Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Jaded on 22 May, 2020, 12:10:40 am
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Oh, it’s stopped.
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Just started here.
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Grey sky WTF IS HAPPENING?? ??? ??? :o :o
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No rain here, had a drizzle Weds night, but no impact on water butt levels
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Dry in Liverpool but quite windy.
EDIT. I was wrong , there was a little dampness & a few puddles when I went outside.
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Rain? I'm sure I used to remember what that was.
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The builders have got all our tiles off, that's why. For the rest of the bank holiday weekend at least. Sorry.
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Yesterday morning, easily countable spots on the black bin; this morning, light shower that didn't even drip into the water butt.
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Yay, some rain here. not heavy, just a few spots. Apparently it's going to go up to 1.3mm over the next hour. Unfortunately not enough to mean I don't have to water the balcony.
J
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Reached here, too. Very gentle, with hardly a breath of wind - the kind of rain it's quite pleasant to ride in, until you get home and have to wash the bike.
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Today (like yesterday) is quite windy, and cool, and we’ve had a couple of brief but heavy rain showers. Normal May weather in fact.
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Very heavy shower went through SW15 half an hour ago and another one about to come in now.
Bright sunshine but the colours on the radar are suggesting 80mm/hr.
Must be an awesome rainbow somewhere.
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Very heavy shower went through SW15 half an hour ago and another one about to come in now.
Bright sunshine but the colours on the radar are suggesting 80mm/hr.
Must be an awesome rainbow somewhere.
We were on the allotment when that went through. (We caught the edge of it.) I was bone dry five minutes after the last drop.
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A few light bursts of rain, the longest made the road a bit damp.dry again in about 5 minutes :)
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A dozen replies, and Wow still isn't among them. Perhaps Jaded should have tried a PM.
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It was f-king howfing it down here last night.
Just bastard windy now.
Meant to be nice on Monday... when I'm at work.
Weegieland holiday but not Dundee or pretty much anywhere else.
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It was f-king howfing it down here last night.
Just bastard windy now...
Unsurprisingly the same up here.
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The burns and river levels rose surprisingly fast. I was out on a wee run this afternoon and up the hills, the rivers looked as full as winter time.
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There is one point on my weekend running route where there must be a spring under the road. There has been water there every time I've been passed since I started using that route regularly. Except this morning that is. Completely dry.
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There is one point on my weekend running route where there must be a spring under the road. There has been water there every time I've been passed since I started using that route regularly. Except this morning that is. Completely dry.
Used to think that of a hill near here, turned out to be a compulsive car-washer. Some people...
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still nowt here, windy and overcast all day, but resolutely dry
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Rain loud enough to hear this morning!
I may go wash the car...
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A welcome break in the weather but it's not going to last.
Apparently we've all been using too much water during lockdown too.
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Damp and drizzly here this morning. The gardens and fields need it.
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Rain loud enough to hear this morning!
I may go wash the car...
Do you have a baby elephant?
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:thumbsup:
We have a cat that is about the size of a baby elephant...
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Nice to see a little wet stuff here too.
The grass was about to go roots up.
Local reservoirs (Ladybower/Howden/Damflask) were suffering from the thirst of the Midlands despite being full to overflowing in January!
:)
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Mr R has planned a socially distanced picnic with his family this evening on Granchester Meadows... forecast isn't looking promising.
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Very light occasional bouts of drizzle on and off all day but not enough to make the ground, pavements wet . :)
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There was a bracing dampness in the air* when I went out for a ride this afternoon. After the "scorchio" conditions on the last few rides, it was actually strangely enjoyable.
* 'Asterix and the Normans' applies: https://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/Asterix/009/8/
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Rain?
Still a myth.
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a mere sprinkle, no visible impact on water butt levels, but soil is damp
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Rain?
Still a myth.
Let me know when it eventually reaches you - then I'll know I've got a few minutes to go and get the washing in off the line...
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Other than a slightly damp cat in the middle of the night, it seems to be dodging the Surrey-ish portion of the North Downs so far.
