h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ipswich, GB, 11:30, 07/07/04

Blue skies, bright sunshine and a temperature around the 20c mark for the third day running. However, the wind is blowing hard enough to bend the trees right over, so I'm guessing that the stormy weather is on its way.

Luxembourg 13.40 CET

Ha ha! It's chucking it down outside - chats et chiens!

And I don't care!

Cos' I'm off to Brisbane!

Brighton 2pm-ish

Warm and overcast and lining up to absolutely pee it down later this afternoon.

London

There's a storm a-coming!

Lucky - are you sure it will be any better in Brisbane this time of year!

Melbourne, Australia

More rain today

Lucky - it is just gorgeous in Brisbane this time of the year. Definitely the best time to be there.

Umm... the Brisbane weather forecast is for rain from Friday until Tuesday. It's warm rain at 22C or so, but it's rain none the less.

South London, 4.35pm ducking freadful!
Rain and high winds.

Train home was diverted this morning due to a tree falling on the line. Walking through the park was risky because branches were falling down left right and centre. Somebody should tell the Delia Smith's Norwich dream could easily become a nightmare.

Abysmal, unbearable, intolerable. Its July and darker than november, and yes spinks, ducking fredful.

Heavy rain rain rain.

South east London 16.42 7 july

What depresses me is that the time from May 1st to now has gone really quickly. That time again and it will be September and heading for another winter.

yes its truly scary!

East England, Lincolnshire coast.
9.20pm.
We've had no rain yet, but it's on the way, all 3" of it...
And I'm VERY near the coast, which the weather forecaster said "localized flood warnings for the coast over the next 2 days"

There's a force 9 gale out there though, I'm hoping my neighbour's fence holds so I don't lose my plants...
Not bad for the third week of our "summer"
Thunder and lightning and heavy rain for the previous two days...you gotta feel sorry for the Lincolnshire family who moved from Cleethorpes after their home being struck by lightening, to just outside Lincoln, and on Monday...their new home was ...can you guess?
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=151472&command=displayContent&sourceNode=151455&contentPK=10549960

LuckyI am soooooI would love to visit Australia one day...*dreams* and I can't believe I just posted "Why do they always say it's raining cats and dogs?" in the "Question of question thread" before I came here, to find you'd quoted it in French...

*cue Twilight Zone music"

Thanet Coast, Kent GB 7.55am

This morning is gloriously sunny and fresh.
YESTERDAY it was like a mild(ish) winter's day - dark, p****g down with rain - not polite stuff, it was really really wet - and we had gales of around force 8.

This contradictory weather, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with greenhouses or ozone layers!

lyon, france july 8 9:39am... it's p***ing down

East Coast of England.
Force 8 gale, p***ing down.

My son has gone on a school trip today, to a farm.

Oh goodness, he's in for a soggy day!

It's sunny here in London at the moment, but the weather says that the downpour is coming back later today.

Ipswich, GB, 15:25, 08-07-04

It absolutely wazzed it down and blew a gale here from about 4pm yesterday afternoon until well after midnight.

However, today is an entirely different matter. Woke up this morning to clear blue skies, sunshine and only the gentlest of breezes. It's been gorgeous all day (so far) with temperatures in the region of 20c, which is about 4 degrees higher than forecast and I'm now regretting that I dressed in warm clothes.

Thanet Coast, Kent GB 4.30pm

P****g down (again) storms, lightening, thunder and general mayhem and disaster on the A2 from "here" to the Dartford area and back.
Horribly humid, too.

Oh I just LURVE this summer time business!

lyon, france: it's been raining halbards and maces all day... there's a little lull now so if i'm going to bike home in one piece i better get going now...

Ipswich, GB, 17:00, 08-07-04

Well, it's about an hour-and-a-half since I last posted and it's still not raining. However, it has clouded over and the wind has got up. I leave off work to walk home in 15 minutes, so I imagine that's when the rain will hit.

The weather here (Wiltshire England) is dreadful. A depression from Northern France has caused freak storms.

Lots of damage in the area and power cuts. It is more like November than July.