northriding

Can't catch a break here. Barely seen any sun this past week.

Not a thing 12 miles from you, but I can hear your storm, sounds like a bit of a humdinger!

You ain't alone. Storms to my south over Whitby and East Cleveland last night, storms to my north up the Durham Coast today. Close but no cigar.

Looks like your primed for a corker, good luck!

Feeling rather cool at only 16C. I spent yesterday evening listening to the sound of a lone foghorn from a cable laying ship off the coast of Saltburn. Eerily relaxing, but would prefer to join in on the heatwave.

Thank you! Hope you see some sun before the day is out. I'm going back outside to shake my fists at the cloud!

Thick grey cloud overhead and it's clear just out to sea here too. I give up complaining. Roll on Autumn and the receding expectations.

Regional variations will require a rather broad stroke for this summer to attain anything approaching a statistical means average for sunshine. It's been absolute pap! Subsisting on a side dish of pills, fish, and eggs for Vit. D when the main course should've been shining is downright dissatisfying.

I can bear witness to that. I'm about to cut the lawn with my phone torch strapped to the mower.

The North Sea's cloud dumping on land has certainly given the sewage discharge spewing the other way a run for its money this year. Another mare's tail of a day for me.

The sunshine in June was a lovely fillip, but losing the height of summer nationwide really is a bum deal. Mercifully, the cloud dissipated as the afternoon wore on, and I guess one upshot from this third-rate weather stint, is just how lush and green the plant life is:

I was hoping it would burn off during the morning, but the cloud has doubled down over us now. It's been so poor for so long up here, I don't see how the season can be salvaged sufficiently to justify calling it a summer.

Day of two halves yesterday, sunny morning, overcast afternoon and evening. Hoping today does the opposite about-face because it's cloudy this morning.

Torshavn has probably fared better than any of us have for the last half dozen weeks or so. To have weeks and weeks scrubbed out either side of a decent spell in June has wrecked my zen.

Was fortunate enough to see a few fleeting breaks in the grey slab yesterday, totted up to about 90 seconds of sunshine. Won't be that lucky today.