The latest revision to the weather forecast shows today being quite similar to yesterday (how it actually was, rather than the forecast). Yesterday afternoon the forecast for this afternoon looked very different. The prediction was for thunderstorms ! Now the forecast just shows light rain from midday to 7pm. That will make any afternoon walking a soggy affair, but looking on the bright side, it will be good for the garden. Unfortunately it seems it is going to be a degree cooler than yesterday at just 12° C. The good news is that tomorrow might reach 15° C, and there could be sunny intervals all day, but like those early predictions of thunderstorms for today, the forecast for tomorrow will probably change a lot in the next 24 hours.

  I feel pretty sure there was more rain in the early hours of this morning, but it is dry now. Curiously enough, as I write this, the sun is trying to break through the clouds, and I am fairly sure it actually did so a bit earlier. The forecast has been revised since I took the screenshot, but the changes are minimal. The latest revision predicts the light cloud will continue an extra hour, but both agree that the rain will start again at 2pm. Both also agree that today will be less cool than yesterday, and that it might even be a tepid 13° C this afternoon. The forecast currently shows that tomorrow will be more like today that today's forecast predicts. After an early morning splash of rain there could be some sunny periods until 2pm when it will rain again. My need for a garden hose has been put off for a few more days, and with the prediction of a few more days of rain next Sunday, and Monday, I don't feel any need to rush out and buy one just yet.

  Today's weather forecast has remained more or less static, but reality hasn't been following it exactly. For one thing I reckon it was only 7.2° C at 9am. It has certainly rained a lot, but not always as heavy as the forecast predicted, and from time to time it has stopped for a bit. It is currently raining as I type this, but it seems almost bright outside - with a bit more effort a tiny sunbeam could escape, and make it down to Earth. I'm not sure if the temperature has risen to the predicted 9° C, but I think I will be keeping the heater on regardless today ! Tomorrow may be a bit less cold. 12° C is forecast. It may also stay dry until later afternoon when the forecast shows that curious mix of rain drops and sunbeams.

  Today the weather is gently preparing us for tomorrow. It seems there are less sunny intervals in the latest revision of the forecast compared to the early morning version as shown above. If the sun ever appears (it is very dull as I write this) there may only be sunny intervals until 1pm, and one more at 6pm. The temperature is still expected to reach 19° C. There is a very low chance of a shower during the course of the afternoon, and into the evening, but than at 2am tomorrow morning the rain might start. Most of tomorrow will be wet, and maybe very wet at times. It will also be quite chilly - just 9° C - except at 6am when it may be 10° C !

  The day started very chilly, but the sun is out and it should warm up. By late afternoon the temperature should just reach 20° C for a couple of hours. Like the previous couple of days the sunshine should give way to just sunny spells for the last two hours of daylight. I wonder if I'll notice it today. Tomorrow should be almost as warm as today, 19° C, but the current forecast says there will only be sunny periods instead of non stop sunshine. The main forecast says it should stay dry, but from mid afternoon the chance of rain increases to 16%. The day after, next Tuesday, is currently looking like it will be cold and wet !

  Today is now forecast to be even cooler than when the screenshot above was taken. The maximum afternoon temperature is now predicted to be no higher than 16° C. Another change is that the first hour of full sunshine may not be until midday. As I write this there is not a hint of the sun in the sky, and it feels cold and gloomy. The only small improvement in the latest revision of the forecast is that now the last hour of full sunshine could be 6pm. After that there will only be sunny intervals until sunset. Tomorrow should see the return of full sunshine, except at the extremes of daylight hours, and it should end up noce and warm at 20° C. Today may seem bad, but it was far worse on this day in 2017. The day started with a frost, and although it was sunny, the maximum temperature was just 10° C Brrrrr !

