6-8 Cu, Sc
Some sun
WINDY

Came on windy at lunchtime, and I walked home through bursts of rain. Luckily I'd brought a coat in my bag.

Sun HOT
->
1300 6 large Cu
WINDY
1630 BURSTS OF RAIN

0600 ~6 Sun
0900 ~4 Cu
Sun HOT

Sun came out about 5pm, lifting my spirits at the end of a gloomy Sunday. Not for the first time in these diaries.

8 Sc
1700 Sun Ci, Cu

I underestimated how long the rain on the radar would take to move away, so when I got to town I was completely soaked. So much so that I was afraid I'd get chucked out of Primark for leaving wet footprints.

But luckily I was wearing a polyester top which dried off quickly. And I got what I wanted in Primark, namely two long summer tops with long sleeves - the short-sleeved ones were a sunburn and heat liability this week.

0700 RAIN till 1030
8 Sc
Then SPELLS OF RAIN
->STEADY RAIN

Some more thunder and lightning about 4am, but no rain really.

0400 LIGHTNING THUNDER
0700 8 THUNDER
->~5 Ac, Cu, Ci Sun
HOT
1400 SHOWER

So hot that the recycling collection was cancelled! And in the afternoon the head of department brought ice lollies round. Very nice of him.

Storms heading this way on the radar. And odd, mini-towering Cu seen - towering relative to their size, rather like some smaller ones I saw in the morning.

Re the stratification issue with upstairs being much hotter - found fan placed at bottom of stairs helped very much with this.

May be just the rain clouds, but this is the first night this summer that it's got dark sooner than I expected.

92-93°F in the bedroom when I got home. Cooler now with the intermittent thunder squalls and the window open (9.25pm).

2-7 Sun
VERY HOT
1900 Rising Cu seen
1945 THUNDER
1950 BURST OF SQUALLY RAIN
2115 RAIN
LIGHTNING seen
THUNDER

Even hotter today. Had to use the ice-pack 'cold-water-bottle' trick last night as it was.

Everything was damp outside in the morning, so it must have rained overnight, but I didn't hear anything. And that despite feeling as if I was awake half the night.

When I noticed how much cooler it was downstairs, wished I'd bought a futon or sofa-bed as I'd intended to do after last summer, so I could sleep down there.

At work it went over 30°C in the office, as it had in the computer room at home when I got back, and the latter's never happened.

Btw, just read that 30 miles away was the hottest place in country today - 34.3 C, ~94° F.

RAIN OVERNIGHT
Early cloud
->Sun
VERY HOT
Breezy
1600 4 Ci, Cc

Heat much greater today, with worse forecast for tomorrow. Stopped on way to work to make token purchase in Tescos, just to cool down. Arm began to burn after <=30 min, had to stop and put sunblock on.

Coming home the interval was 15 min.

The poor electrified tree had been severely cut back overnight.

Typically ~3 Ci
Sun
VERY HOT
Breezy

Very hot on way to work, had to stop at Tescos for sun cream. As I was going over the bridge I heard a very loud mains hum and loud crackling. That big tree there, that I've often thought is very close to the pylon lines, was blowing back and forth and touching them, with bright yellow and orange flames and billowing smoke. I phoned the fire brigade and spent the rest of the day afraid the fire would go out before anyone got there and I'd be arrested for a making a hoax call and dragged off to Litchfield.

On my way home, at the bridge there was a smell of burning, and about 5 electricity board vehicles parked. Glad my report was acted on.

0900 ~4 Sun
HOT

Some sun
Warm
Breezy

0130 RAIN
0600 <=8 dark Sc
Sun-breaks
1100 6 huge Cu Sun
OUT OF AREA
1700 6 flat Cu HOT

<8 S, Sc
INTERMITTENT RAIN from 1400
Earlier some sun
Breezy

c. 0800 SHOWER
<=8 Sun
0930 SHOWER
More SHOWERS
1600 large Cu, Ci

Sun HOT
[s --->]4/8 Ac/As
Sun-through

0600 ~3 Ci Sun
->HOT
1200 5 faded Cu

8 Sc
Cooler
030 SPOTS OF RAIN
After 1600 <=8 some sun-breaks

to 0630 RAIN overnight
6-8 Sc
some Sun

<=8 Sc
Sun-breaks
Occasional DROPS OF RAIN
c.1300 DARK
Breezy

Typically 4-6 Ac, Cu of increasing size, Cs?
Breezy
HOT

0600 8 Sc
10000 ~6 Cu, Ac HOT
1600 larger Cu, Ac, Ci
1800 Showery Cu

0600 SHOWER
<=8 Sc
Some sun
HOT

8 Sc
HOT
Sun-breaks
DROPS OF RAIN?

0600 8 Sc
0730 DROPS OF RAIN
---->
1600 Hazy 4 Cu, Ci
Sun HOT

28 years to the day and weekday since I came back from university. Maybe that's why, just now, having finished the gardening and having a few minutes to spare, I sat pensively outside the shed thinking abt how I came to be at the end of my peaceful garden on a cool, cloudy summer day in 2019, the long road that led here.

<=8 Sc

0500 ~3 Sun
--->
1100 0/8 Sun-through
1300 8
1500 SHOWER
more RAIN later

Although it was very hot in the afternoon, had a quick 20 min in the garden. It is odd how I still get that dread of going into the garden, but before I'm halfway up the path I'm glad I came outside.

0-4 Ac, Ci Sun
HOT

0500 0 Sun
->~5 Ci, Cu
HOT

4-7 Cu Sun

4-8 Cu Sun

Glad I paid attention to the weather forecast, because it would otherwise have seemed like another hot day in prospect, but about 9 am it cooled off quite sharply.

Fine reservoir run this morning, the black road and the green fields and the blue water like that old dream image of the road and the flat fields (with delimit signs!)

0500 Sun
->HOT
Breezy
but
0900 ->->6 Cu Cooler
Thence
1300 6 flat Cu
1600 8 Sc
->Sun