Well something happened after I left for the tropical South Coast Friday
morning. Having read the posts, listened to the forecasts and taken in
all the usual information on Thursday I left the three months of dry
sunny Essex for the tropical South coast. Now I had some fears that the
S.E may become cooler and cloudier from the North but no forecast of
what was about to suddenly unfold. Saturday was cloudy by PM and Sunday
was cloudy with contiuous heavy rain from 1pm till the evening. Monday
was forecast to be brighter with increasing sun from the west. It came
out eventually at 4pm. Last Thursday's weekend forecast was a shocker
from all quarters. I should have expected it though as at the end of
August 1976 after finally moving into my new house we set off for the
New Forest and broke that drought as well!
The good news is we did at least get 30mm of useful rain back in Essex
and I still managed to get some decent Redstart pics in the New Forest
before the rains came.
I best not mention the storms in Majorca, floods in Malaga and my many
other holiday weather disasters! Never go on holiday the same time as
me! Still - happy for Keith, perhaps he can get back to work ;-)
Dave