  At first I didn't feel like I wanted to go out for a walk yesterday, and then I did. I had visions of maybe trying for a 4 mile walk, but I made two fundamental errors.  The first was to hope that my newest boots, bought from Aldi months ago, might be getting more comfortable (they were, but there is a long way to go before they are actually comfortable). The second was that I decided I would walk up to the top of Blythe Hill for the views over London from there - on a good clear day, but it wasn't. In my archive page for today I include a video showing how knackered I was after walking just a single mile - the last third of it uphill. There is also some pictures of what I saw along my walk. As usual I mention my health indicators. They are all looking good this morning - contrary to how I actually feel, although that is probably influenced by how cold and gloomy this morning's weather is. All that, plus what I was going to eat, and what I actually ate in my archive page for today HERE.

  Today will share many features of yesterday. The middle of the day should be very sunny, and the temperature should reach 21° C - that's a couple of degrees less than yesterday, but it probably won't feel that much less. This morning some light cloud made the sunshine a bit diffused, and perhaps the same will happen for the last few hours of daylight. Maybe those last few hours will be worse than that, and the sun will go in from time to time. Tomorrow should follow the same pattern, but the afternoon temperature may only reach 17° C. That will feel a bit cool after the last few days.

  I pushed my daily (or mostly daily) walk to 3.66 miles yesterday. It was a route that involved walking up to the top of Mountsfield Park. I don't know how high above Catford that is, but I seemed like hard work to me, and I am pretty sure the "Simply Walking" app I use to track and measure my walk takes no account of elevation, and has diddled me out of some of the calories I might have burnt off. My route also took me past Angela's favourite bench in the park, but she wasn't there, and didn't even acknowledge the message I sent her to say I would be there. My only satisfaction was just walking the 3.66 miles, and nothing else. There are some pictures taken on my walk, plus some observations about my lunch and dinner, and how I feel this morning, on the archive page for today HERE.

  The latest revision to the forecast not only says that the temperature will be over 20° C, but it should actually reach a more than warm 23° C for a few hours this afternoon. It should feel hot in the direct sunshine. Tomorrow may be a couple of degrees cooler, perhaps just 21° C, but that is still very acceptable. The day after tomorrow, Saturday, may still be pretty much the same as today and tomorrow, but once again a degree or two cooler than tomorrow - maybe just 19° C, but that is still nothing to complain about.

  Despite being knackered by my 2 mile walk the day before, I set out on a walk that I knew could be a lot longer yesterday. I could have pushed it a bit further, but I ended up walking 3 miles, and although tired, I wasn't exhausted when I got home again. On the way home I bought a few useful things from the Sainsbury's Local shop by Catford station. Somehow I managed to have better control over what I ate yesterday, and this morning my blood glucose level was back down to a sane level, and for the first time in ages my weight seems have gone down a small amount (although it is still far above the level I managed a few weeks back). All the details, plus pictures, and a short video, are in my archive page for today right HERE.

  The only revision to the above forecast screenshot is that the temperature might reach the maximum for the day, 19° C by 1pm instead of 2pm. If what is described as a moderate breeze doesn't make it feel too cool then it could feel quite warm today. Tomorrow could be another sunny day, and the temperature may rise to 22 or even 23° C. That should definitely feel good ! After tomorrow it will start to cool a bit, but it looks like we might have to wait until he 30th before the garden gets any rain.

  Today, according to the latest revision to the forecast, should be very sunny, and maybe the temperature will flatten out to 16° C this afternoon - sadly not the 17° C shown in the screenshot above, although another revision might bring something more optimistic. Tomorrow could see another day of non stop sunshine, and the current prediction is that the temperature will rise to 19° C. Thursday might have just as much sunshine, and the temperature might rise to 21° C. That would start to feel very warm, but considering the forecast for just a few hours ahead can end up very wrong, I choose not to really believe Thursday will turn out anything like is currently forecast.