Definitely cooler though but I'm damned if I am going back to long trousers. Shorts through to October now. I may not like feet (and especially toes) but I don't mind legs. I'd wear a skirt if I were a girl, which I might be of course, I could just be playing a bloke on the internet. Maybe I really am Jess, and thus undead, but figure you wouldn't believe me.
Anyway, regardless, I'm not wearing a skirt at this moment. But for the future, who knows.
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Rain?
Still a myth.
Let me know when it eventually reaches you - then I'll know I've got a few minutes to go and get the washing in off the line...
Don't hold your breath...
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The roses got battered overnight - the Old English ones are looking very old this morning and I haven't looked at the ones that hang over the front fence.
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It's too late for a lot of crops round here :(
I was talking to one farmer who is thinking that most of his fields won't be worth the cost of harvesting so he'll have to plough them back in and start again next year.
What's next? Locusts?
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Rain?
Still a myth.
Let me know when it eventually reaches you - then I'll know I've got a few minutes to go and get the washing in off the line...
Don't hold your breath...
!!!
We've just had the tiniest shower.
I wouldn't bother with the washing.
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Rain?
Still a myth.
Let me know when it eventually reaches you - then I'll know I've got a few minutes to go and get the washing in off the line...
Don't hold your breath...
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We've just had the tiniest shower.
I wouldn't bother with the washing.
Exciting times!
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I'd wear a skirt if I were a girl
Surely you can wear what the hell you like if you're WFH. Just as long as you remember not to stand up during Zoom meetings.
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Other than a slightly damp cat in the middle of the night, it seems to be dodging the Surrey-ish portion of the North Downs so far.
Definitely cooler though but I'm damned if I am going back to long trousers. Shorts through to October now. I may not like feet (and especially toes) but I don't mind legs. I'd wear a skirt if I were a girl, which I might be of course, I could just be playing a bloke on the internet. Maybe I really am Jess, and thus undead, but figure you wouldn't believe me.
Anyway, regardless, I'm not wearing a skirt at this moment. But for the future, who knows.
Real men of course wear kilts. Girls wear skirts!
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It's supposed to be raining here today. Apparently it's 0.2mm an hour constantly since this morning. So far none of it has hit the ground :( Would quite like it to rain. Plants desperately need it. And with the amount of time since it last rained, the petrichor should be wonderful...
J
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I went to the shop in mild drizzle last night. The ground was damp enough to make me take it easy on the bollocks infra, though (shades of SteveC's post above) the perpetual puddle of building site run-off at the pedestrian conflict point at the bottom of the hill was still absent.
Other than some gloom and a few spits of rain on the window about an hour ago, it doesn't seem to have amounted to much.
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Still nothing here, though it did go very grey for a while.
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Other than a slightly damp cat in the middle of the night, it seems to be dodging the Surrey-ish portion of the North Downs so far.
Definitely cooler though but I'm damned if I am going back to long trousers. Shorts through to October now. I may not like feet (and especially toes) but I don't mind legs. I'd wear a skirt if I were a girl, which I might be of course, I could just be playing a bloke on the internet. Maybe I really am Jess, and thus undead, but figure you wouldn't believe me.
Anyway, regardless, I'm not wearing a skirt at this moment. But for the future, who knows.
Real men of course wear kilts. Girls wear skirts!
Real men also wear skirts if they are eg cannibalistic warriors of the South Pacific. Though not when playing rugby.
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Had some proper rain come over just now, I tried to photograph it, but failed. Plants look wet now. It's still drizzling.
Yay rain!
J
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Hmm, we've at least another week with nothing more than a bit of drizzle forecast.
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Fairly heavy in Liverpool at the moment.
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I'd wear a skirt if I were a girl
Surely you can wear what the hell you like if you're WFH. Just as long as you remember not to stand up during Zoom meetings.
I have a wife who might be less keen to find me rummaging through her clothes. That said, I'm not sure I'd survive, she's not just filled the wardrobes, they're fighting for space in Narnia. I'm sure we used to have more cats, but they squeezed in there and never got out, forever compressed in the folds of a coat she bought in 2008 and never wore again.
Our local pub landlord always wears a kilt, I have no idea why. But to be honest, I was thinking of something a bit more feminine.
