Weather ... again

[Chappers51]

April gave us beautiful weather, May has started with a vengeance. After a warm morning celebrating the village tree planting the late afternoon opened with thunderstorms and hailstones the size of peas plus.

The garden needs the water but I could do without the hailstones.

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[RobertArthur]

About thunderstorms elsewhere, in the Netherlands. Impressive pictures by a weatherman/stormchaser/photographer of a supercell above Nijmegen. Walking somewhere in the field? Be careful. More pictures of stormchaser Wouter van Bernebeek.

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As Blaze has pointed out April was without showers - well almost. The last couple of days of April, we did get a few. It is now making up for it with a lot of rain the last couple of days and more forecast from now to the weekend.

Oh well a good excuse to stay in and do the tax return.

[Blaze]

More rain here overnight and very welcome it is too. Our water butts are full again and the grass is no longer greener elsewhere. It's amazing the amount of water that the strawberries and blackcurrants need ....

[RobertArthur]

The Méditerranée is here to stay, Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam, 4:30 pm.

[Blaze]

Our department is on Alerte Orange Canicule for the first time ever. (We didn't move to Brittany for this sort of temperature )
Fortunately we get a light sea breeze in the afternoon, but we still shut doors windows and shutters during the hot hours.

There was trail run west of us where 3 competitors were taken to hospital en urgence absolue. Utter lunacy to run in such temperatures when they're not used to it ...

[MAD87]

I try to educate OH on heat management, but It's an uphill struggle. I found he'd left the frront door wide open yesterday "to encourage a breeze"! No breeze mate, just an unrelenting 35°. Even the cat retired to my office (windows and shutters closed) to escape the heat in his fur coat.

[Hotrodder]

The grass is six inches long (remember those?) and with all this sun is dry enough to cut. Normally it takes one or two days to cut it all. I made a start yesterday but had to give up after an hour. Too hot to carry on and the insects were very aggressive. Later in the day we found a shady spot to have a beer and decided its time to move. Mostly to get away from the large garden and the never ending project. I didn't mind working hard to get ahead while I was younger. Now I'm just working to get closer to the grave.

[L Austin France]

Hot as Hell here. 32 deg in shade on terrace.
Really glad I invested in our three reverse cycle air-air heat pumps.
I'm in the flatish roofed west facing kitchen/day room where the temperature is a pleasant 22 deg with air con running.

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My OH is just like yours ]@MAD87

Market this morning; now back home but it is far too hot to do any heavy jobs in the garden, and there are still lots to be completed.