KaBOOM!

[Gal2]

We’re on our “summer” holidays at the caravan in Northumberland. Considering the forecast has been rain every day, we’ve been fairly lucky with sunshine and quite warm, I’ve even managed to get a bit of colour!

But yesterday and today have been pretty constant rain, very heavy at that. And today in particular there have been lots of thunder and lightning. We were out in sunshine when they started and close enough to run for shelter in the pub, but some poor souls were still on the beach and they came in looking like drowned rats!

It’s thunder and lightning now and torrential rain. There’s floods everywhere.

I’ve so looked forward to this holiday, given we had to cut the last one short. We’re here another few days, Friday we planned to head back but if this continues well likely cut this one short too

[Kaz]

I hope you get better weather for the rest of your hols - it’s miserable when it rains xxx

[Gal2]

Thanks Kaz, if only we could send all this wet stuff to Southern Europe so the ground wouldn’t be so dry as to cause all the fires.

[Kaz]

Wouldn’t that be good! I wish we could xx

[Suff]

I had a look at the Atlantic weather which tends to drive all of this. Smack in the middle is a Tropical depression going in circles and driving the weather around it. Most of the northern atlantic is covered in fairly heavy clouds.

The high which is blocking the heat dome over southern Europe is also locking the low off Ireland and the UK in place. Creating constant stormy weather over much of the UK. It seems that it's going to move, we've had fairly hot weather here in France but next week we're due for about a week of rain. IF it comes about which is not certain.

Our garden is parched and our house sitters who were looking after the watering and then hens only really did the hens. Watering seesm to have been a sporadic thing. I'm buying water timers and placing waterers out in the veg bays or we will lose the lot when we're away for two weeks again starting on Sunday.

So, really, a week of rain would be good. The grass looks like a brown wasteland right now.