  I started out the day thinking I was going to go out for a walk, and to get some shopping yesterday, but when it came down to it I found I couldn't be bothered. It was another touch of depression brought about by still not getting any response to my messages to Angela. I did some laundry by hand, and then I did go out, but only to meet Jodie. I handed over some things I had ordered from Amazon, and that had arrived virtually on the day of the start of the lockdown. It was only a brief meeting - at arms length - but while I was out I also did some shopping in The Catford Food Market, and from the Poundshop. Both were mainly liquids, and I was glad to put my weighty bags down when I got home. Later I had what should have been a nice dinner if only one or more of the chillies from the same batch I had used before turned out to have been filled with fire and brimstone ! I had another stomach upset last night, but the first interior gurgling happened before I had dinner. This morning my weight was still high despite all I had deposited in the toilet the night before. Even worse was that my blood glucose was now also high after seemingly being really well controlled yesterday. The full story, as always, is in my archive page for today HERE.

  It seems we are now in a run of sunny days. The latest revision to the the forecast for today only changes one thing compared to the screenshot above. It is now thought that by midnight the temperature may fall to 11° C. The afternoon temperature may only be 15° C - which seems a bit disappointing after non stop sunshine, but it is probably something like the seasonal average. Tomorrow should be basically the same as today, but hopefully a couple of degrees warmer. If the forecast holds, which is probably optimistic, it could actually be hot on Thursday !

  I wrote about my early morning visit to the what I still call The Turkish Supermarket yesterday morning. I probably ought to either call it by it's current name "PFC", or just the Continental Supermarket because they do sell stuff from many parts of "the Continent". The tomato sauce I bought originated in Romania, and the beer was from Poland. I suspect some of the vegetables probably originate Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, or who knows where. Unless you stop to read what might be on the boxes, it is all sold loose, and no country of origin is shown on the price tag. I went out a second time for some exercise, but also to buy a bit more shopping on the way home. I walked 3.09 miles, and for a change my recorded track did not show a single glitch, and I think that 3.09 miles can be taken as accurate. The map, descriptions of what I bought, and what I ate and drunk, plus how most of my health indicators are looking good this morning (except my weight) can all be read in the archive page for today HERE.

  The latest revision to the forecast says that it will be non stop sunshine until sunset. It will still only reach 17° C, but that should feel fine in the sunshine. Tomorrow may be equally sunny, but the temperature may only rise to 15° C. That should still be t-shirt weather, but only if you keep moving !

  I felt both bad and good yesterday. I felt physically OK, but I think I was suffering from mental ennui. I did my best to convince myself that the grey skies would all be worth it provided the forecast rain fall, and water the grass seed on what will hopefully be my lawn. It didn't rain a single drop (as far as I am aware), and that defeated the whole object of the day. It left me feeling rather gloomy, and uninspired to do much. I think the only productive thing I did, in a physical sense, was to wash a hand towel and the tea towels I had been using to dry and polish my booze glass collection. Late in the evening, but fortunately not too late, I was treated to the added entertainment of the typical "trapped wind" (and other stuff) that seems a symptom of when I have eaten a wide selection of vegetable in bigger quantities than usual. After that I seemed to sleep well, and I was up quite early for my usual morning routine, and then I went back to bed again (a fact I omitted to mention in my archive page for today. That archive page includes a brief video of a booze experiment, plus pictures of some beer I bought when I went out at 9am to buy my shopping for the day (or at least most of it). The full account of yesterday, plus plans for today, can be read HERE.

  I have taken the wise precaution of checking for revisions to today's forecast, something I often forget to do before I start writing, and today it seems like it was a good thing. The latest revision to the forecast omits the hours of rain in the screenshot above. Today may just be very dull, but with the temperature still rising to 15° C. There still is a small chance of rain this morning, but the forecast essentially now says it will be dry. The rising temperature today heralds the return of warmer, and sunnier days. Tomorrow should see a mix of sunshine and sunny spells, and it could get close to being warm with the temperature currently predicted to reach 17° C - but maybe only for a single hour. I am expecting the forecast for tomorrow to change a lot by tomorrow, and hopefully it will be even better.

