Stormy Weather

[mangerton]

Yes, Anna, I don't think they've got much of a clue. Keep saying it's going to snow and they have to be right sooner or later, I suppose. A very little snow fell during the night here, but the roads are quite clear.

Enjoy your brek! I had b & e yesterday. Today it was a roll and Oxford marmalade, and I'm just having my second cup of coffee.

[salymap]

On various parts of the BBC weather map for where I live it varies from -2 to minus -5, quite a difference,

Looking out, it is slightly foggy and no more snow but it is still thick underfoot. I've had porridge but all this talk of b & e makes me hungry. Must investigate stocks of them.

[BBMmk2]

Rathyer overcast today. Snow melting now!!

Had agreat evening with an old friend of mine, yesterday and ended up having 4 points of Sharp's Doombar!! Very nice!!

[Anna]

Enjoy your brek! I had b & e yesterday. Today it was a roll and Oxford marmalade, and I'm just having my second cup of coffee.

I have Cooper's Oxford marmalade as well but the other day bought a jar of their Oxford with ginger, so I opened it and had it on toast rather than cooked breakfast and it was very tasty.
It did snow early hours, less than 2cm and where roads/pavements cleared it didn't settle so no disruption, overnight was only -0.5° and now over 2°. However, there are three junior schools here, two are operating as normal but one is closed. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Both Met and BBC are forecasting more snow around 6pm and overnight then it seems once we get to Saturday we're into warm and wet.

[eighthobstruction]

I've got my van down the track, I doubt whether I will get it back up the hill for a couple days....

[Serial_Apologist]

I have Cooper's Oxford marmalade as well but the other day bought a jar of their Oxford with ginger, so I opened it and had it on toast rather than cooked breakfast and it was very tasty.
It did snow early hours, less than 2cm and where roads/pavements cleared it didn't settle so no disruption, overnight was only -0.5° and now over 2°. However, there are three junior schools here, two are operating as normal but one is closed. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Both Met and BBC are forecasting more snow around 6pm and overnight then it seems once we get to Saturday we're into warm and wet.

Agree about the different weather forecasts, Anna. It makes for problems: if, as the beeb forecast predicts, there might well be snow hereabouts tonight, should I go to my regular gig in New Cross or not? The southern lines out of Victoria and London Bridge were badly affected by ice on the conductor rail yesterday, and we are now into brief daytime thaws followed by nighttime freezes. Earlier fog here now lifted into low stratus deprives me of my only means of an inspired guess, the cloud forms at higher levels, so I'm not going to try and second guess the "experts" today, I'm afraid.

I shall be glad when the weather finally makes up its mind and clears this cold pool away to the east. Which should take place on Saturday, all forecasts seem agreed! It may prove only a temporary break from a pattern favouring north-easterly flows that seems pretty much entrenched, but it would be most welcomed!

[eighthobstruction]

Actually it's glorious here now Beeb site said sun and that exactly what we have, for the first time in 5 days or more. It's just below freezing. Having a bit of bright light has immediately lifted my mood....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we are glowering dimly in the middle kingdom .... misty grey and very chill .... a general slushing underfoot, not a thawing ....

[Serial_Apologist]

Actually it's glorious here now Beeb site said sun and that exactly what we have, for the first time in 5 days or more. It's just below freezing. Having a bit of bright light has immediately lifted my mood....

Yes, nothing quite like a welcome bit of solar energy to lift the spirits of those of us of seasonally affected disorderliness...

[amateur51]

Yes, nothing quite like a welcome bit of solar energy to lift the spirits of those of us of seasonally affected disorderliness...

Too true, just one photon on me noddle & I'm chirruping away

[gurnemanz]

Fairly treacherous underfoot out and about where it is starting to thaw on hard packed ice. A couple of times I nearly went a over t.

[Anna]

Agree about the different weather forecasts, Anna. It makes for problems: if, as the beeb forecast predicts, there might well be snow hereabouts tonight, should I go to my regular gig in New Cross or not? The southern lines out of Victoria and London Bridge were badly affected by ice on the conductor rail yesterday, and we are now into brief daytime thaws followed by nighttime freezes. Earlier fog here now lifted into low stratus deprives me of my only means of an inspired guess, the cloud forms at higher levels, so I'm not going to try and second guess the "experts" today, I'm afraid.

Would you chance cycling to New Cross rather than train? (Sorry, no idea how many miles that is!) Brummie Simon hasn't put up a video today but his latest snow map suggests London won't get anything. Met Office now has amber warning for SW & Wales, luckily I am North of it and only in the yellow warning area! A NE wind has developed, temp rapidly falling and guess what? Small flakes are now falling .....
On a more positive note, I have some genuine Italian fennel and garlic sausages for dinner tonight to be served with papriked potato wedges, a very upmarket sausage and chips.

[Serial_Apologist]

Would you chance cycling to New Cross rather than train? (Sorry, no idea how many miles that is!) Brummie Simon hasn't put up a video today but his latest snow map suggests London won't get anything.

Six miles each way Anna, some of it quite hilly - which I really don't fancy attempting after dark in probably re-freezing conditions. The thought of incurring a puncture (much commoner in winter) and a two-hour walk back!

[Pegleg]

On a more positive note, I have some genuine Italian fennel and garlic sausages for dinner tonight to be served with papriked potato wedges, a very upmarket sausage and chips.

Hmmm, yes please!

Six miles each way Anna, some of it quite hilly - which I really don't fancy attempting after dark in probably re-freezing conditions. The thought of incurring a puncture (much commoner in winter) and a two-hour walk back!

It's looking deadly, stay safe S-A. Unless you're sporting cyclocross tyres with the bike handling skills to match, caution is the better part of valour. There are times when you just have to admit defeat. I've been down on the ice enough times to know better, a bang on the hip can bring on bursitis which can be hard to shake off and of course there's much worse.

[Nick Armstrong]

some genuine Italian fennel and garlic sausages

Yum... Love those skinned, chopped and fried with some onions in olive oil then mixed through pasta e.g. fusilli, with lashings of grated parmesan, for a hearty supper with a glass of nice Italian red!