Ravelin

Yellow warning of rain out for Monday morning for most of us. ECM and GFS both currently saying over 20mm for here between midnight and noon. Ground will welcome it, if it doesn't just all run straight off. Currently a sunny 22C here, which is the high for the day so far. Bit more of a breeze today so feeling very pleasant.

Currently 25.4C and sat outside in dappled shade with a drink, to end the working week. High for today was 26.2c, just 0.4C short of the high for the week so far on Tuesday.

The closest strike I ever had was actually in France, near Rouen about 15 yrs ago. We had borrowed my folks caravan and taken the two kids to France (wife was pregnant with the 3rd). We had massive storms one day as we sat in the campsite, as it had been well into the 30s for days. During one thunderstorm I nipped from the caravan into the awning to check it was holding up OK under torrential rain. Just at that there was a massive flash as lightning hit the fence behind the pitches a bit further along. I actually saw the lightning run along the post and wire fence, jumping gaps, and along behind our caravan. Unsurprisingly I scarpered back into the caravan in double quick time. No damage done other than to my pride, but it did knock off the site electricity for a bit, and I reckon if the people in the tent next door had been in it at the time they had got even more of a shock. Maybe literally.

Been a slight downward trend in terms of max temps as the week has gone on here, but today's high of 24.5C is still pretty impressive for mid June. I lived in Orlando for nearly 3 years in the late 90s. June through Aug was pretty tough going, very hot and an almost gaurunteed storm mid to late afternoon every day. Saw some extremely impressive lightening shows though, but when the flash and bang start occurring with no discernable gap it gets a little worrying.

As others in the area have said, it was rather cloudy here but still managed a humid feeling Max of 25.3C, and is still over 20C even now. No real shower activity here despite Huntly seeming to have been in the firing line on the radar. Must have been some localised stuff overnight though as roads, around Alford had a noticeable amount of standing water on them this morning in places.

Maxed out at 23. 8C around 15:30, so blown away the previous warmest day so far this year by 3C or thereabouts.

Currently 21.9C here, which is a high for here this year so far as measured by the weather station just up the road a bit. Decent southerly breeze keeping it feeling not too bad. Reckon we've taken 60-80lbs of honey off the beehives this morning, will know more once we've extracted it. Likely to be around the top end of our normal haul for early June.

Cloudier and cooler here, 14C, with just glimpses of sunshine,but pleasent enough. As I said a few days ago, seems to be a good year for blooms around here. There's a Hawthorn on the approach to Alford that sits on its own in a field that's just white from head to toe. These, with a broom in front, are just opposite our house.

Some of the Hawthorn bushes around our area at the moment look whiter than they are after full day blizzard. Some of the broom looks particularly yellow too, so a good year for blossom so far. The bees seem to have been making the most of it as we think we'll get a good amount off soon, which has not normally been the case this early on in recent years.

What you mean is it'll be largely dry, sunny and settled until the start of the school holidays, then it'll turn more unsettled and wet? I could have told you that without looking at any 'patterns'.

From the looks of the local weather station it took until around 1pm for the cloud to clear from above Alford, but from looking out the windows of work it took another couple of hours longer than that to clear from Westhill. As a result the max temp of 15.7C in Alford was a good 3C below the max temp yesterday. Tomorrow looking on the cooler side again, before hopefully a warm up into the high teens again for the weekend?

Maxed out at 18.6C, very acceptable. Got the grass cut again at last.

Yesterday's largely dry and warm(ish) Aberdeenshire Permagloom has been replaced today with drizzly and cool Aberdeenshire Permagloom. Must be nice being retired and therefore being able to use the useable days rather than sitting in work hoping the weekend is decent. Grass is badly needing cut in places but no real chance of that this weekend, so it'll need to be an evening job this week.

Started out very nice but became a bit overcast in the afternoon. Still got up to a max of 17C, and was 9ver 16C most of the afternoon, which is decent enough. I cut my grass on Saturday and it's looking like it needs done again already (and I've that much I keep it fairly long compared to most 'lawns')

Finally I can't grumble as its 20C here, lots of blue sky with scattered cloud, and for once I'm glad of the breeze. Got some gardening done, and of course being the first decent day, one of the bee hives decided to throw out a swarm too. Pity it doesn't look as if it'll last into tomorrow. Two nice weekend days in a row would have been welcome.

Funnily enough the wife and I had a day trip down to Dumfries & Galloway today, from parents house in central belt, and very pleasant it was too. Saw 19C at one point, and no nagging easterly wind either. All the vegetation much more advanced than Aberdeenshire.

Let's hope for that westerly as the nagging East wind has well outstayed it's welcome. Around 7C when I got home from work and felt perishing in a strong breeze. Currently 4.9C, which is more winter than spring like, even overnight. Glad I'm heading south to visit family in the central belt this weekend as its forecast mid teens there. That will feel positively tropical compared to what Aberdeenshire has been like for weeks now, with very few exceptions.

Miracle, got the grass cut after work this evening. Still wasn't what I'd call warm but the grass was dry so went for it.

6.7C, wet, miserable.

Can't believe with May under 48hrs away I was out walking the dog this afternoon wearing my down jacket and with a hat on, and there was no real wind so not that. Dull and a max of 6C, currently 4C. When did we last have a decent spring? 2020, during the first Covid lockdown?

Currently 1.3C and snowing lightly. Not lying but it is just a bit higher up the hill, which has a light dusting.

High of 5.6C here (8C in Inverurie early afternoon), 6.1mm of rain so far, currently 3.2C and the log burner is lit for the first time in a month or so.

Maxed out at 8.7C here, which is a shock to the system after the last few days, especially as the brisk NE wind has a real bite to it. Usual Scottish stuff, felt warm in the sun if out of the wind, but quite the opposite if in the wind and out of the sun. Tomorrow looking miserable, as is most of next week. I sowed some salad seeds in a couple of plastic troughs last weekend and they have started to germinate already, in a south facing sheltered spot. I've just moved them into the greenhouse, and the tomato and chilli seedlings in the greenhouse might well get moved back into the house tomorrow.

Yet we could be heading back into winter mode next week...

Got up to 13.8C here today, but with a sheet of high cloud keeping the sun under wraps it felt OK, but not particularly warm, especially in the breeze.