I was going to say 'nice morning' about the start of the day, until this downpour passed during the last hour. It looks as if it won't be the last either. A bit of a contrast to the south of England, 600 miles away, which has wall-to-wall sunshine with temperatures of 15C / 59F. It's only 7C / 45F here.
It looks as if Western Australia has gotten off lightly with cyclone Jacob, which is only bringing below gale-force winds and heavy rain to the area around Port Hedland where it made landfall. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, cyclone Indlada has formed north of the island of La Reunion and appears to be making for Madagascar.
Train services have resumed on the West Coast mainline in Cumbria, following the derailment two weeks ago in which one person died. Blame for this accident has been laid at the door of and accepted by Network Rail, the company responsible for the infrastructure of the UK's railways. They had failed to maintain a set of points northeast of Kendal, which caused a train to derail at 95 mph.
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We have a wonderful sunny summer like morning here Guido! I hope your downpour is a fleeting one! It's the April showers doing a practise run! Jeannette xx http://journals.aol.co.uk/jlocorriere05/Welcometomytravels/
ReplyDeleteWe had very heavy wind and rain here in western Washington during the night. It sort of scared me, because I had flashbacks of the night December 14th when there was so much flooding and wind damage across the area. Right now (just before 8am DST) there's a slight breeze, it's not raining and the temp is 46 degrees. I'm seeing on the local news from Seattle that Vancouver, BC and surrounding towns really got hit hard and are having flooding issues in some areas. Also many rivers in certain ares of western WA are at flood stage and could spill over their banks if we get more rain. Linda in very wet western Washington
ReplyDeleteI'm glad more people didn't get killed on that train. How do they NOT maintain the tracks if it's their JOB?? I don't get that?
ReplyDeletePam
We had a strong rain storm last night.... eased my soul a bit...
ReplyDelete~Amy
It was so warm down in the south today you could feel it burning.
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