Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

the Piece of Cod Which Passed All Understanding, and which was a regular feature at school lunches on Fridays.

Nowadays the more up-market Comp has the St Valentine's Day Moussaka.

[BBMmk2]

Should be not a bad day today! I have the school Lent Term Concert. This is where we shocase the students who are studying for their A level music. They have to perform a piece of music in front of an audience(poor dears!). One of the pieces is a Saxophone Concerto by Ronald Binge. Anyone here have heard this piece at all?

[amateur51]

Nowadays the more up-market Comp has the St Valentine's Day Moussaka.

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[Serial_Apologist]

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I completely missed the punchline on that one yesterday, but today thankfully my synapses seem to be operating properly.

[Serial_Apologist]

By the way, snow is thoroughly on the agenda tomorrow for the north, (i.e. north of Watford ); we could be seeing some record-breaking low temperature maxima for this far into March, with + 1 C being predicted for Sunday here in the south!

Simon's Brummie site is still showing yesterday's f/cast. Cummon Simon, you're supposed to be delivering a daily warning!

[Anna]

At the moment, as S_A says, a definite North South divide but the depth of snow predicted is (at the moment on the BBC weather warnings) a possible 10-15cm. Here we are still promised torrential rain leading to possible flooding .... <sigh> Been drizzling since lunchtime, about 4.6° My sister in Co. Durham, having had a week in Tenerife and 31° thought she would come home to Spring ... there are no daffodils open up there as yet but here the magnolias have fat flower buds.
BBM, hope your school concert went well!

[Serial_Apologist]

Simon offers a very detailed forecast for the next 3 days: watch out for his serious warnings - but, better news for the Easter period:

http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtv2.php

[Anna]

Simon offers a very detailed forecast for the next 3 days: watch out for his serious warnings

<shriek, swoon, thud> emoticon!! I wish I hadn't watched that video, I was resigned to just heavy rain where I am and the river possibly overflowing, not snow.
Thank you S_A and Brummie Simon <wry smile emoticon>

[gurnemanz]

Big dollops looming over the Atlantic are heading our way:

http://www.meteox.com/forecastloop.aspx?type=1

[Angle]

Looks like lots of snow for Liverpool - and a lot of staying in, too. So this is what a Baroque Spring is.

[Anna]

Looks like lots of snow for Liverpool - and a lot of staying in, too. So this is what a Baroque Spring is.

Angle! Lovely to see you! I remember my weekend in Liverpool, my first and only visit, it was 2010, and, being a total pedant, was April 9th and I was blown away and overcome by the Maritime Museum.

[eighthobstruction]

Yes Angle , I'm 50 miles to the right of you, lets hope it still allows an easy trip to the shops....noticing the front coming in ,I meant to go to shops today ,but forgot....

[BBMmk2]

Quite cold today, and showers to boot! yuk!

The students who tookmpart in our annual Spring Concert, didthemselves proud.

[Anna]

I hope those here who are in the North are coping with the snow and those in the South West with the rain?
Nothing untoward here, rainy evening and night, dry since first light, light rain now, 4°, no wind. Just grey, dull, depressing, typical Wintry day. Only consolation is - it's Friday! Downside is - it'll be a grey, dull, depressing, typical Wintry weekend!

[Serial_Apologist]

Surprisingly little rain fell here last night and this morning: the main energy seems to have travelled northwest along the slow-advancing warm front, and unfortunately is likely to be given a boost when the cold front, producing copious amounts of rain in the SW and S Wales right now, catches up with it, to create a long, slow-moving E-W-aligned occluded front through central Wales and the Midlands by tomorrow. We even had some weak sunshine, filtering through a layer of altocumulus (bubble-wrap cloud) this morning, basking in a temperature of + 5 C. That will need to fall to at least 2 C for any precipitation to be of snow, and that is expected tonight here, as the front creeps slowly south. There seems to be some question as to whether or not snowfall will actually get further south than London's northern suburbs, but I would think probably so. The main thing is that, apart from showers affecting the east coast of England, Scotland and N Ireland, areas to the north will be out of the snow zone by then, though any lying snow will still be drifing around on the strong E wind; and temperatures will continue to be in the 2 to 3 degrees range everywhere until Good Friday.