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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    A friend of mine in Blackpool was saying she will have to do the school run in a dingy soon!

    Thankfully, its all calm down here with the sun out!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37624

      Originally posted by DracoM View Post
      Seriously scary oop 'ere, rainwise. Rivers already near flood levels, into the core of Lakes, creaming waterfalls everywhere.
      Has been raining more or less non-stop for 36hrs, and as I write, rodding it down driven by blustery S.Westerly so hard I can hear it on the roof from here. Minor flooding on ground floor, which is below street level on one side. Running under this street, there is a well known beck which has risen up through slated floor.

      The way it is.
      The floods in your neck o'the woods has been on the news this morning, Draco; I hope everything's all right.

      It's beautiful here right now, following last night's blow, (a racket, which kept me awake), almost cloudless, air so clear that with binoculars every detail is made visible on Hampstead Heath, 12 miles to the north. With probably 90% of leaves now down, I have my view back once more. The talk now is of cold nor-westerles predominating over the next couple of weeks, with sleet and snow showers for Scotland, N Ireland and the northwest, interspersed with brief spells of mildish windy sou'westerlies, cloud and rain.

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      • Stanfordian
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 9309

        On the Ribble Estuary I'm down the coast not too far from Blackpool, it's very blustery here as one might expect. In Blackpool with weather like this when the tide is in the waves are always breaking over the sea wall onto coast the road.

        In the NW of England it seems that Lancaster and Galgate have borne the brunt of the weather with flooding that has effected the main train line.

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12962

          River in Kendal [Cumbria] is once more fighting to burst its banks bang in the middle of the town. Locals pix are pretty ominous.
          Wind oop 'ere has gone right round, is strong, freezing, has sleet in it, and is literally Arctic, but mirabile visu, we have sun as well from time to time!!

          This morning - medieval wind band rehearsal; this evening, Carnival of Animals, Wagner and Ketelbey etc etc.

          All talk is of hitherto undiscovered flooded minor roads, main roads closed/diversions. M6 crosswinds v.strong. A66 winds lethal, massive sodden leaf drifts blocking drains etc.

          It's all go oop north, tha knows...

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6432

            .....we forget the lethal power of leaves....
            bong ching

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Seems to be the great North/South Divide, as far as the weather is concerned?
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37624

                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                Seems to be the great North/South Divide, as far as the weather is concerned?
                Yes, calm and not too cold (8 degs C here right now) as the south is sandwiched between that huge dartboard of a low off Scotland and a lesser feature down to the south. Winds should start to pick up in the early hours as that second feature moves off to the east, putting us all under the same cold nor-westerly. Any showers (apart from any large ones) will not make it through to the SE here; unlike in the summer there's just not enough insolation (heating of the ground by the sun's power) to maintain the amount of convection going to build up the cumulus clouds to the point where they become showers. Ironically, that's the reason why in the S and E the best, ie sunniest and clearest conditions in winter, occur when there's a northerly or north-westerly arctic flow; in summer a similar set-up would produce showers and often thunderstorms.

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                • DracoM
                  Host
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 12962

                  Thin smattering of snow on tops overnight, and as I write real hefty darkening and thickening of skies to that ominous solid almost blue grey that seems to signal snow. It always feels to me when looking at such a sky that it is as if the world knows and is waiting, holding its breath.

                  Also truly cold to the bone oop 'ere at the mo, fields still flooded, but rivers going down. We wait for t'next lot.

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Thanks for that, SA. Most definetley up north around Bradford area, I hear of white outs, especially around the M62 area.
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12962

                      Snow, bright sun but gathering clouds, black ice on pavements, and..........erm.........cold

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                        Snow, bright sun but gathering clouds, black ice on pavements, and..........erm.........cold
                        Be careful whilst you are out!
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • DracoM
                          Host
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 12962

                          Some friends are skiing on the tops this p.m. Looks good, BUT as said, there is 'stuff' on the way.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37624

                            The first snow of the winter in London this morning - not enough to settle, which would in any case have been impossible given that the air temperature was + 2 degrees Celsius. Last night's temperature in this part of Town fell to Minus 3, which appears to have been the coldest anywhere in the region; it was certainly the lowest since January. More snow showers are forecast for tonight, spreading south off of the North Sea; then it's anticipated to warm up to about normal temperatures for the start of December over the weekend, but with minimal sunshine anywhere. At the moment they're still betting over what will come next week, as the atmosphere seems to be a bit topsy-turvy.

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                            • DracoM
                              Host
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 12962

                              The wildest, coldest Northerly wind oop 'ere I can remember in thirty years. You literally have to use BOTH hands and all your weight to close the front door against the blast. Roars through trees, every shred of leaf now gone, two birds have been smacked dead around midday hard against the other side of my wall.

                              Fine stars, fine moon, fine sunsets and sunrises, but, blimey............between them..... Exhilarating if you can take it, thrilling to be out in nature white in shivering tooth and claw, but be warned etc.

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                              • Petrushka
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12242

                                No snow in this neck of the woods but feeling very cold, much colder than the 5 degrees thermometer reading.
                                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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