Cornwall in the distance

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Bovisand Bay, Cornwall, Devon, Landscape, People, Plymouth, Rain, Thinking, thunder storms, ViewLeave a comment

Across from Plymouth Sound in Devon sits the County of Cornwall. This is the view from Bovisand Bay. I love the South West of England. I would live there if I could afford it instead of the occasional visits we make every few years. I think it’s the attraction of the sea. We stayed in a caravan site near this bay on summer and saw a massive thunderstorm. The lightning was striking the surface of the water and we could look across the bay and see it hitting the Cornish side. It was like a spectacular light show.

Talking about thunder and lightning, we might be getting thundery showers on Wednesday or Thursday if the weather forecast is correct. I hope we get a decent amount of rain. Not the thing for a beach holiday, but we certainly need some water on the land.

Skyscape

Posted on July 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Heat, Hot, July, pouring, Rain, Raining, Saint Swithens day, skyscape, Sunshine, WeatherLeave a comment

When the wind blows the sky changes. Heat is coming and clouds may be fleeing this weekend. Warnings of temperatures above 30`C are expected. High UV is predicted.

The British don’t really do ‘heat’, we go abroad for it, but we are more used to summers of wet weather, music festivals in mud, Wimbledon or cricket rained off. A summer can last a day as far as we are concerned. We even have Saint Swithens day. A day in July? If it rains on that day we can expect continuous rain for the next forty days and nights… And sometimes that seems to come true! One year I joked with friends that we should build an ark on high ground it rained so much….. Sunshine, nice for a day or two, but Britain appear to appreciate clouds. X

It might rain

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Brown, Clouds, Cold, Grey, Hail, Rain, Sky, Summer, Sunset, Thunderstorms, Weather, WetLeave a comment

The skies gone a dirty grey brown colour and the forecast is for heavy rain showers or even thunderstorms. The sun won’t be setting for at least another hour, but as they say round here ‘its gone dark over Bill’s mums!’ in other words it’s going to rain soon! In fact as I write this I can hear raindrops drumming against the window. It did try and hail earlier on and there were little grains of ice on the car windscreen.

Watching Wimbledon

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Life, losing, Play, Rain, Sport, Strawberries and cream, Summer, Tennis, WimbledonLeave a comment

I mustn’t watch. The players I support seem to lose when I watch them! If I listen its OK, but if I see the shots… Well it’s something that seems to happen. I have my favourite tennis players, but I’m not obsessed with the game. I wouldn’t go and watch it live.

Wimbledon is the epitome of summer in the UK. Strawberries and cream at exorbitant prices. At least one day of heavy rain which ‘stops play’, injury and tantrums. I still remember watching the McEnroe game where he shouted at the umpire ‘you cannot be serious’ when a shot of his was deemed to be ‘out’ (outside the playing area) and he had lost a point ( game/set/match)?

I saw Andy Murray win a few years ago, so I can’t really be jinxing them. But although I love the game I do have things to do!

PS, both the people I watched lost!

Sky

Posted on June 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers art, Clouds, Drawing, Hail, Rain, Sketching, Sky, Thunderstorm, weekend2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Sky. I tried to draw the clouds I had seen at the weekend as they bubbled up. Shower clouds not quite thunderstorms. There was heavy rain but not hail. Felt pen drawing. I couldn’t replicate the colours in the sky that day.

Rain clouds

Posted on June 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, cumulus, Jet stream, Lake district, Lightning, Rain, Sunshine, Thunder, Weather2 Comments

Big puffy cloud seen in Newcastle under Lyme this afternoon. We did get a heavy rain shower afterwards and apparently there was a big thunderstorm a few miles away. The UK sits just in the right place to get weather from the North, South, East and West. With that and the jet stream moving about above us means that we can get ‘a year’s weather in a day’ as the old saying goes. In some places, such as the lake district, where they get a LOT of rain, they even make a joke of it and sell postcards with cartoons about rain and wet sheep on them!

Wet cat

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Forecast, Hail, Rain, Snow, Sun, Tuxedo cat, Weather, Wet, Wet cat, WindLeave a comment

Like a stone hung from a chain, I can tell the weather by our cat.

Wet cat, it’s raining

Cat looks white, snowing

Cat covered in white dots? Hailing

Cat hot to the touch? Sunny

Cat in a cloud? Foggy

Cat with hair on end? Windy or angry!

OK, silly post! I wrote it because the cat just came in and he’s as wet as an otter in a stream (exaggeration)! ❤️

Virga

Posted on May 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, evaporation, Learning, link, Rain, Science, Virga, WikipediaLeave a comment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virga

I was discussing weather with a friend and recalled seeing clouds that seemed to drop rain but it evaporates before it reaches the ground. I love clouds and I know I knew the name for then at one time but had forgotten it so I looked it up on Wikipedia (see link).

What I saw was what appeared to be snow falling from shower clouds, but it never landed on the ground. It was one winter day a few years ago when I was out visiting friends. I guess it’s very bad for gardeners or farmers who need water for their plants.

Dancing trees

Posted on April 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged April, Art, Flowers, March, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Spring, Trees, trees dance, Weather, WindLeave a comment

The wind blows

Catkins shiver

On the boughs

Blackbirds sing

Here is spring?

But we need rain

Not late March winds!

April showers

Would water the flowers

But their roots

Stay dry

Meanwhile

Sun shines.

Rain

Posted on April 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Gardening, greenhouse, Growth, Life, Plants, Rain, Water, water butt's, WindowLeave a comment

Rain on my window, blurring the view smeared across the surface. April shower crashes down. No thunder or lightning but we may get some. Hidden tomato plants snug in the plastic greenhouse.

My friend now has an allotment. I have offered to water her plants while she’s on holiday. An old gardener there said the plants in her greenhouse will need watering daily! I’m glad of the showers now, they will help fill up the water butt’s. Large blue barrels filled with rain water. It’s good, we had a very dry march so the rain is welcome.

Mallaband-Brown

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