In July the sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not.

[venta]

How's your weather today? Are you OK?

[Poll #1852211]

Take care, you folks up in the north of England...

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

It's been very wet taking today as a whole, but is nice and sunny right this moment.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sunny? What's that?

I was really excited when my train pulled into Reading this morning because it wasn't raining. A situation that lasted all of, ooooh, three minutes into my cycle-ride across town to the office...

[lnr]

If it makes you feel better I've had three cycles in the rain so far today.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

It's p!ssing down now again, if it makes you feel any better.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Wait... rabbit1080... you're saying it's wet? I thought you were only allowed to have rain every other year when there was a 'v' in the month or something...

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

:-)

You just happened to pick the only day in the last week when it actually rained, so I decided to make the most of it. (No floods or anything, just medium-heavy rain for an hour or so). It's sunny again now. It is winter here, after all.

Bloody January again

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Plymouth is _always_ wet, so I'm kind of resigned to it, and looking forward to moving somewhere with actual seasons.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You do realise that the bit of Plymouth south of the edge bit is meant to be wet, don't you?

One kudo to you.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

As long as the Plymouth gin remains suitably dry, I'm happy.
Currently the bits of Plymouth north of the edge are very nearly as wet as the bits south of the edge. I'm just glad I live at the top of a hill and will therefore not end up flooded.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's been pretty soggy most of the day but right now there's patches of blue sky. A few ominous-looking grey clouds though, so I suspect it's just waiting for me to leave the office.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah... as the shipping forecast would say: showers, malicious.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

North Utsere, South Utsere, bloody marvellous.

[lnr]

Here the sun is shining. Admittedly it rained pretty solidly from when I got up (and probably earlier) til mid-way through lunchtime, and then it was grey with another shower or two for a couple more hours, but now it's gorgeous. Sorry.

Still wet underfoot mind.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

It was utterly soaking this am, but I managed to get a dry spell to pick my bike up in

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I am in Leeds, and concerned that the whole city might get washed down the hill into the Aire. The rain at some points today has occasionally been less heavy than at other times, but that's the best I can say for it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh dear :( West Yorks does seem to be copping it pretty badly at the moment.

Fingers crossed and hope for minimal damage, I suppose... I'll be thinking of you! (Fairly useless, I realise, but I can't think of any practical action to take...)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

In Sheffield, it's hoying down again. Yesterday it was hot and dry up until the evening, when the weather made a reversal. The previous few days it alternated between hot and wet on an hourly basis. I've seen worse, even here, but I'm not expecting 2007-style sandbags and helicopters just yet.

My Mum is meant to be coming down from Darlo tomorrow. I've told her not to if the worse weather up there continues, not least because the motorway will already be a right treat. It's her birthday on Monday and I've told her it's better to celebrate it belatedly than potentially not at all. I have a good line in *DOOM! DOOM!*, me!

[venta.livejournal.com]

*DOOM! DOOM!*

Like a really pessimistic Basil Brush?

[marjory.livejournal.com]

That's the one! Does that make you Uncle Derek?

I'd far rather be having a qualm-free celebration (with cake! There has to be a cake!) than one where people have been dodging overturned lorries and flooded roads.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have no idea who Uncle Derek is. I am given to understand that I was introduced to Basil Brush at my Nana's when I was little (we didn't have a telly), and that I was completely terrified of him. (I seem to have had a generalised terror of talking animals as a small child.)

I think avoiding motorways if not essential over the weekend sounds very sensible. If your mum can't make it, then you can have consolation cake this weekend, and a celebratory cake in the future...

[marjory.livejournal.com]

I could cope with BB, but I had a mortal terror of the crow on Words and Pictures, apparently. Mine was a TV entrenched early childhood, as opposed to yours, so you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Suffice to say, the crow had a loud screechy voice and was well up to the task of pecking my eyes out.

All of the food would find a good home courtesy of the horde of locusts who come round of a Sunday, masquerading as role-players. It's thanks to them that we can kid ourselves that we have delicate, birdlike appetites - which we do by comparison. Just not in actuality!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Hey me too! Hello neighbour! London Road past the railway bridge = two streams with some tarmac and cars going down the middle. This morning when I got to work I was greeted with the sight of my wellies looking smugly dry under my desk :/

[marjory.livejournal.com]

*waves*

We're up Hackenthorpe way.

Every excuse to not go into town has been taken, not least because the climate seems to be a tad different down there each time something happens!

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

I am reliably informed the road between Knottingley and Pontefract went from ordinarily wet to halfway up the hub caps in the 40 minutes a friend was in Morrison's. Here in DL3 it's just miserably non-stop but yesterday, I planted out a flowerbed in sunshine but, for the first time ever, without needing a watering can.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Eep, was that Gillian trying to drown her hubcaps? It does sound like that's the worst-hit area at the moment.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It does sound like that's the worst-hit area at the moment.

By which I mean West Yorkshire, not hubcaps.

[triskellian]

I'm told by an officemate with whom I had an online meeting this afternoon that our basement office has an inch of water on the ground. This makes me grateful that I mostly work at home - I will not have to be in the flooded office again until Tuesday, by which time it might not be so flooded any more. I hope.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Urk :(

If at all possible, I'd plan to leave it longer than that! A friend's office flooded a few years back and I think it was quite some time between "technically not flooded" and "not icky". Then again, his office was carpeted, so had a lot of scope for icky.

[sammason.livejournal.com]

No attempt to resist this temptation... I've just blogged about the weather on http://argylesock.wordpress.com/

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Scotland pretty damp too, speaking of north :)