It's nearly June and there's a torrential hailstorm going on in SE London

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WTF?!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah this sucks.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

It's pissing it down pretty bad here in North London too. No hail yet, though.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

apparently there was hail in perth (the scottish one, not the aussie one) this morning.

here in glasgow, it's been sunny. but the sky just appears to have gone out and i fear vicious precipitation looms. fuck: i was just gonna head up the road and get a chinese takeaway. bugger.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Good thing I already went to Sainsbury's.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

there was hail here for a few minutes, some thunder and lightning. brief storms like this are not that uncommon in British summertime though surely (although it has been the wettest May here since 1983 apparently).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Cambridge is experiencing every weather type under the sun at the moment. Now: overcast(ness)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm sort of glad there's no Glastonbury this year.

(Steve G - are you in New Cross or something?)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

And now the sun has come out something rotten. Dare I run to the shops for Revels or not?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Run like the lightning!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

In Dublin this year, we have had a sum total of two nice sunny days and five half decent days without rain/hale/gale-force winds. Let's all move to Gibraltar! The weather's lovely and it could do with some livening up...

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

(Steve G - are you in New Cross or something?)

Yep!

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

What's the weather like there?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Well, it stopped raining.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Good, good. It's dementedly windy here - very cross making.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

You can kiss your precious gulf stream good bye now that the greenhouse effect is in effect!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Conversations like this make me actually want to move to the U.K. I kid not.

― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Super Cub, this is what Seattle weather is like, except even more pleasant.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm, Revels.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Knocked the neighbour's bicycle over! What was mad about it was that went from a perfectly blue sky to torrential downpours. I missed the hail because I had headphones on, but I saw the damage.

― pwdre ser (Welsh for rot of the stars) (kate), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:24 (twenty years ago)

I got hailed on driving into London yesterday. Surreal.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

Most Britishes thread ever.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)

i am really, really, really not feeling the weather right now.

i want to be warm goddamnit.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Landward was forecasting a blizzard in the highlands!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey Madchen, if you get the chance sometime today, MSN me?

― Crimea River (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:57 (twenty years ago)

we had this yesterday too, up in Cheshire. was fun to be caught in it whilst carrying a 30x15x12 inch fish tank across a busy car park.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Landward was forecasting a blizzard in the highlands!

Wasn't far off it! It was freezing and hailing and windy and there is still a fair bit of snow on the hills.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

More London/PacNW-exact-weather shock... an "apocalyptic" hail/lightning storm spoiled last Saturday of the Sasquatch alt-rock festival in WA state. It hailed for 30 minutes straight, created this icey/snow effect.. apparently a first ever for any Gorge Amphitheater event.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

I was there for that one! You know those soda machines where you press a lever with your cup, and ice pours into the cup? Picture the Gorge as that cup. Hail ranged from pea to blueberry size, and hurt like MAD.

― L@yn@ @. (L@yn@ @.), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

(It still sounds like what hurt more to the concert goers was Ben "Fucking Dick" Harper demanding to go on before the Flaming Lips against the schedule, and playing a disrespectly long set, so I heard...)

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

L@yn@.. OUCH! Are you ok? That sounds like madness.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

It was definitely madness, but we were OK, although so cold and wet and dispirited that we left then and there. I was surprised not to be covered with tiny bruises. I felt really bad for the young kids whose parents were shielding them as best they could - that had to be terrifying.

And when we found out Ben Harper played for two hours, and Flaming Lips didn't even get on until after midnight, we were glad we left. Screw that, we'll see FL in a club sometime (which would've been a much better way to see Sufjian Stevens and Iron & Wine). I knew there was a reason I liked the indoors.

― L@yn@ @. (L@yn@ @.), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

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