Another foul day.   11.30 am, 9.9C and steady rain, solid cloud, of course.

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Dull and damp (after 9.6 mm of rain fell overnight) as well as feeling cold at 11.2 C & high 80% H in a mod W breeze.

The underwhelming Spring of 2024 continues.

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It was muggy as heck yesterday, which is why I made the comment that I did - I was out in the garden during the afternoon, hauling logs around to lay out a new pathway through the undergrowth, then clearing away the undergrowth along the path, and digging out brambles, so I really felt it. It was very sticky, even with only a light summer jacket (more for protection for my arms than to keep me warm) and a polo shirt. The joys of being in your 40s, y'see, you don't tend to feel cold! 😁

My weather station tells the tale: a Davis VP2 with fan-aspirated shield. There was a light breeze but it wasn't at all refreshing - "cold" would have been the last word on my mind yesterday! (And indeed, as the average high this time of year is 15 or 16, it really wasn't cold... with the humidity, even light exertion made it feel warm).

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2024-05-2/2024-05-2/daily 

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Sat out in the sheltered garden in fleeting sunny spells. I spotted a big cumulonimbus through the haze well to my SE. I checked the radar only to see that heavy showers have broken out over SE Scotland with quite a few lightning returns. Where did they come from?
The wind is less cold today although we are struggling to reach 13 C.
Must be some upper level feature coming across the North Sea? 🤔

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Large area of thundery rain to our SE now. Can here distant booms of thunder. Edge of big anvil cloud coming overhead

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Sudden downpour sent me running into the shed! No more thunder heard but that might be it for gardening!

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Torrential downpour now!

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A misty morning, with condensation on the outside of the upstairs windows.

8.3, dew 7.5 (95% RH), after a low of 6.6 earlier. Yesterday's high was bang on average, at 15.3.

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9.2C, sunny, small patches of cloud

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8C. Calm with earlier fog now turning to light mist with sun visible. A springlike start to the day.

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Another dreich day, gloomy Spring day, 12 C, featureless!

Max temps this month so far are 13, 12, 12, 12 🙄

 

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Down here it's been 18, 17, 15, 16 (so far)... sunny during the morning here, but it's now clouded over as a series of showers passes just to the south - I'm hoping one'll hit here, otherwise it's time for the watering can again!

EDIT: And not long after, one did hit here... dropping a handy 0.6mm of rain. I'm not sure my neighbour was as keen, though, as he was out mowing his lawn with an electric lawn mower. Worse, he carried on while it chucked it down.... the guy's not the brightest bulb in the box (didn't know what a rose hip was, for example) but mowing with an electric mower in the rain? That's just plain suicidal!

 

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After a cold start this morning it has been a fine warm day with a fair amount of sunshine
and a max temp of 16c.

... closing ...

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