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

[orienteer]

7mm here in Uxbridge! Didn't have to water the garden today, first time for weeks.

[T42]

I went into Earth Wind Maps yesterday to see when the storm was due to get here, and was pleased to see that it was heading up the eastern North Sea coast.  The bit of a battering we had yesterday afternoon was just a fringe - we were around 500 km from the epicentre. My nephew in Lübeck will have got a bit of a pasting, though.

16°C this morning - 10° cooler than yesterday. Too much of a good thing, that.

[essexian]

There is water falling from the Sky. Any idea what that could be?

[andytheflyer]

Grey, soggy and cold in the northern end of the Marches.  The kitchen now smells of wet Labrador pup, for the first time since our old dog died 2 years ago.  (Well, Lab/Collie cross, but readily mistaken for a black lab).

[Wowbagger]

We had a cool, wet day yesterday. It really was a pleasant change! It's cool (16°C) but sunny today.

[ian]

Some nice thunderstorms rolled across the North Downs yesterday evening. The Surrey jungles certainly needed it (Waitrose, perhaps not so much, judging by the sandbags). Cool, very wet, and blustery today. You know why that is?

Because I had a BBQ planned for this evening, that's why.

[hellymedic]

Donner und Blitzen! Just had a very heavy shower.
Sun's coming out now...

[Kim]

I just set off from home on my Reasonably Priced Mountain Bicycle^[1] to drop a parcel off at the Asda about 4km away.  It started chucking it down 5 minutes later, and I spent some time cowering in a 1-star Audax Hotel until the rain subsided.  I was just about dry by the time I got home.

Then there was a big bang, the UPS cut in for a few seconds, and it started chucking it down again.

Sun's coming back out now to pretend it never happened...


_{[1] The Bournbrook Way (which is a shared bath^[2] that takes me most of the way there) has had some fresh gravel chucked on it and is now hazardous on road tyres.  See previous rant.
[2] TBAGO}

[hellymedic]

NW3Weather recorded 108mm/hr max rainfall rate earlier today.

[Basil]

Good rain in the night and this morning.  Since noon it has been a very pleasant summers day.

Not allowed out due to weekend guests. 
Who turned up last night! 

[spesh]

It's been April-like on-off-on-off-on again showers, only at monsoon intensity, all day in Pompey.

Bored now...

[Cudzoziemiec]

I just set off from home on my Reasonably Priced Mountain Bicycle^[1] ...


_{[1] The Bournbrook Way ...}

I'm still half asleep. And the small font doesn't help. I read Bournbrook as "Bounce brooks" and imagined Kim on a double-boing MTBSO with Brooks saddle. 




Ob weather: it's chilly here. It usually is when you're half asleep.

[hellymedic]

Peel House, the Met Police College is around a mile from here.

Seems their passing-out parade caught the rain just after 13.00.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-45146126/new-met-police-recruits-rained-on-at-passing-out-parade

I don't quite understand the use of bagpipes for London Police.

Are they playing 'Scotland The Brave'?

[T42]

Looks like the bike park at Mortange-au-Perche in 2015. But there were coffee & croissants inside.

[Torslanda]

16weeks training and they still can't march in bloody step!

Come back Fuzzy, all is forgiven!

Something I did find significant besides the bagpipes was the mounted escort. Presumably there to make sure that no one could escape...

[Giraffe]

About 4 - 5 mm yesterday, some of which started within a minute of me leaving home for the mostly off-road 8½ mile walk to the Malt Shovel.
Due to the cool breeze I decided to wear my new Pramo Bentu fleece, as it's supposed to be wind-resistant and showerproof in spite of being very light. It certainly stopped most of the brisk, 14 deg. C, wind and, so far as I could tell, didn't leak. The rain was enough to wet one side of my shorts and almost soak the Tilley hat, so I'm pleased with the fleece.
After my attempts to restore osmotic balance across my skin with 3 pints of diluted water I had a happy trip home and the bus driver pulled up outside my house to save me 50 yards in quite heavy rain.
Rain stopped then. Hung hat out in sunshine - 2 hours later there was a sudden, short, heavy shower, so hat was spun.

[Cudzoziemiec]

16weeks training and they still can't march in bloody step!

Come back Fuzzy, all is forgiven!

Something I did find significant besides the bagpipes was the mounted escort. Presumably there to make sure that no one could escape...

The horses weren't in step either! What caught my eye were the "jam sandwich" cars with fluro orange stripe down the middle. Do they Met still use them? Looks rather dated now!

Meanwhile, duvet weather has returned.

[Zipperhead]

The horses weren't in step either! What caught my eye were the "jam sandwich" cars with fluro orange stripe down the middle. Do they Met still use them? Looks rather dated now!

No, but they have a collection of old police cars at Hendon.

[hellymedic]

16weeks training and they still can't march in bloody step!

Come back Fuzzy, all is forgiven!

Something I did find significant besides the bagpipes was the mounted escort. Presumably there to make sure that no one could escape...

How much do cops NEED to march in step?

[Kim]

16weeks training and they still can't march in bloody step!

Come back Fuzzy, all is forgiven!

Something I did find significant besides the bagpipes was the mounted escort. Presumably there to make sure that no one could escape...

How much do cops NEED to march in step?

At the end of every episode of Teh Bill, innit.


Anyway, I'm impressed that the horses are impervious to bagpipes.  This is a species that's scared of  a) plastic bags  b) tarmac  c) hay,  so I'm not really sure how the police manage it.  It's like expecting guide dogs not to hoover up the spilt food or something.  Suspicious that police horses are actually cyborgs.

[spesh]

...
Anyway, I'm impressed that the horses are impervious to bagpipes.  This is a species that's scared of  a) plastic bags  b) tarmac  c) hay,  so I'm not really sure how the police manage it.  It's like expecting guide dogs not to hoover up the spilt food or something.  Suspicious that police horses are actually cyborgs.

Breeding and training, n'est ce pas?

Which is why police horses won't ordinarily lose it in the face of a noisy mob, and why race horses will bolt because they mistook a recumbent for a big cat.

[T42]

I wonder if mounted police have to pick up & dispose of their horseshit.  Every rider should.

[hellymedic]

I wonder if mounted police have to pick up & dispose of their horseshit.  Every rider should.

Suspect that deluge would have washed anything away long before it could be retrieved.

Anyway, it was their own yard, not a public highway so they'll have to sort this out themselves...

[Giraffe]

I wonder if mounted police have to pick up & dispose of their horseshit.  Every rider should.

No reason to, it's not like dog shit - it's A Useful Resource. Anyways, it's dung[1]. Lots of horsen go past my house and if there's an unsquashed pile on the road I'll get it for the compost heap.
I always avoid dog shit (if I see it) but scattered dung doesn't matter.

[1] shit is from carnivores and omnivores (although pigs' isn't too bad); dung is from herbivores and, if not too soft/runny isn't A Menace. Perhaps hill-farmers should clear up all the sheep dung

[T42]

It's not a useful resource when you ride through it at dead of night. Nor is it at all useful when it's spread over half the width of a 2-metre cycle path - where horses are forbidden to start with - and folk have to slalom round it.   It's shit, left by arrogant twats who're too important to get off and clear up after themselves.