Anvils in the Sky
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Great idea for a topic, Tom.
For me, it has to be 13th January 1987...
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Morning AITS,
A marginal warming up at the end of the week by the looks of things though:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_temp.html
Blimey, that's going to feel sub-tropical in comparison to the current soggy 11.8°!
Must admit, really wasn't expecting it to be this much below average today. It's 'orrible out there!
EDIT: Make that 11.1°. Amazing for a mid-afternoon in early September. Especially when it was 30° in places a few days ago.
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Morning folks,
Grey skies, spits and spots of rain, and a current temperature of 12.9°. I think it's safe to say it feels more like autumn than summer now.
Garden definitely showing signs of the change of season; feathers coming through on the pampas grass, autumn crocuses popping up from the ground (one has already been devoured by a slug
), and apples & pears falling off the trees. Right, time to fish out the slug pellets!
Have a good day,
Lee
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A bit of rain, a bit of wind, and a current temp of 14.1°. Dare I say it actually feels a little autumnal out there?!
Edit: Now 13.9°. Hard to believe 72 hours ago we were knocking on the door of 30°!
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Put the electric train-set away then?
Have put it away. And all windows now open wider than before!
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With all the ambient noise here it's sometimes difficult to distinguish, but I am about 95% sure I just heard a low and distant rumble of thunder.
Blitzortung certainly suggesting that's the case. (Mind you it - and SAT24 - both have recent strikes right on top of me. And I can assure you there has been nothing.)
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Off to Canbury Gardens Bandstand in Kingston this afternoon where my friend's band is playing - hope the rain holds off.
Hate to be pessimistic, but I'd take a brolly if I were you!
Turning into a text book 'sunshine and showers' day here. And I'm quite enjoying it - it's giving us some fairly photogenic skies. Current temp = 17.1°
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Autumn is my favourite season!! Its been below 10c here a one or two times recently.
i have a reading of 7.9c at the moment
I think I was a little hasty in my "nobody likes autumn" assessment last night!
I was up but not daring to put finger to keyboard after an evening of 'final' birthday celebrations! Especially after reading about your's and Leigh's hangovers:(
Very cool indoors this morning - 18.6 which is below my 'comfortable sitting around' threshold of 20; no wonder, in the mists of my memory of last night, I seem to recall nagging husband to put the heating on!
Cloud and blue sky patches outside. I too love autumn, favourite season; my son loves it as it culminates, after halloween and bonfire night in his birthday and Christmas
Just popped into the MOD and there are some very positive signs for benign and pleasant conditions through September, keeping fingers crossed for a return to low 20s perhaps with some seasonal fog/mist in the mornings (minus the traffic chaos preferably). Lovely:)Hope you enjoyed your birthday celebrations. Boy, was that an evil hangover I had yesterday!
As regards today.....sunny start, clouded over, a few spots a rain about an hour ago, and now the sun is back. There's a nice convective sky to my south-west though. Pic attached. (Second pic is of someone who has just come to have a nose at me typing this!)
Also came across this on the net this morning. Some great shots from space. (Love those storm cells shooting up from earth in one of the pics.)
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I'm up, even if no-one else is. (Yup, hangover still dictating my life.
)Anyway........just thought I'd point out - to myself, if nobody else! - it's 9.2° here at the moment. Single figures for what, I believe, is the first time since June. Welcome autumn
, I love ya even if no other south-easterner does!-
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He he! I've never suffered for 24 hours - must be my greater than half Irish ancestry.
Home after an afternoon drink (or a few) myself. A funny story from today was that a boisterous Labrador knocked over a pint of strong beer on a table nearby. He then proceeded to lap up a fair amount of it and then fell asleep for a couple of hours! He was okay though, when I left the pub - not my local.
When I was a kiddie, a friend of my nan's gave her budgie some sherry. She thought he might like a change from water.
He had some......and fell off his perch!
I fully sympathise with you there mate. I was also out on the lash last night, and I'm still shaking now, and have a banging head . I did try the hair of the dog earlier, much to Mrs LeighD's disgust, but the fumes of the alcohol made me feel pretty sick, so I decided to give it a miss...
