Stormy Weather

[Lat-Literal]

The Clash now mainly operates in HM Opposition's front bench.

Newspaper speculation, rest assured - a speciality especially of the Daily Depress, conjured up in their tea breaks no doubt. Or tea leaves in teacup breaks.

Point 2 - Excellent; really excellent. I'm happier when it just rains. Point 1 - Nonplussed being post-political. Actually retrospectively to 1970 if not before!

[DracoM]

Well, it's seriously cold oop 'ere, and driving freezing rain in great grey billows across the fells.
Shudder to think what it's doing today and tomorrow in Scotland if it's like this here now!

Look to thysen, lads

[Serial_Apologist]

Point 2 - Excellent; really excellent. I'm happier when it just rains.

We have to accept of course that any winter contains some cold weather, with or without snow. But from following various sites nothing seems settled as to what kind of a winter it's going to be. As with other matters the Express prefers alarm raising.

[greenilex]

But I think it is true that this El Niño is the most extreme ever? And storms will be ditto?

I guess this could possibly result in more snow?

[Serial_Apologist]

But I think it is true that this El Niño is the most extreme ever? And storms will be ditto?

I guess this could possibly result in more snow?

The effect of El Nino and its warming of the E Pacific along the Equator is known about and has been borne out in this year's typhoon season. The knock-on effects on a wider scale aren't yet understood, nor how they intersect with other consequences of global warming such as Arctic meltwater. What is known is that the greater the ocean temperature and overlying air masses' temperature differences are on each side of the North Atlantic Drift and its associated jetstream, the more intense (i.e. deeper) the depressions reaching us.

But that in turn depends on whether or not the depressions do reach us.

One of the peculiarities of this year has been an unusually cold mass of water in the north Atlantic to the west of Ireland and east of Newfoundland - the legacy of last year's severe winter over Canada shifted eastwards - which has led repeatedly to a growth of intense blocking high pressure systems over that area. These have caused the jetstream to curve northwards, crossing Iceland and then plunging south eastward, taking depressions formed north of Scotland down across southern Scandinavia, with accompanying north-westerlies across the UK keeping the worst of the weather away and to the east of us. This has nothing to do with El Nino.

At the moment the money seems to be on westerly and north westerly winds predominating during December and January, meaning strong winds at times, especially as secondary lows quickly form along trailing cold fronts, and temperatures near or slightly below the averages, with plunges of northerly winds from time to time behind "families" of lows bringing belts of cold rain or sleet followed by a day or two of snow showers mainly to the SW and E coast regions, and moderate frosts down the middle of the country. There are intimations of colder, east winds in February, but really that's too far off for any certainty.

[Nick Armstrong]

Wonderful bracing cycle ride just now, especially in Hyde Park - dry and very breezy, with the light fading and the lamps starting to glow (especially from the enormous fun fair which is now in one corner - two helter skelters, at least two roller-coasters, etc etc, smells of roasting chestnuts and caramelising goodies). Jazz Record Requests was perfect listening (This is definitely going to have to be bought - the piano/vibraphone duetting of Art Tatum and Lionel Hampton in What is this thing called love is pure joy)

Not a trace of rain yet - though lots of whitish-grey clouds scudding across the still luminous sky, and dead dry leaves racing along the ground.

A very "Start of The Return of the Native" few moments...

A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor. The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. In such contrast the heath wore the appearance of an instalment of night which had taken up its place before its astronomical hour was come: darkness had to a great extent arrived hereon, while day stood distinct in the sky.

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Which of course takes makes one think in turn of.....

[DracoM]

Well, lucky old you! Blimey! Wish it was like that here!

[usher]

Horizontal rain here in central Scotland and one of the local roads flooded, cars sending great waves over the wall between it and my side road. We have sleet forecast for tomorrow and Monday.....

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, lucky old you! Blimey! Wish it was like that here!

This is what is so nice about living in the south - he said smugly.

[Serial_Apologist]

Horizontal rain here in central Scotland and one of the local roads flooded, cars sending great waves over the wall between it and my side road. We have sleet forecast for tomorrow and Monday.....

Don't worry - one day the Thames Barrier will burst, and it will be payback time for you lot!

[eighthobstruction]

Don't worry - one day the Thames Barrier will burst, and it will be payback time for you lot!

Don't worry t'South....by then we'll have our Northern Powerhouse going like a nightwatchmans brazier....(Brazier I said S- A , not brassiere)

[Nick Armstrong]

Horizontal rain here in central Scotland and one of the local roads flooded, cars sending great waves over the wall between it and my side road. We have sleet forecast for tomorrow and Monday.....

Maybe the Daily Wail's 'chicken with head cut off' hysterical flapping wasn't so far off then...

[BBMmk2]

Maybe the Daily Wail's 'chicken with head cut off' hysterical flapping wasn't so far off then...

Blimey Cali! The photos in Brighton yesterday!!!! Wish I had seen that storm! ad to do other stuff, unfortunately.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wet, wet, very, very wet. And windy. And cold. And miserable.

(Just like my mood when there's no more Huddersfield Festival to look forward to.)

Call that a fallacy? Pathetic.

[Flosshilde]

Don't worry - one day the Thames Barrier will burst, and it will be payback time for you lot!

& the south of England is sinking, while Scotland is rising ...