Stormy Weather

[DracoM]

NW and Cumbria cop it again big time apparently.

[mangerton]

Quite possibly it's the warmest part of the UK with glorious sunshine ..

Don't know about that, but it's not been too bad here today. Not particularly cold, with just a little light rain this afternoon.

[P. G. Tipps]

Don't know about that, but it's not been too bad here today. Not particularly cold, with just a little light rain this afternoon.

I was "speaking" generally, mangerton. It may surprise some to discover how often a particular part of Scotland is reported to be the warmest part of the UK on a certain day. Indeed invariably it can be in the north of the country usually in the Moray Firth area, and the Western Isles, notably Tiree, is well-famed for occasionally being the sunniest.

On the other hand I remember reading on more than one occasion that somewhere in the Grampians managed to be both the hottest and coldest place in the UK within 24 hours.

However, as the drookit natives will no doubt testify, the recorded amount of fresh cool water tumbling from the skies is even more impressive!

PS ... Tiree, of course, is part of the Inner Hebrides so not officially the 'Western Isles' but as near as makes little difference?

[BBMmk2]

NW and Cumbria cop it again big time apparently.

Nothing in the news then?

[Serial_Apologist]

I was "speaking" generally, mangerton. It may surprise some to discover how often a particular part of Scotland is reported to be the warmest part of the UK on a certain day. Indeed invariably it can be in the north of the country usually in the Moray Firth area, and the Western Isles, notably Tiree, is well-famed for occasionally being the sunniest.

On the other hand I remember reading on more than one occasion that somewhere in the Grampians managed to be both the hottest and coldest place in the UK within 24 hours.

However, as the drookit natives will no doubt testify, the recorded amount of fresh cool water tumbling from the skies is even more impressive!

PS ... Tiree, of course, is part of the Inner Hebrides so not officially the 'Western Isles' but as near as makes little difference?

There is a modicum of veracity in that statement, and would be explained by the so-called "Fohn" effect, which only really affects Scotland in any big way in the UK, having mountains high and extensive enough to bring about the leeside drying effect. (Or "Foehn", for pedants insistent of proper umlaut substitutions). It mostly happens in spring to early summer, for a combination of complex reasons.

[DracoM]

Nothing in the news then?

As if outside the M25 fortress wall anything serious exists....?

[mangerton]

I was "speaking" generally, mangerton.

PS ... Tiree, of course, is part of the Inner Hebrides so not officially the 'Western Isles' but as near as makes little difference?

Oh yes, I know, and my comment was not meant as disagreement.

Tiree I suppose could be Coll'd a number of things.

It's odd how things stick in one's mind. I remember the delight of the class when, aged 8 or so, we were doing the geography of Scotland and were told of the islands Canna, Rùm, Eigg and Muck.

[mangerton]

There is a modicum of veracity in that statement, and would be explained by the so-called "Fohn" effect, which only really affects Scotland in any big way in the UK, having mountains high and extensive enough to bring about the leeside drying effect. (Or "Foehn", for pedants insistent of proper umlaut substitutions). It mostly happens in spring to early summer, for a combination of complex reasons.

Thanks, S_A. As it's been a calm, sunny, almost spring-like afternoon here, I went out for a drive. There's not a trace of snow around Dundee, and I was quite surprised to see how much there was on the hills north of the Sidlaws. The Föhn effect in action!

(Umlauts are very easy on an ipad. )

[P. G. Tipps]

There is a modicum of veracity in that statement, and would be explained by the so-called "Fohn" effect, which only really affects Scotland in any big way in the UK, having mountains high and extensive enough to bring about the leeside drying effect. (Or "Foehn", for pedants insistent of proper umlaut substitutions). It mostly happens in spring to early summer, for a combination of complex reasons.

I'll take your word for it, St Peter's Little Helper.

However, whatever the scientific reasons, the popular southern notion that the further north one goes in the UK the colder it gets - well, as you now most helpfully confirm, it just ain't necessarily so!

[BBMmk2]

Rather blustery, yesterday. At least I managed to complete a section of the score, I am working on!

[Serial_Apologist]

Blustery here today once more, but mild enough at 13.5 C to pop down the local shops without needing a coat of any kind. The sky appears to have had grey paint rolled across its entirety in neatly aligned bands with hardly any space between to let sunshine through - stratocumulus, or "roller cloud", typical of the maritime tropical air we're under down here south of about Manchester.

[DracoM]

9C here total max, unmitigatedly nasty.
Shovels of rain on a fierce westerly, fells literally invisible down to ground level.
And so the NW rivers / towns / fells get yet another saturating lacing. It's a day after day battering oop 'ere.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The all-day "drizzle becoming heavy showers at times" that the Met Office forecast for today (and which the website says is actually happening now) didn't emerge - or haven't done so yet. This bit of the Pennines has had silver-grey cloud cover all day, but it's been dry, very blustery, and remarkably mild for late February (11 degrees - positively balmy when compared to the frosts of this time last week). Windy last night, too - my "village" walk this morning took me past several blown-down elderly wooden fences.

[Serial_Apologist]

The all-day "drizzle becoming heavy showers at times" that the Met Office forecast for today (and which the website says is actually happening now) didn't emerge - or haven't done so yet. This bit of the Pennines has had silver-grey cloud cover all day, but it's been dry, very blustery, and remarkably mild for late February (11 degrees - positively balmy when compared to the frosts of this time last week). Windy last night, too - my "village" walk this morning took me past several blown-down elderly wooden fences.

The sun has broken through here now, and the temperature has reached 14 degrees C, which would be more usual for mid October or late April, although the wind takes the edge off it rather. But this looks like the end of the mild picture everywhere, with winds expected to go around to the north-west tomorrow.

I've just noticed a lot of thunderstorms clustered in the eastern central United States, which is also unusual to say the least - I wonder if we'll be hearing of tornadoes from that part of the world.

[DracoM]

Sun?????

I must be on a different planet.
Wind gone round to NW, and still cascading it down.

Dining room ceiling leaking. no builder available on a sunday afternoon - apparently.
Any suggestions?