Emz by the Thames

Not just you, I've just got home, it's 9.c and damp and I've put the heating on!! The allotment is really behind because of this cool, wet spring. I put the potatoes in last weekend but the ground is wet and cold. It was 0.6c in the polytunnel on Monday night, not exactly growing temps so haven't planted any seeds - unprecedented considering it's May on Monday.

There's no weather. Polytunnel got down to 0.6.c Monday night. When does spring start?

Thundering away just now.

Took a break from packing/renovating to go to my allotment yesterday afternoon because it felt so warm, but as soon as I got to the top of the hill, that very cold strong breeze hit me...brrrr! To get to April 20th and have nothing planted is quite unusual. The ground is constantly cold and wet. Got my cucumbers and chillis on the windowsill of my old flat because the nights are still too chilly for them to be moved to the allotment...and next week looks abysmal temp wise. It's going to be a late harvest at the allotments this year, definitely.

First thunder of the year for me around 4.30pm - about 3 miles away but still felt it though my feet and it made me jump!

Thank you, the most exciting part is because I'm moving from a flat to a little terraced house, I can put a weather station on the shed roof, I've wanted a weather station for years! Not looking forward to 3 months of renovation which we will be doing much of it ourselves,

Going to have to change my forum name as I'm moving from Wycombe and the crazy squirrels in the big tree outside that entertain us. Expect weather reports from the River Thames from me from tomorrow as I'm moving to the Berks border. Team Moorhen maybe?? Team Squirrel signing off... (p.s I promise lots of nice rivery weather pictures. To be honest, I can't see much of the sky from my flat but that changes tomorrow!)

Snow and Ice warning for central Southern England has just popped up for tonight.

No cloud here, clear skies, two hours on a freezing hilltop with a load of pot-smoking pensioners...and we didn't see anything

Chance of seeing it tomorrow night too say Meto. I'll be in rural Oxfordshire tomorrow night, wonder if its worth a look up?

Amazing aurora photos all over Scotland and parts of Ireland tonight on Twitter. Even seen very faintly as far as Kent!

Same - £420 for our 2 bed flat despite us only putting the heating up to 20.c a couple of times, mostly 18/19.c even on coldest nights and only in the living room and bedroom, no heating at all in kitchen, box room, bathroom or hallway where it' pretty much always somewhere between 14.c and 17.c. We think our ancient and seemingly uncontrollable immersion heater is using up a lot of electricity - still we'll be out of here by summer. I can't ever seem to get truly warm. We had a bereavement over Christmas so this winter will be remembered for being utterly cold and sad, never wanted spring so much.

Definitely, would really recommend everyone takes humidity into account when heating a room. And of course the laundry setting makes drying clothes indoors easier and quicker. I still have to wipe the windowsills every morning, but it's also definitely reduced our mould and mildew issues too.

Minus 9 here at 6.30am, 16.c indoors but felt colder. The guy downstairs has gone away this week so the flat below is unheated, making our floors very cold. What with the cost of heating, we decided to not let any of our 3 wall heaters go above 19.c and to not let the humidity rise above 80 as damp, cold air is harder to heat. It's been quite a battle to maintain a comfortable environment since the cold weather arrived and the windowsills are sopping with condensation. Dare I say it but I'll tale 11.c and rainy at the moment.

Hello all. Keeping an eye on the mad forum as I have a lot of events in December...not to mention cost of heating concerns. But what I came here to say was the fog has been unreal here in November - every time I've looked out my kitchen window I see fog rolling around the hill and valley, blocking out the sun one minute, moving back into the valley the next, it's been quite extraordinary. A November fog index would be off the charts!

The nasturtiums on my plot seems to go to seed after the July heatwave - and now I have flowering nasturtiums everywhere. The xmas potatoes in bags on the polytunnel are wilting because they are too hot. I clearly dropped a handful of french bean seeds while packing up as they are currently 10cms tall! We had our final raspberries about 2 weeks ago. Feels all a bit odd, doesn't it? I've got to strim again tomorrrow.

It's still bearable temp wise in the flat as long as I put a hot water bottle under the blanket on the sofa - but with real humidity problems of a very small flat, I can smell the mildrew/mold kicking off so reluctantly it will go on for an hour or so tonight for the first time since April.

Quite a last minute yellow weather warning for rain over most of England/eastern Wales overnight.

Have always slept with the window open because my flat has humidity issues and hits 80 if we sleep with the window shut. Also....I just love sleeping with the window open! (especially when it rains). But...sleeping with the window open in current times means the flat is really cold by the morning - and as we are not turning the heating on currently, it means the flat gets too cold and has no way of heating up again. So we open the window for a few minutes before bed, then close it for the night and mop the the humidity by putting the dehumid on in the morning. But I really miss sleeping with the window open.

Insane storm, passed to the right of us but a couple of fantastic c2gs right in front of us. Was walking on a golf course when the storm was still far to the south in Hampshire but the epic distant rumbling meant we knew we were in for a treat. And it certainly delivered. Best storm of the year in October - who would have thought it!

Yes, we've noticed that the moment it hits 70%, we get a bit of a sniffle and the room starts to smell a bit like Pot Noodle - yuck. Our compact dehumidifier is pretty good at taking it back below 70 quickly though, especially its wet laundry setting.

65% humidity (thats normal for our awful flat) but 20.c..pretty good considering its currently just 11.c outside and no heating or appliances on.

Had a seemingly endless ribbon of moderately heavy rain for about 90 minutes on and off. The A40 is flooded. I opened the window, stuck my head out and got covered in gunk from a gutter that could no longer cope!

Storm to my east (Beaconsfield area) ..literally 10 seconds after I said to my partner it was unlikely we'd see any storms this far west!!

My house purchase has fallen through so I too will be in a small rented flat. People are always really surprised to hear that it still costs quite a lot to heat a small flat because the heaters aren't particularly economical. Also lack of central heating leads to warm and cold spots in the flat which leads to condensation and mould issues, especially as small flats with more than 1 person living there tend to be more humid due to 2 people cooking, showering and breathing in a small space, especially if you've no extraction or external door leading to the outside. I dread winter here, even though we have a dehumidifer on, if it gets about 70% percent, the whole flat starts to smell of mushroom soup...that's the mould growing. I feel for the guy upstairs though - even more this he only turns his immersion heater on 3 days a week so her can shower - the rest of the time he does the dishes and his daily ablutions by boiling the kettle alone - he's reall going to suffer this winter.