Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

My goodness me, what a monster thunderstorm is presently kicking off on the Italian/French/Swiss borders, in association with a small deeping low that crossed from the direction of the Balearics this afternoon, picking up warmth and moisture from the Med! With all the Alpine snowfall associated with the Beast from the East a short while back, I won't be surprised if shortly we get to hear of flooding in the news.

[BBMmk2]

It rained all day yesterday!

[DracoM]

Boisterous east wind up here, and ominous heavy, blue-luminous cloud to the east as well.
Hmm - braced for action / reaction.

[Serial_Apologist]

Gorgeously sunny down here today, if still a tad on the cold side - but with little wind, just enough off the chill to allow for a very pleasant 13 mile ride without my quilted protection, taking the Ravensbourne riverside walk from Beckenham up to Deptford, then back home via New Cross, Peckham Rye and Dulwich Park. Plenty of friendly faces along the river walk - small family groups, one or two skunk smokers, obviously! Just managed to avoid getting flattened by a large lorry lumbering through the Sydenham industrial park on the wrong side of the road and onto the pavement, by narrowly jumping clear.

A foretaste of a lovely summer to come, to compensate for what has been a dreary year, weatherwise as well as everythingwise, up till now - hopefully! The weekend weather looks to be on the margin, with some quite warm south-easterlies for all areas, eventually - now that the Continental source is starting to warm up - but also the probability of some rainy spells. I'm wondering if thundery weather is on the way for next week, particularly in the south.

[alycidon]

Surprisingly, it has been a sunny day in the Highllands - but rather more than a ‘tad’ cold.

[Serial_Apologist]

Surprisingly, it has been a sunny day in the Highllands - but rather more than a ‘tad’ cold.

I bet - quite few picturesque shots, taken yesterday in Scotland for the UK Weatherworld site, showed substantial amounts of snow on the ground.

[greenilex]

Just back from Geneva, where we had spectacular thunderstorms.

[BBMmk2]

I do like a good thunderstorm!

A lovely spring day here yesterday. Went out on my mobility scooter to the hospital for bloods, and certainly felt like it!

[Keraulophone]

The 'Scillonian' is cancelled today due to 40 mph winds, so the cathedral choir is stranded in an island paradise once again. Excellent.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just back from Geneva, where we had spectacular thunderstorms.

Switzerland is a very good part of the world for spectacular thunderstorms, given that the Alps provide a barrier where south-eastward migrating cold fronts marking a dividing line between polar air to the north and subtropical air coming up from Africa meet head on, with nowhere to go but upwards. I shan't forget the golfball-sized hailstones that had people rushing indoors from a Zurich restaurant terrace where, moments earlier, they'd been happily and noisily enjoying a summer evening with friends and families; nor the April storm that came after daytime temperatures had reached 26 degrees Celsius was followed, the next morning, by 10 centimeters of snow on the ground. This was "all quite normal" in the Swiss climate, I was "reassured"!

[teamsaint]

una buona giornata di essiccazione

As they don't have to say, but google translate gives it as such.

Lovely and sunny, mild, breezy.

Much better.

[DracoM]

[BBMmk2]

Lovely day today!

[Serial_Apologist]

Third day in a row that temperatures have been way below those predicted by the meteorological professionals. They haven't apparently taken into account two factors: the first being that the winds (albeit light) are bringing in cold air and associated cloud from the North Sea, which, following last month's unusually late spell of Siberian air, remains 2-3 degrees C lower than is usual at this time of year; and, two, that the sun, strong enough by this stage to be expected to "burn off" low cloud such as this, is probably hidden above a sheet of middle height cloud associated with the rain front that had been plaguing the south for the past 3 days. Don't they ever go outside at the Met Office and look up? If they did so, they would bear witness to a dense and characteristically featureless blanket of stratus, lifted from last night's fog - one which is obviously not in any mood either to shift or break up. Tomorrow's forecast will probably be correct in predicting what we're having today; we're just going to have to wait and see if these winds will eventually do as they're told, swing around to the south and bring us the warmth so optimistically being prognosticated for next week by the prognosticators.

[DracoM]

Winds NOT light here at all, but strong enough to blow the unsteady over - seen it twice, and mums with buggies struggling a bit, and tiny kids being blown off their feet - literally.

What it is to live in the Great Wild Beyond outside the M25 fortress