Stormy Weather

[salymap]

There won't be many stars visible if it stays like this. Absolutely p...ing down here and coming under front door too.

[jayne lee wilson]

What!? Literally!!?
Don't live near a river do you?
May I suggest sandbags, rallying the neighbours etc.?

Pleased to see a male Brambling on the seed today, first of the new year. No Blackcaps yet this winter though..

There won't be many stars visible if it stays like this. Absolutely p...ing down here and coming under front door too.

[BBMmk2]

Ive been invited further on up the road(as Eric Clapton would say:), over the weekend to get some air! Hoping to be better on Monday!

[marthe]

We've had little dusting of snow (on top of ice) just to remind us that it really is January. My next job is to get the front steps de-iced so that the mail lady can put the post in our box with out slipping and falling. More snow is predicted for tonight/tomorrow but that is "predictable" for this time of year!

[Serial_Apologist]

We've had little dusting of snow (on top of ice) just to remind us that it really is January. My next job is to get the front steps de-iced so that the mail lady can put the post in our box with out slipping and falling. More snow is predicted for tonight/tomorrow but that is "predictable" for this time of year!

And then for you it gets milder again, marthe - which though predictable in not so "expected" mid-January, I think. Here we're back to the damp, breezy and drizzly westerly type, with snow a possibility for next week, said the weather man. The Met Office clearly knows something I don't!

[salymap]

Oh dear I hope they are wrong about the snow. Coz's car is going in for service and I need fruit/veg.
Must shop tomorrow if possible.

S-A there is a 7 day weather update on Country File on Sunday evening, I expect you know?

[Serial_Apologist]

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S-A there is a 7 day weather update on Country File on Sunday evening, I expect you know?

I knew that saly, thanks. I hardly ever watch Country File. Only if it's on somewhere interesting (to me) or on a topic I find interesting, like conservation or sustainable farming, which it rarely is. Too much effectively advocating activities ruinous to the countryside like motor cross or mountainbiking. For a long time I thought it should be retitled "Coast File" as it seemed to be more about maritime fishing and dolphin sighting than the 99.99999999 % of land comprising non-urbanised, non-coastal Britain. Nowadays the programme has improved somewhat, though increasingly dependent on replays from years ago featuring female presenters subsequently taken off as being "too old"; and when these old clips occur I switch off on principle, thus missing the week's forecast as it appears towards the end of the programme. "Country Tracks" is preferable, though notable for omitting the most interesting bits of those select A-B cycle rides. (And they never tell you how they GOT to Destination A in the first place, let alone how they managed to get back from Destination B unless you have a car equipped with bike-loaders. Bicycles are readily available for hire in our most distant rural parts, one supposes )

[marthe]

And then for you it gets milder again, marthe - which though predictable in not so "expected" mid-January, I think. Here we're back to the damp, breezy and drizzly westerly type, with snow a possibility for next week, said the weather man. The Met Office clearly knows something I don't!

Dear S-A, What would I do without your forecast? Seriously, I'm not being sarky here! Your forecasts do brighten the day! This has been a very strange winter so far. I'm holding my breath for February and March in case we get something untoward and severe. However cold it gets, the days are now getting longer, the sun getting stronger.

[DracoM]

Nasty little start this a.m. in Ultima Thule - chill, sneaping wind with slashes of cold rain / sleet in it, hard from the NW. Then a joke of a blaze of wintry sun then back to sneap and chill.

[salymap]

Bright at the moment but much too windy. Don't want to do my Mary Poppins act with my trolley again.

Draco M 'sneap', what a good word.

[DracoM]

It's a good bit of Old Icelandic - appears in both Beowulf and Chaucer. Now mostly Northern English vernacular. 'Fair sneaping'.

[Anna]

And it seems also in Shakespeare's Loves Labours Lost Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
That bites the first-born infants of the spring. Lovely word, never heard it before.

[Serial_Apologist]

And it seems also in Shakespeare's Loves Labours Lost Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
That bites the first-born infants of the spring. Lovely word, never heard it before.

Gosh, aren't we a knowledgeble lot? We should be put in charge!

[Anna]

Gosh, aren't we a knowledgeble lot? We should be put in charge!

S_A, you mean as in The Lunatics are in charge of The Asylum?

[marthe]

"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow"! We now have about 3-4" of white fluffy stuff on the ground with more coming down. Time to put the new snow shovel to work!