Yesterday (Tuesday) I drove home along the M6 in what can only be described as a bizarre weather event.

It was pretty odd weather to start with. The entire drive home was a heady mix of super humid climate mixed with sudden cold spells, as though it was GOING to rain, followed by no rain and more heat.

Before anyone suggests it was “extreme weather”, I should point out it’s happened before, but not for many years.

What did strike me as odd was how everybody in the oncoming lanes had dipped headlights on and windscreen wipers on max. Meanwhle, our north bound carriageway remained dry.

I tried to capture the event with my sat nav camera, but unfortunately by this time the water was being thrown over the central reservation. However, hopefully you’ll note the carriageway IS dry and nobody is having to use either lights or wipers.

This is very reminiscent of another journey a couple of weeks back when I was in Derby and drove into the trailing edge of a thunderstorm. It was like somebody had just turned a shower on! Then we came out of the tremendous downpour to a totally dry patch of the A50... only to see a wall of rain coming up in front of us.

Tags: rain, Motorway