Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

www.yr.no is the weather station I consult

Häftigt!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Häftigt!

Not after the diet.

[BBMmk2]

Well the weather people had it wrong! Good! :)

[BBMmk2]

Well a bit of a mixed bag today! Quite overcast at the moment though!

[Petrushka]

August 1? Have we skipped a couple of months and it's October 1? A windy, occasionally wet and cool day here with temps struggling to get to 20 degrees. The rest of the week doesn't look to see things improve very much but if the forecast is right then next week looks a little better. The long range forecast for August isn't particularly exciting either.

What a poor summer this has been!

[Serial_Apologist]

August 1? Have we skipped a couple of months and it's October 1? A windy, occasionally wet and cool day here with temps struggling to get to 20 degrees. The rest of the week doesn't look to see things improve very much but if the forecast is right then next week looks a little better. The long range forecast for August isn't particularly exciting either.

What a poor summer this has been!

Very middling sunshine-wise in most places, although temperatures have been averaging slightly above their norms for June and July, and yesterday was the first substantial rainfall here in London for over a month.

This morning I got caught on my bike ride home from a shop a mile away in thick light but remarkably drenching rain; which goes to show that even an amateur weather expert like me can be fooled by a thick featureless grey cloud blanket with nothing coming out of it when I exited the flats! Sunday is one day too far on for the official forecasters to be sure, and I'm just hoping it is going to be sufficiently dry, at least, for my return ride to Sutton (9 miles each way): if wet, it's either to be train (but Southern is playing fast and loose with its customers as well as its workforce, cancelling everything 2 Sundays ago without prior website notice), buses (about three hours in each direction, with long waits at the two or three interchanges!), or cycling under protection from a sweat-inducing cape!

[Pianorak]

for my return ride to Sutton (9 miles each way)

Have you considered one of these? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Razor-E100S...ectric+scooter
As for reasonably accurate weather forecasts: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...ime=1470117600

Roll on Sunday!

[Serial_Apologist]

[QUOTE=Pianorak;573486]Have you considered one of these? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Razor-E100S...ectric+scooter

I have, Pianorak, after seeing them presented on telly a few years ago. But a) they only go for 40 mins before running out of juice; and b) I go faster than a max of 10 mph, yet it takes me a bit longer than 40 mins to get to Sutton and back from here! - and c) with pain when walking, cycling is my one remaining exercise option for keeping my sugar count down, as ordered by my doc!

As for reasonably accurate weather forecasts: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...ime=1470117600

Roll on Sunday!

Yes but it only goes up to Saturday, non?

[Pianorak]

Yes but it only goes up to Saturday, non?

It does indeed, because the met office knows anything beyond 48 hrs is just beyond them - or anybody else. However, the following is a bit more adventurous, but not necessarily to be relied upon. http://en.meteox.com/
I can see the problem with the electric scooter. Bummer!

[Serial_Apologist]

It does indeed, because the met office knows anything beyond 48 hrs is just beyond them - or anybody else. However, the following is a bit more adventurous, but not necessarily to be relied upon. http://en.meteox.com/
I can see the problem with the electric scooter. Bummer!

Thanks for sending me the Meteox link - that's new to me: I like the way it shows the cloud bands and clusters moving.

[DracoM]

Well, hallo August! Dreech, chilly edge to the wind, fells invisible, rain..........., cloud, swirl of both.........

[BBMmk2]

Autumn already? Not been much of a summer, so far?

[DracoM]

Already? Huh!

Today is utterly vile, vile, vile. Driving westerly up to force 4/5 in gusts 6, and with it that fine, fine Northern Fells rain / cloud that soaks everything within seconds of being outside. Yuk.

[vinteuil]

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,,, and early humans chose to wander north of the Loire

[DracoM]

Well, 'North' is generally dramatic, even theatrical in its weather at times, the landscapes always challenging and exciting, but the more challenging such terrain / geography, the more variable and usually more extreme the weather that dominates it. Yes, it is dreech and increasingly windy today, but frankly, having lived in a number of places in UK, I wouldn't live anywhere else. I don't have to love the weather here to love the place!!