mint Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This afternoon, it got so warm that I gave the food shopping a miss and we had to cool the dog down with a watering can.Then, by early evening, there was thunder rumbling for nearly an hour, the skies darkened and a wind blew. We waited for the sound of rain but not a drop fell.After about an hour or so, the air became fresher and cooler, the sky turned blue again and it was as though there HAD been a storm but without any rain.This felt very strange to me and it was about the third time that this has happened during the last fortnight of very warm weather.Any meteorologists or weather-watchers out there who could say a few words to explain this phenomenon to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Yep, it's called weather!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 [quote user="sweet 17"]Any meteorologists or weather-watchers out there who could say a few words to explain this phenomen to me?[/quote]Nope, but then we're not up your way.All I know is that down here it was clear blue sky all day: about 30C when I was doing some hard graft in the garden.About 15.00, I thought that I'd give OH a treat [:D] and incinerate a few sausages on the bbq this evening. Cue clouds and a bit of a westerly. Idea abandoned.Tomorrow's forecast brilliant, but then they always say that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 What I meant was, it was just so weird having all the signs of impending rain and then it never came!Wish it'd rain though, forgotten what that stuff looks like........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I'm in sunny Florida, 90 degree days, not a cloud in the sky... ahhhhhh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 hiya sweets, we had the same yesterday evening. Saw a strange cloud (cumulonimbus - had to look it up on Google!) and heard distant thunder. Then there was a strong sudden wind that lasted for a few minutes. Happened a few times - we thought it was going to chuck it down but it didn't and we've had no rain at all. It's so hot I'd like it to rain, just to refresh the air and take away that 'crackling' feeling of heat that we're in at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Yup, Sweets, same thing here - although no thunder clouds for three days or so. I get a forecast e-mailed to me every morning and there has been rain on it three or four days hence several times in the last couple of months but by the time said day arrives, it's been postponed again. Even some of our established shrubs are beginning to look sad now through lack of water and my ponies are still on their winter grazing whereas normally by now the grass is far too rich for them to stand and I have to put them on my tiny paddock at the house. Surely food prices are going to rise (hay is already forecast to be double the price I paid last year) substantially as a result? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 It's the same here. Some local stockbreeders are already feeding hay that should have been saved for the winter. I think we may have to become vegetarian. Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Eat the stockbreeders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Who should? Us or the livestock?Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 20, 2011 Author Share Posted May 20, 2011 Here we go again; dark skies, thunder, dog cowering in a corner, OH saying it's cooler so I am going to do some strimming.I sit with my book and online dictionary to hand and, in minutes, there's a call, could you come and help me start the strimmer?Wish it would rain so that no strimming can be done and the dog doesn't come whimpering to sit on my lap....I no longer believe in these obvious signs of rain that produce no water[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 We've had the same here SW17 - every evening this week.I've just looked on France Meteo and they predict it will get hotter until next Thursday [:'(]We put lots of plants in the veg. patch a few weeks ago and are having to water twice a day. Up to now it's "allowed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 HUGE thunder storms over the last two evenings with torrential rain and another on the way tonight. (dept65), i've got full buckets in my attic.maybe it's a precurser for tomorrow... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8525047/Doomsayers-predict-apocalypse-now.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crossy67 Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Rain here, blessed cool refreshing rain[:-))][quote user="sweet 17"]This afternoon, it got so warm that I gave the food shopping a miss and we had to cool the dog down with a watering can.[/quote]Sweet you really had be chuckling with this, I know it's just my black sense of humour but I envisaged you battering your poor dog with a watering can screaming at him "cool down you ba5tard". Reading that he was cowering at the thought of it all again tonight just reinforces my mental image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 [quote user="crossy67"]Rain here, blessed cool refreshing rain[:-))][quote user="sweet 17"]This afternoon, it got so warm that I gave the food shopping a miss and we had to cool the dog down with a watering can.[/quote]Sweet you really had be chuckling with this, I know it's just my black sense of humour but I envisaged you battering your poor dog with a watering can screaming at him "cool down you ba5tard". Reading that he was cowering at the thought of it all again tonight just reinforces my mental image.[/quote]Send the rain over here, old chap.Until you pointed this out I hadn't read Sweets's post in that way but now that I haveI just can't stop giggling about it. That image is going to haunt me for a while too (especially now that I have met both Sweets and said dog.)[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 [quote user="crazyfrog"]HUGE thunder storms over the last two evenings with torrential rain and another on the way tonight. (dept65), i've got full buckets in my attic.maybe it's a precurser for tomorrow... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8525047/Doomsayers-predict-apocalypse-now.html [/quote]You are only about 30km from us, crazyfrog. Maybe it's your closeness to the Pyrenees that made those clouds release the rain - I'm jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 i'm surprised you haven't got any rain. There is an enourmous amount of rain being dumped on us.I saw this report in La Depeche...The farmers aren't that worried as they worked their tractors to death to get all the maize planted before the heavens opened, last year they had problems as there was so much rain they couldn't get on their fields.http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/05/17/1084089-Reserves-en-eau-aucun-souci-a-se-faire.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 20, 2011 Author Share Posted May 20, 2011 [quote user="crossy67"]Rain here, blessed cool refreshing rain[:-))][/quote]Pat, look what old Crossy's got....RAIN!I'm half an hour from him and I've had the black clouds and the thunder but still NO rain!Sky looks fabulous tonight....like a corramandel effect; ripply red and grey clouds and hot as hell..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Early yesterday evening we did our Jean de Florette impression with watering cans in the potager, watching the storm clouds rumble on by without a drop......but then woken at 1 am with a BIG storm, incredibly bright lightning and thunder right overhead and RAIN! Haven't checked the rain water tank yet to see how much actually fell, but it sounded like a fair amount! Ground still damp this morning and grey and cool. We're 65 just a few km from 32 border.Lou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Yes - we at last had a deluge too last night - there must have been a few cms of rain.So our garden and all the cereal fields are nicely drenched. I didn't realise there were still plenty of reserves, Crazyfrog - the river Azoues in the North of 32 is evidently very low.Don't give up hope SW17! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 Oh, Pat, we have the "signs" again this morning: clouds, cooler air but I think I can detect the sun trying to struggle through and bathe us all in sunlight yet again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 According to the Beeb, you're not due for any rain til Thurs eve/Fri, [Www]http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 We have had April showers today, yes in late May! Lovely, sun and showers, I'm sure some of the partched looking yellow lawns, are loving it. Yes, even in the NE of England we lack rain.We could do with some proper rain too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 It rained, it rained, overnight, but not enough to refill the butts unfortunately. And now it is brightening up again. Last night's weather forecast suggested that Wednesday is gonna be the hottest day so far, which may well make this the hottest May on record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 [quote user="woolybanana"]Last night's weather forecast suggested that Wednesday is gonna be the hottest day so far, which may well make this the hottest May on record.[/quote]You want to be down here - kiln dried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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