Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Windy but almost warm here today, with broken stratocumulus and sunshine. This is expected to last until Friday, just in our privileged little corner of England.

Similar to here!

[DracoM]

Warm, driving S-westerly, rain thick or saturatingly thin, louring cloud cover.

[oddoneout]

Sunny, rather draughty, but mild - lovely autumn day in fact.

[cloughie]

Wet!

[Serial_Apologist]

Warm, driving S-westerly, rain thick or saturatingly thin, louring cloud cover.

I'm quite worried for your part of the world, going by this lunchtime's news reports.

[DracoM]

I'm quite worried for your part of the world, going by this lunchtime's news reports.

...........and so am I!!

[BBMmk2]

My goodness m,what weather we are having today!

[cloughie]

Better here today after yesterday evening’s overnight rain - even some sunshine but this may just beca reprieve before more rain over the next few days.

[DracoM]

Plus blustery westerly.

[Serial_Apologist]

Plus blustery westerly.

Just seen the flood reports from your region, DracoM. Meanwhile I don't think I'll be using the clothes line to dry my laundry this coming Sunday!

[johncorrigan]

Just seen the flood reports from your region, DracoM. Meanwhile I don't think I'll be using the clothes line to dry my laundry this coming Sunday!

Bucketing down here on the Angus/Perthshire border.

[oddoneout]

Glorious dawn today over quite a prolonged period about 40 minutes. The show started with a pink,damson, slate ombre effect over high soft cloud, moved to red and orange horizontal watercolour broad brush strokes highlighted with gold, then moved into the apricot and celadon combo which is probably my favourite. That wasn't the end of it though as there was then a brief interesting period of a soft grey wash with silver feathers overlaid before general cloud cover took over. The varied cloud really set off the colours and had the added benefit of hiding the contrail scars until the horizon cleared and they were revealed slicing out from the edge of the colour bands.
It was certainly a shepherd's warning though as the day became increasingly wet, with a final bucketing flourish about 3pm for which I was fortunately in the supermarket. At work visitors were having to dodge the showers which were mostly light and brief until about 1pm but the strong wind made a little wet go a long way! Quite a bit of watery blue sky to the east at the moment but there is another belt of murk coming across from the west which may or may not leak. The weekend isn't looking too promising at present which is a shame as it's the end of the season which is always a bit sad anyway, and even more so this year as we are saying goodbye to several longstanding staff, so bad weather doesn't help the mood.

[BBMmk2]

Hi Oddoneout, it’s going to be rather a mixed bag today here.

[oddoneout]

Hi Oddoneout, it’s going to be rather a mixed bag today here.

Indeed, a second-guessing/seizing the moment kind of day. There's blue sky and some sun currently and the rain clouds look to have gone over. I'd like to get the washing out as it's heavy stuff, but it's just too windy for now, so early lunch and into town for errands and see whether the draught goes down enough in a coupe of hours - it's due to but as we all know the weather itself doesn't take too much notice of forecasts!

[DracoM]

Lashed it down until an hour ago - but now BRIGHT SUN!!