Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

The weather has done as forecast unfortunately. A bright early morning shifted quickly into driving rain. A respite has enabled me to fill the log basket ready for this evening and may last long enough to risk walking into town. Less cold than yesterday - which was bitter - thank heavens, although widespread frost is forecast for the later part of tonight, so possibly windscreen scraping to look forward(!) to tomorrow.

[Serial_Apologist]

The weather has done as forecast unfortunately. A bright early morning shifted quickly into driving rain. A respite has enabled me to fill the log basket ready for this evening and may last long enough to risk walking into town. Less cold than yesterday - which was bitter - thank heavens, although widespread frost is forecast for the later part of tonight, so possibly windscreen scraping to look forward(!) to tomorrow.

Yes but as the leading edge of that rain arrived, temperatures fell from 7.5C to 4C in minutes - just 2C above that at which a "winter mix" with sleet could be expected! And it hasn't yet risen, though a few faint patches of blue are just starting to appear to our north above the retreating clag, and the wind, which probably got up to 30 mph for half an hour, has now dropped. That raw cold of the typical UK winter has arrived a month early, and it will take some time to acclimatize.

So, here goes!

[BBMmk2]

Turned quite heavy with rain yesterday after the sunny start, again today a sunny start. Hope it will be all day today, which is forecasted.

[greenilex]

I’m afraid our friend is prone to gaffes rather than supine in his own gaff...

[DracoM]

Frost, sort of sunny a.m., but, boy, is it COLD!

[oddoneout]

A lovely sunny day, not too cold providing one kept moving. The volunteer garden team had a good session this morning and the 2 resident robins reaped the reward. One of the buzzards was drifting and mewing overhead in the blue and the copses were full of bird sound - squabbling magpies and jays, and the occasional clattering blackbird - and golden leaves hanging in the sunshine. Such a boost to the spirits.

[Serial_Apologist]

A lovely sunny day, not too cold providing one kept moving. The volunteer garden team had a good session this morning and the 2 resident robins reaped the reward. One of the buzzards was drifting and mewing overhead in the blue and the copses were full of bird sound - squabbling magpies and jays, and the occasional clattering blackbird - and golden leaves hanging in the sunshine. Such a boost to the spirits.

Does it help distil them then?

Advanced cloud from the next depression currently swinging in slowly from the west with its occluding frontal system is beginning to show up here in the SE: rain in the SW is to be expected to make slow progress east and then north-east, curving anticlockwise around its parent low pressure centre like the string on a yo-yo. How far north-east, then north, and then north-west it's expected to reach will determine where it stalls and just carry on dumping precipitation, which could well turn into snow at anything over 300 metres; so, the Brecon Beacons, possibly Dartmoor, and the Peaks. Once the front moves away north from here we will be in a slack area of meandering big showers and back remnants of the frontal rain. North of the front in question winds are expected to increase coming in from the north and north-east, a raw, cold direction, which is expected to reach all areas by Friday and then stick around till early next week. Everything looks like it's setting itself up to give us all a cold wet winter. Let's just hope I and others who know much more than me are wrong. In the meantime the big bet is on whether the stalling occurs across the area still suffering from the weekend's floods, which would likely give them a repeat performance.

[oddoneout]

Does it help distil them then?

Advanced cloud from the next depression currently swinging in slowly from the west with its occluding frontal system is beginning to show up here in the SE: rain in the SW is to be expected to make slow progress east and then north-east, curving anticlockwise around its parent low pressure centre like the string on a yo-yo. How far north-east, then north, and then north-west it's expected to reach will determine where it stalls and just carry on dumping precipitation, which could well turn into snow at anything over 300 metres; so, the Brecon Beacons, possibly Dartmoor, and the Peaks. Once the front moves away north from here we will be in a slack area of meandering big showers and back remnants of the frontal rain. North of the front in question winds are expected to increase coming in from the north and north-east, a raw, cold direction, which is expected to reach all areas by Friday and then stick around till early next week. Everything looks like it's setting itself up to give us all a cold wet winter. Let's just hope I and others who know much more than me are wrong. In the meantime the big bet is on whether the stalling occurs across the area still suffering from the weekend's floods, which would likely give them a repeat performance.

Yes if I forget to bring that bottle of cider in during frosty nights...

[BBMmk2]

Driving rain last evening and first thing this morning as well. A mixed bag today?

[DracoM]

Wild, wild winds up here.

[Joseph K]

Wild winds with loads of rain. Dark too.

[DracoM]

AND very cold indeed. Wind is a knife-edge.
Wicked SE/NE

[eighthobstruction]

....no wind here ....single shade of grey....bitter [who me when i have been so lucky in life]....

[doversoul1]

Pouring down again. We pumped out the cellar just before lunch but the sump is almost ready to be pumped again. And we are only at the beginning of winter.

[teamsaint]

drove past oast quite a thick covering of snow around Cirencester this morning.
Still raining in Cheltenham