Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

It's only 8C!

[cloughie]

TBF , Salisbury Plain is pretty much in the grip of the ice age already, for 6 months of the year. Brrrrrrrr......

As a weather Guru, S-A, I'm sure you already know this, but the coldest place in the known universe is the main stand at Grantham town football ground. A curious phenomenon brings the air straight from deepest siberia, cooling it all the while........

Colder than Spotland ts?

[teamsaint]

Colder than Spotland ts?

spotland is in the known universe,so I guess so.
Spent a chilly afternoon or two over the border in Lancashire, Cloughie?

Incidentally, I understand that the Hull KR stadium can feel decidedly fresh on occasions.........anybody been there?

[greenilex]

It's a while since I have been in a stadium - the Dell before they moved it across the tracks - but I thought the draught was part of the attraction ( I don't refer to ale, real or prole, you must understand).

It is really wet, the leaves are ankle deep and the bracket fungus has squelched its last.

[Serial_Apologist]

We have the female weather presenter back once again on the BBC1 London forecast at 1.40 pm. I must try to remember to catch her name - from her appearance and attire I could imagine her divining the forecast by means of peering into a crystal ball: "I see terrible cold approaching from Russia next week; beware! beware!!! ".

Georgina Burnett by name.

Click on the Forecast Video to the right of the page:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743

[BBMmk2]

What a pain in the neck it was this morning! I think the car will need a new battery!!

Not a good day all round!

[Petrushka]

Georgina Burnett by name.

Click on the Forecast Video to the right of the page:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743

It's Alex Deakin by the time I come to look

One of our weather girls in the West Midlands is Rebecca Wood easily the prettiest weather girl on TV ... unless you know different.

[EdgeleyRob]

Colder than Spotland ts?

or the away end at Oldham ?

[Petrushka]

or the away end at Oldham ?

Anybody been to Pride Park in Derby? Trust me on this, it is the windiest place on earth and I don't mean the football stadium as I've never been in it. Why are these new football stadiums (stadia?) situated in bleak, business parks?

[EdgeleyRob]

Anybody been to Pride Park in Derby? Trust me on this, it is the windiest place on earth and I don't mean the football stadium as I've never been in it. Why are these new football stadiums (stadia?) situated in bleak, business parks?

I went to the old Baseball ground a couple of times,never been to the new Derby County ground.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thare are a lot of concerns over Hurricane Patricia, at 880 millibars the deepest and most intense tropical low pressure system of Pacific origin to hit American shores ever recorded, with steady reported winds of 200 mph. That's more than twice the wind strengths experienced here in our October 1987 "hurricane".

The storm's winds would be expected to weaken rapidly on hitting the mountains of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, but not before inflicting levels of damage beyond my imaginings, and then the torrential associated rainfalls will just add to difficulties with flooding and mudflows.

After this the storm is expected to move NE across the central part of Mexico, and it's feared it could re-juvenate on reaching the Gulf of Mexico, where it could dump another load of rain along the Texas coastline.

The prospects don't look good.

[BBMmk2]

No they don't SA. Had a good day so far. Done everything as planned! :) (Despite a dull overcast day)

[Richard Tarleton]

Thare are a lot of concerns over Hurricane Patricia

The hurricane made landfall precisely where, 14 years ago, I took part in an Earthwatch wildlife project, between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, in a coastal village called Chamela - an area of low hills and dry tropical forest. The village house where we stayed was a short stone's throw from the beach - I imagine the village will have been evacuated. I expect the forest will have been fairly extensively wrecked. What happens to the wildlife during and after an event like this I have no idea - the birdlife (for example) ranged in size from hummingbirds to frigate birds and vultures.

Our project, based at a research station in the forest, was helping with a study into small carnivores - ocelots, skunks etc. . A Mexican entomologist I spoke to was collecting twigs in the back of a pick-up. Under normal circumstances, he explained, 30% of the branch drop in the forest is caused by invertebrates - not this time.

[DracoM]

Opp 'ere, waves of brilliant rain in the sun, fabulous tree colours and spectacular sunset in the rain. Westerly briskish but not too cold .................yet.....

[BBMmk2]

We have that strange looking yellow object up in the sky, that looks very nice! :)