On Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:14:26 PM UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:


Apologies Stephen - it didn't seem that heavy, I guess. What ever it was

it was welcome - although paying for it now with 100% humidity and 19C ,

Phew!

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Lord, don't apologise! I'm just a horrible pedant.

The humidity was quite something. And here's a slightly interesting thing - when the rain was teeming warmly here in north Kent there was, or so it seemed, a whiff of the ocean. It was almost like being in Bali for a minute, if I hadn't been running past Morrisons.

Stephen.

Yellow warning is the *lowest* level, and thus appropriate for yesterday. As were orange warnings farther north.

You all might be interested in these (Facebook posts from MeteoGroup/WeatherCast).

Precipitation totals via radar: http://on.fb.me/18GGZGE

Lightning strikes, showing how most just slid to the east: http://on.fb.me/1bx2JsQ

Stephen.

On Sunday, 28 July 2013 11:08:10 UTC+1, Kate Brown wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Lawrence13 wrote

On Sunday, 28 July 2013 10:19:59 UTC+1, Kate Brown wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Richard Dixon wrote



On Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:49:12 UTC+1, Lawrence13 wrote:







Okay: it rained persistently for about an hour , and very welcomed it



was too. However a warning was hardly needed let alone a yellow. I



mean its just weather......surely?







If the potential is there for some nastiness then I feel they are



worthy in issuing a yellow. Bear in mind that the yellow is merely "Be



aware". You were aware. So I'm guessing it worked!!







Richard







And it was quite heavy. I wouldn't like to have been out driving or



walking in it, lucky it was so late arriving. 10mm in our raingauge this



morning, which is not negligible for here, after all.











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Kate B







PS nospam means nospam. But umra at cockaigne dot org dot uk will get

through!



I drove to Sainsbury's Penge as did the normal amount of traffic with

the only difference being most drivers sensibly used their lights as it

was so dark. Otherwise pretty much a normal early Saturday evening.

Blackheath of course is very different as you all have very powerful

expensive cars.



And of course it's wild hilly country.



small Skoda driver



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Kate B



Its so posh where you live Kate that even the nannies have au-pairs.

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Lawrence13 wrote
On Sunday, 28 July 2013 11:08:10 UTC+1, Kate Brown wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Lawrence13 wrote

On Sunday, 28 July 2013 10:19:59 UTC+1, Kate Brown wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Richard Dixon wrote



On Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:49:12 UTC+1, Lawrence13 wrote:







Okay: it rained persistently for about an hour , and very welcomed it



was too. However a warning was hardly needed let alone a yellow. I



mean its just weather......surely?







If the potential is there for some nastiness then I feel they are



worthy in issuing a yellow. Bear in mind that the yellow is merely "Be



aware". You were aware. So I'm guessing it worked!!







Richard







And it was quite heavy. I wouldn't like to have been out driving or



walking in it, lucky it was so late arriving. 10mm in our raingauge this



morning, which is not negligible for here, after all.











--



Kate B







PS nospam means nospam. But umra at cockaigne dot org dot uk will get

through!



I drove to Sainsbury's Penge as did the normal amount of traffic with

the only difference being most drivers sensibly used their lights as it

was so dark. Otherwise pretty much a normal early Saturday evening.

Blackheath of course is very different as you all have very powerful

expensive cars.



And of course it's wild hilly country.



small Skoda driver



--

Kate B



Its so posh where you live Kate that even the nannies have au-pairs.

Perhaps I don't live in the posh bit. Part-time nannies and a couple of
stay-at-home mums in this road. And only one rather old Range-Rover.

--
Kate B

PS nospam means nospam. But umra at cockaigne dot org dot uk will get through!

Stephen Davenport wrote:
Yellow warning is the *lowest* level, and thus appropriate for yesterday. As were orange warnings farther north.

You all might be interested in these (Facebook posts from MeteoGroup/WeatherCast).

Precipitation totals via radar: http://on.fb.me/18GGZGE

Lightning strikes, showing how most just slid to the east: http://on.fb.me/1bx2JsQ

Stephen.
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Most interesting. I think one of the things that fooled us was that
wasn't an obvious difference in intesity visible by looking at the radar
as it moved through whereas the reality was possibly 10x more further north.
Dave

Its so posh where you live Kate that even the nannies have au-pairs.

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'twas not always thus Lawrence. My old nanny (a related one) used to
take me to King George's ? pond on the Heath to sail me little model boat.
Dave

Its so posh where you live Kate that even the nannies have au-pairs.
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Well they say we live in a Nanny State so what do you expect ;-)

On Sunday, 28 July 2013 18:26:57 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:






Its so posh where you live Kate that even the nannies have au-pairs.

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Well they say we live in a Nanny State so what do you expect ;-)

Same sort of thing with Camberwell Grove. Initially a Tudor Mansion, then for the 18th/197t century London wealthy, Once the trains arrived they scarpered to avoid the rif raf in all those properties that followed the rail tracks. When I were kid in sixties Camberwell Grove were full of working class people renting rooms -not flats. Nowadays the old working class streets of off Camberwell Grove I were raised on, have now gone to be replaced social housing non working class estates.


Anyhow the programme has been removed now but here's a taster for those interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jzpm3