8 dark Sc
SHOWERS

Drizzly start, but I was in a drizzly mood, so it suited me. Weather changed after lunch - I was outside packing the bins of broken appliances neatly into 6 boxes.

RAIN overnight
AM DRIZZLE 8 dark Sc
1400 Some sun
Warmer
1800 0

When I was getting dressed it struck me that the coronavirus precautions will likely go right on through the winter and into spring. Quite a daunting prospect. At least back in March and April the weather was getting better.

Much sun

RAIN either overnight or in day
8 Sc
Cold

Cold again. Wore my autumn coat into town, wished I'd worn the padded one.

Cold
Dry
Some sun
PM SPOTS OF RAIN
Breezy NW

Quite cold at the moment - had to put the purple throw on the bed last night, and the heating came on today.
There are two more duvets I can deploy after the throw, so you might say I'm at DUVCON 3.

Occurs to me I ought to allow for bigger winter heating bills when I get to Scotland.

≤8
SPELLS OF RAIN
Sun breaks
WINDY->
VERY WINDY
Colder
1800 Clearer

0700-0800 RAIN
->
4 low Cu Sun Fresh breeze
1600 8 Sc
->RAIN

First proper wet day for a long time.

Heard bits of evil Boris Johnson's address last night, it's the first time I've ever been able to take him remotely at face value. Even then I could hear the attempts at Churchillian phrasing.

Read a scientist saying a lot of people have accepted the idea that COVID will cause a lot of deaths [not their own] and hence can't be arsed to follow the precautions.

RAIN overnight
≤8 SPELLS OF RAIN
Some sun

Another lovely day - more cloud though. Worked with the help of walks to the end of the garden to look at the trees and clouds.

Reports of panic buying again. Who cares if the pubs close early? Even during the shutdown the food shops were always open.

0600 0 -> Sun
1500 6 small Ac
Warm

A valuable lesson in the morning: radiation fog, which perhaps I should have foreseen, made it too dark to paint early, and perhaps too damp for it to have dried if I had. The best-laid plans.
Wasn't put off though; went shopping early, and when the fog had risen to become low cloud, I did the painting then.

Cloud burnt off later to another golden autumn day, put me in a really good mood.

0630 SKY OBSCURED MIST/FOG
0930 Rises 8
1100 0 Sun Warm

Another lovely day. Went out just before dawn at 7am and strolled up the garden. It occurred to me that I could paint the meter box then, rather than in the afternoon when the sun would be on it. (While keying it yesterday I noticed that the top, painted black as it is, was fiercely hot in the sun).
So 8am found me outside painting in the cool quiet of the best bit of Sunday.

0 Sun
Warm

Lovely early autumn day. Mowed lawns, dug potatoes.

Sun 0
Warm
Breezy

Very nice weather in the morning, fresh and bright with a cool E sea breeze. During the day many hints of Sep 28 1988.

0900 5 flat Cu Sun
FRESH
Wind E
Breezy
->1700 0
Windy

Sun much Ci
Cooler

When I finished washing up at 6.30 it was getting dark; the hot weather lately and working at home have delayed my realisation that we're well into September.

0800 SHOWER
->some sun
HOT
1900 SHOWER

Sun increasing high cloud
HOT

Up at 5.45 to a beautiful early Autumn day.

In typing up the 2005 diary, I've got to when I started the marginal weather log - Sep 27 2005. It reminds me of the format I used when keeping weather logs in my scribbling diaries 1984-1988.

0 Sun
HOT

As well as mowing lawns, cleared all the weeds away from the front of the house and the path and the steps there. Looks a lot better now.

Sun HOT

0700 8
--->
Sun Warm

Much sun
Breezy

Typically 4 Cu Sun
Cool

in the afternoon spent a minute appreciating a fair-weather Cu cloud grandly cruising eastwards

Typically 2-6 fair-weather Cu Sun
Warm

Splendid quote from one of the leaver ministers today, admitting that reneging on the withdrawal agreement was breaking international law, but 'in a specific and limited way'. That's one for the history books.

0700 8 Muggy
--->
1200 4 low Cu
->
2 Cu Sun
Warm

0700 7 mAck underlit Sun
->8 Sc
1000 SHORT SHOWER
Colder

0-5 Cu Sun

Fine early autumn day. Mowed lawns, dug up the first batch of potatoes. As always the biggest one was the one I put the fork through. (Though if you think about it, that shouldn't be a surprise).

0700 0
->Sun
2-8 Cu
Breezy NW

≤8 S
Sun-breaks

Was lying awake at 3.50 listening to short documentary about Walkmans, and thinking 'How quaint,' and then remembering that it was a Walkman I was listening to it on - the one with a radio which I bought in 2002.

8 Sc
Damp
1600 RAIN

0700 0
->Sun
1200 --->~6 Sc
1800 8
SLOW RAIN

0700 0 Sun
->0900 2 sm Cu
->8 Sc