The Weather Thread!

[Silent Ninja]

It's too hot.

[Between The Bars]

Originally Posted by Silent Ninja

It's too hot.

Aye, even up here in Scotland it is.

[Blue Salamander]

It was warmer than usual this week, and there was lightning a few hours ago lol

[Silent Ninja]

It's so hot upstairs I'm not sure it's worth bothering to go to bed.

[Oddity]

Insulation backfiring

[Oddity]

It's cooling a bit now, but it was 32 degrees in here for most the day.

[Between The Bars]

A dinnae ken how the Welsh & English can handle that kind of heat.

21 degrees max, up here the morn.

[Ajax Amsterdam]

Storm Doris was pretty bad here in Scouseland today.

I unfortunately had to do a lot of driving earlier and there were trees down, roads closed, fences blown into roads, roofs blown off and walls blown down.
The sun is out now and Doris has calmed down, so I better get outside and fix the fence panel that was broken this morning.

[neilm]

Bit wet and windy this morning up here in Bonnie Scotia, and I can see snow on the hills nearby.

Nothing unusual for the time of year though. Seems like Doris isn't bothering us too much....

[Ajax Amsterdam]

Quiet here now. Managed to fix the fence anyway. Back in one piece rather than the five pieces Doris left it in.

I can almost hear the jingle of cash registers going off in companies that do fence panel repairs.

Hope no one was hurt, but I saw a massive tree down across the dual carriageway that links to the Port of Liverpool earlier. Really hope no one was under that when it fell.

Sounds like you had it tough down there, flumps.

[Ajax Amsterdam]

^
I'm glad you got things sorted before any real damage was done.

I like extreme weather too. I've always been a bit fascinated by it since I was young. As I was out anyway earlier on I called into Crosby beach on my way home to have a look at the waves. When we get Atlantic storms and a high tide there are some monster waves crashing in there. I've seen the sea rip up concrete and tarmac there just like it was paper. Turns out the tide was out at the height of the storm today, so no damage. Still looked rough out in the Crosby Channel, though, and I hear the Port of Liverpool was shut down.

[Mo34]

Was windy (and still is) today but didn't seem that extreme here to me. :/

[Azalea]

Been bad here, house down the road lost part of its gable end.
Youngest son had his car written off by a shed roof where he parks his car when he's working down south and we've lost 2 concrete fence panels.

[Damp_Squib]

Was expecting the worst with all the weather warnings, but fortunately nothing much happened here ... bit of a damp squib really.

[RedLight]

It became much warmer, finally I feel the spring coming!

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by Victoria Lucas

Lots of wind and rain here. Had to change my three year old as soon as we got in the door today, he was absolutely soaked from jumping in huge puddles.

Aww glad he had fun, I hate it when parents wont let their kids do things like that.

[Ajax Amsterdam]

^
Sadly, a woman was killed in Wolverhampton, and a woman in Stoke-on-Trent and a man in London suffered serious head injuries all due to debris from roofs.

Azalea, sorry to hear about your son's car. Just glad he's safe, though.

[Silent Treatment]

got stuck in Worcester for 3.5 hours as the railway line was blocked!!..got home eventually at 10pm..should have been 6pm!

[anxiouslondoner]

Doris is a bad name for a storm. Such a bluster of hot air that carelessly causes so much damage should be called Boris, not Doris.

[Ajax Amsterdam]

^
If they didn't have to do them in alphabetical order, with 'B' already been used this winter, that would have been a good call.

Apparently 200 trees were blown down here in Liverpool yesterday. I saw a big one down just outside the city centre earlier on today. The weather is great here now. Apart from the trees, fences and wheelie bins still down you wouldn't know we had a big storm just 24 hours ago.

[Mo34]

Torrrrential rain at the min. Glad i'm not going anywhere today.

[Rocket Spud]

It's cold

[Rocket Spud]

It shouldn't be though

[Ajax Amsterdam]

We had heavy hailstones and a clap of thunder on Monday night. Could also see a fresh fall of snow on the Welsh Mountains this morning. It seems that the jet stream has dragged a plume of cold air down from the Arctic, but this will be replaced later in the week by a slightly warmer westerly from the Atlantic.

[Rocket Spud]

Want that slightly warmer weather sooner!

I wish this wind would razz off, motivation to work is minimal enough as it is :/

[Rocket Spud]

Looks like the southeast coast will get a proper storm tonight, it's right ther in the channel, i'm seeing the odd flash as it is and i'm south central.

[newbs16]

^ I'm going to open my window if we get a storm here, it's very refreshing

[newbs16]

I've opened my window now but it still feels very humid.

[Mo34]

Originally Posted by Rocket Spud

Looks like the southeast coast will get a proper storm tonight, it's right ther in the channel, i'm seeing the odd flash as it is and i'm south central.

I don't know about lightning outside but there sure was thunder here. Kept waking me up. Although semi asleep I got slightly unnerved and staggered out of bed and unplugged the TV aerial
Sounded like torrential rain too through the windows.

[neilm]

Never really gets warm or humid enough in Aberdeen for Thunder, and lightening tends to be a rare event too.

I hope (just for a change) we get a semi decent Summer up here. The cold summers are probably the most depressing thing about living up in N East Scotland