Weather

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Does Portugal now have Scottish weather and vice versa ?? 

[Anthony Darby]

16 - 18^oC - that's a heat-wave here. We could eat outside in the garden without the need for any of our patio heaters!

[Casalima]

We have a wine festival here this weekend, so we definitely haven't gone totally Scottish If it doesn't get washed away ...

Actually the average annual rainfall where I live is between 1600 and 2000 mm a year - quite high. And it can rise to well over 2000 in the almost mountainous hills.

Chloë

[mark smyth]

what a difference a couple of days make. Very cold on Friday with a max of 12C. Today it's 25C

[David Nicholson]

Managed an hour in the garden this morning before being driven inside by thunderstorms with torrential rain and hail, the eighth day running that we have had heavy rainstorms at some part of the day. I assume our Summer was in April this year!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thunderstorms and hail anounced for tonight over here.
Keeping my fingers crossed... :

[Andrew]

For those who were not around to see the sunrise on the longest day, here is my view of it, the low clouds spoiling it a bit.



In case you were wondering, I was up for work, like I was yesterday and will be tommorrow.

[David Nicholson]

Must have been nice to see the sky above the clouds. Here I needed to put the dining room light on this morning to read the paper over breakfast. The whole of the day has seen heavy grey clouds, lots of very heavy showers, and, at 1500 Maureen put the central heating back on. Such is the Summer solstice

[mark smyth]

rain forecast here for yesterday and today. I've been in shorts and light shirt- currently 20C

[David Nicholson]

It's been a crazy year so far, weather wise, here in Devon with a very hot and dry April followed by a miserably wet May and most of June to date. At present the Summer bedding is looking most bedraggled and sorry for itself but the slugs and snails are thoroughly enjoying it, and it has been so damp and unseasonably cool that my Cowslips and Double Primroses, in the garden, which are usually well past their best and ready for a Summer rest, are beginning to flower again-see pictures below.

My wife keeps a diary in which she records, each day, whether or not we have had rain (who is the sad one in our family??). Her record is not scientific, for example it could rain during the night, but if in the morning the drive is dry and there is no more rain on that day, then the day is recorded as a dry one. (she would never make the Meteorological Office!) Her diary shows that from 2004 to date we have had, give or take one or two days, very similar numbers of rain days. Here are some figures:- They seem to prove the old rhyme 'glorious Devon, rains six out of seven'

                    2007        2006       2005     2004
January             20          16          22        22

February            20          15          14       16

March               16           20         14        17

April                   8           14         22        15

May                  19           22        17         11 

June                 12             9        13         14

[mark smyth]

I meant to show this last night when talking about the so British weather

[t00lie]

Ah --Mark-- blue sky i remember it well .

After threatening to revert to shorts and teashirts at the beginning of the month winter has finally caught up with us -- a light covering of snow here overnight.Inland has received a hammering over the last couple of days with the main road north to Dunedin ,(Lesleys abode), currently closed and the opening of the Winter Festival in Queenstown cancelled.

Thought you'd like before and after pics of a tree Dahlia.

Cheers Dave.

[t00lie]

Wasn't able to load more than one attachment in the previous posting so here's the rest....

[t00lie]

Tree Dahlia close up .

[t00lie]

Finally --not a particularly good shot because of the conditions.Plant today looking decidedly worse from the weather.

Cheers Dave.