Crepuscular Ray
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My brother reports that there were a few light flakes of snow in the air first thing this morning when he took the dog for a walk up on Garreg Lwyd. -
Same here. Only -0.1, but enough to make the garden look a bit wintry.
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My weather station, irritatingly, recorded precisely 99.5 mm of rain from this system. The upper reaches of the Amman and Clydach (the Towy tributary one) were spectacular this morning.
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Observations Of Nature Through The Seasons.
Crepuscular Ray replied to Jane Louise's topic in Space, Science & nature
Talking of hawkmoths, I found this chap in the garden earlier. OK, elephant hawmoths are relatively common, but any excuse to avoid weeding is fine by me. I hope that I will be making lots more such discoveries as I settle in to my retirement in the western Brecon Beacons.
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Well, only the Lancaster turned up from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Wales National Airshow - presumably they didn’t want to risk the smaller planes around the showers - but the Red Arrows did their thing.
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A bit of thunder over Swansea Bay and a shortlived humdinger over the Black Mountain yesterday, followed by this beaut:
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Wonderful lenticular (?) clouds seen from the A 474 and the road across Betwys mountain from Swansea to Ammanford this afternoon.
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Just a couple of dry days here in the Brecon Beacons, and the commoners are out clearing the dry old plants to make way for new growth for the sheep to enjoy later in the year. The National Park authorities don't like it much, but they have no control over the common land.
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Count yourself lucky.I'm temporarily in South Wales, and have seen blue skies only three times in as many weeks. I'm going to have to use a SAD lamp at this rate.
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Two thunderstorms in the space of one eveninghere in the Hailsham/Eastbourne area, one with near continuous thunderbolts and lightning for nearly half an hour. That was fun!
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For the first time in about 25 years, Hailsham has non-boring weather!
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But, joy, the storm has headed back south! Thunder agogo at the moment.
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Four miles too far north, although I can hear rumbles. The blue blob over over Hailsham and Polegate is a big fib, though.
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What the actual is the Express on about? 28 °C for one day does not equal a heatwave.
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Thick fog here in Hailsham this morning. It looks more like November than July.
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At this rate, I'm going to have to empty the rain gauge before I go to bed and again at about 3 a.m.
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Move house.
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Peeing down in Hailsham for nearly an hour, and there is now thunder in the distance.
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Dungeness was utterly gorgeous today out looking at the sound mirrors and Derek Jarman's cottage garden. It certainly feels like there is something in the air, but so far nothing interesting appears to have made it nearer my bit of East Sussex than the Cherbourg Peninsula.
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Lovely afternoon in Hailsham, not far from the Sussex coast, with a spread of mackerel sky at one point. The view from the train window out of points south of London Bridge of the shower clouds to the north helped me to calm down from my first encounter with "Mind the gap between the train and the platform" in over a year.
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The word is "unseasonally".
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Sorry mate, we're all entitled to our opinions. It's far easier just to accept the weather as it comes than describe it as being wrong or unacceptable.
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Tough. The weather takes no notice of models, our arbitrary expectations of what weather should be like at given times of the year and is subject to that annoying Patagonian butterfly. Here in East Sussex, the morning was sunny if chilly, the afternoon mostly cloudy with showers. This evening, it is mostly clear again and the wind nowhere near as strong as forecast. I have, however brought the bedding plants that I haven't yet got round to planting indoors, just in case.
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The weeds appear to be doing better than the plants I actually want to grow. I wish I had Hammersmith and Fulham Council's remedies for the former: a flame thrower and a steamer.
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Solar and Aurora Activity Chat
Crepuscular Ray replied to shuggee's topic in Space, Science & nature
According to spaceweather.com, SC 25 might peak earlier than projected, in 2024. www.spaceweather.com
