Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Bloody 'orrible tonight isn't it?!? Chucking it down here!

Have you candles, Cali?

[Nick Armstrong]

Have you candles, Cali?

No...! It's not that bad! yet..... !

[BBMmk2]

No...! It's not that bad! yet..... !

Stay safe! It's howling here!

[Anna]

Given the horrendous forecast for today it's not been bad here. Perishing cold, with windchill factor it was feeling around 1.9° until around lunchtime when it started raining. However, it wasn't torrential and by around five-thirty had stopped. A few showers since with gusts of wind, now dry again and still. No worse than any day late in January. I think the high winds are expected here later on and into tomorrow - Sunday promises dry. I mentioned to someone that February is a short month and we'll soon be in Spring, where upon the reply was dark mutterings about 'Feburary Full Dyke' so I felt suitably chastised.
Anyway, Rugby Six Nations starts tomorrow - that's something to look forward to!

[Serial_Apologist]

Have you candles, Cali?

Fork handles!!!

[BBMmk2]

Supposed not to be so good today either?

[Anna]

Supposed not to be so good today either?

You'll be OK BBM and also the Londoners here, no rain where you are until after lunch and a beautiful sunny Sunday as well! It's the West that will get it worse, not so much rain as gale force winds combined with tidal surges and Scotland likely to take a battering.
Here, at 3.30am it was the most perfectly clear starry night. At the moment we've got blue skies but I'm off out shortly before the rain sets in.
Edit: I've just seen the Daily Express exclaim: BRITAIN is facing another month of storm HELL – with no let up until early spring

[eighthobstruction]

If the West gets it bad....it does at least allow them to ply that ol' Lorna Doone/Poldark/Jamaica Inn/ Moonfleet/Onedin Line tourist thang....

....OOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo6 Nations.... out with the Hobnobs!!....

[amateur51]

If the West gets it bad....it does at least allow them to ply that ol' Lorna Doone/Poldark/Jamaica Inn/ Moonfleet/Onedin Line tourist thang....

....OOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo6 Nations.... out with the Hobnobs!!....

Hobnobs and rugby - woo-hoo austerity's over, eighth?

OT after a vile wet & windy & cold day yesterday, today so far is very bright, still windy, a bit nippy but rain is forecast for this afternnon. Nice so far

[BBMmk2]

I been thinking about Anna today and the Welsh! Hmmm my ancestry too :)

[Petrushka]

Sunny but a bitingly cold wind here this morning. Somewhat surprised that all horse racing goes ahead this afternoon after so much rain but glad all the same.

[Anna]

I been thinking about Anna today and the Welsh! Hmmm my ancestry too :)

Who are you not related to BBM?
It was lovely to be out and about walking this morning under a blue and sunny sky (although the wind was enough to slice your ears off) but home just before the rain started and it looks set in for the day. I can report that the Black Mountains on the Welsh side were well and truly white and sparkling whereas those on the Herefordshire side merely had a slight dusting on the tops. So far it seems as if the coastal flooding has been averted. (Best of luck with the nags Pet!)
Edit: January rainfall here totalled 189.5mm

[DracoM]

Vicious Easterly oop 'ere this a.m. with just a few flecks of spiteful rain and sleet in it. Very nasty. Early sun now quite gone.

[mangerton]

Cold - 1ºC at 8.00, and about 4º now - but dry here. The forecast for the west of Scotland is dire.

I am going out shortly, and may be some time.

[amateur51]

Cold - 1ºC at 8.00, and about 4º now - but dry here. The forecast for the west of Scotland is dire.

I am going out shortly, and may be some time.

Take your time mangerton, but don't call me shortly there's a good boy