  I felt pretty bad yesterday morning. As I wrote yesterday, my lower back and hip pain was really strong first thing in the morning, and I am pretty sure I can blame it on the gardening I was doing the day before. The paracetamol I took helped a lot, but I am not sure if the pain went away completely, and even this morning I can detect some tenderness, although I suppose that any bad pain has disappeared by midday. It was then that my hangover started becoming a serious nuisance. I did manage to force myself to go out for some shopping - fresh ingredients for a delicious dinner. After that I was just very lazy - except to guzzle down two pints of lime cordial to rehydrate myself after drinking far too much nea gin the night before - and also to prepare and cook my dinner. As is now the usual thing, the full story is in my archive page for today which you can read by clicking HERE.

  There should be light rain today, or there isn't then all this pain (explanation coming later) is for nothing ! It is not often I hope for rain, but the garden needs it, and it might make the park a bit more empty if I go there today. The rain should start at 1pm, and then it is supposed to not stop until mid morning tomorrow. It is going to be a rather cool day , although the latest revision does say that the temperature may briefly hit 14° C - which is still rather cool !  Tomorrow the temperature may slowly climb to 15° C. Once the morning rain dries up it will still be heavily overcast until the cloud gradually thins a bit mid afternoon, but it probably won't clear enough to let any sunshine through.

  I was rather more depressed than I sounded when writing yesterday.  There were a multitude of small reasons, individually ignorable, why I felt depressed, but one I chose to dwell on concerned drinking. I was feeling that I was fed up drinking alone, and as a result my beer consumption was getting smaller and smaller. To compensate I did drink rather a lot of booze that wasn't beer last night.  I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to go out for a walk with the sunshine starting to fade away, but it did feel warm enough to do some work in the garden - quite a lot of it - and it was enough to give me severe lower back and hip pain when I got up this morning. Oh well, at least it felt like I had done some useful work, and a couple of paracetamol seem to have helped to take away most of the pain.  There are pictures of what I did in the garden, plus a description of my day, and how I didn't go to bed until it was almost light this morning, all in my archive page for today that can be found right here.

  The forecast has changed a little bit since I took the screenshot above. The full sunshine is now expected to be replaced by just sunny spells from about 1pm now, but paradoxically, the temperature might now keep increasing until it hits 20° C at 3pm. It will then slowly cool off. It should stay dry today, but may not tomorrow. Light rain may start by mid morning, and continue through the night, and for most of Saturday. Tomorrow will also be pretty cool - probably no more than about 13° C.

  My daily exercise was a walk of 2 miles yesterday. I didn't feel like doing more for a variety of reasons, but at least 2 miles almost keeps me in practice. I didn't have a good day yesterday, and some of the ruin was caused my eating just two apples - blood glucose and weight both up again. It has left me feeling a bit depressed this morning, and I am not sure if I will go for a walk today. I probably will, but maybe just another short one. As usual I have written about my day, and illustrated a few bits of it with pictures, in my archive page HERE. It also includes some thoughts about today.

  The screenshot above is how the forecast looked at 5am this morning*. Four hours later and it hasn't really changed. It seems today is going to be a sunny day with blues skies. The wind is still mostly from the east, which tends to be a cool direction, but also a dry direction. Fortunately it seems that the wind will be light enough for the temperature rise to 17° C for a brief period of time. It should feel warm in that sunshine this afternoon. Tomorrow may see the temperature rise to 19° C after lots of sunshine, but late in the afternoon it will start to get cloudy. Thursday and Friday could see some rain.
 
  * There is an obvious error in this screenshot that took me a while to realise - the dates are wrong, and yet the prediction for "today" actually matches the prediction for the real today. I think I may have taken this screenshot just as it was being revised. If you look towards the bottom right of the picture you will see "Last updated Wednesday at 05:00", and there would be no reason to show yesterday's weather. So "Today" really is today, and the subsequent day and dates are wrong.

