No, me neither. I grew up in Worcestershire, lived there for several years, but never ever went to GWSR, despite only being around a 30 minute drive from Broadway. We always used to go to the Severn Valley Railway.
A thoroughly miserable day today with bouts of rain on and off, heavy at times.
I'm heading South tomorrow and hoping to have a ride on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. I'm heading into the metoffice warning zone for wind, so could be an interesting ride.
I suppose it was inevitable that after the prolonged predominantly dry spell we had late spring/early summer that this would happen. The weather has a tendency to even things out in this country, so this spell of weather is no surprise. Some settled weather probably wouldn't go amiss now, as long as it's not the baking hot variety.
On the plus side, at least the nights have generally been comfortable for sleeping over the past couple of weeks for the most part.
Well that was nice before, torrential rain, several rumbles of thunder, most of the strikes around 3 or 4 miles to my South. Goes down as yet another day with thunder.
Estofex mentions development of scattered, well organised storms for the Southern half of the region today and for Southernmost parts (Cheshire and parts of Greater Manchester etc), there is a level 1 warning for marginally large hail, as shown below.
A fairly grotty day here after a sunny start, with showery rain setting in around late morning and persisting until around mid afternoon. Some more chance of seeing some sunshine tomorrow by the looks of it, and the chance of thundery showers returning.
2020 was a great summer for storms, the best storms I've seen in 40 odd years. 2023 is doing it's best to give it a good run for it's money, that's for sure. Just need a couple of 6 hour epics, then we'll be there.
Yeah, the number of days with thunder heard so far this summer has been notable, and we're not even half way through summer. Compare that to last summer, or year even, when I didn't hear any thunder until September.
The thundery activity seems to have moved to the North and East of here now, but still getting occasional rumbles to the East. Didn't see any lightning, but a good few distant rolls and one loud boom which I assume was a positive strike.