Opened the bathroom window now the sun has gone down and that let a lot of cool air in. Did not manage to persuade my missus to open the big landing window for me though, which might have let some through draft in. Thank god there are no midgies - perhaps too hot and too dry for them. They can’t stand the strong sunlight, wind or dry air and on a sunny dry day if there are any about then there is a long period from mid morning until late afternoon when they all disappear.
According to my lightning app, there is trouble brewing out in the Atlantic. Lightning out at sea to the north west of Ireland, in a big patch whose north-south extent stretches from to the west of Islay in the south, up to a line level with ie to the west of Mull and even Tiree. Could mean big trouble for us tonight depending on which way the wind is going. If it keeps heading east without coming far enough north, then we might be alright, and it could pass west-to-east to the south of us here. The current wind directions shown on xcweather’s maps show wind from the south east to the north west, so that would be taking it further away out into the Atlantic and up past the Hebrides way too far away to the west. Here’s hoping anyway.
The lightning scanner has triggered a couple of times on standard default sensitivity, I haven’t turned it up to max. The max setting is superb but you do then get red herrings all the time, probably because of electrics events in the house, perhaps switches being operated by missus.
