What a glorious day to waste at Cribbs!!!!!!!
Do any of the Bristol area people know where the smoke plume to the North of the city comes from? It was billowing straight up this morning and convecting into cumulus! Easily viewable driving West on the M4 then M5 and spoiling a lovely view!
Yesterday is best resigned to the forgettable weather drawer!
However a stunning start today with pretty pattern frost and a colourful sunrise enjoyed from the breakfast table, hazy sun and 2.9c now after 1.1c minimum.
Apologies for the lack of reports from Warminster this week, illness struck last weekend and we've all suffered!
Thankfully it's a glorious day to feel better on, off for a walk to the park later.
The Cold Front pepped up as it moved over between 08.00 - 09.00 so it rained quite heavily for a while along with blustery winds.
However by 09.30 we had clear sky, sunshine and a dropping temperature.
A lovely day from then on and washing was quick to dry too.
Wonderful day from start to finish, introduced my boy to his first early morning frosty walk too!
Reading between the lines of Ian's Points West forecast there seems potential for quite a squall line tomorrow with winds rapidly switching from SW to NW followed by a quick cool down too.
I am always relieved when the first evening after the clocks change is clear as it prevents darkness descending by 4pm!
Less good is how we lose sunlight from the garden day by day due to the neighbours house and tree, it makes drying washing an airers moving challenge lol.
Temperature dropping now, 10.9c after being 13.0c less than an hour ago.
We've had some decent sunny spells between the gloomy Stratocumulus, quite hazy though with a lot of high cloud too, I think being near high ground as well as there being a strong wind is helping to break the cloud up, the temperature has responded with 17.9c the maximum.
That unexpected moment when you go outside at nearly 22.00, after a thoroughly dismal day, with a grim forecast for the next morning, and the stars are shining!
If you hear gusts nearby but not directly over your location they could be associated with a shower passing through that location.
Equally we live right under the Western edge of Salisbury Plain and often hear wind gusting, even howling, on the hills.
So many plausible explanations!
16mm this morning, the wettest spell for quite a while . Did any predictions have the rain from the South being far enough West to virtually merge with the Atlantic front!?