Crepuscular Ray

Well, the theory that solar minimum presages lots of snow seems to have been disproved this time round.

Oh, God, I hope not. I don't want either a washout summer or a drought.

Why?

I was born the same year as Katrine. I nearly died of measles when I was two. None of those illnesses is trivial. They are all potential killers. Those parents who decide that it is not worth getting their own child innoculated because enough other people will get theirs done to prevent a widespread spate of infection are just plain selfish.

Sorry, JB, but I have to disagree with you, on several points Activity at solar max has an effect on the Earth's atmosphere and therefore a direct one on the weather in the area of the UK five-six years later? Wow. I don't think any serious solar physicist has ever claimed that the variation in emissions/activity during the solar cycle (x-rays, uv radiation, sunspots, solar flares, etc.) doesn't have any effect on the climate, or, to be more accurate global weather patterns over a 22-year cycle, it's merely that the effects of AGW are swamping the 0.2 °C change that can be attributed to the sunspot cycle. The number of cosmic rays that get to Earth always increases during solar minumum. That's been observed ever since we've known about cosmic rays. All of the major meteorological bodies' climate models take into account the sunspot cycle and other such variables.

In case no-one's already posted this link: https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Weirdly-Quiet-Sun-May-Get-Even-Quieter-and-BTW-Earth-Still-Warming?cm_ven=cat6-widget

Apologies to the management, but...

Proper big flakes now in Kensal Green. It's settling on the grass, but not the road or pavements, which are too wet.

My suggestion is "No-one knows anything beyond five days, just enjoy what the atmosphere throws at us."

The Met Office really should stop the Express linking to their site in order to promote Rao's utter rubbish.

That we could stop talking about winter in early September!!!

November-like? It's been about 20 °C here, so not Novemberish at all. I am happy that my lawn is showing signs of green and relieved that the high temperatures that made me feel ill have disappeared for a few days

Intermittent rain out in the Cotswolds, a nasty breeze, and bloodly cold compared to the last few weeks.

He needs aversion therapy. Garden hose is a start!

Take no notice of the scare-mongering idiots. Six hours of drizzle/moderate rain for me today, followed by half an hour of torrential stuff with three crackles of cloud-to-cloud lightning. The temperature in the flat has dropped four degrees in two days, yay. It's now down to 24.8 °C, after being 32.5 late last week. The weeds in the front lawn are looking annoyingly perky already.

Give it time. Storms from across the Channel often perk up after dusk.

I doubt any farmer who hasn't got their wheat/rapeseed harvest in yet would agree with that.

Absolutely. My parents are under orders to stay inside when possible, open windows only on the shaded side of the house, keep all the curtains shut, drink lots of water and do nothing strenuous. Dad (89, with a pacemaker and increasingly frail) is fighting me (obviously, I am only his daughter and know nothing) but then admits defeat after about ten minutes in the garden. Only 25.5 °C in the bedroom? It's not been below 29 in mine for weeks!

30.7 °C in here. No point attempting to sleep, yet again. At least I got two nights' sleep earlier in the week.

Hosepipe bans imminent in many areas.

Two hours of heavy rain in Kensal Green yesterday evening. I was tempted to do the Gene Kelly puddle jumping thing on the way home for the bus stop. Most of it ran away and flooded the Bakerloo Line, but enough got into the nooks and crannies to trigger a major flying ant episode this evening. The pavements were black with them at one point.

It says something about our weather enthusiasm that the title of the thread is about your worst ever thunderstorm and the responses are all about their best ones.

And now a Korean Airlines at less than 4000 ft over Kensal Green 8 miles from LHR. I don't think that QAR flies from London City Airport. Must have been a cargo flight out of LHR. After all, they have to import from all over the place now. On the weather front, the thunder has disappeared to the north, but it's still humid even though the skies have cleared. Q

Fourty minutes of continuous thunder was fun.

Blimey. Which flight? There aren't any at this time of the evening normally.