ManiaMuse

I don't mind heavy rain overnight if it is going to leave us with a sunny day again.

Lots of hail showers today. Some sunny spells but also breezy so feels chilly.

Feels lovely outside today even with the grey skies and a bit of a breeze. Think the daffodils in my garden will flower within the next week or so.

Sunset past 5pm now. Making progress, even on the cloudy days.

More than an hour gained in the evenings here now. 5pm feeling lighter with the clear skies despite it being after sunset. Makes a huge difference from a few days ago when it was very gloomy. Sky had a very pink tinge to it this evening.

Very dark today but not as wet as I was expecting for Manchester apart from a bit of a heavy pulse after lunch. Looks like the main band of the heavy rain went slightly further North than forecast?

Night and day difference between the gloom of yesterday evening and the clear skies today. About 2 weeks left untill the first 5pm sunset.

Not quite sure why they would do that. Planes are still getting into Manchester ok (in fact a Qatar plane that was meant for Heathrow just diverted to Manchester).

Supposed to be 50mph gusts by now here but doesn't seem anywhere near that. House is a lot quieter than it was during some of the storms last year. Might just be the more typical Southwesterly direction which my house is a bit more sheltered from than from Northwesterlies. Is it just my perception or did we have a lot of windy spells from the Northwest last year?

I did that last time we had windy weather at night and it made a huge difference. Managed to get a good night's sleep despite the creaks, rattles and whistles from the loft and windows whereas usually I would be tossing and turning and getting really anxious that something was falling off the roof.

Still a bit of blue in the sky clocking off at 5pm. Cloud cover still makes a big difference to perceived light levels at this time of year though. Will probably fell gloomier again on Sunday.

That made me laugh. They were probably laughing at you in their sleep wondering why you were outside shouting in the woods.

When was the last time that we had a solid 3/3 summer months that were pleasantly warm/hot and not too wet? Not necessarily scorchingly hot or none dry, but just consistently summer-like weather? It seems like we often hit one decent month like June 2023 or August 2022 but get punished for it with rain and cold temperatures in the other months. Last year was such a disappointment after a perfect June.

Seems like one of those rare days where we get the sunshine whilst the South gets another drenching.

The speed at which we gain daylight does start to ramp up pretty quickly from this point. Where I am we go from gaining 90 seconds per day now to gaining 2+ minutes per day just within the next 5 days. Hopefully we do get some sunnier days with the high pressure to come.