On a boat however, it makes a much more drastic difference. I mean, obviously if you’re going sailing it’s essential to know what’s going on in the atmosphere, but further than that, it makes a big differnce to your life when you’re tied up along side a pontoon too.

Take last night for example, and indeed today for that matter. It was and is horrid. Squally winds blow the boat hard against the pontoon, or push it away to reign tight aginst her warps with a shudder. The fenders are squeeking against the hull, and the big gusts cause her to heel a few degrees. If I look out the cabin window, the entire world around me is in motion; up, down, and side to side.

I did see it coming though, I feel smug to say. I’ve been doing the Day Skipper course at the Little Ships Club and one of the lessons on weather explained the presure charts, or rather, refreshed it from school days. I look at one of them this morning and saw the tightly packed isobars, and low pressure area sitting over blighty, along with a cold front moving in towards London.

As expected, the clear blue sky started to show signs of fluff (which I know know are cumulous clouds and with the cold front came a thick layer of rain laiden, squally rubbish.

Haha, just as I got to the start of this paragraph, the cloud seems to have given way to a hefty shaft of sunlight which is currently bathing Kudu in a little tease of summer.

I do love the weather and its fickle mood swings. I think I shall buy a book about meteorology and geek out a little bit tomorrow. Afterall, I don’t have to go to work any more