Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

We have sun!

[oddoneout]

The stormy stuff that was set to be thrown at us here this morning seems to have either gone through during the night or just fizzled out. Quite a quantity of murky cloud is making things dull but as it is fairly high and also moving quickly I don't think it'll drop anything.Yesterday, with its rain off and on, sometimes heavy, was quite a novelty, as was coming home damp from my extra end of day stint at work.

[Serial_Apologist]

Heavy clouds with dark bases once more today, but with what appears to be an inversion cap now in place, preventing further cloud growth, I would expect it to remain fine. A good day for catching up on dead-heading. Lawn now looking very tatty, with alternating patches of accelerated grass growth, and others of dead grass with considerable weed proliferation. There's just too much of the latter to deal with now, so the best option has to be to wait for the weeds to grow to the point where they produce blooms and remove the latter before the next stage of fruit and seed production in the hope the plants are annuals, so as to allow the grass to recover, eventually. Spiking and scarifying should probably be done, but the gardener doesn't believe in it, or in applying weedkiller, and my back wouldn't be strong enough for the task.

[Joseph K]

Looks like the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is very much upon us.

[Petrushka]

Looks like the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is very much upon us.

Same here and had the same thought too.

Feels very cool indoors now and wondering how long I can stick it out before heating has to go on.

[oddoneout]

Very thick mist this morning but the sun broke through not long after 10 am and gave a lovely September day for the Heritage Open Day at work (cultural so deemed permissible by the council...). The sun is behind the houses now but there is enough warmth and breeze that I've decided to hang the washing out for a while - if nothing else it's a chance for creases to fall out.

[teamsaint]

Looks like the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is very much upon us.

Mellow fruitfulness is one of those rare things that almost nobody can be against……

Not much sign of the mists here in south central…..

[Serial_Apologist]

Mellow fruitfulness is one of those rare things that almost nobody can be against……

Not much sign of the mists here in south central…..

There was here - 11C was pretty high for the dewpoint, though it was even higher the other night following a thunderstorm: we could have had fog had the temperature fallen below 18C. Given that mist 'n' fog are commonly associated with winter it might surprise some that this phenomenon is very common indeed in Equatorial forest regions, as will have been noticed from nature programmes: it all comes down to the dewpoint - the point at which the falling wet and dry bulb readings converge - effectively the cloud base coming down to ground level.

[BBMmk2]

A sweltering 25C today!

[Serial_Apologist]

A sweltering 25C today!

It is indeed sweltering, owing to high humidity levels! I had intended making today my annual long cycle trip into the N Downs, but in the past hour the sky has developed a characteristic elevated thunder look. Tomorrow looks possibly to be wet; Weds I have my fourth (?) anti-Covid jab. It will be a lot cooler everywhere by Thursday, with a nor'westerly replacing the current continental tropical flow from the south.

[Joseph K]

Lots of rain here, had to use my umbrella on and off for the walk back from the supermarket.

[DracoM]

Here, filthy wet, damp, chilly, grey and foggy horizon to horizon.

OTOH, England bt SAF in Test!!

[Joseph K]

Sunny and pleasant. The temperature slowly but surely is cooling - however, my knuckles do not yet have eczema on them meaning it must be relatively warm still for this time of year...

[BBMmk2]

Rather a nip in the air, again today. Another north wind?

[Serial_Apologist]

Sunny and pleasant. The temperature slowly but surely is cooling - however, my knuckles do not yet have eczema on them meaning it must be relatively warm still for this time of year...

My own similar eczema has for the first time kept going right through the summer this year, unfortunately. To save precious Clobovate which I get on my free prescription I've semi-relied on Savlon Gel - which seems to have worked to some extent while the weather has been warm - but didn't last winter, so I will be back on the Clobovate now that temperatures are falling off. Dry skin seems associated with the eczema and cuts spontaneously opening up on the knuckles; but more with winter in my case, and the general advice seems to be to keep using a moisturiser.