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Very Scottish King King frontman Alan Nimmo wears a kilt on stage so I was a little disappointed when I encountered the band outside a venue and found him wearing jeans.
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I have been known to wear a kilt... I wore one for my Camino last year and they're ideal for long distance walking.
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2.3mm rain yesterday. I'm not wearing a kilt.
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2.3mm rain yesterday. I'm not wearing a kilt.
Not even a rain kilt?
https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/mens-clothing-c1/mens-waterproof-shell-c51/waterproof-overtrousers-c337/ultralight-adventure-equipment-rain-kilt-p1269
(https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/images/products/medium/1461060454-17741500.jpg)
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Properly raining here now.
And I am naked from the waist down.
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Just started here too. :o
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We have sun
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Woke up to find my phone full of alerts saying it had rained during the night. Then just now had a proper squall dump sky water on us.
Apparently there's been an increase in the number of people falling off their bike, it's been so long since it rained properly here, that everyone's forgotten how to ride in the rain. Unfortunately I only have this as an anecdote from a friend who's a Doctor, but it did make me smile at the idea.
J
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We have sun
As do we.
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It's not so much forgetting to cycle in the rain its all the crap that's seaped into or onto the road comes up when it rains. You can often see it looking like washing liquid
When I used to ride motorcycles the first wet ride after a dry spell was always very gingerly ridden
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Hailing actually.
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We have sun
As do we.
We always have the sun. Sometimes we forget about it when we can't see it, fair weather friends that we are.
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Rain getting even heavier. Yaaay!
J
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We have sun
As do we.
We always have the sun. Sometimes we forget about it when we can't see it, fair weather friends that we are.
Even at night time? Is it really still there...?
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WE have no shortage of forecasts that promise us rain, but then fizzle out into nothingness with an hour or two to go before the downpour is due. Around 8 or 9am our forecast from the Met Office was suggesting a 70% chance of heavy rain between 11am and 1pm. We had none. At that same time, an 80% chance of heavy rain was forecast between 2 and 3pm. That has now been downgraded to a 50% chance of light rain petering out into showers for the rest of the afternoon.
This seems to happen frequently. I cannot recall an occasion on which, as the event approached, the forecast was for a higher intensity or greater likelihood of rain.
Is this just a feature of the fact that I live in pretty much the driest town in the UK or do others notice a similar trait?
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We get Wales's second-hand weather, and the general rule is that Wet Office forecasts are more pessimistic about rain the further out you go. It often gets downgraded in the last few hours. I reckon this is due to uneven cloud coverage, and general uncertainty about whether it's going to do any raining.
Sometimes you get a nice big lump of definitely proper rain, and the uncertainty is about exactly where it's going to go. That's the one where heavy rain disappears from the forecast entirely (or appears suddenly without warning. Particularly annoying for bike rides where your start location has a nice dry forecast, but the route takes you into the path of the rain (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=112014.msg2394748#msg2394748).
The problem with forecasts collapsing both types of uncertainty into a single figure is that you then can't tell the difference.
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The skies have cleared, the hail melted.
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WE have no shortage of forecasts that promise us rain, but then fizzle out into nothingness with an hour or two to go before the downpour is due. Around 8 or 9am our forecast from the Met Office was suggesting a 70% chance of heavy rain between 11am and 1pm. We had none. At that same time, an 80% chance of heavy rain was forecast between 2 and 3pm. That has now been downgraded to a 50% chance of light rain petering out into showers for the rest of the afternoon.
This seems to happen frequently. I cannot recall an occasion on which, as the event approached, the forecast was for a higher intensity or greater likelihood of rain.
Is this just a feature of the fact that I live in pretty much the driest town in the UK or do others notice a similar trait?
Unsurprisingly, being only a few miles from you across the estuary, we have noticed it too.
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A couple of good sessions of water falling from the sky here, waterbut 1 topped up, but not enough to go over the link pipe to the other one.
Still, the veggies will be welcoming it.
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Proper downpour here. Rain bouncing up a foot.
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Professor Larrington tells me it's raining in north Oxon, but not very convincingly.
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Properly raining here now.
