Stormy Weather

[Anna]

... In the Chilterns, on the uplands between Stokenchurch and Christmas Common the woodland floor a sea of bluebells - marvellous.

I shall be there on Thursday... I hope the bluebells will survive till then...

Crikey! What's going on? A Masonic ritual, or someone leading someone down the Primrose Path .......

[Nick Armstrong]

Crikey! What's going on? A Masonic ritual, or someone leading someone down the Primrose Path .......

Just one of those coïncidences, as vinsanto is wont to say....

[Anna]

Just one of those coïncidences, as vinsanto is wont to say....

Oh, that's a shame!! I had just thought of this:

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede

[BBMmk2]

Are we going to get a spring, I ask myself? Are we going to get a summer. I ask myself!?!?!?

[greenilex]

My garden bluebells are surviving well as I write, being the Spanish interloper variety and as tough as old boots. But I suspect the ones by the front door are natives, as they are darker and slender-stemmed with florets only on one side.

[BBMmk2]

Just heard on Radio 3 that the Daily Express saids this summer goiung to be another wash out!?!?!?!?

[Nick Armstrong]

Just heard on Radio 3 that the Daily Express saids this summer goiung to be another wash out!?!?!?!?

And on the lunchtime weather, wet snow predicted tomorrow for south Wales and northwest England.........

Anna: two pairs of socks tomorrow, please!

[BBMmk2]

I think it's thje Jetstream again!!

[Serial_Apologist]

I think it's thje Jetstream again!!

Don't believe the Daily Depress, BBM, says a very irritated Brummie Simon; and I concur. At least temperatures are what they should be for... April... and predictions are for it to warm up in the last week of the month, as happened last year; in 2012 it was downhill all the way from then on, whereas this year it's predicted to stay warm well into June.

We just have to get tomorrow's downpour out of the way. I shall probably have to forego my Tuesday night out, having acquired a stiff neck from fiddling around with a puncture out in the cold wind yesterday.

[Anna]

And on the lunchtime weather, wet snow predicted tomorrow for south Wales and northwest England.........
Anna: two pairs of socks tomorrow, please!

I've just heard that forecast .... Apart from the wet snow it's predicting up to 50mm (2") of rain, strong winds and daytime temps not over 7° And to think last Tuesday was our hottest day of the year here at 21.7° !!!
At 6.30am today it was a clear blue sky and sunshine, looked promising but it was soon back to sunny spells, a very cold wind and short, sharp, showers. It's now totally grey and raining hard. At least while it stays cool the grass won't grow (my lawnmower expired in a puff of blue smoke and a horrible smell of burning so I've arranged for someone to come round and cut it)

[vinteuil]

... Anna - you're havin' a bad week for things mechanical - if it ain't the kettle it's the mower! - Wretched when these things all bunch up, as they tend to *.

And no prospect of any pertick'ly nice weather to cheer us up, neither!

But you know you can get lots of comforting hugs from people here when needed...


* www.umass.edu/wsp/statistics/lessons/poisson/

[BBMmk2]

Don't believe the Daily Depress, BBM, says a very irritated Brummie Simon; and I concur. At least temperatures are what they should be for... April... and predictions are for it to warm up in the last week of the month, as happened last year; in 2012 it was downhill all the way from then on, whereas this year it's predicted to stay warm well into June.

We just have to get tomorrow's downpour out of the way. I shall probably have to forego my Tuesday night out, having acquired a stiff neck from fiddling around with a puncture out in the cold wind yesterday.

Well, quite honestly, SA, I think the weather people do not really know how to work out what the weather patterns are going to be.Ok, 24 hrs but even then a wind change and it's completely different?

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, quite honestly, SA, I think the weather people do not really know how to work out what the weather patterns are going to be.Ok, 24 hrs but even then a wind change and it's completely different?

Well, BBM , with all their equipment making billions of microjudgements every second all over the world, "they" have got predictions pretty well sown up for five days ahead nowadays - which was certainly not the case back in October '87, when if they had known the exact course and velocity of the jet stream they would have been in a position to forecast the hurricane more accurately. Beyond that it's a bit more than guesswork, as they take historical precedents and weigh them up. And they have a growing archive of these to draw on. The only areas of accuracy still lacking to some extent consist in predicting where precisely showers will occur in a given showery situation, but they are getting better at this.

[salymap]

I can putupwith the rain now and again, it's this pesky high wind I hate. Have drawn curtains and shall watch Eggheads and see what else is available.

Hav a nice evening all.

[BBMmk2]

Thank you SA. Yes salymap, the cold is rather annoying!