Arid Acle

Brighter here in East Norfolk - but no blue sky yet. Cold on the morning dog walk. Promise of something better tomorrow (always a promise!) before the cloud returns from Sunday onwards. It's so cold!!!

50 Shades of Grey: an apt description of the weather in East Norfolk over the last 3 days. Back in winter clothes and fighting hard to resist the temptation to fire up the heating again.

Replying to the comments about a lack of sunshine this month, I can only refer to the kWh generated by our solar panels here in East Norfolk: only167 to date. To put that in context, March totals for the last 7 years from 2022 bck to 2016 have been: 488; 336; 465; 398; 278; 425; 387. This gives a March average of 389. I can't see where another 200+ kwh hours are going to come from the rest of this month (given the outlook); it would need 20 a day! To add insult to injury, we recorded 275 kwh this February (admittedly a good month), so for us to even get to that figure would require 10 kwh a day for the rest of this month - and we've only managed that daily total 5 times so far this month. This vaguely mild muck is so soul-destroying.

At 19:03, the sun out in its first appearance of the day. By 19:07, it had had enough and disappeared back behind the unrelenting blanket of grey cloud. 4 minutes of sun on August 30th!

Snowing here in Acle too - although only lightly

Despite Met Office saying to the contrary, we have had continuous snow all morning - sometimes quite heavy. 8 miles from the east coast.

Starting to ease off here. Probably the 3-5 cm predicted. Not bad considering we are only 8 miles from the coast and just 11m asl

Even snowing in Acle!

Dan Holley and Weatherquest saying 64 mm for Acle yesterday. Exceptional!

Not surprised by this. Heavy rain continuously since 7.30am. Local villages now cut off. Trains cancelled and A47 to Norwich v dodgy

Tipping it down in Acle. Street lights still on. Now for the dog walk ....

A little bit of light rain here. Barely enough to dampen the ground in Arid Acle!

Back from walking the dogs on the marshes. 6C and persistent drizzle - much the same as yesterday! And, on the face of it, this is the better day of the weekend. As for tomorrow, I have picked a bad day to travel over to Yarmouth?

STOP PRESS: The ? is shining through the cloud in Acle. Maybe time to take the thermals off as the temp shot up from 7C to 9C during the morning dog walk!

Another horrible day in East Norfolk - even colder and foggier than yesterday! I thought I’d take a look at the data from our solar panels and compare the first 11 days of April with last year's. The results confirm just how dull it has been recently: 108 kWh compared with 211 this time last year ( about 50%). Latest met office forecast has taken away the previously dangled carrot of a bit of sunshine for tomorrow. Now looking more like next Monday/Tuesday for this part of the world bar the odd peep over the weekend. Grumble Grumble.

Another day of grey skies and a keen wind. We made 12c!! Ventured in to Norwich just now and did see a tiny patch of blue sky (shock, horror!!). I don't have fancy stuff for measuring wind speed, rain fall, pressure etc. But, we do have solar panels. Taking Monday to Wednesday's generation total this week, you have to go all the way back to 4th-6th February to find another 3 consecutive days with a lower number; all the more amazing when you consider the hours of daylight available now compared to early Feb. An abysmal start to summer!

12c here. Dull and misty. Unrelenting northerly wind. Winter woolies back on and the fire alight in the grate. End of May? Really?

Can't get that Atlantic back quick enough. Incessant northerly gales, leaden skies and ,last night, torrential rain are not my idea of May/June!

Torrential rain, thunder, lightening from 1.30am. Incessant northerly gale. Rain should ease from now on but temps to stay very depressed until the weekend at the earliest. Drove over to Yarmouth yesterday morning passing queues of cars heading AWAY from the resort. Not sure what this awful weather will be doing for the tourist industry hereabouts....

Just round the corner for me but unfortunately we're already busy that weekend......

Arid Acle certainly living up to its name. Despite numerous weather warnings for copious amounts of rain, not a drop to be had hereabouts! Now very little being forecast for today and I expect any predictions for wet weather over the weekend to be steadily downplayed through today. Soon be time to open up the well in the front garden again!

Ah, that's more like it! Temp still reading 20C when I got home at 6.30pm. Balmy south westerly wind and dry as a bone. Liking this "Atlantic dominated weather"!

Psst; don't tell anyone but it was still 14C when I got back to Acle at 5.30pm. Positively tropical - and even a hint of blue sky out to the east! Things are looking up; the wind's died right down and the farmers are busy irrigating.

Yes; dull and grey here too BUT the wind does seem to have died down. Seems one more day of co,d before something a bit warmer - if not much sunnier. Wouldn't mind betting that we'll get very little rain this week.....

Lovely pictures MK! Happisburgh Light and Waxham Great Barn if I'm not mistaken!