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Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Wednesday, April 1/2026


Nine pm and it’s not raining. Glance at the radar does suggest that this snug dry refuge may be temporary. Radar not an April Fool’s posting, unfortunately. Storm even has its own name - Erminio. Also, dust from Libya expected over the next two days.

Previous blogs not particularly reliable re weather comparisons. Don’t always mention it, and any given day’s offering from the skies may be atypical. But do notice that on March 31, 2019 I complained about “more of the same old intermittent rain - as it has been for the last several days and is predicted to be until at least Thursday”, so clearly - or rather murkily - that was a wet March. Even led us to wonder whether, like Joe Btsflg of the old Li’l Abner comics, we walked around under our own permanent rain cloud. Really not that bad this year. Or maybe just becoming more philosophical with age.