LAST DAY OF SUMMER. Well, I've enjoyed Summer 2006, but it's a pity we only had two bouts of hot weather. And not much thunder either.

Sc all day, higher and darker later. 6-8, some sun.

Chilly start today, had to have the fan heater on at 6am.

0600 0 Sun
0700 1 Cu cells
1200 4 Cu, Cs\m1600 7 Cu below As, sun-through.
Clearer later
2130 15°C

Sun, Wind W, increasing Cu
1200 6 Cu, CuNi
1600 7 Cu, CuNi HEAVY SHOWER
1715. Stops
2000. 0 Moon
2200. 12°C

Exciting weather, with some huge cumulonimbus and a crack of thunder right overhead like an explosion in the afternoon.

1-7 large Cu:
0900 3 Cu, Cu cells. Sun Wind NW.
1400 7 Cu, CuNi, Ns, pannus, THUNDERY SHOWERS.
1800 More showers.

In the afternoon for end-of-summer walk, just like last year. Picked a couple of blackberries, sweet and ripe. Weather just right - sun and big white cumuli. Stood in the high field in the dry grass looking at the huge sky, ranges of cloud 10 and 20 miles away. Thought as always of the line in Watership Down - 'Frith! You can see the whole world!'

Wind NW 4-6 large Cu. Sun

0800 8 S/Ns, RAIN.
0900 stops
by 1800 1, sun.
2200 15°C

Beautiful day, cold to start with though. Yesterday hinted at one kind of autumn weather, rain all day and a sun-break at sunset; today hinted at the hard, bright, cold other kind. Both just hints though, as was the tiny suggestion of slant in the sunlight on my lunchtime walk. Again, it still seemed like summer - very late summer.

Picked and ate a blackberry on the way to work. Still a bit sharp.

0600 0, Sun, cool.
0900 tiny Ac
1200 4 Ac, big Cu Wind
gradually to
2000 7 As, RAIN.

Dark, gloomy, 'murky' (as Jack Vance would say) morning. Middle afternoon had come to the planet Sabria, I was thinking on the bus in the rain.

Everything now bright green again, quite a change from the drought.

0600 dark Sc HEAVY RAIN with dark Cu lines below Sc.
1200 Stops\m1300 HEAVY RAIN
1600 Stops
2000 Sun-break.

Rather dismal weather today, quite autumnal in the afternoon.

0700 dark high Sc.
1500 HEAVY RAIN
1700 Lighter Sc with smaller elements
2130 HEAVY RAIN

Various As above dark Cu, some sun, Ac, wind W.
2130 16°C

0800 6 large low Cu, Sun
1600 8 S, Ns, As, RAIN.
2300 14°C

0600 8 S.
by 1200 Wind S Sun huge Cu 7.
2200 16°C

Again, warmer. Walking home up the approach road I did for a second wonder if there was a mellow, 'bright autumn afternoon' slant to the light, but the shrubs and trees were still so bright green, and the sky so bright deep blue, that I decided it was natural late-afternoon slant.

0700 7 Ac, As Sun, gradually
1200 7 Ac, large Cu, As, wind E to
1600 2 Ci, hot.
2100. 17°C large Cu

Again, warm in the sun. Have been looking closely, whenever the sun's been out in the last week, for the slightly slanting pre-autumnal sunlight that I used to notice around Aug. 20th and last year detected ten days earlier. Haven't seen it yet - looked round thoroughly today and it is definitely still Summer.
Which is good, as I do not enjoy late Oct/early Nov and never really have since, say, 1988.

6 var, Wind SE, to Sun and
1600 6 big Cu.
2100 16°C

6-8 low Cu, Ac, Ci, with sun breaks, wind W. Hot in sun.
2100 19 °C

Very dark, dim day, with more rain, and everything starting to turn green again.

Sun-breaks towards sunset lifted the mood a bit.

0600 8 dark Ns
0730 RAIN
gradually to
0930 HEAVY RAIN
1200 stopped
1600 8 dark Sc Wind N
2000 6 As, Ci, Sun break
2030 14°C

A lot of rain again, heavy showers at times, fine heavy steady rain at others. Stopped about 4pm.

0900 8 Sc At times HEAVY RAIN Sun-breaks, other times FINE HEAVY RAIN
gradually to
1600 6 CuNi
2100 1 flat dark Cu
2130 15°C

Started raining at 1pm and carried on all day. Quite pleasant to be inside on such a windy, rainy day, moving furniture and fitting cables.

0800 8 high Ac, very low Sc. Wind strong N.
1200 RAIN Sun breaks
1300 RAIN
2300 13°C
2400 still RAINing HEAVY at times

Coming out of work, was reminded of a generic afternoon in the summer holidays. The grey sky, wind but comfortable summer temperature had a wide, generous feeling.

Wind N
Earlier 4 high tiny Ac, Sun
1200 8 As, dirty Cu, wind strong.
1600 8 Sc
1730 RAIN
2230 13°C

Getting up in the night last night about 3.30am, saw the beautiful last Full Moon of Summer in the South, bright silvery-gold as suits a summer moon.

Wind N. Varying: some sun 6 Cu, some 8 dk Sc, RAIN in the morning.
2130 1 flat dark S. 14°C

0600 8 Ns
Gradually to
1300 4 Cu, wind N Sun
Very warm
2130 14°C

0900 4 Ci, wind N, air fresh, Sun
1600 Cu under Ci.
2130 17°C

Pissing down early in the morning, kindly lessened during my journey to work.

0430 HEAVY RAIN
0600 8 Ns, continuing HEAVY RAIN till
1200 8 S
Gradually to
1600 6 big Cu/CuNi, wind N, hot. Sun
2200 15°C

2-6 Cu, Sun, Warm.

8 low Sc, wind fresh N. Some sun.
2230 13°C

8 dark Sc, wind strong N. Some sun breaks. Also RAIN (fine and heavy) at times.
2100 16°C

Much colder and greyer today.

6-8 Cu, S, Sc
RAIN at times Wind strong SW. Sun Colder.
2100 13°C

Sun large Cu, wind strong SW, to 1700 8 Cu, Sc, HEAVY SHOWER.
2100 19°C