Category Archives: Environment

“Two-hour delays as M5 closes due to risk of falling electricity cables” This is in Somerset, where it seems the weekly, or even bi-weekly, closure of the M5 has achieved the status of a traditional event over the last two … Continue reading →

“French energy giant to give schools millions in euros for cooling systems” EDF, in this case. But I wonder if it’s as generous a gift as it seems, given that the recipients may well be buying more power to run … Continue reading →

“Caution urged as London pavements hit 57C”. At that point you surely have to see if you can fry an egg or two?

Adding to the issues that I’m dealing with at present in terms of how the medication I’m taking is messing up my body, today was the hottest UK June day on record, measured less than twenty miles from my home … Continue reading →

This is what the Met Office promised us for tonight. I was sooo looking forward to it; a decent size thunderstorm and rain to water the garden too. But no. I saw a couple of lightning strikes, one of which … Continue reading →

37°C forecast for tomorrow. Then a 10° drop for the following day, and a further 7° over the next three days. Not that I’m unhappy that temperatures should return to something rather more bearable, but that is an enormous change … Continue reading →

From today’s forecast: So, at midday they’re showing a less than 5% chance of precipitation, but showing a “showers” icon. Then from 1pm there’s a 20% chance of precipitation, but no “showers” icon. Errr, what?

This is the lightning strikes map for the storm that passed overhead today (as mentioned in my previous post). Different colour dots represent strikes that occurred in various time ranges from up to ten minutes (red) to between fifty minutes … Continue reading →