Despite the terrible forecast ('Atlantic' rain rarely make it this far),
it's been a gorgeous day here in East Kent; wall-to-wall, brilliant
sunshine.

Spent the morning riding a loop out through the North Downs and back via
Canterbury; first time this year in shorts.

Car thermometer reported 17C as we drove out for lunch at the Griffon's
Head in Chillenden.

Back home now in Ramsgate it's 16C in a gentle Southerly.

On Apr 26, 5:09*pm, Simon Bennett wrote:
Despite the terrible forecast ('Atlantic' rain rarely make it this far),
it's been a gorgeous day here in East Kent; wall-to-wall, brilliant
sunshine.

Spent the morning riding a loop out through the North Downs and back via
Canterbury; first time this year in shorts.

Car thermometer reported 17C as we drove out for lunch at the Griffon's
Head in Chillenden.

Back home now in Ramsgate it's 16C in a gentle Southerly.

I'll second that Simon, same here in Southend-on-Sea, a super weekend
in the garden and I even spent an hour around the outside swimming
pool at David Lloyds this morning and caught the sun. Most unexpected,
but very much appreciated. Rumor has it, it had something to do with
my computer crashing during the night, hence the bright sunshine
today ;-)

Saturday 15.9°C, 9.10 hours of sunshine
Sunday 16.8°C, 11.24 and counting, hours of sunshine.
No rain at all.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

Same here in West Sussex a stunning day, best of the year so far.

Robbie

"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
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On Apr 26, 5:09 pm, Simon Bennett wrote:
Despite the terrible forecast ('Atlantic' rain rarely make it this far),
it's been a gorgeous day here in East Kent; wall-to-wall, brilliant
sunshine.

Spent the morning riding a loop out through the North Downs and back via
Canterbury; first time this year in shorts.

Car thermometer reported 17C as we drove out for lunch at the Griffon's
Head in Chillenden.

Back home now in Ramsgate it's 16C in a gentle Southerly.

I'll second that Simon, same here in Southend-on-Sea, a super weekend
in the garden and I even spent an hour around the outside swimming
pool at David Lloyds this morning and caught the sun. Most unexpected,
but very much appreciated. Rumor has it, it had something to do with
my computer crashing during the night, hence the bright sunshine
today ;-)

Saturday 15.9°C, 9.10 hours of sunshine
Sunday 16.8°C, 11.24 and counting, hours of sunshine.
No rain at all.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

"Simon Bennett" wrote in message
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Despite the terrible forecast ('Atlantic' rain rarely make it this far),
it's been a gorgeous day here in East Kent; wall-to-wall, brilliant
sunshine.

Bit puzzled by that as I haven't seen anything in the last 24 hours which
suggested rain for east Kent today ?

Jon.

Same here in West Sussex a stunning day, best of the year so far.

Well, at the other end of the south coast things were not quite so good.
Sunshine has been rather scarce today and overall this weekend has been
rather unsettled comapred to recent times.

Though we did get a couple of hours of sunshine this afternoon which pushed
the temperature up to 14.7°C but most of the day it was quite cloudy and
cool. A total of 2.8 hours' sunshine today.

A welcome 8.4 mm of rain has fallen over the last two days, though all it
seemed to do down the allotment was damp the surface, still quite dry 6" -
12" down.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:10:59 +0100, Jon O'Rourke wrote:

Bit puzzled by that as I haven't seen anything in the last 24 hours
which suggested rain for east Kent today ?

Definitely forecast yesterday on BBC for Ram Gut, revised this morning.
On Friday the whole weekend was looking like a washout.