Some settled weather at last for Blighty . . . ?

After another deluge on Tuesday, Metcheck are predicting a dry and even sunny spell from Wednesday, and perhaps even something akin to a heatwave (relative to this year's feeble standards) from Thursday.



Believe it when I see it, like.

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/7days.asp?zipcode=Nottingham

I'm not so sure about Metcheck. The week before we went to Tenby, they were forecasting a mainly dry week with the odd day of showers.

Result? we were flooded out

So don't break out the factor 15 just yet!

Quite.

All the football fixtures in the local leagues were cancelled yesterday because there had been so much rain. Although somehow we managed to get a game of cricket in. Spent 3 hours mopping up before a 25 over a side slog.

Cynics might suggest that the fact the team we were playing were one place above us in the league and we're in the relegation zone was behind our unusually keen efforts to get a game in...

Skills.

Did you win?

Yes. After a lot of sulking and arguing.

They weren't happy about having to bat in the virtual pitch black on a rain soaked wicket surrounded by black clouds as our bowler from the Yorkshire Academy came racing in off his full run-up.

And the fact that we took the last wicket of the game about 30 seconds before an hour long deluge started...

Nice one!

Just thank whoever you pray to it's not St Swithain's Day...


I probably spelt that horribly wrong but what the heck.

Settled weather in this country? You have high expectations indeed. However, you could reasonably argue that we are currently in the middle of a settled period of weather; rain, rain, rain and yet more rain. That, for me, more than anything else constitutes the usual period of settled weather for our country. Just think, soon the dark months will be here where some among us don't see daylight again until March due to certain commitments. Where it rains for much of the time and cricket is but a passing thought, a vagary of a dreaming mind. Where all the pitches are New Road.

There's your settled weather.

Spring has returned in Spivtown after a farkin horrendously wet Saturday. Backyard is a bog after 3 and a half inches was dumped in a day.

Jebus!

Aye BBB. When a low pressure system settles off the coast (as it did on Friday and Saturday) it just sucks in half the farkin Tasman Sea and drops it on Sydney.

Any flooding?

This is the scene across much of Central and Northern England after a very wet weekend following far less than that volume of rainfall!

Some flash flooding but generally Sydney doesn't flood. There is only one major River (the Nepean which becomes the Hawkesbury) which circles the metro basin, and it has to p!ss down for months to put it into flood.

Historically parts of North Western Sydney (Richmond/Windsor) have gone under but only once since the main supply Dam (Warragamba) was built in the early 60s.

Amazing what a decent infrastructure can do...and we ain't got one in this country.

Aye. The State governments used to do a pretty good job back in the 60s and 70s with infrastructure. It's been pretty crap since then though.