Weather mid 2009

[Ragged Robin]

The most unbelievable thunderstorm raging overhead - lightening every few seconds and terrific bangs, torrential rain with huge raindrops - hope the leak is fixed 

[Anthony Darby]

Just heard a weather warning for Scotland for the next 36 hours - 2-3" rain expected. Don't know why they need to warn us as that seems to be the norm for July?

[Maggi Young]

Quite, Anthony! It felt like we got that much yesterday, anyhow

[Anthony Darby]

Popped in to my friend's place in Camelon, Falkirk as I had to go into school to feed the snakes. The bucky lugger was in Trinidad (again) collecting leaf cutting ants. I sent him a text ("wish you were here")!

[Roma]

Only got a few spots of rain here yesterday, Maggi.  Did see some black clouds and heard thunder.  I think this cloud was heading your way.
( I live about 12 miles from Aberdeen )

[Ragged Robin]

That cloud is gathering momentum and looks pretty thundery to me Roma    It's extraordinary the amount of thunderstorms we are experiencing and the intensity for 20 mins or more of lightening flashes, thunder claps and huge rain drops pelting down - i wonder what all the wildlife must think 

[mark smyth]

Weather here today has been the same as yesterday, the day before, the day before that ....
rain sun rain sun rain

[Maggi Young]

Roma, yes, I think that's the bloomin' culprit!  It wasn't taking time to come down... torrential rain and big thunder claps.  Ian tells me ( I was not in a position to see, being well hidden in the middle of the house) that there was no forked lightning, only sheet lightning in the clouds...

When it calmed down for a while later in the afternoon I went down to see the pet rabbits I am tending for the neighbours' children this week.... I half expected them to have been washed out of the garden and down the hill..... glad to find them sitting safely inside their hutch and the run not under three inches of water  as I had feared....... thank goodness for that... it's a large contsruction and is a pain to move!

[Rodger Whitlock]

The Pacific Northwest is in the middle of an unusually hot heat wave at the moment. All outdoor fires have been banned. Global warming may be a fiction as the denialists claim, but localized warming is definitely real.

I generally don't water my garden, not desiring a garden on life support, but my big Rheum tanguticum 'Red Select', my Vancouveria chrysantha and V. planipetala, and the many plants in pots have to be watered regularly if they are to survive. The rheum will survive without water, but it doesn't do well under those conditions and would probably eventually peter out after some years.

About all one can do is get outside and water in the early morning when it's still cool, then retreat inside where it's shady and a few degrees cooler and work on cleaning seed and solving sudoku puzzles.

[David Nicholson]

Today = gale, heavy rain, dark, miserable! Having a new central heating boiler fitted over the next few days so no hot water until Friday unless we heat it on the stove. Maureen's misery deeper than mine, not only will she not be able to wash her hair but the plumbers are competing for her kitchen space and she can't do any washing either. I had been promises a rhubarb pie this week, guess that's off now as well. Think I might go for a much needed haircut. Small problem: new hairdresser is Polish and appears not to understand the term "shortish, but not too short" last time I looked like a fugative from Alcatraz.

C'est la vie.

[Anthony Darby]

We have mostly blue sky! Bizarre! 

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely sunny day for the Bridge of Allan Highland Games. The games weekend traditionally means the summer is over and winter starts.

[David Nicholson]

Drizzle and grey skies here.

[Maggi Young]

Monday morning, bright and sunny......perfect  weather for the Russian Forumist we expect to be visiting today   

[mark smyth]

Who's coming? Is s/he coming this way?