A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own.

[Wowbagger]

It's 24°C and the humidity is 77%, according to my weather station. In my book, that's unpleasant.

[ian]

Gave up waiting for rain and watered the garden. Then my wife told me 'I already did that.'

Also soaked LMC, who was hiding in a bush. Which apparently my wife also did.

So now I have to look out for a vengeful cat.

[andrewc]

We had some overnight rain the other day,  temperatures are not too unpleasant.   


It seems unusually breezy though.  Is anyone else noticing this ?

[spesh]

It's been somewhat breezy on the seafront 'twixt Southsea and Eastney (which was great for slipstreaming the traffic on the esplanade yesterday ), but it's muggy AF even just a short distance inland.

I've got two hygrometers in the house - one says the RH is 60%, the other says 76% - I'm more inclined to believe the higher reading...

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/source-of-river-thames-dries-out-for-first-time-during-drought

The Thames normal source has dried up for the first time, it seems.

[phantasmagoriana]

It seems unusually breezy though.  Is anyone else noticing this ?

Yes.

[Wowbagger]

Message from my brother relating to summer rainfall in Mid Essex. Figures mostly recorded at the Hanningfield Treatment Plant.

Dry summers locally since 1960, June - August rainfall, mm

1975  36.2
1995  43.6
1983  59.8
1976  67.8
2022  74.5

Average rainfall June - Aug is 139mm

Brother David lives about 15 miles from me. He recorded 34.7mm for August 2022. We recorded 9.4mm. I recorded 41.8mm for June, July and August 2022.

[rafletcher]

Locally (Aylesbury) the figure for June-August is around 35mm.  We've seen one day of significant rainfall in all that time, no tunerstorms.

[Mrs Pingu]

Pishing with rain all morning for the Tour of Britain start,  then 4pm it was glorious, and now it's a pea souper.

[Basil]

Yellow warning for thunder storms this evening.
As usual,  nothing.
Where's my thunder storm you bastards?

[andrewc]

A little heavy rain yesterday & overnight, but no thunder in Liverpool.   It looks like the south coast around Brighton got a good light & sound show though.


I'm off camping next Saturday,  what's that out  in the Atlantic ?   Oh Hai Hurricane Danielle !

[Tim Hall]

Woken around 0100 by thunder bolts and lightning.  Fired up lightningmaps.org as I couldn't sleep. I'm 10 miles from Gatwick. Fired up Flightradar24  to watch planes not land there and see the Easyjet Summer Outing to The Seaside / misc planes in a holding pattern near Chichester. Some lucky souls got diverted to Birmingham.

[rafletcher]

We had a short but violent storm last night, maybe 10mm of rain. And a casualty was our neighbours 3m tall sunflower. The stalk’s still there but the flower head has snapped off

[ian]

Same storm here, I was off the bed and suddenly all the trees outside were whirling around in the wind. I had to go check we weren't having a tornado. Then it calmed down the rain and thunder followed.

[Kim]

I was woken repeatedly by thunder at point blank range.  Barakta asked what was going on, and decided to ignore me flinching.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yellow thunderstorm warning here, which probably won't happen, but we have rain and max temps of 20 forecast all this week. Yep, autumn. Well, it is September.

[Mr Larrington]

Rained quite hard in the night but any thunder was muted enough not to wake me up.  Trying hard to rain again on sunny cloudy E17, but only managed a single-digit number of drops on the Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle's saddle while it was parked outside Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.

[TimC]

Thunderstorm warning here. Actuality: 27C, sunny, and bone dry.

[Auntie Helen]

Yellow thunderstorm warning here, which probably won't happen, but we have rain and max temps of 20 forecast all this week. Yep, autumn. Well, it is September.

31 degrees here today. Bone dry still.

[SteveC]

The rain and thunder have arrived in Somerset.
Of course, when I needed to get some frozen broad beans out of the freezer, which is in the garage, the rain was at its most intense.
Don't often have to put a coat on while doing the cooking.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And not even just Somerset but actual lightning up here in the north. (North from Somerset)

[Mr Larrington]

Oooh, we got thunder an' rain an' stuffs here too!

[Jaded]

There was rains on the Fosse Way tonight at about 20:00. Lots of puddles. A very Excite!

[PeteB99]

Thunderstorm last night about 2200. First one this year that I can remember

[spesh]

Had full-on thunderstorms the last two nights running in Pompey, and one thunderclap just now - which Lightningmaps tells me is from a discharge a couple of miles out to sea off Hayling Island. Teletext is forecasting thunderstorms in the south Hampshire area through to Thursday inclusive...