Last day of summer.

At first 3-8 Ac Sun HOT
->
1500 8
1800 4/8 frac/As
Sun through

0600 7
->->4 Ci Sun
HOT

0600 ~7
->->
0830 4 Sun HOT
Typically 4 Ci, some Ac

RAIN overnight
0500 8
0800 SHOWER
->more Sun Ac,Ci
->1730 8
COOLER
1800 SHOWER

0 Sun
VERY HOT
1300 0/6 High haze
1700 3 Ci, Ac

Literally not a cloud in the sky today.

0 Sun
VERY HOT
1430 29°C

I intended to clear the potato patch at 9, then have lunch, but as it turned out I got involved in working out early retirement factors.

I wish I had dug the potato patch at 9, because when I did it at 12.30 after mowing the lawns, it was sweltering hot and I was afraid I'd keel over. Was glad I'd laid in the potato salad and pastry rolls for a cold lunch.

0600 Sun
~4 Ci, Ac
->
1300 <1
VERY HOT
1530 27°C

Sun HOT
Breezy

Weather hot and summery again - 'again' as in 'like a while back', not 'like yesterday'.

0500 0
->Sun
~5 small Cu, Ci
BREEZY
HOT

At lunchtime saw a cloud the shape of Ireland.

Sun
1300 5/5 Ac, Cu/As

0600 0
->
3-7 Cu Sun

RAIN overnight
5-7 large Cu Sun
1530 DROPS OF RAIN

8 Sc
1100 SHOWER
->
6 large Cu
Sun HOT

Up at 5.30 - it suits me very well. NB though, year getting on, only nautical twilight at 4.30 now. Also angle of the sunlight later in the morning no longer what it was.

0600 SHOWER
->5-8 Cu
Sun
WARM

Classic yellow-grey 'rain to come' clouds in the morning, and after a preliminary shower it came on to rain steadily in the afternoon.

<=8 As, Sun
1100 SHOWER
1400 RAIN
1630 cont

5-7 Cu Sun
Breezy

Wet day just as forecast.

0900 ~7 Cu Sun
1030 RAIN
cont with some dry spells to 1600
1700 RAIN

Rather nice 'roll credits' evening skyscape about 7pm last night btw.

Weather today bright and quite cool, a bit like September; had flashes of Sep 1988 on the A10.

0800 IN AREA
0-900 4 Sun Low Cu
->6 high flat Cu

Strolled down to Tescos in the grey, damp, windy morning. Fog on Rivington Pike.

(10.20 am). Slept quite well, 8½ hours, thanks to the very thick curtains I think. Heard rain and wind in the night, and it was a wet grey morning when I opened the curtains, though there are patches of blue now.
S. has invited me round for 11 so am just preparing to leave.

4 Cu Sun
HOT
1030 OUT OF AREA

Today has been rather strange and sombre.

Sun at first
->
1330 8 dark low Sc
1430 RAIN

Home to start my summer holiday, my 20th on this job.

~4 Cu Sun
Breezy

One problem with putting weather in the margins of this diary, as I have been since about 2005, is that sometimes I write a longer entry than I'd otherwise've done, just to get clear of the marginalia.

0700 <=8 Ac-allop Sun
c.1100 SHOWER
->less cloud
HOT

0700 0 Sun->
8 As Sun-through

Sun-through Cs & As
HOT

2-6 large Cu Sun

3-7 Cu Sun
1200 DROPS OF RAIN