Weather and Climate

Nothing to do with Spike Milligan:-) Diving bird - its friend had just vanished. Jack

The sun's out, but . . . A F6 NW wind. At least it's starting to return the sand to where it

Still waiting for it to feel chilly, the N-NW wind has yet to materialise. A few showers associated

More sunshine again today, but the lighting is completely different, so with the sky & sea colour

Evening sun. Mine is a still from a time lapse. Looking NNW over the back fence. Jack

That was taken from Yunnan Province . Clever these Chinese. Jack

After all yesterdays rain a decent dry, bright day today, the patchy rain having cleared just the the

An good wave on the north coast wave this morning. Reached 23.1C yesterday. A cooler start this

Graham. Do you have a zoomed-in picture of the female who appears to be starkers? :-) At the other

Thin often semi transparent SC dominant over the sea, but Cu formed quickly over the land, together

Many years ago I used to fly in and out of Blackpool (Squire's Gate) airfield. Being next to the

That looks quite fearsome, potentially. A great picture! Tudor Hughes On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 19

It cooled off a bit (relatively speaking!, late yesterday afternoon, but was still around 23 to 24C

I think a lot of them can walk from their accomodation with all their paraphenalia to the St Ives

We've had great visibility lately in clean Atlantic air. Scilly has been sharp from 30 miles away

Wind's become a F2 offshore westerly, the temperature has responded, has now (14:30) topped. 24C.

Quieter beaches are available! (I was on one) I never venture into St Ives June-September inclusive.

Tuesday 19th dawn thunderstorm. By all accounts it was even more of an event in Penzance (7.0mm

Despite our heatwave it is snowing from these altocumulus at about 10000 ft. You can see trails of

Spectacular display of cirrus uncinus (mare's tails) this morning. They seem to start from an old

Unbroken sunshine so far. A bit of a NE breeze, generally F3, hasn't held the temperature back.

Beautiful sunny afternoon so far. Breezy on the cliff tops, where it still managed around 19C, but in

Findhorn. Later looking across the Moray Firth after rain. Notice the low cloud. Jack

I didn't mean to imply everyone likes or wants the same weather, in fact didn't use the

Sunshine and showers. Some useful rain for the garden. The crop is 'Tatties' (potatoes). Jack

Another view of Tuesday's warm (the charts suggest occluded) front. Jack

Windy with gusts > 30 knots. The last one is over my back fence. Jack

There are also a few showers around, though big gaps between them. The maximum temperature around 18C

We could have done with that near miss here. June rainfall total now at 9.6 mm and most of that was

Saturday in north Scotland. The barley is coming along well but my goodness, we really need some rain