Bank Holiday Blues

Who turned off summer?

Yesterday we were enjoying the sunshine,
rationing the remnant of the water from the last of the water butts and rejoicing in being able to dry washing outside.

Today we woke to minor precipitation, not serious rain.
Merely half-hearted drizzle, that hadn't made the earth noticeably damp,
even after a few hours of feeble futile falling.
It was only 10 degrees C when I went to work this morning - a sharp contrast to the warm and muggy weather, to which we have become accustomed.
Definitely cardi weather.
Definitely not coat weather.
I am not giving up on summer yet,
even if summer does momentarily appear to have given up on me!

The weather apps were enthusiastically forecasting record temperatures for half term, seem to have gone a bit quiet.
Maybe they have added the words 'Bank Holiday Weekend' into the model, and all of a sudden reality kicks in.
A few days ago my phone was predicting wall to wall sunshine for days ahead.
Now it is predicting endless days of rain!
Over the last few weeks, 90% of the rain forecast has not materialised.
Today the 'drizzle', if you could call it that, was more akin to a cloud that got confused by gravity.

Ah well, I will keep watching the apps, and the skies, and see what happens!