Stormy Weather

[salymap]

Not much better in the S/E Angle. It looks alright from indoors, but venture outside, wow, October greets you.

[amateur51]

A promising burst of Spring sunshine here, although the wind is still gusty. Clouds, largely white, no longer scudding past, more like ocean-going liners

[Nick Armstrong]

venture outside, wow, October greets you.

Exactly my thought last night - it was just like October, even November, dark, cold, swirling leaves...

[Nick Armstrong]

the wind is still gusty.

You need to lay off the pickled onions, chief

[Serial_Apologist]

Channel 4 evening news has been conducting an interesting though disturbing series of nightly items on climate change and the effects it's having on the UK's natural cycles, native species and our much-loved landscapes. Everything appears to be migrating unevenly northwards, such that many species are finding themselves left behind by habitat migration, unable to move or adjust, and by the extremes being patterned into global warming, such as drought, heavy rainfalls, expandings and contractings in the seasons. One of the most dusturbing phenomena is the range of new pests and diseases affecting our native trees, and horticultural scientists are battling against dimishing government support for vital environmental projects to come up with new varieties of e,g, oak and ash that have in-built resistancies.

I think the last episode will be on tonight's programme.

[Anna]

Channel 4 evening news has been conducting an interesting though disturbing series of nightly items on climate change and the effects it's having on the UK's natural cycles, native species and our much-loved landscapes.
I think the last episode will be on tonight's programme.

Cheers S_A, nothing like a bit of advance warning as to what to watch!!
I will try and watch tonight, it's all very worrying but the truth is that we cannot do anything about it (I am green as I can be re carbon footprints and everything else but I'm not making a jot of a difference)

Today has been ok in that this morning was sunny spells, still terribly windy, but about an hour ago it completely clouded then started to drizzle. Yesterday's storm blew itself out around 6.30pm but by 8pm it was tipping it down again.
Off-topic, saly asked about apple crops and bees this year. The growers are predicting a bumper one due to delayed spring and no chance of frosted blossom. I notice here all the apple trees (except mine!) are absolutely loaded down with the most blossom I've seen for ages but as for the bee situation, that very much seems to depend where you live but again, what can we do except plant the flowers they love?

[salymap]

yes Anna, still very windy here and a lotof blossom flying about - mostly from other trees, not the apple tree However I've hardly seen any bees this year yet.

Still weather - about 90mins ago neighbour brought his big mower round to my garden. He then disappeared and the sky is getting darker by the minute.

MEMO to me - do NOT worry about things you cannot change.

[mangerton]

yes Anna, still very windy here and a lotof blossom flying about - mostly from other trees, not the apple tree However I've hardly seen any bees this year yet.

Still weather - about 90mins ago neighbour brought his big mower round to my garden. He then disappeared and the sky is getting darker by the minute.

MEMO to me - do NOT worry about things you cannot change.

Oh, that's a counsel of perfection! And a very difficult thing to do.

That lawnmower reminds me of the old joke......

Man to neighbour: "Please may I borrow your lawnmower?"
Neighbour: "Certainly, but don't remove it from my garden!"

I'm sure you have a more pleasant neighbour than that.

Less than an hour now and I can go home. There's nothing worse than a late Friday at work.

OT: All I will say is, there doesn't seem much prospect of grass being cut in this vicinity at the weekend.

[salymap]

Yes mangerton, I don't get more patient as I should by now. It turned out well,he came eventually and cut the grass. It costs a lot to have big lawn- I never liked that 'decking' stuff that lots of people have here
I like your mower story though

Have a nice weekend.

[Serial_Apologist]

Cheers S_A, nothing like a bit of advance warning as to what to watch!!
I will try and watch tonight, it's all very worrying but the truth is that we cannot do anything about it (I am green as I can be re carbon footprints and everything else but I'm not making a jot of a difference)

My apologies, Anna and anyone else, if as a result of my plug you have wasted half an hour watching Channel 4 news tonight. Either they didn't have enough time to include the subject, or they did not in fact state it would be included on every night of this week.

[BBMmk2]

Rather overcast, with sunny interval the weather peoplke would say about today's weather, turning more colder in the evening! Which it was, by half!!

[Petrushka]

Another vile day here. Got a dreadful soaking on the way back from work this evening.

The laughable prediction that May was going to be a drought month (spotted on the front page of the Express about three weeks ago) have proved disastrously wrong.

[Anna]

My apologies, Anna and anyone else, if as a result of my plug you have wasted half an hour watching Channel 4 news tonight. Either they didn't have enough time to include the subject, or they did not in fact state it would be included on every night of this week.

I did watch it S_A and as a new viewer was impressed by their news coverage so it wasn't a wasted half hour. However, I did find a BBC news items re the migrating birds you mentioned in your original post: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22484907
It was a lovely starry night, unfortunately now clouded over and the Met is promising more wind and heavy rain this afternoon here. Those sunny days last weekend seem months away now ....

[mangerton]

Anna posting at 4:09..... I hope she doesn't suffer from insomnia. It can be a grievous affliction.

Perhaps it was just an excellent party!


OT: My prediction for today's weather (#8213) has been proved correct.

[Anna]

Anna posting at 4:09..... I hope she doesn't suffer from insomnia. It can be a grievous affliction.
Perhaps it was just an excellent party!
OT: My prediction for today's weather (#8213) has been proved correct.

Not a party I'm afraid, unusually for me it was a touch of insomnia, so I got up, drank two mugs of tea and returned to bed with TTN and slept until 8.30am. It's cool at 10°, windy and spitting with rain, so I don't think any outside tidying up will be done. Off-topic, when I went to the veg man in the market yesterday he was selling his 'cosmetically challenged' tomatoes at 50p for 2lbs, so I got some and this morning some lamb from the butchers and intend to cook a Greek style lamb casserole with the tomatoes, black olives, etc., as I'll be stuck indoors. Also, had an interesting conversation with lovely bloke who works in Waitrose who is an avid stargazer!