Stormy Weather II

[DracoM]

Look. we LIVE in the western Pennines and I can assure you that when a late November NE / SE wind with persistent rain is bottled and funnelled through gullies and whirled around in dips and bowls. it is penetratingly COLD. East shoulders any hint of South out of it, and when it's a GENUINE NE, then it's serious.

[BBMmk2]

Look. we LIVE in the western Pennines and I can assure you that when a late November NE / SE wind with persistent rain is bottled and funnelled through gullies and whirled around in dips and bowls. it is penetratingly COLD. East shoulders any hint of South out of it, and when it's a GENUINE NE, then it's serious.

Yikes!

Down here, it’s a high of 11C, with some showers, around lunchtime. Tame by comparison!

[DracoM]

Here, now, temp is 6C, driving rain on a vindictive westerly.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yikes!

Down here, it’s a high of 11C, with some showers, around lunchtime. Tame by comparison!

Actually 12C as of this moment in time, as people say. Strong cold front expected to cross mid afternoon - I shall be watching this from the comfort of here, watching the Hampstead Heath ridge disappear in the rain and then the London Eye, Shard, Razor Handle (as I call it) at the Elephant and other tall buildings to my north. High pressure block from the east predicted next week, but not too cold yet, one hopes.

[Joseph K]

Grey, tipping it down now. Though on my walk this morning sunny and quite mild. I've put a lamp on, it was too dark...

[Serial_Apologist]

Grey, tipping it down now. Though on my walk this morning sunny and quite mild. I've put a lamp on, it was too dark...

I'd better get out then, and do my roses dead-heading before it arrives here! Thin drizzle now from stratus clag ahead of the squall line which, if it persists, could well obscure more interesting stuff going on higher up.

[Petrushka]

Grey, tipping it down now. Though on my walk this morning sunny and quite mild. I've put a lamp on, it was too dark...

Ditto here. Absolutely pouring and wind driving it along. Very nasty if you're out in this.

[Serial_Apologist]

A delightful Welsh farming couple whose property was damaged in yesterday's tornado, showing us débris and uprooted trees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvns3fz1Im8

[oddoneout]

Set to be sunny and not too cold (even better out of the wind) all day so I am mightily frustrated that this wretched recurring bug prevents me from doing a trip to the seaside on a day when strikes aren't affecting the train service. Oh well, at least the fine weather will make necessary shopping duties more pleasant.

[Sir Velo]

I think our forefathers would think we'd all gone soft here with these constant complaints about temperatures of 6C and rain - in November! We've all clearly forgotten what it's like to have to daily scrape the ice off our windscreens and see your breath spiral into the hoar frost speckled sky. Could this be the first month in the year with below average temperatures? Somehow I doubt it!

[Bryn]

I think our forefathers would think we'd all gone soft here with these constant complaints about temperatures of 6C and rain - in November! We've all clearly forgotten what it's like to have to daily scrape the ice off our windscreens and see your breath spiral into the hoar frost speckled sky. Could this be the first month in the year with below average temperatures? Somehow I doubt it!

Still no heating on in the house bar the occasional use of an electric blanket and an ageing 50" plasma television, the latter a pretty effective radiator, even in 'energy saving' mode. The air temperature inside the house is currently around 13°C with the television off. Layered clothing does the trick.

[gradus]

Frost on the inside of the windows, flagstones underfoot, one room (of two) heated by a small coal fire everywhere else unheated and drafty with the only bedroom home to an ageing Valor paraffin stove that cast kaleidoscopic patterns on to the ceiling when lit. A long unlit corridor linking the front room to the scullery. No electricity only gas for cooking and lighting. That was how it was for millions in the forties and fifties, so I agree that our forefathers would think we'd gone soft.

[BBMmk2]

Still no heating on in the house bar the occasional use of an electric blanket and an ageing 50" plasma television, the latter a pretty effective radiator, even in 'energy saving' mode. The air temperature inside the house is currently around 13°C with the television off. Layered clothing does the trick.

Your quite a hardy person!

A lovely day today. Had to go down town, so used my motobility scooter.

[Serial_Apologist]

Would have been an ideal day for a ride today, except my derailleur is b*ggered. Yesterday for inexplicable reasons it suddenly got caught in the back wheel, bucking me like a bronco horse onto the road. