Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sibelius's Lemmingkainen Legends

Is that the one where the orchestra jumps off a cliff at the end?

[Serial_Apologist]

Is that the one where the orchestra jumps off a cliff at the end?

No, that's Haydn's Farewell Symphony, I believe.

[greenilex]

Rapid alternation between full storm-on-the-high-seas weather this a.m. and blustery sunshine drying up deep puddles more recently. Getting the dog back from her half-term will mean digging out the gumboots, as my Granny used to say.

[Serial_Apologist]

Rapid alternation between full storm-on-the-high-seas weather this a.m. and blustery sunshine drying up deep puddles more recently. Getting the dog back from her half-term will mean digging out the gumboots, as my Granny used to say.

The dog's spade?

[greenilex]

Needless to say.

The patter of tiny raindrops quite sufficient, thank you.

[Serial_Apologist]

Needless to say.

The patter of tiny raindrops quite sufficient, thank you.

Loud booming thunder half an hour ago from a very large black cloud skirting around to the north east, but just a few raindrops where I was. The man in C Palace Park will be very proud of the photo he took of his missus, with a brilliant rainbow showing in the background.

[DracoM]

Well, after two pretty splendid early Spring days oop 'ere, today is utterly vile: steepling it down with thick, near freezing rain driven by wild, wild NWesterlies. Fells more or less invisible in cloud / mist / rain and our brave daffs wilting.

'Fluttering and dancing in the breeze'? - yeah right...............as if.....hanging on to their bulb bases to stop themselves getting grouted out of the sopping soil more like.

[vinteuil]

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... and people choose to live in them parts!

[Serial_Apologist]

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... and people choose to live in them parts!

...said Wordsworth!

[greenilex]

Down in Town Quay Park this afternoon it was typical equinoctial bluster, not too cold but bringing down lots of dead twigs. Dog was wild with inside-out ears.

[DracoM]

Yes, OK, so I choose here, and I love it up here, but...

.......BUT what truly bugs me is how poor the precise details of many forecasts for this area are. e.g. forecast today was showers and breeze. Actually, form 2.30 p.m. until NOW it has rained non-stop and shows no sign of relenting, and if that's a breeze I've just bashed through, I'm Donald Trump.

I've given up taking much notice of the BBC forecasts. I listen to the forecasts and stare outside, and think are those guys on the same island as I am?
Instead I use yr.no - more accurate, but even they got the sheer force of the wind wrong today and the amount of rain on that wind.

[teamsaint]

Down in Town Quay Park this afternoon it was typical equinoctial bluster, not too cold but bringing down lots of dead twigs. Dog was wild with inside-out ears.

...and 20 miles out of town, our cats are pretty unimpressed, and have taken to their rugs/beds/best seats in the house.
Still, it's dry........

[BBMmk2]

Past few days not been too bad. Managed to get out and about! Yes! Which for me at the moment, is no bad thing. Today, rain.

[greenilex]

I spend a fair amount of time standing in the back doorway pretending I have gone outside. Until, of course, the rising puddle begins to lap over the threshold, and that has been fairly rare over the winter just gone.

[greenilex]

Glad to report that correctly balmy spring weather has been gracing the city. At the community farm yesterday kids both human and animal were jumping all over in the sunshine, and even the lizards were less torpid. But they have to keep poultry under cover for a few days more, because of the current bird flu alert.