Rain before seven, fine before eleven

 Here is the scene first thing this morning.

By quarter to 11, the first sign of fine weather was beginning to appear in the west over the Solway.

My parents taught me the weather saying "rain before seven, fine before eleven" when I was a child; we were trying to be optimistic on wet holidays on the west coast of Scotland. When I became a teacher, an early lesson was that very few students had been taught it by their parents! It is based on the four to five hour transit time of an Atlantic front across the UK. It often doesn't work in mountainous areas like this one because the mountains can catch the cloud, especially if the weather is coming up from the Azores as it was the other week. But today it looks as though it's going to be all right.