still 30 degrees in the garden @ 8.30 not a drop of rain so far today even though we had a weather warning 🙁
If this type of summer becomes the norm, I'll need to emigrate.
Yes unrelenting rain for at least 2 minutes in Sheffield some thunder and now temperature is a balmy 24°c.
Lots of a thunder earlier this evening in Harrogate and it eventually started raining.
not a torrential downpour but a steady shower,
exactly what the allotment needs so hopefully it will carry on for a while
Meant to be raining in Rochdale now.
Isn’t.
Started gently raining in the Chilterns about 4:30pm. In my mind's eye I can see all those evil nettles rising again...
I'm building an Ark.
(We are in the middle of the storm described by Klunk)
Had a couple of heavy showers more on the way now love a thunderstorm.
Hung the washing out and wondering how long I should leave it.
Weather became very Welsh here today in Cardiff. ‘Cold’ cloudy and drizzly, it’s lovely!
When I say cold, it’s still 20c ha ha.
All the big storms seemed to have gone east, still like a sauna here in the East Midlands.
The Downs are soaking, low cloud mist and rain.
Its just like last year 🤪🤪🤪
Temps dropped 10C, it’s looking like 35knt winds and blustery showers all weekend..
Just like this time last year then 🤪🤣🤣🤣
I live in rural Kent. I saw the gathering clouds as I got off the train, so I sprinted (read *ambled at an accelerated pace*) home from the station having changed into my biking gear on the train and went out in the stifling heat hoping for some rain on my face. Blimey...thunder, lightning and warm rain like I've never known it. I rode about fifteen miles in this and the air still felt cloying and thick.
I've some major bike cleaning issues to sort tomorrow.
Just been treated to a very nice thunderstorm in Renfrewshire.
As you can tell by my post time, an absolute cracker has just gone through and set off a couple of car alarms.. it’s mighty windy and pissing it down..
With all the windows in the house open, it’s been rattling my blinds, and it sounds like some kinda apocalypse has started.
Sarf Carst...
Wet n windy 🤙🧟♂️💨💦💦💦🌬
Best UK storm I've seen in years last night. Seemed like a band of lots of storms moving North rather than just one storm, lightning all over the shop.
Had to decamp from bed to the conservatory sofa for optimum viewing 🙂
Rained heavily for a few minutes on and off all night, so exciting,
and it’s currently raining and scheduled to rain all day..
the horse is gonna have her first proper shower in 8 or 9 weeks ;0)
west yorks..
It rained in Surrey last night and already the grass is turning green.
Clever stuff.
Indeed, there is a downside to the rain isn’t there..
Were in St David's, just started our holiday. Lashing wind and rain most of last night it seemed. Alright now though.
30 seconds of rain just now in Stourbridge
My fault. Finally got round to planning a BBQ for tonight. First clouds and rain here for decades or so my lawn mowing for a living mate reckons.
Rained last night, but there was thunder and a torrential downpour here around 10-10.30 this morning. Clouding over again now, and tomorrow looks like a pretty dank day. Good, everything is struggling, despite trying to keep the garden watered; my lovely Acer is showing heat stress, some leaves and branches are shrivelled and dying. ☹️
no rain for over 50 days here, rain had fallen a few miles away but missed here until last night, washed all the crap away from the roads and pavements. flat is well insulated and shaded but it was 31º indoors in the afternoon/evening on the hottest day, its now a very comfortable 24º
im off to singapore tomorrow so back to the 30’s but wit 80-90% humidity.
Had about 12 hours of intermittent heavy rain here, the Beck hasn't risen at all. We're on a private water supply and it's been a nervous few weeks waiting for the tank to stop filling. Friends with holiday lets on their farm booked up with 25 guests til septSepte were running out last week and tankering in water.
A bit of a thunderstorm heading past at the moment. Rain heavy enough to kill off the sat TV signal.
As with @thestabiliser we are on a private supply so have been taking extra care this last month to six weeks. The overflow has still been running so we've been OK. This rain won't make much of a difference as the vegetation will soak up pretty much all of it. Would take another couple of weeks of this for rain to get into the tank.
Dramatic weather this afternoon but the showers only last a few minutes. Nearby reservoirs are almost dry.
