Puddy Galore

We have a storm, very heavy rain with occasional hail with thunder and lightening.....yay!!

aha, 3 rumbles of thunder and a very sharp heavy shower, does that take our area out the no storm club??

well, we had a fair few heavy bursts of rain in Tettenhall where I work but no thunder. Got home to Penn at teatime to be informed they all had a loud clap of thunder amongst all the heavy rain......one clap only.... but its a start!!!!

I love autumn also as long as it is dry, crisp, misty and cold. Don't like a wet and windy autumn when the leaves are soggy and wet sticking to everything making everywhere slippy. It us a horrid job cleaning the garden of wet dirty leaves. I think it was autumn 2009 around these parts that, as far as I can recall, was a beautiful autumn. I have 5 sycamore trees at the top of my garden and I was almost knee deep at one point at the top of my garden that year with beautiful crisp leaves. In the evening I could hear the badgers and other wildlife crunching through the leaves.

yes, this is the main issue for me, its been so awfully dry this summer and, unless I'm mistaken, comes on the back of a fairly dry winter as well. I'm beginning to feel around these parts we will dry to a crisp and wither away. So many trees locally are looking tired and some look ready to throw the towel in and we are only half way through July. There seems to be a frequently present pesky wind that seems to add to the drying effect. I have a wood leading onto open farmland at the back of me and all this dryness does worry me somewhat. The wind has dropped a little since first thing this morning and now we are in full sun again so yet another drying day coming up. Whilst I am conscious and respectful of what folk in parts of Cornwall have endured during the last 24-hours, I really am hoping for some decent rainfall here sooner rather than later.

mmmm, does that mean you are excluding me from any storms

Gutted, in the same area and I appear to have missed it!! Best of it being I was actually outside in the summerhouse/cat pen with the door open! Think I must be going deaf...

Know what you mean regarding looks people give you. Heatwave summer 2016 and I needed to walk from work to the tram station in West Brom in the mid afternoon sun. Decided to use a pretty bamboo parasol I had to shade me from the sun and some plonker looked at me curiously and pointed out it wasn't raining

What a fabulous and sensible blog there to raise awareness of having too much sun exposure without the correct protection. Skin damage caused by too much exposure to the sun is not a pretty sight and malignant melanoma's are very scary things to have.

Grow up....

Can't see anywhere where I'm trying to make anyone feel quilty about anything to be honest.....

Genuinely glad you got to enjoy the recent hot weather stainesbloke but being so sarcastic about those who genuinely don't enjoy the heat as much as you is not particularly friendly from where I sit. Firstly intense heat such as we have experienced over the last few days causes some real issues for people who suffer from a range of medical conditions, in particular those making breathing difficult, so spare a thought for them struggling to breathe in such intense heat and secondly Kuwait, unless I'm mistaken, is a country well geared up for heat so is able to cope.

I agree, the past few days have been unbearable. I'm also worried it has really knocked my 17-year old cat for six all this heat and it hasn't done me many favours either having to work in an office with no opening windows (other than 2" with a struggle!!) and no air conditioning. Happy for pleasant summer weather but not the oppressive heat of the last few days.

Skies looking towards Birmingam way from my garden....does it look promising?? Desperate for a good downpour...

We've had some thunder rumbling around...dark clouds towards Shropshire ( or over bills mother as they say) not sure if it will come to anything....

Appreciate its been a great deal drier than the last few winters but this comes to mind when thinking of the last couple of awful winters, although it has been wet and damp around these parts over the last week. (sorry if advert is at beginning, didn't know how to shift it)

I live in Penn, Wolverhampton, on the edge of the seven cornfields and the large farm adjacent to Penn Common. I can vouch for that sentiment for 2010, it was wonderful!! Looking out over the woods and fields from the top of my garden looked just like scenes from the chronicles of Narnia!! Bring it on again I say!

Hoping for a cold winter. Not only because I do like cold, snowy and frosty weather rather than the mild windy wet mush of the last 3-winters but also because I do feel a cold frosty winter may kill off some of these garden pests. I seem beseiged by slugs and snails and have an awful problem with vine weevil this year - will need to name the house Slug Hall or Weevil Manor soon Heres hoping to a cold one.

If it gets too chllly in the mornings will put the heating on for a short blast to make having a shower more comfortable, not been cold enough just yet to do that though. Not been using the central heating at night now at all for 3-years other than the odd night when lighting the burner wasn't feasible. Had a log burner fitted September 2013 and I have found It does heat the bungalow enough to avoid using the heating - be interesting to see if it kept the place warm enough if we had weather as cold as 2010..

Thunder rumbling around these parts, sky an ominous yellowy grey colour.

Grief, that sure was intense. There was a deafening crack with lightening at one point so I do wonder if something was hit hereabouts. So glad that little lot didn't arrive after dark, it would have scared me to death!! Even the cats sat up and took note!

Looked outside earlier and must admit there seemed to be an odd almost eerie light outside, weird.

Not much happening around these parts. We have heavy rain and although I have heard a couple of rumbles of thunder I haven't seen any lightening. Most of the action is passing us by it seems.

Me, I'll have a moan about it For me the summer (certainly around these parts) has been....shall I say.... inconsistent. Its either been too cold, too hot, too wet or too windy for me. The latter has really hacked me off....had to prop my beans up last night, take the hanging baskets down off the front before they blew away. Thought the baskets around the back had some shelter....nope....came home from work tonight only to find one of the fucshia baskets destroyed, all broken bits on the floor.....the wind must have weakened the stems - lovely double pink flowers. The consistent wind has also dried the garden up so much and now.......it's too dry!! Nice reasonable temps with regular rainfall every so often to water the garden.....and without that pesky wind would have been nice