Stormy Weather

[teamsaint]

well they nearly backed the wrong side in the second world war......

[BBMmk2]

I always say wait and see what happens! :)

[amateur51]

I've just checked the BBC Weather site's prediction for Christmas Day in London and it's mild, mild, mild all the way.

Where did the Daily Excess's Siberian forecast come from then?

[Serial_Apologist]

I've just checked the BBC Weather site's prediction for Christmas Day in London and it's mild, mild, mild all the way.

Where did the Daily Excess's Siberian forecast come from then?

Should be renamed the Daily Depression.

[Nick Armstrong]

Where did the Daily Excess's Siberian forecast come from then?

Somewhere where the sun don't shine....

[teamsaint]

Somewhere where the sun don't shine....

[BBMmk2]

Well, looks like the weather going to be rather awful for quite a lot of us! just as well my school broke up last Friday!!:)

[Flosshilde]

Luckily they've calmed down today..... NOT..!!

"The Christmas from HELL: Biggest winter storm EVER to wreck holidays for millions in UK"

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/448115/Christmas-weather-forecast-Winter-storms-warning-as-snow-gales-and-floods-threaten-UK

It's being so cheerful that keeps them going.

After several days of dreich weather today is bright & sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky (so far )

[Anna]

I see that Petrushka asked elsewhere why I hadn’t posted lately. Only a poor and rather lame excuse I'm afraid, but I’ve been very busy, Christmas prep, trying to clear paperwork, etc., PLUS finally had the builders here for the last remaining job (unfortunately not Ron and Wyn this time as they don’t operate a bitumen boiling kettle)

The weather, until Saturday evening when rain and wind swept in, had just been dull, grey, nondescript, and very warm. Saturday's job was major leaf-clearing, the wind then brought down a load more to be cleared … (they get collected for the worm farm) Today however dawned cold, misty but is slowly becoming brilliantly sunny. With all this mildness forecast I fear I’ve rather overdone it on the new warm clothes purchases, it’ll be Spring before we know it. Locally there is winter jasmine, roses and primulas in bloom!

Wrapping presents is fun. Joining the lengthy queue at the Post Office to post them yesterday lunchtime wasn’t. Ho. Ho. Ho. Still, my tree looks lovely and Postman brought me two parcels on Saturday which are now sitting underneath it.

[eighthobstruction]

good, good Anna....

[BBMmk2]

Sounds as though all is well, Anna!

[Nick Armstrong]

I see that Petrushka asked elsewhere why I hadn’t posted lately. Only a poor and rather lame excuse I'm afraid, but I’ve been very busy, Christmas prep, trying to clear paperwork, etc., PLUS finally had the builders here for the last remaining job (unfortunately not Ron and Wyn this time as they don’t operate a bitumen boiling kettle)
... Ho. Ho. Ho. Still, my tree looks lovely and Postman brought me two parcels on Saturday which are now sitting underneath it.

Seeing this post-dated my PM earlier

For some reason I had a vision of Ron and Wyn, bound in string and brown paper, sitting patiently under your tree waiting for Mother Christmas to unwrap them...

[amateur51]

Seeing this post-dated my PM earlier

For some reason I had a vision of Ron and Wyn, bound in string and brown paper, sitting patiently under your tree waiting for Mother Christmas to unwrap them...

Shame about the bitumen boiling kettle though - Anna sets very high standards

[Anna]

Warm again at 11.7°, very, very, windy, (Met Office yellow) this afternoon very fine rain set in and maintained a horizontal position, luckily all leaves now seem to be down so will not be too much clearing this weekend. I hope it gets a little colder, there is a nasty bug around -sore throat developing into chesty cough which lingers - and (if you believe old wives's tales) damp and warm sets them bugs a-breeding! (Edit: It's now gale force and tipping down)

I've finalised my travel plans, I leave on the 30th for Lancs for a week, so if S_A has any advance warnings of bad weather I'd be grateful. (Where is mangerton these days - hope he's ok?)

[Serial_Apologist]

Warm again at 11.7°, very, very, windy, (Met Office yellow) this afternoon very fine rain set in and maintained a horizontal position, luckily all leaves now seem to be down so will not be too much clearing this weekend. I hope it gets a little colder, there is a nasty bug around -sore throat developing into chesty cough which lingers - and (if you believe old wives's tales) damp and warm sets them bugs a-breeding! (Edit: It's now gale force and tipping down)

I've finalised my travel plans, I leave on the 30th for Lancs for a week, so if S_A has any advance warnings of bad weather I'd be grateful. (Where is mangerton these days - hope he's ok?)

Yes that storm was predicted to be crossing your area about now, Anna, reaching us around nine; I've brought the potted plants into the shelter, where they will stay until Sunday, or maybe longer, because I've just seen "Brummie Simon's" predictions for Xmas - (btw I think we'll have to call him "Wolverhampton Simon" from now on - Black Country people being very fastidious about the distinction) - and, on one of the models, a low of comparable intensity to that of October '87 is expected to cross the Midlands late on the 25th into the 26th. Scary - maybe the Daily Depress will be proved right. I don't have any predictions beyond that day I'm afraid.