SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards

[stainesbloke]

1 hour ago, lassie23 said:

Fogging hell, impressive flogging melon, is it sweet and bigger than a tennis ball? I ate a carrot from my garden, autumn is here, my melons are dooomed

Thank you Going to try it tomorrow. It’s much bigger than a tennis ball, smells good. How was your carrot? Hope your melons keep swelling!

[lassie23]

10 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Thank you Going to try it tomorrow. It’s much bigger than a tennis ball, smells good. How was your carrot? Hope your melons keep swelling!

lol carrot was nice melons need two more months

[stainesbloke]

9 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

lol carrot was nice melons need two more months

Cool. Grew my melon in the greenhouse so it got plenty of heat. Where’s yours growing? Doesn’t look like it’ll get hot again for a while

Edited August 14, 2018 by stainesbloke

[lassie23]

8 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Cool. Grew my melon in the greenhouse so it got plenty of heat. Where’s yours growing? Doesn’t look like it’ll get hot again for a while

mine is in a pot in the garden 

[Ben Lewis]

Another grey cool morning. 

Probably loads of mid level cloud to greet today like yesterday as well. 

Cool and wet tomorrow. 

What id do to have those warm, blue sky days back. 

[stainesbloke]

4 hours ago, Ben Lewis said:

Another grey cool morning. 

Probably loads of mid level cloud to greet today like yesterday as well. 

Cool and wet tomorrow. 

What id do to have those warm, blue sky days back. 

Same here. The sun tried to come out earlier but the vile grey cloud has completely covered the sky, now Am missing the sunny skies, too. But it’s dry and usable weather, again, so it could be worse. And grey is so on trend at the moment. Currently 22C with moderate SW’ly winds.

Edited August 15, 2018 by stainesbloke

[stainesbloke]

10 hours ago, lassie23 said:

mine is in a pot in the garden 

You may need to move it indoors now, especially if it’s a watermelon or it won’t ripen

[Badgers01]

was expecting a better day to be honest given the forecast - 21.3c and completely overcast if the cloud cleared you would imagine it would be very warm... still its dry at least I guess another typical August day.

[Wimbledon88]

Yes,the much loved and vaunted ridging Azores High does the business again!

Zzzzzzz.

[Wimbledon88]

1 hour ago, stainesbloke said:

You may need to move it indoors now, especially if it’s a watermelon or it won’t ripen

Why have you got it in a pot @lassie23 lWill it not get pot bound? Through watermelons should be grown in the open? I'm no expert mind.

[lassie23]

7 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:

Why have you got it in a pot @lassie23 lWill it not get pot bound? Through watermelons should be grown in the open? I'm no expert mind.

i put it in a pot so it can be moved indoors in october when it snows

[Dami]

cool.

[danm]

Annoying amounts of cloud today. 

[Djdazzle]

2 hours ago, danm said:

Annoying amounts of cloud today. 

And as usual way more than forecast. I know I mention it a lot but it’s shocking how bad cloud forecasts have become in this era of so called progress.

[Meggy]

It’s actually very warm in sunny south Ockendon at the moment with a pleasant breeze! My phone app says 24 degrees and I know that’s not accurate but it’s all I have to hand at present! It’s very nice anyway! 

[Captain Shortwave]

Warm and quite humid today with variable cloud and some sunshine. A high of 25c with a fairly stiff south westerly breeze.

[Djdazzle]

1 minute ago, Captain Shortwave said:

Warm and quite humid today with variable cloud and some sunshine. A high of 25c with a fairly stiff south westerly breeze.

It's annoying. If the high was 100 miles further north it would be a lovely got and sunny day. Fine margins.

[Methuselah]

Dry and mostly sunny, 25C...As they say in the MAD thread: shocking!

[Ben Lewis]

Cloudy all day here with temps hovering around 21c 

Could be worse, it could be raining! 

[Tom Quintavalle]

Just been speaking to an old acquaintance, weatherman and author of weather books, Ian Currie. Ian has kindly agreed to perform one of his weather talks, at our over-50's Church Group, in Lee. He actually lived in the Lee area, when he was a very young boy. He may perform his talk on Frosts, Fairs and Freezes ( based on his book, of the same name.), Weather Lore (Also based on his book) or London's "Hurricane" ( based on his book of the October, '87 storm and others, locally.)

He now lives in a very picturesque part of our region, Storrington, West Sussex. He's recently opened another weather station there and sends data, to the Met Office. 

Asked him on his views for the rest of August and the early part of Autumn. He thinks we're likely to see a wet start to Autumn, as happened in Sept.1976. He thinks we're still likely to see occasional warm spells and convective potential, especially for our south coast regions, due to the above normal Channel temperatures, after such a hot Summer. 

Regards,

Tom. 

[Wimbledon88]

Cloudy and humid in London this evening. 23c. Very bland.

Hopefully a good dose of rain tomorrow to clear the air and freshen things up.

[Wimbledon88]

14 minutes ago, TomSE12 said:

Just been speaking to an old acquaintance, weatherman and author of weather books, Ian Currie. Ian has kindly agreed to perform one of his weather talks, at our over-50's Church Group, in Lee. He actually lived in the Lee area, when he was a very young boy. He may perform his talk on Frosts, Fairs and Freezes ( based on his book, of the same name.), Weather Lore (Also based on his book) or London's "Hurricane" ( based on his book of the October, '87 storm and others, locally.)

He now lives in a very picturesque part of our region, Storrington, West Sussex. He's recently opened another weather station there and sends data, to the Met Office. 

Asked him on his views for the rest of August and the early part of Autumn. He thinks we're likely to see a wet start to Autumn, as happened in Sept.1976. He thinks we're still likely to see occasional warm spells and convective potential, especially for our south coast regions, due to the above normal Channel temperatures, after such a hot Summer. 

Regards,

Tom. 

Hope he's right mate. We need a good soaking autumn and early winter then bitterly cold mid/late winter.

[stainesbloke]

21 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:

Hope he's right mate. We need a good soaking autumn and early winter then bitterly cold mid/late winter.

Hopefully some nice, sunny settled spells too! My gut feeling is for a wet autumn. Followed by a cold and snowy winter. Will no doubt be very mild, lol

Edited August 15, 2018 by stainesbloke

[lassie23]

was sitting out with my cat on my lap and a rat walked right up to us, i think it wanted to join us, although there wasn't much room on my lap weatherwise, it's average to below average

[Ben Lewis]

1 hour ago, Wimbledon88 said:

Cloudy and humid in London this evening. 23c. Very bland.

Hopefully a good dose of rain tomorrow to clear the air and freshen things up.

Clear the air? It’s been 21c and cloudy here all day. Nothing to clear.