At Last

[paddywak]

The threatened rain has arrived, heavy enough to stop me gardening and with an occasional rumble of thunder how long it will last I don't know but the sky looks full of it.

[notasyoungasiwas]

Where are you - still warm and clammy here. I'd love some rain !

[ummmm]

Not here it doesn't....muggy as feck!!

[paddywak]

In North Notts, it's stopped already but as I said the sky looks full and the thunder is still rumbling and yes it's still warm and muggy

[notasyoungasiwas]

The sun's out just now in Cheshire, but apparently we're having rain tomorrow, bet it's still muggy though !

[Ratty2E]

Very very hot and sunny here in Bournemouth but the wind has picked up a bit.

[craft1948]

Had a tremendous rain storm here in York but now it's finished it's still muggy....

[cazzz1975]

its annoying and according to the met office its still going to be muggy at night as well for the next few days :(

[carmalee]

lucky you paddywak - hope it moves down my way - extreme SE - and we have thunderstorms - absolutely love them.

[paddywak]

unfortunately carmalee at the moment it's only thretening nothings actually happening. I like it warm and sunny but this last couple of days have been uncomfortably humid

[carmalee]

think I love storms and this sort of weather cos it reminds me of Africa in the rainy season (lived there for 25 years)

[paddywak]

Funny stuff the English weather Trish has just got off the phone to my sister who lives about a mile away at the other end of the village and it's absolutely throwing it down and by the sound of it it's just arrived here, Like you carmalee I love to watch a good storm, I remember one year we were fishing in the Chanel and had to run into Guernsey though a storm and the lightening display was that spectacular I didn't even think about what could happen to a 30 foot fishing boat in that sort of a storm

[carmalee]

I lived for a while at the foot of a mountain range with lots of banded ironstone and one night we had a storm to end all storms - strikes left right and centre- the rain was absolutely unbelieveable and the noise deafening - one of the dogs was terrified but the others sat out on the stoep with me watching it. No hope of any sleep with all that going on.

[pa___ul3]

haha, that little interchange between paddywak and carmalee, I had to read like two dogs chatting! Small things eh!

[paddywak]

Well it is chatterbank pa_ul, it has also set me thinking of one of the first jobs I had as an apprentice electrician. After a thunder storm I had to climb all the lighting towers, bunkers and winders and check all the lightening conductors for damage, the topmost spike was a copper rod about 4ft long and an inch diameter and though they normally came through without damage every now and then you would get one that had been considerably shortened

[carmalee]

:-)) pa_ul3