Yesterday I was passing the time of day with my boss who is a big swinging dick Alpha male type who drives a huge eff-off Mercedes, has a Mercedes sports car, lives in a mahoosive house in Cheshire, has a yacht and a speedboat, a chalet in north Wales, two ride-on lawnmowers, plays golf and yo-ho-hos a lot. I mentioned that my lawn was brown and he laughed and showed me a photo of his huge lawn, which is a lovely lush green colour. "Soon as I get home every day I put the sprinklers on - ha ha!"
So it's dickheads like him who are causing the shortage.
So it’s dickheads like him who are causing the shortage.
Look up the number of leaks and wastage rates from your local water company. PLenty of water to go round and then some if they managed their networks properly.
It was a brilliant storm last night on the Lincolnshire coast - constant thunder and lightning and very strong wind. We lost the satellite tv signal and the power went off twice, and we had to drag a fallen branch from a neighbouring tree off the lane. So much cooler today, it's rather nice.
Forecasted rain last night started at 9pm. And stopped at 9:07pm. Still a few downpours overnight and then an absolute biblical thunderstorm as we were riding back towards the pub. Not been that cold and wet for a few months! Sun’s back out now but tomorrow looks grim/great depending if you’ve already been out riding 🙂
We’ve had bog all in Herefordshire fo six weeks or more. Trails were like concrete. Crops looks thirsty and grass looked dead. So hoping by Weds we’ll be back to lovely loamy soil….
Look up the number of leaks and wastage rates from your local water company. PLenty of water to go round and then some if they managed their networks properly.
When the water companies stop losing billions of litres every year through shonky pipes and lack of infrastructure investment, then I’ll start feeling guilty about keeping my plants and the local, vulnerable wildlife alive.
Oh, and there’s been several really heavy downpours today, and hopefully tomorrow.
Fairly lazy trope that, every litre you use is litre lost to the middle of the river systems from which your water is sourced PLUS leakage. Also the water companies bought networks that had effort all spent on them since the Victorian era, one of the pushes in to private ownership was the inability of government to fund renewals whereas they could set investment targets for the water cos as part of the licence to operate. They're far from perfect but have replaced more pipework in the last 20 years than public ownership managed in a hundred. But you carry on.
Horsing it down on Arran, blowing a hoolie now too, last ferry cancelled. Managed to get goatfell done before the rains came though.
Tomorrow is looking a very good day for ducks between Southampton and Butser Hill, hoped to go out this afternoon, but my sensible head said gusts of up to ~46mph were a bad idea.
Caught the end of the 7s rugby tonight where there was quite some storm, then realised said staduim was down the road.
It’s raining pretty hard and very windy on the Solent, rained most of the night and looks set in for most of the day. Another day of 35knts but the rain will put a damp squib on the day.
Yesterday at the club it was 35-40knts westerly and we had over 100 windsurfers out blasting around Chichester Harbour.. young and old, new kit/old kit, wave and race kit.. the sun was out and it’s quite unusual to windsurf in boardshorts in the uk...
Nice..
Well the Beer and Cricket festival has been fine for the last three days, but today will probably be wasted. Rather like the Amsterdam team were last night ( and to be fair like they were the preceding three nights). As their match is first today I'm sure they'll appreciate the lie in.
I’ve a completely free day for first time in a month , so of course it’s tipping it down 🙂
The novelty has worn off now.
Can we have the killer death heatwave back please?
Cloud base is just starting to lift down way down in west Cornwall. Sunshine and showers later and then dry for the rest of the week
Drizzle with torrential showers in the Thames Valley at the moment.
Probably too late to save the lawn. Just hoping it doesn't cause the grapes to all split on the vine, a mix of forgetting to prune it last winter and the sunshine mean its gone absolutely crazy and taken over the garden!
4 bad accidents on the M27 between J9 and 13 this morning.
One SUV had crossed the left lane barriers on the hard shoulder and proceeded to drive along the embankment on Portsdown Hill... and then another 3 end to Enders strewn over carriageway about 400mtrs down the road..
Slow down people, it’s windy and it’s raining hard.
🤷♀️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤔
Nice steady rain here, although it seems to have eased a bit now, could do with another couple of days of steady rain to soak into the ground a bit more.
