Mapantz

I keep getting lightning in your vicinity notifications, and there's been nothing remotely close when I check.

Doing a fencing job in this wind.. Had a gust of 48mph earlier. Humidity down to 50% with this wind has dried everything up, which is good.

There was an F5 here this morning, F5 being a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale.

Grey during day light hours, then clear at night. Typical!

I'm shocked at the lack of sunshine here. Just 175 hours Since February 1st. That's less than the average for the whole of April.

I've just put the heating on for a bit. It's been grey and chilly here today.

Sunny spells, 15.2°C.

Does anyone else keep thinking they've got black spots on their screen when at the top of a page?

I'm still putting the heating on in the evening. There's been such a lack of sunshine that no residual heat has built up in the brickwork of the house.

Cold wind, overcast, 91% RH. Feels like temp of 12°C.

Not feeling mild here. Cold wind and overcast. Feels like temp of 12°C.

My webcam caught a beauty of a sunrise yesterday

Window cleaner got a soaking! Pretty heavy for a few minutes.

ANYWEATHER Crop shop boutique and child support allowance

As I thought.. wind not even as strong as Saturday & Sunday. No need for a warning at all..

Wind warning is still at odds with the forecast.

Not sure I see a need for a warning for wind here on Tuesday? The predicted wind speeds are lower than what we've had over the past two days.

The majority of storms that erupt in France are surface based. If they move north, they won't survive the channel unless they become rooted in to the boundary layer. Elevated storms do cross the channel and survive, but often with a northeast trajectory, and lightning is less likely on the western flank of an MCS, for example, and we end up with a Kent clipper. If we have plume set up, and some kind of forcing element from the west or southwest, by way of a cold front, then storms will erupt in the channel itself and trundle north. It's more a question of; why don't we see these kind of synoptics anymore? Rather than asking; why don't storms survive as they cross the channel?

5.5 hours of sunshine so far. The most since March 30th.

jtay I was going to head out for ride on the mtb, but the wind is a bit too much! Just been adding some nifty little apps to my Garmin computer, mainly weather ones.

Strongest winds of the day!

That's awful bad luck, I really feel for you.

CryoraptorA303 No, it wasn't. I don't know what planet you're living on, but it isn't this one. Did you even venture in to the post mortem thread? It discusses what 'went wrong'.

So wrong.

Clouded over again. A nice 35 minutes of sunshine.