And I am naked from the waist down.
You sure you’re not just in shower but have forgotten.
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Colne valley: 1.2mm during the night, and another 3mm this afternoon, including simultaneous hail and sunshine. No hailbow though :-\
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Properly raining here now.
And I am naked from the waist down.
You sure you’re not just in shower but have forgotten.
No, not sure at all - this scenario is quite possible.
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We had a shower that lasted just long enough to wet the roads yesterday. Half an hour later all was dry again ::-)
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I had planned on getting out today, it started raining at 7:30, still going, just finished on the turbo
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Pitter-patter of >>>something<<< on the skylight at hours 0-light-thirty. Unlikely to be pigeons as unaccompanied by billing, cooing or avian clog dancing. Look out of window. Yep, rain in E17.
Still, it's good for the mattresses.
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Still, it's good for the mattresses.
*snork*
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We’ve got stair rods just now!
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We’ve got stair rods just now!
Plus thunder and lightening here in the Chiltern. Around 30mm or rain in half an hour.
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We had all day rain on Wednesday (and I mean all day), showers Thursday, and then proper heavy showers/hail from Friday midday until midday today. Today had the added benefit of being traditional Welsh showers - it's raining all the time, but 'showers' refers to it changing from light rain ("oh, this is sort of ok") to "you thought your coat was waterproof, did you?" heavy rain, usually at a really inconvenient moment. Yesterday it was also accompanied by a 40mph wind. Soggy.
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A downpour for about 30minutes means that I don't have to water the weeds today :)
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Proper rain and lightning here in SW London. And, we were smart enough not to waste time watering the plot this morning.
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I don't know when the rain started, but it was raining at 6am when I woke up. It's 7.30pm and it's still raining. Can't complain after last month though.
We could probably do with another 36 hours or so.
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Thunder, lightning, hail and terrified mattresses fleeing for cover earlier.
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nw3weather recorded 8.6mm rain yesterday, 8.2mm within one hour and a total of 9mm for the past 31 days.
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We’ve been for a long walk, got back about 23:00. No rain but signs of rivers of water everywhere.
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I carefully studied the weather radar to find a one hour gap in the weather for a walk. I headed out as the rain was easing off. After a few minutes I could take my hood down. I walked away from home for 32 minutes, turned round and headed home. Ten minutes later the rain began, then it got worse, then increased in intensity even more. I got thoroughly soaked. Turns out my cotton t-shirt was longer than my water proof jacket, and wicked up the run off.
Nice walk tho, i needed the exercise and fresh air. Shame i seem to be so crap at interpreting weather radar...
J
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There is one point on my weekend running route where there must be a spring under the road. There has been water there every time I've been passed since I started using that route regularly. Except this morning that is. Completely dry.
And the water is back.
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Some nice steady fairly heavy rain this afternoon, be good for the garden.
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Bit of rain here today. Very welcome since I had a new lawn laid yesterday!! Long may it rain!!!
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Pretty heavy most of the day yesterday, with a few claps of thunder.
Today, although windy, I thought I could get out for my weekly TT ahead of the rain. I was wrong. It started just as I started my timed course and got heavier as I went.
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It's been raining since I woke up. Which is a pain as I wanted to go for a bike ride, but don't fancy getting soaked if I don't have to...
Another hour of rain according to the weather map...
J
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It's just dark here. And breezy.
Oh for some stair rods, or bright sunlight!
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A short burst of rain mid morning then increasingly bright with sunny glimmers :)
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Blimey. Major thunderstorm, lots of lightning & rain shaking my windows.
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Blimey. Major thunderstorm, lots of lightning & rain shaking my windows.
That one just missed us - it was black over Bill's mother's' over Nantwich way to the east with the full light show and noises off, and I tracked it north over Chester - and presumably then barrelled its way over the water.
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Currently chucking it straight down and bouncing off the pavements here - glad I didn't decide to chance it and try and get out for a quick ride.
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Got rained on in Bristol today. Also last night when out for a lockdown walk.
Doesn't seem like normal lockdown to me.
