Stormy Weather

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

very nippy in the middle kingdom and cycling would be most unusual in any circumstances salymap!

[marthe]

Nippy weather isn't here yet. Today it's grey, calm, warm. Rain is coming tomorrow. It's not very Christmas-like weather. I'm getting in the spirit by writing out some Christmas cards (not holiday cards!) There's a big fuss now about "holiday" trees v Christmas trees.

[Anna]

Nippy weather isn't here yet. Today it's grey, calm, warm. Rain is coming tomorrow. It's not very Christmas-like weather. I'm getting in the spirit by writing out some Christmas cards (not holiday cards!) There's a big fuss now about "holiday" trees v Christmas trees.

Marthe, and Happy Holidays and Winter Festival! <doh> I need to do my Stateside cards. Nice, bright, sunny, today. Clear sky and a very pretty sunset just developing. The gritters were out in force during the early hours. Scotland has snow it seems and parts of Northumberland and Co. Durham. Perhaps anton has some?

[Chris Newman]

A rain shower here at the moment. The water board tell us we need weeks of it. I read that the River Rhine is becoming un-navigable because of the drop in level; Koblenz was evacuated at the weekend after a WW2 bomb emerged.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16025669

[Serial_Apologist]

very nippy in the middle kingdom and cycling would be most unusual in any circumstances salymap!

I've just returned from Brixton with a new keyboard after the old one died in some strange divine intervention while I was writing a disproportionately vituperative reply to what I judged a vicious posting on another thread from this one. At 4 degrees C is seemed much colder than it actually was on the bike. It felt like snow could be in the air. But it actually needs to be at least another degree Celsius lower before any of the white stuff makes it through the wet stuff. Why then, does it seem so cold? Well, two days ago the maximum daytime here was below the seasonal norm for the first time since September. We'd been informed that, accross the country, our November was the second warmest November on record. Temperatures have, in fact, been slowly falling all that time, as they usually tend to in this country - unlike in the States, where winter often breaks through with a 10 or 15 degree drop in a few hours - but have been dragging behind, meaning that we have not had time to get used to what, for us at any rate, is now cold for the time of year.

[Anna]

Chris, interesting you mention lack of rain where you are. So far here this year we've had 469mm, last year we had 544mm, (even after all that snow melting) the average mean rainfall (records going back to 1929) is 799mm! I've never seen our three rivers so low.
S-A, I'm warmer than you at 6 degrees!

[salymap]

Goodness, aren't you all knowledgeable about rainfall in past years, water levels, etc. My nearest river is the Thames, apart from a little tributary ,locally, called the river Shuttle, where we used to 'fish' for tadpoles when kids.
I now look at the birdbath outside the kitchen window to see if it's raining and how the level is. Well-done you. Very cold tonight here. Think I must get an electric blanket soon.

[marthe]

Stay warm saly! I can't sleep when I'm too cold. G. is a fresh air fiend and likes to keep the window open a crack which means I get chilled unless I'm well wrapped in blankets, or have a cat curled up on my feet. It hasn't yet gone below freezing at night. That time will come soon enough.

[greenilex]

Morning all. Damp but not too cold - intermittent cloud cover in a good breeze.

[Frances_iom]

Morning all. Damp but not too cold - intermittent cloud cover in a good breeze.

can let you have a better breeze from this rock - no boat and probably not running to late Thursday - force 8 promised with force 9
a possibility - other than that the sun has just risen above the hills into a mostly clear sky with a continuous very strong wind and salt deposited on all my windows

[salymap]

Who wrote recently on Stormy Weather about someone improving the 'seal' on their double glazing? I can't afford all new windows, but after a number of years there is a definite draught through the shut windows.

living room window is about eight feet long and right behind where I sit with the computer. Only possible position too.

[Globaltruth]

Today we are blessed with a mix of hail/sleet showers and then some brief intermissions of calm.

Temperature hovering around 2/3, but, as they say on the forecast 'the wind makes it feel colder'.

Indeed.

[Anna]

The Met Office have issued a Level 2 Cold Weather Alert for tomorrow onwards, W. Scotland, NW and West Mids. Well, it is Winter, what do we expect! A very wild night and stormy here from about 5am onwards, torrential rain and gusting high winds. It's not too cold now, just under 8 but windchill making it 2 degrees colder.

[vinteuil]

well, walking up the Portobello Road to deliver pre-Christmas presents early this morning there was a beautiful searing 'cataract cleaning' light - brilliant blue sky and sharp clarity on the London stock brick and white stucco façades - amazing. Good to get out of the wind and into the warmth, tho'...

[Serial_Apologist]

Watch out for teatime into the evening rush tomorrow in the South, as the squall line from a deep low expected to track across Scotland charges through. If you're in the South, don't travel north is my advice. If you're already in the North and Scotland, get all your necessaries in today, and stay indoors tomorrow!