Weather wise I think it's been okay here every time I peered out of the window with shades on, it was bright sun. The only time that changed was around lunch time, when the heavens opened for 10 mins. The Mrs had the hump with me then, as I was unable to run out in the garden by her side to collect the washing. Instead I said 'its breezy it will dry soon' if looks could kill . Have a great rest of the weekend guys
Hair of the dog is the best cure. But it's also the hardest to swallow. Literally.
And so I don't get told off for talking non-weather stuff.......it'd crystal clear out there, and 12.9°. (And all the solar lights are on. They still had two hours of charging to go, at this time of day a couple of months back!)
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Evening all,
On the lash last night, and STILL hungover! So treat me gently. (And what did I say on here the other day? Something like "the 40's ain't that bad." Well, I lied. I NEVER had hangovers into the following evening when I was in my 20's/30's!) Anyway, glad I didn't come on here when I got in - goodness knows what tripe I'd have posted!
As for today.......unlike my hangover, the weather improved as the day wore on. Sunny start soon gave way to cloudier skies, and then there was a very brief but very sharp shower in the late morning. But all change after that. The clouds slowly but surely melted away after about 2 o'clock. And by just after 3, we were left with cloud-free skies. Down to 14.3° now though, with a quarter of an hour before the sun sets, so I reckon a "chilly" one (comparatively speaking) could be on the cards tonight.
Right, off to guzzle another pint of water. Though maybe I should try some hair of the dog which ravaged me.
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I'm a caring-sharing kinda guy, plenty for everyone today!
Rain Today suggesting you could be being truthful! The Channel stuff still looking as if it has our names on it. The garden - which I purposely didn't water last night - is certainly praying for your generosity.
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Morning Lee, it will be better at the other end of it, although I'm still not sure how much rain is on it's way for us.
Well, looking at the trajectory of the French stuff, I would say you and I are in the same line of fire. But obviously you will get first pickings.
Don't you dare leave us with the scraps!
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Morning fellow South-Easterners / East Anglians,
Still bone dry here. And it has been a bright morning so far. But that brightness is verging on sunniness now. What's going on?! Was expecting to be watching rain stream down the windows by now!
All the stuff of interest seems to be to the west at the moment. Watching those returns over Caen / Le Havre, though, as they seem to have Kent and East Sussex in their sights. (But how many times have we seen that over the summer, only for them to suddenly veer 90° to the right, or die a rapid death over the Channel?!)
Currently slap bang on 18°. Which is fine, but really is leading to quite an incredibly different feel out there compared to yesterday.
Hope everyone has a great Friday.
Lee
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Evening all.
Second consecutive fabulous day here. (And none of that early morning fog which caused the awful mess on the Sheppey Crossing just a few miles away. I knew it was foggy down there though, as you can normally see the bridge from the top of my road. But just a distant bank of grey this morning. Little did I know what had just happened in that fog. Thank goodness nobody was killed.)
Anyway, we reached a max of 28.1 today. Not bad going for 5th September! Could see some reasonably impressive convective towers going up on the western horizon earlier. But they've moved away now. I tell you something though - the lengthening shadows were more apparent than ever today. ("Obviously! Seeing as we're getting closer to the autumnal equinox," I hear some of you cry. But I'm sure you know what I mean!
Blitzortung suggesting Norwich is pretty electrical at the moment. Nice.
P.S. re: spiders.....ANOTHER huge one in the house this morning. Reading what somebody said yesterday about putting them out the window breaking all their bones, this morning's one was placed GENTLY in the back garden. (I'm sure it followed me back into the house though!)
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Turned into a fabulous day here too. (Very welcome after yesterday's cloudy disappointment.) Was a bit nervous through much of the morning though. Misty low cloud seemed very reluctant to thin and break. Suddenly it did.......but then it came back again, and I thought "Here we go." But the second batch cleared off within about 20 minutes. And it has been sunshine pretty much all the way since then. Just a couple of convective cumulus came up from the south, and briefly blocked out the sun - at the very moment I decided to sit outside and munch my lunch!
But, yep, what a fabulous September day. And talk of 30° tomorrow. Cor, Friday/Saturday will be a shock to the system!
As regards spiders, woke up the other night to find one crawling across my shoulder. Not for the first time in the last few years either. They love this house for some reason.
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A remarkable late turnaround here as the clouds parted around 5pm. Clear blue skies and the merucury has just hit 26c in this neck of the woods.
