Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

I’ll try and blow some rain to Staffs! It’s certainly coming down here. Tomorrow too, I here.

[BBMmk2]

Been a rather chaotic day, today, so only now just coming on here!

Not too bad, weather wise, down hereabouts. Cloudy and sunny, but a bit nippy.

[Serial_Apologist]

Been a rather chaotic day, today, so only now just coming on here!

Not too bad, weather wise, down hereabouts. Cloudy and sunny, but a bit nippy.

Too good to be true, from my point of view. I was motivated to take an extra long loop on my afternoon walk, returning only just now for a nice cuppa tea, half an hour later than my usual. Any showers would appear to have been suppressed by the back hang cloud shield from the cold front running down the North Sea into eastern France and Germany, marking the western boundary to the intense heatwave underway there.

[oddoneout]

There was some proper rain here last night for a while and unlike previous occasions over the past couple of months it hasn't all disappeared in a matter of hours as today has been cooler, overcast and with little breeze. A welcome breathing space for plants but perhaps not so much for humans as the pollen count is very high again.

[Serial_Apologist]

There was some proper rain here last night for a while and unlike previous occasions over the past couple of months it hasn't all disappeared in a matter of hours as today has been cooler, overcast and with little breeze. A welcome breathing space for plants but perhaps not so much for humans as the pollen count is very high again.

It was here too - at one point on my stroll I was coughing and sneezing so much I wondered if I'd caught the Covid! A medic was on the telly this morning saying that he reckoned that 90% of the population must have had the virus. If that is so then I am one of the few to have escaped!

Huge cumulus towers shot up in the early part of this evening, leading to heavy showers clearly visible from here by the disappearance of features only a few miles away under curtains of heavy rain, though we escaped it all in this location. Tomorrow I doubt if we will be so lucky.

[BBMmk2]

Too good to be true, from my point of view. I was motivated to take an extra long loop on my afternoon walk, returning only just now for a nice cuppa tea, half an hour later than my usual. Any showers would appear to have been suppressed by the back hang cloud shield from the cold front running down the North Sea into eastern France and Germany, marking the western boundary to the intense heatwave underway there.

Sounds good! Going to be a good day today, I think!

[Old Grumpy]

The odd distant thunderclap oop 'ere. Dark clouds and rain forecast most of the day.

[Serial_Apologist]

The odd distant thunderclap oop 'ere. Dark clouds and rain forecast most of the day.

Yes, I see that storms are breaking out around Hull, Carlyle and off the coast near Blackpool. It's looking very black across NW London, although my usual non-BBC forecast source suggests a dry afternoon. I think that's unlikely.

[DracoM]

Rumblings, and regular sweeps of fierce rain, 13C

[oddoneout]

Half a dozen spots of rain that barely made it to the ground at midday, a succession of dark cloud patches that sail across to no effect. I've just put a small load of washing out, having already got one lot dried at the beginning of the morning; I don't expect to have to bring it in before it too is dry as the chances of any of the blue patches on the map a)coming across and b) doing anything useful are remote to zero I reckon. Having said that I would dearly love the prediction of heavy rain at 3 pm to come to fruition...

[BBMmk2]

Good day today!

[Old Grumpy]

Rain this a.m. with dense mist (?low cloud) on top of the escarpment at Sutton Bank. Clear down in the Vale of Mowbray with clearing skies and (now) some sunshine. Walk at Sneck Yate may be back on - if it's cleared up there too!

Turned out to be a great afternoon, sunny intervals with a cooling breeze from WSW. A few minor spots of rain but not a problem.

[oddoneout]

Strange stuff, weather. In recent days there have been skies black as sin with cloud seeming to press on the treetops - but ne'er a drop of rain. Yet just now the thinnest gauze of pale cloud is yielding some very convincing wet stuff, although I fear it will soon be over.

[Serial_Apologist]

Strange stuff, weather. In recent days there have been skies black as sin with cloud seeming to press on the treetops - but ne'er a drop of rain. Yet just now the thinnest gauze of pale cloud is yielding some very convincing wet stuff, although I fear it will soon be over.

It was a bit like that here last evening, when the cold front crossing London produced dramatic heavy cloud, but only a brief slight sprinkling of rain.

Currently 20C with a light westerly wind and fairly vigorous cumulus growth covering around 2/3 of the sky. Unless we get a shower today, that could well have been the last rain in the SE for at least a week, possibly more, as high pressure influence nudges in from the west. Should prove ideal for a few long cycle trips, however!

Here's a lovely illustration of crepuscular rays at sunrise taken from Twickenham this morning, set off against cumulus humilis and possibly cirrus near to the horizon and a pearly strip of altocumulus across the top of the photo, sent in by one of the BBC's weatherwatchers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers/report/6cef77b9-c098-4b28-ac05-b42b80a38952/

[BBMmk2]

Be rather a good temperature today. A bit of cloud too.