  The forecast says it should be cloudy at the moment, but possible since sunrise there seems to have been a lot of sunshine this morning. There are quite a lot of clouds in the southern sky right now, but there are large blue areas to be seen. The latest revision of the forecast says the first sunny spells should not happen until 10am, but then the sunny spells should continue through until sunset. At 6pm there is now the possibility of the sky clearing enough to give a whole hour of sunshine. The wind is from the east, always a cool direction, and the temperature will be no better than yesterday - just 11° C. Tomorrow could potentially start with a frost, but a sunny day is predicted, and the temperature may briefly peak at 17° C.

  There was a 69% chance of rain this morning, and yet the forecast doesn't show rain, and while the sky seemed quite threatening, no rain has fallen - yet. It is still very dull and cloudy at the moment, and it looks to me as if it could rain. After the recent sunny days I wouldn't be sorry if we had some rain. In fact the garden would welcome it - the grass seed might actually do something if given a suitable drenching. Even the latest revision of the forecast predicts the sun starting to break through at about 11am, and full sunshine by 1pm. Unless it rains very soon it is going to be another dry day. It is also going to be a rather cool day compared to recent days. The afternoon temperature may be no higher than 11° C - long trousers and light coat weather again ! Tomorrow may be worse. Maybe the same afternoon temperature, but quite a cold start, and only occasional sunny spells.

  I wasn't sure I would go out again after my 4 mile walk the previous day. My legs, and my feet didn't seem to have recovered from the day before, and yet they didn't seem that bad. I reasoned that it would possibly be a good idea to give my legs a bit of use to avoid them seizing up completely. I ended up walking to Ladywell, and then back, past home, to The Turkish Supermarket on Catford Bridge. I bought some nice food and some nice beer. The walk was OK for my legs, but not for my feet. The only thing I did in the afternoon was to do a bit of hand laundry. Other than that, I had a mostly lazy day. You can read the full story of the day, with many pictures, HERE.

  The latest revision of the weather forecast has depreciated the afternoon temperature by one degree, and the afternoon high is predicted to be just 23° C. That is still good enough to wear t-shirt and shirts, but it lacks the sizzle of yesterday's 25° C. Other than that small change, today should be very similar to yesterday until we get to 8pm. In the screenshot above a thunderbolt is depicted, but the actual chance of rain was thought to be just 9%. The latest revision omits the thunderbolt, and says the chance of rain at 8pm will be just 4%. Tomorrow is going to be a lot cooler. There should still be a mix of sunny spells and sunshine, but the maximum temperature could be as low as a cool feeling 11° C

  The forecast has been slightly revised since I took the screenshot above. The latest revision show non stop sunshine until sunset, but the temperature forecast has been reduced to a high of 23° C. It should be a slightly warmer version of yesterday. Tomorrow brings some unknowns. For the last few days the forecast for Sunday has alternated between rain and no rain. The latest prediction is no rain, and a day not too dissimilar to today. By comparison, the day after, Monday is currently looking like it will be feeling quite cold compared to the last few days, but even that could change in the next 48 hours.

  As usual the forecast has been revised since I took the screenshot above earlier this morning. It still shows that today should be a very sunny day, but the prediction for the afternoon temperature has now been reduced to 20° C. In other words today will be like yesterday, and as a means of predicting the weather that has been shown to be more accurate than all the super computers combined. So tomorrow should be the same as today, but the current prediction guess is that the afternoon temperature may rise to 25° C. Sunday should have featured rain - which would have been good for the garden - but now is predicted to be dry except for a light shower at 7pm.

  The latest revision of the forecast does not really deviate from the screenshot above. It is, and will continue to be sunny until sometime after 3pm, and then there will just be sunny spells for the rest of the daylight hours. Once again it will be warm with the afternoon temperature reaching 20° C again. It looks to be a mild night, and tomorrow should start at around 9° C. After non stop sunshine the temperature could be exploring the very low reaches of "hot" at 23° C. The day after, Saturday, could see 24° C !

