Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

An absolute WOW of a sunset here over London right now! A good omen, weatherwise. All being well, someone will have captured it on camera.

[BBMmk2]

Dull and overcast down here SA. Not down here re that sunset!

[Serial_Apologist]

Dull and overcast down here SA. Not down here re that sunset!

Not raining though... here!

[BBMmk2]

Not raining though... here!

There was a slight drizzle here in thee evening.

[oddoneout]

Very mild but very windy last night - tiresome as I was struggling to sleep anyway and the roaring of the wind and stray bangs and clatters of bins going over and the contents getting scattered didn't help!
Today has been slightly less windy, still mild, and dry(despite some grey clouds), and even with some darker cloud now massing and beginning to leak it is obvious that the days are getting longer.

[Serial_Apologist]

The neighbouring woods were choc-a-bloc with familes - most unusual by this time of the year, when the footpaths are usually impassable. There's hardly been any rain! There was an even more amazing sunset here this afternoon than Friday's - vivid orange bands of cirrus with turquoise sky between, purple grey scud cloud below scurrying across the wind-blown sky, resembling a German expressionist landscape painting.

[BBMmk2]

Sounds great SA! The sun is doing its best!

[Serial_Apologist]

An inversion cap is just about managing to keep convection suppressed today. Nevertheless, there's enough turbulence, conbined with cold winds coming off a warm North Sea, to have led to sufficient build-up to squeeze out a few spots of rain from some threatening-looking cumulus while taking my afternoon stroll through the woods. Stopped briefly to exchange pleasantries with two ladies in their miiddle years taking a small boy out for a walk - one of whom seemed familiar, and it wasn't until a couple of hundred metres further on that I remembered having seen her in quite a few TV dramas; others would I'm sure remember her name and which plays! What was in Mediaeval times a principle thoroughfare through The Great North Wood linking the hamlets of East Dulwich and what is now Upper Norwood, and now an atmospheric path between a golf course and council blocks rearing up to the east, leads down to a bend where what is known as the South Circular Road takes a sharp left turn to traverse an area just a couple of miles across which gives motorists an impression of having left london far away, with the golf course, allotments and Dulwich College playing fields, subdivided by old field boundaries of mature trees and hedgerows to one's left, and Dulwich Park to the right, Interspersed with a number of fine stucco-fronted late Georgian lodges. At the actual bend where the entrance to the path suddenly enounters the heavy traffic, a fine 1920s pub has been left derelict for at least the past 10 years; similarly a large detached mid-Victorian villa, just past the fine Church, if one is travelling in the opposite direction, turning right at the lights, and heading for Forest Hill, Catford and the SE outer suburbs - dwellings that could so easily house a dozen families at least, and I understand were actually squatted back in the 1970s. On the other side of the road is a mid-Victorian house of two storeys, austere and unprepossessing of appearance, a mixture of sub-Islamic arched windows and French revival Baroque, but whose singularity lies in the fact that it was the first ever domestic dwelling entirely built of reinforced concrete, dating from 1874. 400 yards further along on that side, topping the climb, is the Horniman Museum, with its American-style Art Nouveau frontage and statuary, containing a permanent collection of African artifacts that arguably should be returned...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's snowing!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry - shouldn't've sounded so surprised, but this morning's Met Office forecast didn't lead me to expect anything but rain today. They've now altered it to a "Yellow Warning" for snow!

[vinteuil]

... 400 yards further along on that side, topping the climb, is the Horniman Museum, with its American-style Art Nouveau frontage and statuary, containing a permanent collection of African artifacts that arguably should be returned...

The Horniman Museum also has an amazing collection of musical instruments, both 'western' and other. I remember making a pilgrimage as a teenager in the 1960s all the way up from Wiltshire to see them...

Happy memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horniman_Museum

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https://www.horniman.ac.uk/collections/browse-our-collections/collection/musical-instruments

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[oddoneout]

There was a half-hearted attempt at snow here on Thursday morning - little dry specks that would have been drizzle earlier in the week - and in the afternoon a brief but unpleasant bout of sleet. The forecast frost on Wednesday night was sneaky - at first glance out of the window on Thursday morning I thought there was just the remains of a rain shower on various surfaces, but when I went out to put rubbish in the bin realised that it was solid raindrops - and the wheelie bin lid had frozen so needed a clout to open it. This morning was unambiguous - white frosting everywhere.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry - shouldn't've sounded so surprised, but this morning's Met Office forecast didn't lead me to expect anything but rain today. They've now altered it to a "Yellow Warning" for snow!

Sounds to me that the warm front slowly approaching from the west must have pepped up a bit then. This is difficult to forecast as there are so many variables and imponderables to take into consideration when trying to work out if and where precipitation will fall, and if so, whether it will be of the wet or frozen variety, and how much.

Following a moderate frost, here it has turned too mild for it to be able to snow, and in any case there's much doubt as to whether or not the abovementioned precipitation zone will get this far east until Monday, when it's expected to consist solely of rain in the south, although sleet or snow are a possibility for Scotland and the north. Temperatures are, however, expected now to stay below the averages for late January right through to the end of the month, with a build-up of high pressure blocking to the NW drawing in winds from the direction of Scandinavia making for very cold conditions everywhere between Wednesday and Friday of next week, and the possibility of snowfall, though, again, whereabouts and amounts will need to be ascertained nearer the dates.

[DracoM]

Snow dusting hills here. Horrible weather, SE winds, and COLD.

[greenilex]

Top end of Camberwell Grove is noticeably chillier than down in the dip.

Re collections of musical instruments, I would love some more detailed info on what as opposed to who is actually making the sounds we hear..