Gales tonight, heads up

[SkyChild]

Yup we're being battered by rain and wind, some hail!
I've pretty much abandoned my poor plants just now, which I'm feeling guilty about but I can't do much to protect them really

[Martin H]

My allotment has been coping okay, only one piece of debris netting had worked loose overnight. I'm lucky that we are well sheltered from westerlies by a belt of trees on the side of the river valley. It's south-easterlies that give me the most trouble, blowing straight up the valley.

[cilla]

The garden survived. Glad I brought my courgette plant and strawberries in. Will put them out again tomorrow.
Saw on BBC Breakfast weather report that 40 years today (2nd June 1975) was snow and everything in UK was covered with a white blanket. Then the next year was the heatwave, so maybe next year.

[Lumpy]

Sssshhhhhhh! Don't tell everyone but the sun is out here now and.........wait for it...........it's quite warm! Still windy though.

[Nicos]

OH has just been playing with a kite in our back field.
Like a big kid!

Bit too gusty though...but he still came in with a massive grin on his face.

Hmmmm...I had left him pottering in the veg plot...good for him eh?


oh- forgot to say- we've been very lucky- no damage so far .

[Bacchus]

The garden and polytunnel and trees all survived with no damage despite the wind being quite ... well... windy.

The garden gate however managed to twist and bend one of the hinges. .. Minor issue really.

[Penellype]

No damage here apart from a leaf or 2 and some petals off the clematis. Begonias are staying in the garage until tomorrow.

Looking at the forecast, which was predicting above average temperatures from this weekend for the forseeable future only a couple of days ago, every run seems now to be making things colder. It also looks like possibly getting windy again at the weekend and a temperature forecast of 2 has appeared over night between 9th and 10th June! If that proves correct it is going to be seriously difficult to protect the tomatoes, which will be too big for the cloches by then.

Oh, and the Central England Temperature - a measure of the temperature against the average between 1960-1980 (before the last big jump in average temperatures up to 2000) came out -0.4 degrees for May, and a whopping -3.3 degrees for 1st June against the June average. Hmm.

[Valleyman]

The damage so far:
1 tub of potatoes has a few of it's stems snapped.
1 snapped peony, and the others have been prematurely de-petalled.
The few toms I have outdoors already are looking particularly sorry for themselves.

All in all though, not the disaster I was expecting when I woke up!

[Bigmallly]

All ok here touch wood but as precautionary measures I've just been down and put the leek blanchers (12" lengths of drainpipe) that I had over my Leeks (now spare) over my sweetcorn in case the wind returns.

[colin1957]

So far my little Norfolk GH is standing up well with the windy weather, finger is crossed X.
been told the wind is to get much worse tonight in Yorkshire.

[DannyRam]

It's been very warm here with stacks of sun and strong warm winds. Short sleeves back on and mowed grass for 3 hours. Now where's is that teapot.......

[Jay22]

How come you got the sun? It's been wet and windy here although the sun has just popped it's head out from behind the clouds...just to show me how dirty my windows are! Grr! Hope the winds die down for everyone soon!

[More basil]

It's true- the sun is back, yipee. Still really blowy. Everything here seems OK, apart from a container of slightly surprised peas that ended up in a hedge.

So here's hoping summer's here, the forecast looks OK for a bit now once the wind dies down. So tomorrow will be the great potting on day of chillies and aubs, crossing fingers.

[Noosner]

Can hardly believe it but the winds here in Yorkshire today blew down my 4 yr old pear tree - snapped it off at the graft. I'm gutted as this was its first year of really fruiting and it was covered in tiny pears.

[1Bee]

Oh no, Noosner, that's so sad! Sympathies.