How's your weather?

[PDQ Mobile]

Today started cloudy but still warm.
Ideal day to cut the grass. Not blistering sun like we've had for nearly a week!

Trouble is, there's thunderstorms on their way, and it's raining now.
Lightning down in the South Hams and over in France.
We can hear the thunder, but not seen any lightning.

I'm keeping an eye on the progress on here:
http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m ... ;dl=2;dc=0;
If we see any lightning at all, I'll be disconnecting the router, so we'll be off the air.

One day, during a storm, the landline telephone lit up! It was dead after that.
We've lost about three routers in the last dozen years due to lighting. Our landlines come across open fields, so they are vulnerable to inductive pulses ............ and they wreck the router and the landline phone.

It's another area where Europe does it so much better!!
Buildings and installations nearly always have lightening conductors and as a result life goes on much as normal in big thunderstorms.

Hot here again. NW Wales.
We will be grateful for some rain.

[Mick F]

It's another area where Europe does it so much better!!
Buildings and installations nearly always have lightening conductors and as a result life goes on much as normal in big thunderstorms.

It's not the buildings that get hit, it's the overhead wires and poles.
If they were all underground, we'd be fine.
Also, all the power lines EHT and HT are above ground on poles, so they can get hit too - lecky goes off of course, but other than that, no damage.

We will be grateful for some rain.

You can have ours .......... but it's on its way north towards you now. You'll get it tomorrow perhaps.

[PDQ Mobile]

^^
I did say "installations".

They generally manage lightning better over the channel.
Power cuts from lightning are quite rare in my experience.

Bit like wood burning, they manage that better too.

The rain will be welcome and it's not often we say THAT!

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Surge protectors?
I've got them but I've no idea how effective they really are.
Friend of mine has lost two computers in the past he lives just outside the village and away from other buildings and a bit out on the limb.
I on the other hand live in the village.

Sounds a bit like thunder while I'm typing, it's raining a bit at the moment.

[colin54]

I remember Brucey linking to this 'Southhampton Weather' site a while back, it shows Radar images of UK and near Europe for the previous 3 hours to present. At the moment it looks like Devon might be getting thunderstorms.
Handy to get a picture of which way the weather's moving in real-time
http://www.southamptonweather.co.uk/rainradar.php

[Mike Sales]

I remember Brucey linking to this 'Southhampton Weather' site a while back, it shows Radar images of UK and near Europe for the previous 3 hours to present. At the moment it looks like Devon might be getting thunderstorms.
Handy to get a picture of which way the weather's moving in real-time
http://www.southamptonweather.co.uk/rainradar.php

Yes,and you always have to supplement the forecast with your own observations too, in order to get an idea of whether the weather is coming faster or slower.
Written or verbal forecasts always have to summarise and generalise over areas and timings.

[Mick F]

Turned the router off earlier and now the lightning and thunder has moved off to the north.
Heavy rain batting down in stair rods here. Zero wind, so it's coming straight down, but it's passing, so in about an hour, we're off out shopping.

Grass cutting and dog walking will have to wait.
He can manage without a walk today, he's had an unbroken series of decent long walks for a week or more.

[rjb]

Forecast got it wrong again. No signs of rain, thunder, lightning plague and pestilance here in Somerset, the sun is still shining, it's very warm, so keep it all down your way.

[Mick F]

Eventually dried up, though zero sunshine.
Mrs Mick F drove to Tavistock to do the shopping, and dropped me and Doggie off en route.
We walked back through the woods and the river bank, and called in at the pub on the way home!

Rained for some of the time, and then dried up, and since getting home it's been drizzling occasionally.
Cool today at around 18degC and getting cooler and cooler all the time.

May light the fire this evening.
Hot water and comfort.

[Cowsham]

Glad I got a cycle yesterday it's lashing down here today. Thunder and lightning due later according to forecast.

[Paulatic]

At the Moray Firth this is the first morning in a week I’m not sitting outside with my breakfast
Looks like a couple Nextdoor are taking their tent down before it blows down

[Mick F]

Stair rods again. Absolutely chucking it down.

Too hot to do anything for days on end, and now too wet to do anything!

[Audax67]

We've had 10+ days of lovely weather, never going over 30°C. Alas it's due to break today with the usual dismal pattern of rain & thunderstorms. Still, we're better off than Agen: they're armpit deep after getting 2 months' worth of rain in two hours last night.

[Syd]

After the warmest September day in Scotland since 1906, yes, it’s raining today.

[horizon]

Here's the BBC forecast for Looe for tonight:

Light rain showers. Low chance of precipitation.
Tonight will see rain continue, again, these turning locally heavy and persistent.

Not sure what to make of that.