South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[jtay]

 *Stormforce~beka*

I bought it on purpose in Tesco, as there was none of the normal stuff at the time.

[jy]

Ah the irony,a 4th Water Company has hinted at hosepipe bans,I thought it had rained quite a lot

[snowdog]

 jy Haha, I guess we have had the 'wrong sort of rain' to fill the reservoirs ?

[jy]

 snowdog shambolic in a word

[Methuselah]

 jy Aye, Jy. . . Unlike the NHS, these privatised monopolies set their own budgets. And still, they can't do what they're supposed to. 

Edited April 9 by Methuselah

[Andy Bown]

I got soaked in Melksham this morning, totally misread the wrap around rain development and direction when checking the radar at 07.00! 
 

Lovely but very windy afternoon playing in the garden and doing jobs. 
 

Much calmer and clear evening for football in Westbury!

[jtay]

Out in the garden.

It's a race between comet p12, the rotation of the earth, encroaching cloud from the NW and the second half of Real Madrid v Man City.  

Edited April 9 by jtay

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 jtay who won? ...

[jtay]

 *Stormforce~beka* 3-3. 

TBH, it was just a smudge through the binoculars. Neowise, it is not.  

[Dorsetbred]

Morning All, a cooler night than of recent, with the overnight low of 2.9°C at: 04:45, currently 11.8°C, RH86% and a light/fresh breeze in from the SW with the occasion spot of rain.

On Golden sands

 

Edited April 10 by Dorsetbred

[Mapantz]

Window cleaner got a soaking!

Pretty heavy for a few minutes.

[snowdog]

Yep, raining again. I went for a walk to see the heath fire damage that is only around 200 meters from where we live. Fortunately,I suppose, the rain is a welcome dampener on the burnt ground.

The paths are just so muddy again, when I thought they were finally drying out!

Dorset heathland fires: Sixth incident in four days

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Crews tackle a blaze near Corfe Hills School in Poole on Tuesday evening.

 

[jy]

Nice steady rain

[Dorsetbred]

36 minutes ago, snowdog said:

Yep, raining again. I went for a walk to see the heath fire damage that is only around 200 meters from where we live. Fortunately, I suppose, the rain is a welcome dampener on the burnt ground.

I love the response from a person seeking to be a parliamentary residence who said "Broadstone councillor xxxxxxxxxx said: “I wouldn’t want to speculate but it hasn't been dry hasn’t it." A double negative in a response, oh how sad, and she thinks she's up to parliament, hah maybe she is!  

[Dorsetbred]

Some cracking cells firing off some heavy rain have crossed the area this afternoon. Have to say sitting there listening to the rain on the windows is a great feeling. Yes I appreciate most people are p******d off with it all, but nature provides some great activities that create noise, wind, thunder, and rain. One of life's joys when you struggle to hear.

Meanwhile the sun, whilst trying its best this morning has faded fast this afternoon:

 

[Rich_Clements]

Afternoon,

 

I good breeze this afternoon as I had to go into work, was even 'bright' at times all a bit groundhog day at the moment.

[Mapantz]

My webcam caught a beauty of a sunrise yesterday

 

[AWD]

Drizzle here this morning.  Yay!!!

The wait continues for a drier, clearer spell of weather.

[jtay]

Yep, more drizzle and gloomy.

So here are some calves from our morning walk.

[Alderc 2.0]

Same old same old, and little change on the way I suspect. Not long until a third of year out the country. 

[jtay]

 Alderc 2.0 Where you off to? 

[Andy Bown]

There’s a little sun here but invizdriz too! Hoping (HOPING) the stronger sun allied to a bit of breeze will burn through/clear the cloud a bit. 

[Dorsetbred]

46 minutes ago, Alderc 2.0 said:

Not long until a third of year out the country. 

Somewhere nice?

[MP-R]

And the drizzle continues… gawd it’s grim!

[Bristawl Si]

Yet another dreadfully inaccurate local tv forecast yday eve from MetO.

I was up early doors, a quick jetwash of patio (prob annoyed the neighbours). Sprayed the black spot remover all over, smells like a swimming pool out there at the mo.

10.30 restart to brush the water/substance mix and then a final jetwash, but it's 'kin heavy drizzle. Remind myself to keep extension lead socket part under patio table

Edited April 11 by Bristawl Si