Saturday, April 21, 2012

What a Difference


The following photographs were taken only hours apart.  The first ones are of the sudden hailstorm that we had yesterday at around 4 pm.  I heard something lashing against the window and when I looked I saw enormous hailstones and the ground was covered.  This together with thunder and lightning was quite out of season.  Then at 9 am this morning the same place was flooded in beautiful spring sunshine while only a couple of hours later the clouds began to gather threatening rain.  In the end it didn't rain but it was quite windy and very cold.  There is truth in the saying 'what a difference a day makes!'.










Only about three weeks before we were basking in summer temperatures and yet here over the past two days we have had extreme cold and strong winds but also sunshine.  No wonder we Brits are always talking about the weather!  But such a difference in such a short time.  That about sums up life, I guess.

2 comments:

Joanna said...

Rain for us too but while you may have been basking in sunshine we still had cool temperatures and snow on the ground. At least the snow is gone except in the very shadiest of areas and now we just have wet stuff not white fluffy stuff

Mavis said...

Hope you get decent spring weather soon.