Stormy Weather

[mercia]

Very little is peaceful in the Pacific.

quite. Do the 'natives' get rather fed-up with the violent weather ? do they blame the global-warming industrial westerners ?

[Pabmusic]

quite. Do the 'natives' get rather fed-up with the violent weather ? do they blame the global-warming industrial westerners ?

Not at all. It's just the way it is. (I can recall reading Conrad's Typhoon and Outcast of the Islands when I was a teenager - and seeing Peter O'Toole and Trevor Howard soaked through. Come to think of it, R L Stevenson still is a favourite author. And I think Gaugin was great. Oh dear, I must have my chest X-rayed.)

[Anna]

We started the day mired in one of S_A's anticyclonic glooms and it's really struggled to improve until just recently, briefly hitting the high 19s. No Northern Lights this morning, although I was up and about at 4am, the patchy cloud covering had become quite dense so, not wishing to hang around, I went back to bed! Hope others saw them.

I've taken delivery of my new fridge/freezer, so sad to see the old one go, it was over 25 years old, 'that's an old one' remarked the delivery man cheerily so I replied that I didn't expect the new one to last so long 'that's right love' he said 'you'll be having to have a new one in about 3 years time' .......... So I end the day in planned obsolescence gloom .... Still, I expect the Mary Poppins singalong at the Last Night will cheer me up no end!

[BBMmk2]

That's on my bucket list, one day, Anna! :) I know someone who goes up in a plane and watches them! :)

We had our town day, yesterday and the Bradley Wiggins cycling group, coming through our town too!! Plus a military parade and procession, great to see!

A lovely day today, post-proms!!

[mangerton]

We started the day mired in one of S_A's anticyclonic glooms and it's really struggled to improve until just recently, briefly hitting the high 19s. No Northern Lights this morning, although I was up and about at 4am, the patchy cloud covering had become quite dense so, not wishing to hang around, I went back to bed! Hope others saw them.

I've taken delivery of my new fridge/freezer, so sad to see the old one go, it was over 25 years old, 'that's an old one' remarked the delivery man cheerily so I replied that I didn't expect the new one to last so long 'that's right love' he said 'you'll be having to have a new one in about 3 years time' .......... So I end the day in planned obsolescence gloom .... Still, I expect the Mary Poppins singalong at the Last Night will cheer me up no end!

I hope your ff lasts longer than three years, Anna. I replaced my freezer earlier this year after sixteen years. My fridge, about the same age, is still going strong (touching wood furiously) though I've had to replace the thermostat twice. Fortunately that is a straightforward job.

OT, not a single northern light to be seen from here. There's been thick fog for the last few days although it cleared up yesterday afternoon to reveal a lovely warm sunny day. The fog swirled back about 5 pm.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've taken delivery of my new fridge/freezer, so sad to see the old one go, it was over 25 years old, 'that's an old one' remarked the delivery man cheerily so I replied that I didn't expect the new one to last so long 'that's right love' he said 'you'll be having to have a new one in about 3 years time' .......... So I end the day in planned obsolescence gloom ....

See, this is what so depresses me about what we were once bold enough to call "late capitalism". Fridges are not alone. My obese mid-1990s Grundig stereo TV works perfectly with its hand-me-down digibox, except that it keeps automatically switching off, or rather going on standby. This usually happens when somebody is about to make some vitally important pronouncement. I'm told that this means that a component has probably packed up and will take a lot of my money to replace, if replacement can be found, because these days everything is planningly obsolescent at ever increasing rates of demise - thus the costs; but on the other hand the new flat screened models are expected to last only 3 or so years. This was not what all the recycling and sustainability we were told was coming along were supposed to be about! The longer we go on being expected to live under this ridiculous system, the faster will landfill facilities be used up, or land for siting them. Then what will happen? People just flytipping their wasted unwanteds in other people's back yards or the local park?

[BBMmk2]

Not a bad weekend and not a bad Monday by the looks of it!! :)

[Pabmusic]

Reasonable start to the week. Just 27 degrees C. The typhoon north of us seems to have passed without incident.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very strange weather pattern emerging once more; severe hurricane making its way north up the SW side of the US; snow reported in Canada; high pressure belt stradding the Atlantic to our north bringing us this warmth from Greece: never observed anything quite like it at this time of the year. All odds on the forthcoming winter are open.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A cool and cloud-covered weekend in the Pennines, perfect gardening and/or walking weather, so I did both - and the ericaceous compost sprinkled on the camelias yesterday afternoon has been nicely seaped into the soil by the overnight rain that continued well into the morning. I knew there's be no chance of seeing the Northern Lights!

[Serial_Apologist]

Extraordinary cloud development here this afternoon, indicating great instability aloft. I took a towel outside at 3.30 for some sunbathing on the lawn. There was just distant cloud, thundery cloud far to the south west, and conditions seemed ideal. Fifteen minutes later a small pancake-shaped sliver of cloud appeared just beneath the position of the sun; I literally observed and, as if I was watching time-lapsed film footage on fast-forward, this little bit of cloud extended laterally in both directions, in ten minutes occupying that entire quadrant of the sky, and bringing to a disappointing end my afternoon fix of Vitamin D. Some of that layer cloud (altocumulus) is now starting to break up into puffy cells (castellanus), probably presaging thundery conditions reportedly now over the south west that were predicted to break out right across the south tonight on the midday forecast, signalling the breakdown of the long spell of dry weather we've been experiencing almost everywhere, apart from Scotland and NE England on Monday and Tuesday. "Brummie Simon" is bracing us for more dry but cooler weather, beginning on Sunday and lasting for much of next week, with a possible wet and windy end to the month and much more changeable October to follow.

[BBMmk2]

Well, me and the Mrs will be heading for Cornwall, on Saturday, so I hope that(fingers crossed), we be having good weather

[EdgeleyRob]

A glorious sunny week in Manchester.

[Beef Oven!]

A bit overcast in Scotland.

[Beef Oven!]

A bit overcast in Scotland.

'NO"!