The Great British Weather

What is going on today?

Summer’s here

Window cleaners here picked an excellent day for it.

just a day of heavy showers, standard weather pattern

And hail stones.

ours just turned up in the 1 hr gap of sunshine between the two thunderstorms forecast for the area today.

April showers always seem to arrive in May these days.

Bose Sleepbuds

Do you rate these @Stonehedge?

Where we live is lovely and quiet now so I thought I wouldn't want anything like them (if I wanted distant thunder in our old flat I just took my earplugs out and listened to the upstairs neighbours) but I have come to accept that I have a brain that finds it difficult to relax and focuses on the tiniest of noises...

Yup. They are comfortable and the noise masking is extremely effective. I definitely sleep better with them than without if neighbours are being noisy.

I think they are more effective than earplugs. For me anyway.

I like 3m Pletor X5 ear defenders. The sort of thing that's used on building sites. I find them far more comfortable than sticking things in your ears. Hopeless if you sleep on your side.

Pissing it down.

This is your fault Brexit voters.

"No precipitation throughout the week"

It's raining.

darksky is very accurate... so long as you get the forecast within the same hour of actual.

So it'll tell you it's going to rain when it starts raining.

The rain yesterday evening was perfectly timed to get rid of the yoof off the 5-a-side pitches prior to our game.

(Not complaining that much, it's good that the sports centre allows U16's to use the pitches for free prior to 6pm if there isn't a booking, it's just that they take an age to get off the pitch which delays our game starting.)

I think someone needs to reiterate to them what "forecast" means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_LL9m7cl4

Bloody lovely here today. A bit dicey around 9am but settled into raging sunshine with a medium to stiff breeze.

In 15 Minutes I need to set out to pick up the small boy. Hills and breezes against me. Doubt we’ll need many pedal strokes to get home though.

Summer baby me. I love a bit of sun.

The allotment is going absolutely berserk with the mix of rain and sun. Have to say the polytunnels were at 46 degrees though. Even for tomatoes that is a bit toasty (and sweaty as hell watering them).

https://twitter.com/srmullens/status/1547653412250038274

Expecting 2 days of 37C highs with not much wind. I pray (not literally) that the electric grid is resilient enough to keep up.

The allotment is going absolutely berserk

We had water supply issues, and my manual trips carrying buckets weren’t enough to fend off the sun. Potatoes came out ok, tomatoes hanging in there as are most hardy herbs, but beans, cavalo Nero, beets, garlic, onions, and a mess of seedlings all didn’t make it. Like a personalised intro to climate change crop failure.

WARNING ISSUED

for places as far north as manchester and hull

It's bloody lovely outside though

Innit just?

Small, south-facing roads in the Chilterns were starting to get a bit 'melty' this afternoon with shining beads of tar in places - it felt more like southern Europe out there than the UK