Stormy Weather

[Anna]

You do have a slight Problemio, Anna - yer inbox is full !!!

Crikey, must be Flay sneeking up behind me again!
I shall to delete people tout-suite! and read some new missives!
Edit: Suddenly, I feel like Little Miss Popularity! Shall I thank My Agent, My Publicist, My Scripwriter .... ?

[marthe]

I have that US dreadful school shooting on my mind today. I have cousin, husband and three children under ten in Cos Cob,CT and can't find that place or Newtown, where the tragedy took place, on my large scale map.
With all the flippant comment on these boards, spare a thought for those families bereaved just before Christmas.

Sorry to be serious but it must have affected marthe too, as she's not all that far away from it all.

saly, thanks for thinking of me. We are only affected by thinking of the awfulness of the whole situation which is nothing compared with the utter sadness of the families involved. This has, of course, provoked another round of rabid debate about gun control v Second Amendment rights (the right to bear arms.) Newtown CT. is a charming country town somewhat north of Cos Cob. Years ago I shared a flat with someone from Newtown. We went there to visit her family. It's all nice Colonial houses, fields, brooks, and woods, not the sort place one would associate with this kind of senseless violence. I hope your cousin's children don't get nightmares from this.

Weatherwise, we've had several days of warmish sunshine about to give way to sleet/snow/rain. Our Christmas tree is up (brought home on the top of the MG...top down, of course...the picture will be next year's Christmas card) and is now waiting to be decorated once we get the lights sorted out. It can sleet and rain all it wants now that the tree is in the house.

[Anna]

Our Christmas tree is up (brought home on the top of the MG...top down, of course...the picture will be next year's Christmas card) and is now waiting to be decorated once we get the lights sorted out. It can sleet and rain all it wants now that the tree is in the house.

marthe, could you post the photo of that? It would be lovely to see and we could all have it as our screensaver for Christmas!

I've had a card pushed through the door today, it reads "Best wishes from Lucy, Ryan, Josh, Adam and Bethan at No. 24" I don't know them from Adam, I say hello to her when she's walking the dog on the weekend. So, do I go and shove one through theirs? <confused emoticon>

[Serial_Apologist]

marthe, could you post the photo of that? It would be lovely to see and we could all have it as our screensaver for Christmas!

I've had a card pushed through the door today, it reads "Best wishes from Lucy, Ryan, Josh, Adam and Bethan at No. 24" I don't know them from Adam, I say hello to her when she's walking the dog on the weekend. So, do I go and shove one through theirs? <confused emoticon>

Oh yes do, Anna - it could be the start of a... beautiful relationship!

[Anna]

Oh yes do, Anna - it could be the start of a... beautiful relationship!

Oh well, OK then. If I have a spare card, I'm not buying another one especially. Actually their dog is quite cute, some sort of Spaniel type job with floppy ears and well behaved.
Ontopic! Really nice, sunnyish, 9.9°, barometer 998, cloud base 1000ft. I am so glad I bought the barometer, the concept of air pressure had never entered my head before.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh well, OK then. If I have a spare card, I'm not buying another one especially. Actually their dog is quite cute, some sort of Spaniel type job with floppy ears and well behaved.
Ontopic! Really nice, sunnyish, 9.9°, barometer 998, cloud base 1000ft. I am so glad I bought the barometer, the concept of air pressure had never entered my head before.

Rushing ahead I read that as "some sort of Spaniel type job with floppy ears and well behind" !

Sun going down at 3.30, and we still have five days to go to the Winter solstice! But still light enough to report a large old cumulonimbus anvil looming in from the SW - probably an old thunderstorm that formed somewhere in the Solent area, it won't produce much more than light rain when it reaches here in the next half hour.

Broad ribbon of wooly-looking cirrus right across the sky to the south all day, indicating the location of the jet stream. When you see such a long, straight parade of cirrus like this, the jet stream is what it most probably is: it gives you a good idea of where the next depression is coming from!

Temperatures just managed to hit 8 C here today. At any time between March and October, a weather pattern such as this one would generate widespread showers inland, as well as on the coast; ground temperatures below 9 C make for conditions in which there is insufficient convection to produce the large cumulus and cumulonimbus shower clouds, so for showers to occur these will either have formed over the sea and drifted inland, or are a consequence of uplift along a convergence line (front or squall line) or prevailing winds impacting a line of hills or mountains (orographic uplift). Which explains why forecasters say showers will occur in the north and west and along the south coast at this time of year. Incidentally, such a squall line is expected to cross the country tonight.

What's happened to the BBC charts? Masses of information lacking both on the local and international charts; and there doesn't appear to be any contact facility for complaints!

[mangerton]

Dull and overcast here. It was dark well before 4.00. 988 mb and a fairly mild 6°. Still, there's only six months till it'll be light after 10.00 pm.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lightning to the NW!!!

That line squall has arrived - a few hours ahead of time.

[vinteuil]

Lightning to the NW!!!

That line squall has arrived - a few hours ahead of time.

... yes, some surprisingly loud - and unexpected - thunder-claps in the last half-hour...

[Nick Armstrong]

... yes, some surprisingly loud - and unexpected - thunder-claps in the last half-hour...

Yes torrential rain, lightning and thunder here too - hardly surprising as it's only a mile or so east!

[EdgeleyRob]

It's been a dry and sunny day in Manchester,very mild too.
Spoke too soon,now it's raining.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just stepped outside - there is complete cloud cover, no stars visible: but Jupiter is brightly burning through what are obviously thin clouds. Rather extraordinary - like a small and distant moon, and as bright.

[BBMmk2]

How wonderful Cali!! You hadbad weather yesterday! It was sunny at first bvutrain late afternoon.

Went to an organ recital, at Worth Abbey, Turners hill, West Sussex. D'Arcey Trenkwon was the organist, infact the church organist to. Absolutely amazing!

[salymap]

Ams says it's a wonderful day where he is. Well, lovely from the warm house, once outside sunny but a biting wind, from the north I should think. Could be worse though, last cards posted and several tins of macaroni cheese for emergency supplies. Cor, this old girl knows how to live it up - luxury - pile it on toast and there you are

[Serial_Apologist]

Ams says it's a wonderful day where he is. Well, lovely from the warm house, once outside sunny but a biting wind, from the north I should think. Could be worse though, last cards posted and several tins of macaroni cheese for emergency supplies. Cor, this old girl knows how to live it up - luxury - pile it on toast and there you are

Wind's coming from the west, saly. Here's a tip, so everyone can know, so long, that is, that they know their... north from their south.

Observe from which directions the low clouds are coming - cumulus, stratocumulus, fractus - and you can bet your bottom Escudo that that is the direction from which the wind is coming at ground level.

The only occasion this test fails is when there is NO CLOUD.