Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Complete contrast today, I think. The quiet after the storm?

[Serial_Apologist]

Complete contrast today, I think. The quiet after the storm?

On the contrary!!!

The area around Coulsdon, which is Lat-Lit's manor, got a right pasting an hour ago.

Looks like it will quieten down by the weekend however, with a huge, and I mean huge, anticyclone building up centred over S Russia and the Caucasus and blocking all approaches by Atlantic systems for the forseeable future. This could give a return to unseasonal warmth to begin with, but some "in the know" are predicting the northward migration of that high leading to winds coming from a more easterly direction after around the 20th, which will mean heavy overcoat conditions, should it happen!

Nice low-based anvil-topped cumulonimbus clouds on display today - some very dark underbellies to them clouds!

[Joseph K]

Sunny here. Unlike yesterday it's persisting too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sunny here. Unlike yesterday it's persisting too.

Same in this bit of the Pennines, too - and so mild today that I've had the windows ajar to give the house an airing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Same in this bit of the Pennines, too - and so mild today that I've had the windows ajar to give the house an airing.

It ceertainly feels remarkably warm in the sun, when the wind drops - yesterday too, as I remarked - I can't ever remember sunshine feeling as warm this late in the year, you can feel the heat burning in: our roses and various other flowering shrubs seem to think it's still midsummer!!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

our roses and various other flowering shrubs seem to think it's still midsummer!!!

YES!!! I look at them and think "You'll regret it once the first severe frost arrives".

(Mind you, I've just gone round the house shutting all the windows!)

[oddoneout]

Yet another sunny autumn day. I try and appreciate them as they arrive anyway but SA's passed-on prediction of cold quarter weather makes that doubly important.

YES!!! I look at them and think "You'll regret it once the first severe frost arrives".

I think it's we who regret it more as we see bright flowers turned to brown mush, with the attendant need to clear up and get used to a less colourful prospect outside the window.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yet another sunny autumn day. I try and appreciate them as they arrive anyway but SA's passed-on prediction of cold quarter weather makes that doubly important.


I think it's we who regret it more as we see bright flowers turned to brown mush, with the attendant need to clear up and get used to a less colourful prospect outside the window.

Columbian neighbours, a family with 3 kids, have planted two children's "windmills" among shrubbery outside their window, just to keep the rest of us happy through the dark season!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Columbian neighbours, a family with 3 kids, have planted two children's "windmills" among shrubbery outside their window, just to keep the rest of us happy through the dark season!

- beats gnomes any day! I am lucky in that I "inherited" a garden from a professional Garden Designer, so the Winter view from the living room window is as colourful as can be expected. (Especially the Conus Sanguinea, the stems of which glow as an intense a red as the name suggests.) The "Winter Flowering" Clematis which I bought for myself was something of a disappointment - basically "Winter Dying" sums the experience up.

[Serial_Apologist]

- beats gnomes any day! I am lucky in that I "inherited" a garden from a professional Garden Designer, so the Winter view from the living room window is as colourful as can be expected. (Especially the Conus Sanguinea, the stems of which glow as an intense a red as the name suggests.) The "Winter Flowering" Clematis which I bought for myself was something of a disappointment - basically "Winter Dying" sums the experience up.

Some complain about the percentage of overseas-originated plant species occupying our landscapes; but, beyond certain virus-carrying varieties, mainly insects rather than hosts, I can't see any strong objection: climate change will be the prime cause of catastrophe in those of our native species unable to adapt to the speed of temperature rise and associated air or ship-borne insects unsubject to natural predation. And, apart from ewes and hollies, our winter scenescapes would be pretty bleak were it not for such things as the conifers and far-Eastern shrubs and winter-blossoming Prunus trees which populate us in hues other than grey and brown.

[oddoneout]

Some complain about the percentage of overseas-originated plant species occupying our landscapes;

But they'd get a shock if all the 'foreign' plants were removed; the truly native flora of the British Isles is pretty skimpy, thanks to those pesky ice ages scraping it all away!

[BBMmk2]

My goodness! Blue skies and sun!

[oddoneout]

My goodness! Blue skies and sun!

Same here, again, and although rather draughty, as it's from a southerly direction not a problem - other than flipping the lid and blowing over the empty wheelie bin. Fingers crossed for reasonable weather tomorrow as well for the Wednesday volunteer gardening stint.

[Serial_Apologist]

Same here, again, and although rather draughty, as it's from a southerly direction not a problem - other than flipping the lid and blowing over the empty wheelie bin. Fingers crossed for reasonable weather tomorrow as well for the Wednesday volunteer gardening stint.

You're in the north-east iirc, so you should be OK.

[oddoneout]

You're in the north-east iirc, so you should be OK.

Just east rather than north-east; that's quite cold enough in winter! Both the Met and the Beeb agree on lack of rain(which is important), but the Beeb is more optimistic on the sun front(which is optional)