What's your weather like 2015

Another beautiful Spring like morning here, last for a while though according to the weather forecast.

 

Cloudy and windy at the moment. It's 13.8C. Rain's coming later.

 

The wind is increasing from it's usual 20-30mph and we're expecting up to 60/70mph gusts from the south-west later this afternoon. More often than not it blows from this direction which means my home is sheltered from the worst by my neighbours. We are also promised heavy rain for a couple of hours and that is just starting. The temperature is currently 14C/57F.

 

Looks like it's going to be time to batten down the hatches. Just watched the news. Temperature is on the turn today.

 

A tad breezy today

 

It's all quietning down here now and not as bad as the forecasters predicted. I'll stick to my own predictions in future, they're more reliable.

 

Spent quite a while today "battening down the hatches" (turned out to be completely unnecessary) as we were due very high winds of about 60 mph......had plenty of rain and a few hefty gusts but that was all (thankfully). Like Sheal I am going to pay far less attention in the future to these almost daily warnings of terrible weather which then doesn't materialise. I don't think the weather broadcasters have ever recovered from the great storm of 1987 when Sevenoaks became Oneoak, consequently any weather even vaguely inclement seems to result in warnings being issued. Yes the far north of Scotland and the islands are in for a hammering but they are quite used to it and there are good reasons why the islands aren't covered in woodland!!!!! so nothing new.

 

I was living in Essex during the storm of 1987 @silu and it was devastating. The wind blew down my road and flattened just about every mature tree in it. It was heartbreaking to see the damage, not so much to buildings but nature, which takes decades to recover.

 

It's a lot cooler than of late as it's 7.8C at the moment. We had some windy conditions last night but nothing compared to what had been forecast. Someone's empty wheelie bin blew over but that was about it. It's been raining but it's now stopped and there's a nice blue sky up there. Rain is forecast for later though.

 

My 2 'blow away' greenhouses have just blown away. Even though they were weighted down. Ho hum.

 

It's been a chilly, dull and very windy day, 9C/48F. I don't think I'll be venturing far this weekend, it looks like the island is going to get battered, with coastal flooding expected.

Hmmm, at the moment it looks like the north-west is in for a nasty spell in a couple of weeks, I hope the weather patterns change before it reaches us.