Category: Weather

Warm rain from a Spanish plume, soon to be followed by an Arctic blast.
Admin1 is reading All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew. Admin2 is reading The Midnight Hour by Elly Griffiths.

Winter is coming. September was warm for September; better than August and had more rain per rainy day than any other month but less sunshine than average.
Admin2 is reading The Long Firm by Jake Arnott; fiction with real characters from the 1960s London crime scene with the final chapter from the POV of a social studies lecturer living in Chapeltown.

Yesterday the sun shone and the petrol station was crammed with cars. Today it is raining and the pumps are coned off.
Admin1 is reading The Reckoning by Rennie Airth. Admin2 is reading Cold Kill, also by Rennie Airth; a complete departure from the cosy peri-WW2 fictions, this is a horrible and unlikely story about gangs of ruthless assassins versus a lone plucky young actress.

We’ve had more sunshine so far this year (1,366.747kWh) than the whole of our two worst years, 2012 and 2016, and there are stll three gloomy months to go.
Admin2 is reading Telling Tales by Anne Cleeves which began very promisingly but turned into a standard whodunnit.

We had 16.2mm of rain today; 14.1 in one hour. Too bad we had already watered the plants.
Admin1 is reading The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. Admin2 is reading Earthly Remains by Donna Leon which is mostly about rowing so far. To be fair, the crimes in the two Donna Leon books are mainly environmental, and the detective who tries to solve them is a happily married family man who devotes his spare time to reading ancient Greek and Roman literature, which makes a change.

Admin2 is rereading Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson which is disturbingly Leeds-based.

It hasn’t rained for two weeks but it bucketed down today, accompanied by thunder. It has only rained for 10 days so far this month, but we’ve had over 100mm of precipitation. Interesting, huh?
Admin1 is reading The Eight by Katherine Neville, an enjoyably daft conspiracy thriller about a mystical chess set, set mostly in revolutionary 1790s France and 1970s US/Algeria. KN is amusingly determined to shoehorn in absolutely everyone you’ve ever heard of to this barmy tale: various Bachs, Euler, Casanova, Diderot, Boswell, Robespierre, Newton, David (the painter), Wordsworth, the Freemasons/Rosicrucians, Talleyrand, Napoleon, Gadaffi, Catherine the Great, William Blake, Voltaire, Cardinal Richelieu, Marat, Frederick the Great, Rousseau … and many more. Not to mention myths of Ancient Egypt, Crete, Algeria, the Moors, Syria, Turkey and so on. Published in 1988, it’s a sort of mix of The Da Vinci Code, Tomb Raider, Mary Gentle’s Ash and Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (in order of (very!) sharply rising quality). I didn’t believe a word of it 🙂
Admin2 is reading The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury, a spicy snack of a story about a disgraced detective turned waiter who carries on detecting.

A parhelion in a wispy cloud on a sunny day at last, following a night of noctilucent clouds.
Admin2 is reading Reprieve by James Han Matson; all hell breaks loose in a house of horrors.

It’s beginning to feel a bit like summer: 24.6 °C. May was thunderplumping, pothering and stoating, and most probably our wettest ever May: 144.3 mm, and definitely the cloudiest: 202.626kWh. It was also colder on average than April.
Admin1 is reading Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver. Admin2 is reading Ruin Beach by Kate Rhodes. We are watching Line of Duty series 6.

Another wet day; the nineteenth so far this month. We’ve counted more mm than kWh.
Admin1 is reading Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee, an interesting historical crime novel set in early 20th century London’s East End and Assam, India. Some anachronistic language, but good on the entrenched racism of the times. Starts with a weird annual mass suicide of birds in Jatinga, which is apparently real.
Admin2 is reading Cruel Acts by Jane Casey.
Happy birthday Dave!