Stormy Weather

[Padraig]

I did indeed, but I said January 30th

Near enough for Jazz, Anna.

[EdgeleyRob]

Very cold and blowing a gale in North Cheshire.
Only spits and spats of rain so far though.
Not too bad dog walking weather.

[BBMmk2]

I think the yellow round thing up in the sky is trying to make an appearance today! :)

[Petrushka]

A much calmer day than yesterday so far. Sunny and not so cold with that awful wind having disappeared. Blustery showers were forecast for today so all may change later.

[EdgeleyRob]

Glorious morning,sunshine,blue sky and a light breeze.
Lovely long walk with the dogs this morning,Mendelssohn piano sonatas on the Ipod,life's great innit.

[mangerton]

Perishing cold here - again - windy, and the rain is trying hard, but so far hasn't made much impression.

[Anna]

Not at all cold here, 7.5° with very little wind but the sunny spells are being interrupted by short, sharp, showers which should die out late afternoon. I see the BBC forecast is showing that the UK temperatures will start to rise from Thursday onwards, going up to 10/11° from next weekend but still unsettled

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Beautiful day all day in the Pennines: mild with hardly any wind, bright sunshine all day - a complete contrast with the bitter cold, heavy rain and fierce rains of Wednesday to yesterday.

[Serial_Apologist]

From what I can see, we're all in for the biggest blow of the winter thus far on Tuesday night, going into Wednesday, as an intense dart board moves into the Irish Sea. But what a beautiful, springlike day today. Colours are gorgeous at the moment, especially rowan tree berries; the first croci are out in S London. Instead of my usual Sunday post-luncheon siesta I walked a circular walk which I normally reserve for summer, of about 6 miles.

[amateur51]

That's two days on the run in which we've had no daytime rain here - there'll be a hose-pipe ban announcement soon at this rate

[BBMmk2]

That's two days on the run in which we've had no daytime rain here - there'll be a hose-pipe ban announcement soon at this rate

Same here! Looking okj at the moment!! :)

[Richard Tarleton]

These from yesterday about 40 mins from me, on the main road between Haverfordwest and St Davids. In the top picture, the calmer [sic] water in the foreground is an inland sea, normally a campsite. The pile of shingle is, er, the A487. Not sure why the bus driver was even attempting it.

In the second picture the yellow building is a pub, the Duke of Edinburgh, just behind the beach and main road which has been largely surrounded by water for some time now.

Update - the police are carrying out a routine investigation to establish if the road was open or closed. The council say their workers who were trying to close the road told the bus driver to take another route. The bus driver says he was told the road was passable with care.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's a horrible wet and windy day here today, but no worse than that, and predicted wind speeds have been downgraded to maximum averaging of 22 mph over the next few hours, then declining. I think we (here) can be thankful of getting off comparatively lightly - especially in view of the Tube strike forcing more people than usual onto their bikes for getting to work. Recollecting my 7 mile journeys each way to and from work in the 1970s/80s and sometimes spending working days sloshing around in shoefuls of water, I'm just glad not be have to be among any of them. Two people I'm currently worried about are the musicians Mike and Kate Westbrook, who live and work near the front in Dawlish, where I see the coastal underpinnings of the railway, the one vital non-road connection between London and Cornwall btw, have been washed away, leaving the twin tracks dangling, hammock-like, and an underestimated (imv) 6 week repair job.

[BBMmk2]

It's all quite incredible the weather we are experiencing at the moment. The poor people in Dawlish have it really bad. We have had rather strong winds, gusty mostly but quite continuous. Any reason why these weather conditions are happening?

[Anna]

It seems The Somerset Levels are turning into a disaster zone with a severe flood warning now and police helicopters telling people to evacuate now. In fact the whole South West seems to be drowning, particularly along the coast where severe damage is taking place.

Here it's been rough but winds no more than just over 50mph and a lull from around 1pm until now (more is promised) but we certainly have got off comparatively lightly. (I did see some pics of people waiting outside train stations in London and it seemed there was no weather there!)