

This trend is an increasing source of friction I have read. The wish to make money ( purportedly for provision of local services) ends up excluding, physically and financially, those who want and need to use those spaces as they lack outside space of their own and other opportunities to socialise. The noise and disruption of events for those living adjacent adds to the resentment.

Weather here continues dry, sometimes warm, and with rather too much wind movement (mid 20smph gusting to 30 yesterday, slightly less possibly today) which can make things chilly and further extracts already seriously lacking water resources from plants.

[DracoM]

Windy and.....erm.....NOT warm.
Yesterday evening - to my amazement - after the sweep of monsoon-like thunderstorms, and despite summer settings, my central heating came on!

[DracoM]

............and THIS a.m.? As I post 10C, bucketing it down nasty.

[BBMmk2]

A good day today. Manageable temperatures, I think. Going to Vampire Clinic today.

[Serial_Apologist]

A good day today. Manageable temperatures, I think. Going to Vampire Clinic today.

Hope you don't get blown away before having your blood sucked away, BBM!!! Certainly windy - some instability at different cloud levels as a couple of old occluded fronts get a bit of rejuvenation courtesy surface heating. I have to say I am enjoying these "reasonable" temperatures, re-evoking the mediocre summers of my yoof as they are; but the stiff accompanying breezes rule out long-distance cycle rides for the time being.

[Joseph K]

It rained most the morning here, though by the time I went for a walk the sun was mostly out, and steam was produced at times on the path.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thunderstorm now underway. I was alerted by a loud rumble, went out to take a look, and had to come rushing back as the heavy rain arrived as I reached the end of the street, only 100 metres away! I see no back edge yet, so this is pretty extensive, a frontal storm as opposed to pop-up shower, and I expect Wimbledon is now on hold.

Edit: Well that didn't amount to very much - just 10 minutes' heavy rain and a couple of flashes out Sutton/Merton way, unless it peps up again east of the capital. But never mind - it's always of interest to a weather fanatic when convection occurs, especially when it's capable of producing electrical discharges. It did drop the temperature from 21C to 15C in that many minutes, however. Time now to go out and look at the back of the, er, front!

[oddoneout]

Same old, same old, all bluster, posturing and false promises. And the weather's tiresome as well...
At around midday the sky got very black and there were a few drops of rain - and that's it. Looking at the map the cloud, which earlier was a nice chunky band moving across the area, suggesting the forecast of rain might actually happen, is now scraps with needless to say a hole where it passes north and south of here. The wind continues strong, cool and gusty (peak of 32 at 11 am), knocking pots over and battering leaves and flowers. Not much fun for the engineers up a cherry picker in the road doing knitting with the telecomms (the proliferation of overhead cables is astonishing - it is certainly reducing the perching capacity for birds having so many close together and flapping about) and not much good for putting out the heavy washing I've got as the risk of damage to the rotary drier is not worth it.

[BBMmk2]

Hope you don't get blown away before having your blood sucked away, BBM!!! Certainly windy - some instability at different cloud levels as a couple of old occluded fronts get a bit of rejuvenation courtesy surface heating. I have to say I am enjoying these "reasonable" temperatures, re-evoking the mediocre summers of my yoof as they are; but the stiff accompanying breezes rule out long-distance cycle rides for the time being.

All went ok, thanks. Not too bad a day, down here!

[Petrushka]

We've had several days here of some pretty strong winds with neighbour's potted plants blown over and tree debris everywhere. There were a couple of hefty showers yesterday morning but the rain has since stayed away despite some thick, dark cloud which looks low enough for the swaying trees to touch.

Longing for a settled, warm period and next week looks better, if the forecast is to be trusted. I've been keeping an eye on the 10 day forecasts and find them to be woefully inaccurate. I recall the fanfare when the forecasters claimed to be able to predict accurate 10 day forecasts but the reality is that they can't and they are mostly useless guesswork.

[Serial_Apologist]

We've had several days here of some pretty strong winds with neighbour's potted plants blown over and tree debris everywhere. There were a couple of hefty showers yesterday morning but the rain has since stayed away despite some thick, dark cloud which looks low enough for the swaying trees to touch.

Longing for a settled, warm period and next week looks better, if the forecast is to be trusted. I've been keeping an eye on the 10 day forecasts and find them to be woefully inaccurate. I recall the fanfare when the forecasters claimed to be able to predict accurate 10 day forecasts but the reality is that they can't and they are mostly useless guesswork.

Hopefully should be reasonable next week; once the current trough is out of the way come Sunday the Azores High is expected to move northwards to occupy the central north Atlantic for a while, throwing a ridge UKwards, which should suppress surface and any other type of convection or advective frontal rain. Expect half-cloudy skies of flattened out cumulus - hopefully with not too much in the way of stratocumulus infill, which can spoil following a promising-looking morning. Temperatures a bit above early July averages, so comfortably warm.

[oddoneout]

Perhaps those of you hoping for no rain, or regarding suppression of advective frontal rain a good thing, could arrange to send the unwanted goods in this direction.
Being the driest part of the country is meant to be relative not absolute, and meanwhile the strong winds continue to take away from the plants what they struggle to extract for their needs, and which in the case of my veg and fruit I can't adequately provide for them.

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps those of you hoping for no rain, or regarding suppression of advective frontal rain a good thing, could arrange to send the unwanted goods in this direction.
Being the driest part of the country is meant to be relative not absolute, and meanwhile the strong winds continue to take away from the plants what they struggle to extract for their needs, and which in the case of my veg and fruit I can't adequately provide for them.

The Eryngium I bought just now for a tenner at a local nursery would thrive in your climate!

[Petrushka]

Perhaps those of you hoping for no rain, or regarding suppression of advective frontal rain a good thing, could arrange to send the unwanted goods in this direction.
Being the driest part of the country is meant to be relative not absolute, and meanwhile the strong winds continue to take away from the plants what they struggle to extract for their needs, and which in the case of my veg and fruit I can't adequately provide for them.

I'll book a trip out to Ely, Cambridge or Norwich. That should guarantee a good rainfall!