The colin_p appreciation summer sun and storm thread 2024

[Shnozz]

UTH said:

thepritch said:

UTH said:

Doesn't look like April will be setting any high temperature records

Not quite a record but, 8 degrees above average ain’t bad. Even if it lasted for just an afternoon!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyj377vg8llo

But in general. Yes. Brrr!

Guess it's the time of year where the sun makes a huge difference to how warm you feel, so here's hoping for no clouds this weekend.

It was showing a real feel temperature of minus 2 yesterday morning and minus 4 last night in Leeds. We are off to the Spanish pad Thursday and some sun cannot come soon enough.

[Blib]

Puggit said:

Blib said:

Is that good or bad?

Mind you, if you live in East Anglia... I can see clouds rolling off the North Sea

I see nothing whatsoever that's amusing in your post.

[RicksAlfas]

Drove home with my sunroof open. Glorious weather. Got changed, fired the lawn mower up. Thunder hail for 15 minutes. Everything soaked. Too wet to mow now, but the sun has come back out.

[p1stonhead]

Why is my house bloody freezing!

This is ridiculous.

[Scabutz]

p1stonhead said:

Why is my house bloody freezing!

This is ridiculous.

I know right. Had to put the fking heating on again.

[Chicken Chaser]

Hailstone earlier with a high of 6 and a strong North Easterly to make it feel better.

Just got home after work and it's 2 Deg out, expected to freeze overnight.

Weekends forecasting a high of 11! More rain to come.....

[Bill]

Frost on the windscreen this morning, putting a positive spin on it it's testament to the clear skies!

This weekend I will be packing suncream and my warmest sleeping bag!

[Puggit]

Pissed off by current MetOffice forecasts - worst case scenario for the high pressure. Cool and cloudy.

[JakeT]

You couldn’t make it up.

Perfect gardening weather though!

[75Black]

Apparently spring still eludes us, lows of between freezing to 2/3 degrees for the next week! Average highs for this time of year should be 14/15 to up to 18..we have 11/12, ffs.

[UTH]

Puggit said:

Pissed off by current MetOffice forecasts - worst case scenario for the high pressure. Cool and cloudy.

When you're pissed off my positive thinking vanishes

[CivicDuties]

Sounds ideal. Cool air, broken sunshine. Perfect for being outside and active, and not getting hot and sunburnt.

Looking forward to it, I shall go on a pubcrawl on foot in the countryside.

[Scabutz]

CivicDuties said:

Looking forward to it, I shall go on a pubcrawl on foot in the countryside.

Splendid idea.

[Puggit]

BBC take on the current weather: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cn03v27emnm...

[Puggit]

[gashead1105]

Lockdown was glorious from a weather perspective, the first one in 2020 in particular

[p1stonhead]

Puggit said:

The weather made it infinitely more bearable.

The one in January 2021 was SO much worse.

[JakeT]

I got put on furlough from work in April 2020 and had a great time. All of the jobs around the house got done and we had a BBQ every night.

[Chicken Chaser]

Ironically I was thinking exactly this yesterday. From March 2020 onwards it was like being on holiday nearly every day. I was however, one of those essential Key workers who didn't get furlough or didn't get a day off for it.

Did they seed the clouds to fk off?

[B'stard Child]

Chicken Chaser said:

Ironically I was thinking exactly this yesterday. From March 2020 onwards it was like being on holiday nearly every day. I was however, one of those essential Key workers who didn't get furlough or didn't get a day off for it.

Same for me - I’m pretty sure even in retirement in a few years I’ll be still paying for it whilst never getting to have enjoyed that paid holiday