Four seasons in one day?

It would seem that no matter which side of the the ‘pond’ you live at present, life is being dominated by the weather!  Storms and flooding have been the major part of news in the UK for the last few weeks, although to start with little was said about the flooding on the Somerset levels which has been ongoing since before Christmas.  However the storms last week which saw the destruction of the railway at Dawlish, and now flooding in the Thames Valley have changed all of that!

Yesterday, it could be said that we experienced virtually every kind of weather in a single day, even here in Melksham, which has escaped the worst of the conditions seen elsewhere, with sunshine, gale force winds, torrential rain, thunder and lightning, and a sharp heavy hail storm!