Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Well it’s sunny down south!

[DracoM]

Yuk up here, and you know you're in for it this far up the fells when there's nastiness out west and seagulls are getting out of it and flocking in our fields!

[Serial_Apologist]

Yuk up here, and you know you're in for it this far up the fells when there's nastiness out west and seagulls are getting out of it and flocking in our fields!

BBC gulls, Draco?

[BBMmk2]

I thought it were going to be a good day today! Looks as though it will be overcast and rather uninspiring!

[Joseph K]

Exceedingly pleasant, here - hardly a cloud in the sky.

[Stanfordian]

Exceedingly pleasant, here - hardly a cloud in the sky.

Ditto from West Lancashire

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ditto from West Lancashire

... and West Yorkshire, too.

[Serial_Apologist]

It misted up here very rapidly yesterday evening in the clammy air, then was all gone by the time I cycled home at midnight. The wind had risen, lifting the fog into low stratus, which has been clinging on here all today with very few breaks. Remarkably mild though - but today will be the last time this year temperatures manage to reach 16 C: tomorrow sees a slide begin as winds come round to the east, from a cold central Russia, and with an intense blocking high over Scandinavia they look likely to last, possibly to the end of the month. Don't worry though: cold ends to November nearly always turn back into mild Decembers!

[BBMmk2]

Overcast here today. I thought they said last night be ok till later! How they get the forecasts wrong!

[Serial_Apologist]

Overcast here today. I thought they said last night be ok till later! How they get the forecasts wrong!

I thought this was what they actually predicted!

[DracoM]

Fine, easterly getting up, soft / beautiful late autumn colours, dry underfoot, sounds of kids playing on local fields. Great walk.

[oddoneout]

Murky as predicted all day, with that tiresome not quite drizzle dampness that mists up the outside of glasses which then fog up on the other side as well when going inside a shop, resulting in sudden personal fog visibility problems. More like the kind of weather I associate with November, which often seems dreary and neither one thing nor the other.

[teamsaint]

Cold , grey , gloomy.

Weather and government in perfect alignment.

Looking forward to tomorrows sunshine.

[Serial_Apologist]

Murky as predicted all day, with that tiresome not quite drizzle dampness that mists up the outside of glasses which then fog up on the other side as well when going inside a shop, resulting in sudden personal fog visibility problems. More like the kind of weather I associate with November, which often seems dreary and neither one thing nor the other.

I like to make a bit of a joke whenever this occurs, like saying "Hmm, it's very foggy in this shop today!"

I cycled as fast as conditions allowed to St James's Piccadilly to see my friend the jazz pianist Liam Noble giving a solo recital at lunchtime today. A journey which would have taken me 35 minutes a few years ago instead took 50 minutes - and this, annoyingly, was not down to lack of stamina on my part - so I arrived 15 minutes late, and the girl on the door wouldn't allow me in, stating that I would have to wait until the first half of the concert ended. Sounds of Ravel's "Gaspard de la nuit" were floating from behind the door, and I look down at the A4 sheet to see that it was not actually Liam playing, but Dominic Doutney! I exited, pedalled down to the Festival Hall just in time to get the final number being played by an unannounced quartet of guitar, Hammond organ, bass guitar and drums playing 60s-style Blue Note soul jazz, grabbed a snack lunch from the canteen in the front of the place, and made my way home, buoyed up by mere enjoyment of the ride, notwithstanding the damp weather.

While parking up behind the RFH I was amused to be approached by a young Spanish couple asking me in very poor English where they could find the nearest MacDonalds!

[BBMmk2]

OMG! They in the UK, and ask for a MacDonald’s! The Philistines!

Not a bad day today!