Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

It certainly was quite warm and breezy down here!

At least they have the forecast right today!

[Nick Armstrong]

I notice that the forecast for this week has been changed totally to include rain most days

Do you agree, S_A ?

[teamsaint]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]I notice that the forecast for this week has been changed totally to include rain most days

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and they were miles out for yesterday. the forecast rain for Sunday turned into a glorious day.

I think they deliberately forecast bad weather for the weekends.

Anyway, I could do with this early August heatwave, through to about the 15th, please.

Its 'orrible here now.
Close ( or was it muggy, I never know now) ,turned to persistent drizzle.

[BBMmk2]

Quite so ts, here too.

[Anna]

Re S_A’s post above about climate change. A friend recently returned from Melbourne, she tells me that when commenting on the coldness and severity of the wind an old family friend, now in her 90s, remarked that since birth she’d lived just outside of Melbourne and over the years there has been a very noticeable increase in the coldness of the winter weather there, particularly the wind. Not very scientific I know but just after her return on the news was the report of snow in Melbourne and pics of kangaroos hopping around in it!

Here, yesterday was light drizzle from lunchtime which turned into steady heavier drizzle. This of course is a very good thing for the garden as it freshens the leaves but not enough to make any impression on the soil. Today is sunny but – horrendously windy again. Constant 20mph veering around S, SW, WSW and gusting at over 32mph, very unpleasant. OK, I know this is only a stiff breeze on the Beaufort but I do wish it would go away!

Sunday was the best of days, a real Summery one at last enabling sitting outside in the evening watching the bats but it seems we're fast galloping towards Autumn without any satisfying warm balminess. Can August be better please or at least an Indian Summer?

[StephenO]

Mostly bright here today and mercifully not too hot. The window cleaner's just been, though, and I've washed the car so it's bound to rain soon. In fact I think I can already see a large, dark cloud over the hills and it's heading this way.

[BBMmk2]

I don't think the forecasters know what they are actually doing!

[Petrushka]

I don't think the forecasters know what they are actually doing!

The boast by the forecasters that they can now tell the weather 10 days in advance is an empty one. If you follow it carefully, you will notice that the forecast constantly shifts so it's often the case that they really can't tell with any great accuracy what it's going to be like more than a few hours in advance.

Today there has been a horrendous wind, branches and twigs everywhere again.

Relatives living as far apart as Poland and Bahrain have also reported constant strong winds over a period of many weeks. Here, it doesn't seem to matter what the prevailing conditions are, whether it's high or low pressure, hot or chilly the wind is still a constant factor no matter from which direction it comes. It was very windy here on July 1 even though the temperature rocketed up to 35 degrees. It's been very odd to note that it can be both very windy and muggy at the same time which doesn't quite follow.

The Met Office doesn't appear to have latched on to this wind or provided any reasons why it is happening.

[DracoM]

Absolutely endorse the last of that. It's been mentioned a lot on these threads that there seems to be now an almost constant and none too kindly wind over the northern half of UK for ten or so months, Friend who keeps records says that mph speeds are up by something like 10-12% on 2012, more 20 mph gusts than ever.

What irks me is the bland and regular use of 'breezy' by TV etc forecasters. Certainly not 'breeze' as I know it. It is WIND.

Are they too scared / have they been briefed to translate unpleasant words like 'wind' into 'breeze' to give the impression that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds?

[Anna]

What irks me is the bland and regular use of 'breezy' by TV etc forecasters. Certainly not 'breeze' as I know it. It is WIND.

Are they too scared / have they been briefed to translate unpleasant words like 'wind' into 'breeze' to give the impression that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds?

It’s annoying but I guess they have to use the Beaufort wind scale description, which is useful if you’re a sailor or happen to know the scale (I had to look it up), therefore the all purpose word ‘wind’ – which I don’t think has a recognised scale and means different things to different people - doesn’t occur until you get towards the top of the list:- (Moderate Breeze 13-18mph, Fresh Breeze 19-24mph, Strong Breeze 25-31mph, Near Gale 32-38mph, Gale 39-46mph)

Here we’ve been almost constantly Fresh, gusting at Strong and Near Gale and I know it’s down to the jet stream being in the wrong place at the wrong time and Arctic warming but it doesn’t make it any easier to bear! Today there is no wind but on/off drizzle.

[DracoM]

Drizzle? You were lucky!
Washing just gone out > guess what?
Correct.

And the forecast for today? Cloudy, DRY, some wind.


Pah!

[eighthobstruction]

Drizzle? You were lucky!
Washing just gone out > guess what?
Correct.

And the forecast for today? Cloudy, DRY, some wind.


Pah!

....are you just shooting the breeze....

[Serial_Apologist]

Who was it who notoriously said that we should pray for the wisdom necessary to be able to distinguish between the things that we can't change, and those we can?

Judging by my own weather records, this year's summer weather patterns aren't that much different from our average middling kind of summer. It may just be that unpleasant weather gets added to the accumulating irritants in life as it is lived today - in my particular case the removal of two regular grocery staples from St Spree's shelves in this past month making for an additional irritation factor that would normally not matter much in isolation.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Who was it who notoriously said that we should pray for the wisdom necessary to be able to distinguish between the things that we can't change, and those we can?

Evidently somebody utterly forgettable! The hell with that; Lord grant me the continued insanity to continue fighting the unchangeable in the hope of replacing it with something better!

[jean]

It was Reinhold Niebuhr I believe.