Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Well if you don't ask ....

... you won't get the non-reply from the one who also doesn't know!

Who is Cornish Norman, by the way?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Who is Cornish Norman, by the way?

Nah - Norman Cornish - the language William the Bast ... Conqueror inflicted upon the citizens of St Ives.

[Serial_Apologist]

Nah - Norman Cornish - the language William the Bast ... Conqueror inflicted upon the citizens of St Ives.

Ah yes, of course, and thank you. Nothing to do with seven wives after all. Just wondered...

[greenilex]

No sign of any Bertha yet...as my granny said tripping cheerfully downstairs to the assembled family, "Don't keep me waiting!"

[Petrushka]

Looks like Bertha has turned up here, It's absolutely hammering down but not windy.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A very noticeable drop in temperature this morning - I needed to wear a jacket for my walk for the first time since May; just as well - the rain started as I was out. Forecast to last all day (and much of the next few days) - so, indoor activities this coming week. (Read "Housework" as opposed to "Gardening".)

[Anna]

Bertha's a total non-event here, it did get exceptionally windy around lunchtime yesterday and I thought of The Express' headline - Killer Storm Terror set to Strike! But it all calmed down of course, light rain started late evening, became very heavy, coming down in straight lines (not a puff of wind) around 6am. Still raining steadily, still no wind. It seems Cambridgeshire got flooding and the roof of the bus station at Barnsley is collapsing. I predict it'll start drying up in a few hours here as the cloud base is lifting rapidly but Scotland will get the worst of it later.

Meanwhile: A 'supermoon' will light up the night sky on Sunday as it coincides with a meteor shower in one of the most dramatic events on the astronomical calendar. The moon will be at its biggest and brightest for 20 years as it reaches the point in its orbit closest to Earth – known as perigee – at the same time as it becomes full.

Two days later, the Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak – producing "fireballs as bright as Jupiter or Venus". (It seems Tuesday will be peak viewing for Perseids)

Edit: Just seen this headline re Super Moon in the Sunday Express: SUPERMOON warning: Rare lunar event could trigger 'END OF DAYS' this Sunday. A RARE phenomenon THIS SUNDAY could trigger the end of life as we know it in an explosion of earthquakes, killer plagues and volcanic eruptions.
It seems they've found a Biblical quote to justify this scaremongering ...........

[Serial_Apologist]

The front asociated with son-of-Bertha's tight little low, whizzing across the Midlands en route for blasting Yorkshire and Northumberland this evening, crossed us between elevenses and lunchtime, producing four lightning flashes and half an hour's heavy rain: maybe a quarter of an inch. So we're now in the breezy backwash, with brilliant hot sunshine, 21 degrees in the shade, and a spectacular line of thunder clouds running east-north-east to our north-west, which might just miss us here but probably hit a line from Staines to Wembley and up and on to Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Tonight's Met Office chart shows isobars north of a line from Carlisle to Hull as tight as any I've seen for this time of year, in 50+ years' observings.

[amateur51]

The front asociated with son-of-Bertha's tight little low, whizzing across the Midlands en route for blasting Yorkshire and Northumberland this evening, crossed us between elevenses and lunchtime, producing four lightning flashes and half an hour's heavy rain: maybe a quarter of an inch. So we're now in the breezy backwash, with brilliant hot sunshine, 21 degrees in the shade, and a spectacular line of thunder clouds running east-north-east to our north-west, which might just miss us here but probably hit a line from Staines to Wembley and up and on to Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Tonight's Met Office chart shows isobars north of a line from Carlisle to Hull as tight as any I've seen for this time of year, in 50+ years' observings.

Sunshine one minute, now tipping it down again - the sort of weather that renders useless and doubly annoying all attempts to forecast the weather with any accuracy

[Serial_Apologist]

Sunshine one minute, now tipping it down again - the sort of weather that renders useless and doubly annoying all attempts to forecast the weather with any accuracy

Sure is, Ams - 5 minutes after my last post and that squall line is coming right across us instead of behaving as I expected! Obviously a secondary front, then.

Visibility down to about 150 metres for a minute then - real tropical intensity stuff with winds to match. Bet a few got caught in that - bloody hell! Bit early in the day for a rainbow, but there should be a lovely anvil cloud as it moves away to the east.

[mangerton]

Edit: Just seen this headline re Super Moon in the Sunday Express: SUPERMOON warning: Rare lunar event could trigger 'END OF DAYS' this Sunday. A RARE phenomenon THIS SUNDAY could trigger the end of life as we know it in an explosion of earthquakes, killer plagues and volcanic eruptions.
It seems they've found a Biblical quote to justify this scaremongering ...........

Last edited by Anna; Today at 10:56. Reason: been reading the Sunday Express online!!

Really Anna! You should know better. At least it wasn't the Wail

I looked out at 10.30 yesterday evening, and the moon was brilliant, low in the south. There was rain overnight, and there has been intermittent rain today, but nothing cataclysmic, yet, at least! If a killer plague strikes, or The Law erupts again, I'll be sure to let you all know - after I've told the Express, obviously.

[Serial_Apologist]

Last edited by Anna; Today at 10:56. Reason: been reading the Sunday Express online!!

Really Anna! You should know better. At least it wasn't the Wail

I looked out at 10.30 yesterday evening, and the moon was brilliant, low in the south. There was rain overnight, and there has been intermittent rain today, but nothing cataclysmic, yet, at least! If a killer plague strikes, or The Law erupts again, I'll be sure to let you all know - after I've told the Express, obviously.

Even so, tie down your garden furniture for tonight's expected blow where you are, mangs. I don't think they're exaggerating on this one.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sunshine one minute, now tipping it down again - the sort of weather that renders useless and doubly annoying all attempts to forecast the weather with any accuracy

Same here, but the other way round - at about half-past two, the rain eased off and at three o'clock the sun came out (absolutely contrary to the Forecast which was advising "Build Ark") - it seemed settled, so I completed my walk interrupted from this morning, and then enjoyed getting myself muddy doing a bit of gardening. The clouds have now returned, so I expect the rain to return by teatime.

I notice from Anna's comments on the Perseids that this looks like being yet another year (the fourth in a row) when all the activity will be totally obscured by cloud cover. The end of Send in the Clowns plays in the background.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Seven minutes on, and the rain has returned from its lunch break.

[greenilex]

Thought the woodpigeon nests might be dislodged by the Big Blow, now very much with us, but so far everything is sitting tight. Little boys next door horribly overexcited by the weather. Most teachers are not fans of gales (no pun intended).