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We have come just south of Bordeaux, France in the hope of some better weather for Easter. I have just watched the ECMWF predictions and the whole of Western Europe looks dire! This huge depression comes in across us all and then stalls over the UK essentially as a vast unwanted Easter egg of rain. So it's not going to be any drier where we are - the one good bit is that when the sun DOES shine it's a bit more powerful.
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SSW started Monday, which isn't going to help Spring get going!
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Alexis, I guess you are talking about mopheads, not lacecaps. I'm not sure where Mum's is, but I think hydrangeas should be fine down here. They're incredibly resilient and difficult to kill. I trimmed ours in the front a couple of weeks ago. Officially you wait until late Spring, and that tends to mean early May down here. If you do cut them and there is risk of a late frost cover them with some horticultural fleece and they'll not get damaged.
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Agreed! Next door's garden is a pond again for about the third time in 6 weeks. Can't do anything in the garden. I actually managed to mow it on Friday, and planned its annual fertiliser for Monday, 4 days later. No, mizzle all day. Today - proper washout with flooding under our local bridge again. It was dry when we went out, and an hour and a half later it was 15cm deep.
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Here's a challenge for you. I will be going to Europe later this month for Easter, and while my original plan was to go to the tulip fields, looking at the long rangers for the Netherlands looks suspiciously like our current weather whenit gets to Easter, with the jet stream trapped to the south and damp drizzly weather on the cards. Do you agree? Should I head further south into southern France with a higher chance of sun?
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The stat I took from that Met analysis of February that it was so dull. In fact, the two most dull places were East Sussex and the very tip of Cornwall where my daughter and her family live!
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Interesting. The wind seems to be swinging round to come more from the south and the worst of the rain might miss E Sussex and Kent today. It's lovely at the moment, so fingers crossed!
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For the fellow Bexhill residents, take care on the beach. There are three storm outlets toward Cooden, one of which has been broken for years and is finally being replaced - with one that extends all of 15m further out. For those that don't know, storm drains are unfortunately not just for water - sewage often contaminates the waste water, and Bexhill beach and water is often unsafe. Yesterday the next drain along broke, and has scoured a vast trench in the beach - and yes, it's pouring sewage contaminated water.
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People have been evacuated from their houses in St Leonards because of the flooding.
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Indeed; they are either intensifying as they hit the coast or appear. One has just materialised off Eastbourne and has organised enough to drop a few big blobs on us.
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I went for a dog walk in a storm with no name...
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and ringsThe first thing I met was a flood on the lawn
And the sky full of clouds
The wind was up and the ground was soaked
And the air was full of rainI've been been on a dog walk in a storm with no name
It felt wet on my back yet again
In the rainstorm you can't remember your name
'Cause your brain's turned to mush with the hammerin' rain...-
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Are you sure about that?
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Confused! Lassie23 had snow for 5 days solid in London (unless she was on hols and teasing) and we have had terrible rain today with lots of surface flooding (just done a 120 mile round trip) and tomorrow is even worse. Why aren't these named storms?
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So I was driving along the A27 this morning. I had got into the car at around 07:30 in drizzle. It was still drizzling and actually getting heavier as I approached Lewes with Radio 4 burbling at 07:57; Tomasz Schafernaker with the weather. He gaily announced it was a lovely fine morning, and specifically namechecked the south coast as dry. I looked around. I looked at the satnav. I confirmed I was within 2 miles of the south coast. I realised Meteo had now hit rock bottom; they couldn't even nowcast the weather correctly!
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It rained when I was last in Doha, John. I was astonished to realise that none of the roads had any drainage and simply flooded! It all disappeared in a trice when the sun came out of course. Be very careful - we saw lots of minor collisions because the locals had no idea how to drive in flooded conditions.
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Yes, the northwesterly flow over London is now reaching the south coast and starting to rotate it.
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It's now coalescing into an active band that will sweep over most of Kent.
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An intense patch of rain has just developed in the channel off Eastbourne and is making its way inland in the south westerlies tracking up to Maidstone, so anyithng in that path will get a soaking; we have had 4mm in under an hour.
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I can't find that particular post, but other postings from that person look, um, what's the tactful word here? Deranged.
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I HAVE SNOW!
Yeah, OK it's an avalanche I saw in the French Alps last week.
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SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on
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I'm in western France at the moment, and the clouds here have been incredible over the last few days. Here's a storm heading in over Arcachon bay, with huge, pendulous ridges of cloud that looked to me almost like ridged mammatus clouds. Any expert comments?