Unbelievable hailstorm this afternoon in Manchester,followed by what looked like sleet.
Almost glad I was in work !!!
Almost glad I was in work !!!
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Ditto in Derby. This surely has to be the coldest May day ever. There was a bitterly cold wind pushing the temperature down to around 4 degrees. On the Staffordshire Moorlands a daytime temp of 2.2 degrees was recorded. The punishing wind was in my face all the way from the office to the railway station. Grim.Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostUnbelievable hailstorm this afternoon in Manchester,followed by what looked like sleet.
Almost glad I was in work !!!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Good to know that! One day we'll go back and see if our favourite pub, The Noel Arms, is still there. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, the weather is as cold and miserable as it seems to be across the pond. Today has been foggy, windy, and rainy making wooly jumpers the clothing of choice. This weekend is Memorial Day weekend which marks the beginning of the summer season here. The beaches open and resident parking stickers are now the thing if one wants to park on side streets, the library parking lot etc. Cold, rainy weather is not not a good thing at this time of year.Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View PostComment
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There were high winds here yesterday, and temps in single figures. This isn't so very far away from here.
Three weeks to my summer hols. I'm looking out my sledge.
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Well at least you're not holidaying in the snowy Cairngorms but the Sunny South-East where there's never any really extreme weather!! It's 6.9° here now, gloomy and dull. We are promised to get to 11° with rain and sunny intervals. Did anyone see the beautiful moon last night, it made it as bright as day (it's full on Saturday) I'd like a definite forecast for the bank holiday in order to plan my weekend ...Comment
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solid rain, high winds and feeling below freezing in the middle kingdom this morning ... pull up the duvet!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Cold and hasn't stopped raining since I got up just before 7am. Brrr
Only about 4 weeks to the Summer Solstice, then gradually darker. Daylight means almost as much to me as sun - well almost.
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alas The Noel Arms is not what it once once was! now a struggling gastro pub ... Sam Healey long since passed ...Originally posted by marthe View PostAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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It should be OK for Saturday and Sunday, Anna, but either do your outdoor activities on Monday morning, or head further east on that day, since there's rain expected from the west on the afternoon.Originally posted by Anna View Post
Steady moderate rain here at 7 C at the mo, and the wind's gradually dropping out now, with the depression sitting right on top of us. Kind of spooky, being right in the eye of our very own low! Telly reception awful - picture and speech breaking up all the time, which I would guess as attributable to the atmospheric conditions - I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this?
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This timelapse footage of a typhoon crossing Honk-Kong is astonishing:
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Calum, I'm sorry to hear that. We didn't know Sam Healey, though. The landlord and lady of our day were Claude (can't remember surname)and his wife (a SWMBO for sure). They ran a free house at that time (mid 70s) and must have long since passed on to the great pub beyond. What I remember best, besides the excellent beer, was learning to play traditional pub games such as shove ha'penny. We all sat in a very cozy back room that was comfortable and homely (in the British sense). Nothing was pretentious or tarted-up. Any ceiling beams were mercifully lost in the darkness of the ages and not floodlit as they seem to be in renovated barns and cottages these days.Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
The weather is for the ducks to today...drizzly, cool, intermittent downpours. My rainbarrel overfloweth!Comment
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Firstly, hello marthe, it's lovely to hear from you again. I'm afraid so many pubs have gone down the tacky gastropub (aka buy it in and microwave it) route but pubs are really struggling to survive without the food trade. Who can afford to stand a round these days?
Well, I'm warmer than you at 9° and haven't had much concentrated rain, but it's been a truly miserable day, the wind enough to cut you in half, interpersed with hard horizontal squally rain that really stings when it hits you in the face, at the moment there's just been a downpour and there's an ominous pitchy-black scenario approaching. TGIF is all I can say! I shall attempt all outdoor activities on Saturday and Sunday minus the Berghaus!!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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A not bad morning has turned to a rather drizzly end to the end. Me and Mrs BBM be going out for a jolly tomorrow with a couple of friends(my jamming partner and his wife)Don’t cry for me
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How jolly is it going to get?Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post 
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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With BBM's success in sending requests to Breakfast for brass bands to be played, I expect the Shepherd Neame to be flowing in abundance!!Originally posted by Caliban View PostHow jolly is it going to get? 
(did you hear, on Breakfast, there was a Black Dyke played and someone tweeted in "Oh, No! Not another bl&ddy brass band, give a string thingy" and Petroc instantly obliged with a string quartet?
I like a brass band now and again, and also, I am very partial to a Militiary Band)
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