Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

I think my area, West Sussex, is going to be alright.

[cloughie]

Pleasant morning here - around 6C - currently very little breeze and from NW but forecast to be increasingly moving from N then easterly no doubt getting colder as it does tomorrow!

[gurnemanz]

Frost and very bright sunshine first thing. The "sudden stratospheric warming event" over Greenland is starting to do its work.

[oddoneout]

No frost overnight, and a great deal of rain this morning and likely through the day off and on. Not cold due to no wind but as that picks up the temperature will drop. High winds during and after the rain are not good news, more so in some respects when they occur overnight. I suspect that our current run of no power cuts may end some time over this weekend. Although most of the cabling is underground in this part of the world excess water and trees falling can clobber the substations and the connections there.

[DracoM]

Dull filth so far here. Tiny bits of sun. Fast moving clouds.
Waiting braced for the big freezing weather much bruited, but so far, nothing. Weird. Timing?
East wind VERY strong and, to the north east much activity / fast cloud, but here..............nowt.
Snow dusting very tops.

[Serial_Apologist]

Possibly this afternoon constituted my last proper walk for the next week or so, with it being very difficult to get the right sort of exercise on icy surfaces where every step has to be taken with care. Given that we are now where we were at the beginning of November, daylight hours-wise, it still gets dark pretty early in the afternoons - there were few people around in C Palace Park as I returned from my 3 miler.

Thank heavens my boiler seems to have corrected itself this evening, after not coming on at 6.30 pm, as timed: I had to press the reset button on the boiler itself late last night to warm the place up. The last thing one needs is a boiler breakdown just as a cold wave is about to occur!

[oddoneout]

So who's got the white stuff? The forecast here changed significantly from yesterday late afternoon on, and the little snow symbols all disappeared to be replaced with raindrops, which then also went. When I went to bed at midnight the I knew there was unlikely to be a white blanket come morning as snow was shown for late this afternoon, but now it's supposed to be from late morning on. The wind was as originally forecast - a lot - and will cause drifting problems but since it stayed dry overnight a dessicating eaterly air flow was able to do much to dry up surface water - that much less to form ice under any snow layer.
It is as expected bitterly cold, reminding me of the winters we experienced for many years after moving here, when water would freeze as it was poured and the children's cheeks would look as if they had been sandblasted after a short time outside.

[BBMmk2]

Hope everyone will be ok. Ok down here.

[Joseph K]

Cold, windy and something like snow-drizzle (light dry snow) unexpectedly on my walk.

[gurnemanz]

V windy, some sun. Washing almost dry already.

[Serial_Apologist]

We now have a thin layer of snow on grass, tree branches and parked vehicles, though not road surfaces, surprisingly. This is from continuous snow here since around eight this morning, which didn't really amount to enough to settle until lunchtime, and which is now being helped by heavy showers of graupel (soft hail in tiny pellets only a millimeter in diameter) The temperature has been hovering between minus 1 and plus 1 Celsius: I know this only from the annoying fact that my outside north wall facing max-min thermometer now has a layer of ice obscuring the reading, which I can't remove without either the help of warm water, thereby distorting the recordable temperature, or risking smashing the glass by chipping way at the ice.

Earlier on I opened a bag of salt and sand and sprinkled the wet paths, the steep bit of pavement running down to the main road, and a narrow pathway to the row of garages running along the ground floor level of our block. Always best to try and get this done in anticipation.

[oddoneout]

You've supplied a useful word there SA -graupel. That's what is happening here, but not to any great effect so far. Since lunchtime there have been occasional episodes of light dandruff, but no snow. Somebody must be getting it in this region though as there is now an amber snow warning - unless that's because all hell is set to break loose overnight? The wood burner might go on later - the house is actually pretty warm but when the wind is in this direction at this velocity draughts become a problem, only some of which I can fix easily, so a blast of eco destruction will make things feel more comfortable and watching the flames might perhaps soothe a currently rather fractious brain.

[DracoM]

Literally, not a flake here!
Horrible wind, one of the most brutal I have walked in, including on skiing slopes.
Blimey..............really feel for those anywhere on the east coast.

[BBMmk2]

Literally, not a flake here!
Horrible wind, one of the most brutal I have walked in, including on skiing slopes.
Blimey..............really feel for those anywhere on the east coast.

Well, we’ve had our first lot of snow of the winter! It snowed quite a bit yesterday but not all that thick! Lovely to see from the inside!

[DracoM]

Have snow, sun and a fierce swirling easterly.