Glad it eventually cleared up for you. The clouds melted away here around that time too - except for one single, solitary little clump which blocked out the sun right where I am. And followed it all the way down to the horizon. And then fizzled into nothing within minutes of the sun setting! Amazing.
So, anyway, a single digit number of minutes of sunshine here today from mid-late morning onwards. Not expected, and most certainly not forecast. Bit disappointing really. But, hey, tomorrow's another day...
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Good afternoon folks. It's been disappointingly cloudy and overcast here today but still managed a reasonable 24c. Not quite the sunshine which was forecast though.
You took the words right out of my mouth! Was just coming on here to say exactly the same.
I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of minutes of sunshine we've had since about 11 this morning.
Oh well.....hopefully sunnier skies tomorrow, after today's unexpected disappointment.
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...it's a bit early to start ramping really but the LRF's that I've read recently have got me a bit excited at the thought of some white stuff
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As we all know a long road to travel yet, but an nice one to see the signs along the way!
Yep. And a bumpy road it will undoubtedly be.
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Suddenly, I am feeling so much better about my age
Just starting the slippery rope to 40 (36 in November) although I have recently had to book in regular visits to my hairdressers to get the increasingly greying hair touched up every 6-8 weeks in a desperate attempt to stay a brunette for as long as I can So, things are looking a little dodgy weather wise this weekend? Will be keeping an eye out as it either means BBQ food burnt by Mr Raven, or a roast dinner cooked by me on Sunday...
I was dreading 40 when I was in my late 30s. Have to say, though, the 40s have been great so far. Of course, I'm only a fifth of the way through.....so there's plenty of time for that to change!
Fabulous afternoon here. Sunshine all the way, and currently 24.4°. Needless to say the indoor temp has gone back up above 20°. I see a mention of the t-word in the MetO's SE forecast for Friday. Wonder if that will put the kibosh on it, or if we'll be happily (or unhappily, if you're a Brontophobe) congratulating their accuracy come Saturday morning?
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I've just got your present ordered on-line too
I thought I saw someone taking a photo of me on my test drive yesterday. Chuckling away to himself. Now I know who the guilty party was!
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Morning folks,
Fantastic start to the new week. Sunny, temperature of 17.2° at the moment, and a fabulous lack of humidity. Indoor temperature dropped below 20° last night for the first time since some time in June. (Can't remember the exact date.) My first hint that, despite the expected warm temps of the next few days, autumn has begun to send its first tendrils out.
three weeks until I'm forty...
Two weeks until I'm forty-TWO. So count yourself lucky!
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Afternoon folks,
The meteorological summer certainly went out it style yesterday, didn't it? Fabulous day. A few weather-type pics from the middle of the English Channel attached below. (Bit cloudy on the French side at first, but it soon cleared away as the front moved south.) Clear enough yesterday to see the English coast from France, and vice versa.
As for the first day of autumn, the sunshine is now getting less hazy as the high cloud thins and moves away. Bit of a breeze just taking the edge off the temperature (currently 17.1°), but at least the air is nice and dry. However the warmth and humidity are on their way back over the next few days it seems. Always seems to coincide with the schools starting back! At least we've had a proper summer this year though. So it's not as if the kids are going back under sunny skies after six weeks of miserable weather.
Hope everyone has a great Sunday afternoon.
Lee
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), and apples & pears falling off the trees. 
Just popped into the MOD and there are some very positive signs for benign and pleasant conditions through September, keeping fingers crossed for a return to low 20s perhaps with some seasonal fog/mist in the mornings (minus the traffic chaos preferably). Lovely:)
, I love ya even if no other south-easterner does!
Just starting the slippery rope to 40 (36 in November) although I have recently had to book in regular visits to my hairdressers to get the increasingly greying hair touched up every 6-8 weeks in a desperate attempt to stay a brunette for as long as I can 
YOUR FAVOURITE ARCHIVED SYNOPTIC CHART
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And in terms of a chart from summer......believe it or not, about three hours before this, we had an incredibly violent thunderstorm pass through Kent. One of the most spectacular of the 80's. Yet nobody seems to remember it except me. That high to the east had given a rare few hot days beforehand (we got back from Spain on 17th August, and it seemed hotter here than there), and then a small but very active little front moved across the SE. Gave us an hour of spectacular lightning, deafening thunder, and torrential rain.