Yesterday morning, bright sunshine...

[Tony]

Yesterday morning was lovely, like an early summers day, and the week we've had has been glorious, I get up this morning and the world is white, kids are excited until they realise it's hail everywhere! I'm just wondering if anyone else had the same sort of experience or this is an isolated incidence

I nearly took a picture and then thought that was daft, taking a pic to illustrate we had hail!
Maybe we should have a weather thread, where we just put in the weather by us, it would be a good comparison...

 

[Buckshot]

We have bright sunshine here today!
Hard frost overnight but will soon warm up i think

 

[Wayne]

We had some great thunderstorms yesterday with a really heavy downpour of hail.

Made sitting in traffic rather pleasurable watching the lightning and bands of hail.

I love storms.

 

[Tony]

Been sleeting here for the last couple of hours, earlier I drove through a snow storm, a small one, the hills are white though...

 

[petrochemicals]

Hailing as I type. Grey drizzle yesterday, sunny this morning, now hail. I'm really not used to all this rough weather anymore.

 

[Nice65]

Wet snow and hail here in West Sussex. It’s really cold out too, I’m not looking forward to walking the dogs.

 

[Toddy]

Beautiful yesterday, sodden wet today

 

[saxonaxe]

"
NewWet snow and hail here in West Sussex. It’s really cold out too, I’m not looking forward to walking the dogs"

What an amazing place this country can be. I'm in East Sussex, working outside in 'T' shirt and jeans, on an outboard motor. The tatty old Thermometer reads just under 58 F...(12 ish C ? ) I came in to make a brew and saw the West Sussex weather....


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[Tony]

yeah, 8 miles from us they're covered in snow, there's a real mix at the moment...

 

[John Fenna]

We had a covering of snow this morning - but it is back to rain now...

 

[Ogri the trog]

We had a few flurries while it was still light last night - I went out at about ten to nine to get some coal and came back in looking like a snowman. Kate, seeing me, wrapped up to go and feed the (outdoor) cats, stepping out of the door probably two minutes after I'd come in - by which time it had stopped!
We had a slight covering on the car this morning at just after 5am and a few further flurries while in work but nothing serious.

Lets see what tonight brings!

 

[Macaroon]

We've got two or three inches on the ground up here, and it's still coming down quite heavily; windstill, though, so no drifts. I hope it doesn't hang around for long, we've got a yup of new-born lambs about the place.

 

[John Fenna]

Well - the BBC online weather forecast for our village says we are having/have had sleet showers ... but since before dawn it has actually been steady snow - wet, nasty snow that is not sticking on the roads but has turned our garden white to about 0.5 inches deep.
The old sayings about a "Blackthorn Winter" are more accurate than 21st century weather forcasts!

 

[saxonaxe]

" wet, nasty snow that is not sticking on the roads but has turned our garden white to about 0.5 inches deep."

The problem with this Beach Cafe is they're so slow... I ordered that ice cream ages ago...




Ok, I admit not quite, but it is sunny with blue skies, if a bit breezy..

 

[Nomad64]

We've got two or three inches on the ground up here, and it's still coming down quite heavily; windstill, though, so no drifts. I hope it doesn't hang around for long, we've got a yup of new-born lambs about the place.

An inch or two here in mid-Wales.

 

[dwardo]

In like a lamb out like a lion.

 

[Tony]

Rain and more rain the last couple of days, when the sun comes back out there's going to be a huge growth spurt, leaves and grass everywhere

 

[Graham_S]

As I type this, it's around 32°C and sunny, and the humidity is starting to creep up.
Another month or so and it'll be 50°C with 100% humidity, which is why I'll be in the UK for a month....

 

[Tony]

I think I'd turn into a puddle....

 

[Toddy]

I think I'd turn into a puddle....

Oh me too.
I couldn't take that, I really couldn't.

It's been a beautiful week here, unfortunately though there's been a constant icy cold wind blowing and overnight frosts. That changed late yesterday and the wind is warm, and feels like it's carrying rain.
The longer days are a real pleasure even if they are cold Birds are nesting, garden's growing like a wee jungle, every fruit tree and bush is in bloom and the bees were busy before six this morning.
The world's a much cheerier place

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