Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

We has a fair few trees blown down in my area, yesterday. I’m sure wind speeds were around 80 mph, at times. A few trees near us were blowing quite a lot and bending a fair bit too!

I see that better weather could be making its way up from the direction of the Azores.

[Serial_Apologist]

We has a fair few trees blown down in my area, yesterday. I’m sure wind speeds were around 80 mph, at times. A few trees near us were blowing quite a lot and bending a fair bit too!

I see that better weather could be making its way up from the direction of the Azores.

Indeed - which didn't used to happen frequently in more balanced weather times. One of the symptoms of climate change has been sharp veerings between lockdown's meteorological equivalent - blocked situations, and more vigorous jet stream-driven "zonal" cycles. The latter favour the growth of deeper, more concentrated depressions, even in summer when trees are heavy with leaves and more likely to succumb to high winds. While the govt, developers etc always speak of replacing trees lost to winds or urban spread, it's the older trees that are more at risk than the younger, with their more flexible stems and trunks; and it's the older trees that harbour the most biodiversity, namely THE vital component of maintaining that balance without which We Would Not Be or possibly have even ever existed. And so the downward spiral continues...

Nature is amazingly resilient, possibly where what little intelligence it has endowed us with comes out as optimism. But while nature "just gets on with it", it does so in adaptive ways, like bearing less offspring, or smaller offspring as an adjustment to the reduced food-bearing "carrying capacity" of their environment. We, by contrast, seem less adaptable; that is because for all the talk of efficiency, optimisation and incentive, our sociopolitical systems are fragmentary, polyvalently oppositional, remedying after rather than pre-empting damage events; and while those at the top are so by dint of possession of the greatest wealth and what to do with it, they won't give that up!

[BBMmk2]

SA, couldn’t agree with you more!

I don’t know what the weather is going to do today. A mixed bag, methinks? Pray tell?

[oddoneout]

Bright first thing but now clouded over. It looks as if it might rain but that isn't forecast until mid afternoon. Strong wind which despite its direction is chilly. I'm hoping I can find a suitable gap between possible rain and leaving the grass to dry as much as it can; all the rain has turned the apology for a lawn into a wilderness. I know it's no mow May but there are limits, and in any case there are plenty of flowering plants, including the (atishoo) grass as I don't cut it short.

[DracoM]

Strong westerly, plenty of cloud, but 'sunny intervals' as well.
Rain forecast here p.m.

[Serial_Apologist]

SA, couldn’t agree with you more!

That called for a (Amontillado)!

I don’t know what the weather is going to do today. A mixed bag, methinks? Pray tell?

On the slide to the next low pressure set of fronts, due to sweep through later on today, though a number of showers have managed to, er, steal its thunder by getting in ahead. That doesn't necessarily mean there will be thunder, though it's quite possible tonight and tomorrow wherever you are.

[Petrushka]

That called for a (Amontillado)!



On the slide to the next low pressure set of fronts, due to sweep through later on today, though a number of showers have managed to, er, steal its thunder by getting in ahead. That doesn't necessarily mean there will be thunder, though it's quite possible tonight and tomorrow wherever you are.

Strange that I managed my daily walk on most days during the winter but have had more abandonments in May than I've actually done!

[Joseph K]

Eugh, continuous cold, wind and rain.

[Jonathan]

Miserable here in Yorkshire now.

[Petrushka]

Eugh, continuous cold, wind and rain.

And here. The heating has been on at winter levels all day.

[BBMmk2]

A mixed bag today, I think. Just had a shower, now sunny.

[Serial_Apologist]

A mixed bag today, I think. Just had a shower, now sunny.

Here too! The first lightning in the UK of the day has just registered - in Chelmsford! I anticipate at least one rumble hereabouts today, bang in the middle of this depression. The good news is that at least, the temperatures should start to pick up on Wednesday, thereafter attaining slightly above averages for late May, continuing into the first part of next week! It should be getting up to around 17 C in this part of London by now: today I expect no higher than 14 C.

An extraordinary thing! The sun has now come out, and is catching rain droplets on the lilac the opposite side of the driveway to me, which are flashing rainbow colours in my direction! And no, I'm not ON anything, I can assure everyone!

[DracoM]

Pretty perfect Spring day here - mix of everything, but mostly dry and sunny!

[vinteuil]

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Normally when I think of magpies, the colours black, white and blue come to mind. Yesterday a magpie crossed my path before flying up onto a fence about two metres away, and looking at its tail, the range of colours displayed was astonishing, almost psychedelic, with blues, turquoises, purples, pinks, maroons and greens blending into each other..

An extraordinary thing! The sun has now come out, and is catching rain droplets on the lilac the opposite side of the driveway to me, which are flashing rainbow colours in my direction!

And no, I'm not ON anything, I can assure everyone!

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[Serial_Apologist]

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Maybe someone spiked my jar of Nescafé...