  The weather seems very volatile lately. The forecast can easily change in a few hours. So far this morning I would describe it as sunny, albeit sometimes hazy sunshine, but enough to be "sunshine" instead of the sunny spells shown in the forecast. The light rain showers, shown in the screenshot above, which I was relaying on to water my plants, now seem to have disappeared from the latest revision of the forecast. About the only constant we can rely on is that the sun should make an appearance, for variable lengths of time, every hour until sunset. The temperature prediction of 21° C seems to be very likely. Tomorrow is currently predicted to be a sunny day, but a degree less than today, 20° C. It will probably snow.

  Today has certainly started nice and sunny. The latest revision to the forecast has the sunshine continuing another hour compared to the screenshot above. From 5pm there may only be sunny intervals until sunset. This morning felt a little cool, but with an afternoon temperature of 19° C, it should end up as a nice warm day. Tomorrow should be warmer still with the temperature reaching 21° C, but the day may only feature sunny spells rather than non stop sunshine.

  Today was supposed to start with rain, but the first rain has only just started, and it may only be less than an hours worth of drizzle. The latest revision to the forecast actually shows drizzle for 11am, but by midday we might get sunny spells that last until the end of the day. The afternoon temperature should reach 17° C. Tomorrow should see the return of sunshine except for the last few hours of daylight which will only feature sunny spells. The afternoon temperature should be back to a very pleasant 19° C.

  Today is forecast to be sunny and warm. The latest revision to the forecast has not changed any obvious detail to the screenshot above - actually I suddenly note a small change - 7pm is now shown as sunny instead of just sunny spells. The mid afternoon temperature of 20° C should feel hot in the sunshine after all the much colder days we've had. One useful revision to the forecast concerns tomorrow. Apart from the chance of a shower in the morning, it is now shown as having sunny spells all afternoon.

  The latest revision of the forecast looks better than the screenshot above. The hours of sunshine have been moved forward to start at 1pm, and it should stay sunny until at least mid afternoon. At the moment, where the original forecast shows grey sky, there is hazy sunshine, and there have been hazy sunny spells for the last hour or two. The afternoon temperature is still only expected to reach 15° C, but in full sunshine, and a moderate breeze from the south, that could feel very nice. Tomorrow could almost be the first day of summer - a sunny day with the temperature reaching 19° C. Apart from a hiccup on Monday, when there could be a splash of rain, it seems like the temperature has now shifted up a couple of notches for the week, or weeks to come.

  Today continues the trend set yesterday for being a grey day with a bit of brightness at the end of the afternoon. It would seem it will be a bit cooler today. Maybe just 10° C at best. It was at that point I thought I had better check the forecast for changes, and indeed it has changed. The day is now predicted to be uniformly mid grey with no dark grey, and no sunshine at the end of the afternoon. Also it is now expected to reach 12° C this afternoon. Tomorrow looks like it could be most pleasant - sunny intervals all day, and the temperature reaching 15° C. 

  Today promises to be a mostly gloomy day. It is gloomy now, and this first version of the forecast makes it seem like it will stay this way, to varying degrees, until 4pm when a few sunny spells might appear. There is a very small, 6 to 8%, chance of rain this afternoon, but it feels very unlikely. On the plus side it the temperature should rise to 13° C this afternoon. During a sunny spell that could feel OK, and it may be aided by the light wind coming from the west (it is that wind carrying the moist air that will be causing the clouds). Tomorrow is predicted to be a couple of degrees cooler, and the whole day is probably going to be grey and gloomy under yet more cloud - although with less chance of rain than today.

  Today started with a thick frost that is now only melting under the clear blue sky and sunshine. The latest revision to the forecast says the sky should stay clear, with non stop sunshine, until 11am. After that there should be a few hours of sunny intervals, until a veil of clouds turns the sky grey. For all that sunshine the afternoon temperature may only reach 9° C, but the afternoon should stay dry. At the moment the prediction is that tomorrow could get almost warm with an afternoon temperature of 13° C, but it will come at the expense of grey skies, and no sunshine at all. There will be a very small (8%) chance of a shower sometime in the afternoon. It seems we have to wait until Sunday for a run of good weather.