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Pitter-patter of >>>something<<< on the skylight at hours 0-light-thirty. Unlikely to be pigeons as unaccompanied by billing, cooing or avian clog dancing. Look out of window. Yep, rain in E17.
Still, it's good for the mattresses.
;D ;D ;D
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Just had a short shower. Dry again now :)
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Very sultry here I wish it would bloody rain.
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Thunderstorm! Went pretty dark, started hosing it down.... Good drenching for the garden.
ETA. and overflowing gutters...
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Been dry all morning. In the afternoon it will be dry again. All the boards are shrinking.
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Wow!! It's been raining. Thunder, lightning, hail, floods, roads closed, shops flooded...
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Still dry. Thin cloud, nothing to worry about. :thumbsup:
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Thunderstorms for the last two hours here, and mighty downpissing.
Some years ago we had a modem blasted when a tree up the road was struck, so these days when it rumbles we pull the plug despite having everything on UPS/surge arrest. Annoying.
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I've just had an email from United Utilities saying that reservoir levels are low & urging me to save water. Parts of Liverpool were flooded yesterday....
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It's been a fairly usual day watching rain in the distance. We're supposed to get some tonight but I shall be watering the stuff in pots anyway.
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MASSIVE DOWNPOUR. In 40 minutes the brook running through the village rose 2 feet. All manhole storm drain covers lifted around the village and 2 roads impassable due to floods!
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This weather is a month early
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Spent about an hour just about keeping ahead of it all the way from Redditch, where I'd received a brief soaking. As I was drying off in the shower, it lashed it down. And a nearby lightning strike set the doorbell off.
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This weather is a month early
York Rally weekend, innit. Expect 40mph gusts next.
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Drizzle in E17 this arvo but not heavy enow to require use of windscreen wipers on the way to Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles.
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We once again had a relatively brief, but intense downpour - about 2cm in half an hour, with lights and percussion - at about 2pm.
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I was trying to find the courage to venture out for a swim, then it started to rain. Maybe I'll swim tomorrow instead...
J
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Rain forecast for 1am to 7am.
The sandbags are out in town.
Some of the road drains have been sludge-gulped. That a day too late, County Council...
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Binning down at 9 pm this evening and still splotting now. This probably means I'll need to employ the hedge trimmer to get out of the Grand Portico the next time I need to go shopping.
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It's rained all night here and it's still raining hard :)
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Beautiful day yesterday in Suffolk. Bit drizzly this morning, but not enough to put off watering the garden later.
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...and a few miles from the Suffolk border, in Cambridgshire, we've had storms and minor flooding (mostly carparks) for the last 2 afternoons/evenings, and this morning we have woken to persistant rain.
Yesterday morning I went to pick fruit & veg from the allotment and you could see there had been puddles and everything had mud splatters on the bottom 6"ish. >:(
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It's been a fairly usual day watching rain in the distance. We're supposed to get some tonight but I shall be watering the stuff in pots anyway.
The watering turned out to be superfluous. Amazing. Rain in June. It doesn't seem to have done that for a number of years.
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Raining steadily since the early hours, and it's forecast to last all day. I suppose it will fill the water butts, but no ride for me today >:(
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...and a few miles from the Suffolk border, in Cambridgshire, we've had storms and minor flooding (mostly carparks) for the last 2 afternoons/evenings, and this morning we have woken to persistant rain.
Yesterday morning I went to pick fruit & veg from the allotment and you could see there had been puddles and everything had mud splatters on the bottom 6"ish. >:(
Same here. Mind you, my courgettes are loving it.
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Thunder and lightning yesterday afternoon, continuous rain from then. Forecast not to let up till tomorrow mid-morning.
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32.7mm in our garden between 10pm and 9am. There's still some gentle rain falling.
Hopefully that will give me taters a boost before I dig the first ones at the weekend.
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Rain most of the night (some of the heavier stuff woke me) and constant downpour since here in the Bard's county. Upside is that the two holes I need to dig for some posts should be a bit easier.
Rob
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No rain here. Day five of North Sea haar, fog,drizzle and persistent meh.
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The rain here meant no queue at the tip. :thumbsup:
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Cat was dry when it leapt on the bed so it's not raining.