Both Manston and Lydd are looking at 45 knot gusts today – that’s something like 54 mph! The Silver Birches and other trees outside my window are being bent over and hurled around by the wind and the ground beneath them is littered with twigs and small branches that have healthy green leaves on them. We are becoming desperate for some high pressure to get these winds to drop but the forecast for the rest of the week is just as dismal. And the long range forecast for August is predicting more of the same.<\/p>\n
I can’t in all my years remember a year like this. We thought last year was bad enough but this is even worse \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n
On the upside (there is one?)….Dave’s gauge arrived this morning. At least I can look forward to fitting that this weekend \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Both Manston and Lydd are looking at 45 knot gusts today – that’s something like 54 mph! The Silver Birches and other trees outside my window are being bent over and hurled around by the wind and the ground beneath them is littered with twigs and small branches that have healthy green leaves on them. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}