Welcome to my Blog, bringing you my weather observations through North East Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, North Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and into the City of York during my daily commute from Melton Mowbray, by car and train.

Monday 14th April 2008:

Lightening over the Walker's Stadium.

Melton Mowbray 06:30hrs 4.5'C

In tems of the commute to York this morning there is very little weather to talk about. A local air frost meant the ice had to be scrapped off the car first thing and the drive to Grantham was under high patchy cloud. On board the train heading towards York cloud began to build around the Doncaster area with light drizzle and sunny spells here in York.

The most interesting weather happened on Friday afternoon and over the weekend.

On Friday travelling home on the train, the passengers were witness to an impressive complete rainbow in the sky to the East of the train in the Bawtry area. Many passengers in my coach got out their cameras and mobile phones to capture this impressive display. I got a picture of the tail end of the rainbow and hope to post it here shortly.

The weekend weather was a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers. On Saturday at the Leicester City home match an impressive thunder storm with lightening lived up the mood during the last few minutes of the first half. It's a shame the action up in the sky couldn't be replicated on the pitch. May be the turmoil above the Walker's Stadium is a bad omen for the Foxes fortunes as their Championship relegation battle continues.

Temperature at 06:30 was 4.5'C, lowest recorded overnight temperature 2.1'C. Pressure at 06:30 was 1006 hPa

Tomorrow: Another late winter ligth frost with sunny spells.