Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

"needing a brief" was very similar to some of the comments I heard in Eastbourne. (Along with "needing a magnifying glass", which I thought unkind.)

(I used the word Brief advisedly...)

[Petrushka]

It's been 14 degrees here as well for the past couple of days. I've been saying we could eat our Christmas Day lunch al fresco if this carries on.

S-A: I read somewhere that the highest UK temp on record for December was 18.5 degrees in the Scottish Highlands in 1948.

[teamsaint]

Nice and warm down here too.

been at the company xmas lunch today, very warm indeed in the restaurant, which promised the most " quietly confident menu in the Cotswolds".


No, me neither.

Quite decent meal though.

[Petrushka]

Astonishingly mild here: a thermometer reading out of doors just five minutes ago recorded 14 degrees! The strongish wind from earlier in the day has subsided to a gentle breeze and now - at nearly 10.30 on a December night - it feels more like a balmy night in June when you sit outside with a glass or two of wine. Actually it's warmer than the nights we did have in June.

Al fresco Christmas Day lunch anyone?

[Serial_Apologist]

It actually reached 15 C here this afternoon, but just half a degree short of the 60 Fahrenheit dividing line between mild and warm for some. I went out for a mile-long stroll wearing light jacket and open-necked shirt. Oh and trousers, socks, shoes and underware too, for the pedants!

Al fresco Christmas Day lunch anyone?

Probably not as it's expected to cool down considerably by Christmas Day, though still on the mild side, but with wind and rain quite likely.

[Nick Armstrong]

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[DracoM]

As I write now, it is simply sodden, fiercely wind-blown, and utterly horrible in the NW. Rain drumming on the roof, wind battering ta windows. AGAIN.

[Anna]

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/20/its-30...mpaign=Twitter

I remember 2010 well. I'd been on a pre-Christmas break in Sussex, I left early - 27th November to be precise - to stay ahead of the snow, (not wishing to get marooned on a train somewhere in Wiltshire!) and arriving this end the cold was enough to cut your legs off at the knees. Christmas Day night was the lowest temperature ever recorded here at -15°

Saturday was such a dark day, we had the high temps but also very strong S-SW winds, so not al fresco weather. Yesterday we finally saw the sun for the first time in ages but again very blustery and some short sharp showers. Much colder today, only 6.5° at the moment.
Shortest day tomorrow, solstice starts at 8.04am so things can only get better but I see the Daily Star is warning we shall be in the grips of Storm Eva over Christmas .....

[BBMmk2]

Has anyone got daffs blooming in their gardens? I haven’t but the osteospermum developed buds which are now open, the geraniums are still in full flower and very buddy, the kerria is in full bloom and the rudbeckia hasn’t stopped. So far we’ve had just two frosts, it’s strange getting up on December mornings to find it’s over 12° and on the 5th my energy supplier sent me their 6 month review that showed compared to this time last year I’ve used 10% less gas – there’s been no need for heating. At the other end of the scale my sister (Teesside, Barnard Castle) woke up last weekend to 4” of snow!

When the Bewick swans arrived early there were predictions of a harsh winter but the Met Office long range did predict current above average temps and rainfall due to El Nino – the strongest one on record – which will also trigger an intensely cold end to the winter like we had at the end of 2010. Not sure what they class as the end of winter – March or February? Winter officially starts next week on the 22nd.

(I know I haven’t posted lately, due to trials and tribulations, the slings and arrows, broadband problems, etc., so need to catch up on what’s been happening to everyone)

Welcome back Anna! Been much missed! Good to see you again! :)

Rather wild and windy yesterday. Took my lelderly mum to see my son and gf yesterday, down at Peacehaven. What a dump of a place that is! Yuk! There was this carvery that was recommended to us by my younger sister and her friend. Hmmm we won't be going back there again!

[DracoM]

As I write, 7C, and rain shovelling down driven by a ferocious WNW wind gusting up to 40 mph. AGAIN.

Last night's R4 forecaster spoke dismissively of a few showers running across 'the North'. Here, in the 'North', i.e. NW of England, we have had unmitigated fierce rain and wind for getting on for a fortnight with few respites. We are pretty fed up with being patronised and patted on the head by such forecasters.

[vinteuil]

As I write, 7C, and rain shovelling down driven by a ferocious WNW wind gusting up to 40 mph. AGAIN.

Last night's R4 forecaster spoke dismissively of a few showers running across 'the North'. Here, in the 'North', i.e. NW of England, we have had unmitigated fierce rain and wind for getting on for a fortnight with few respites. We are pretty fed up with being patronised and patted on the head by such forecasters.

... ah, but you can't really complain :

... now why is it that people choose to live in they northerly parts?

The weather is rarely dull, often dramatic, the landscape both exciting and forbidding, smaller communities friendly and energetic. And for the most part, refreshingly clean and pollution free.

What's not to like?

[eighthobstruction]

....Hi Anna....gleetings

....a glance at the beeb weather says windy and wet to be endured up here past Xmas day....Just in Tesco - an almost complete mono-culture of white (and I am not talking of snow) very odd....

[Serial_Apologist]

... ah, but you can't really complain :

Even if poor Draco sold his 50-bedroom Jacobean pile it wouldn't bring in enough to afford a one-room bedsit in Bloomsbury!

[Serial_Apologist]

an almost complete mono-culture of white

Sounds a bit like Baaath Spaaaah...

[DracoM]

Hang on! The weather is horrible, BUT as I said, it's never dull and always 'dramatic'.
I didn't say I wanted to live anywhere else. And a Bloomsbury bedsit would be pretty near the bottom of my list!!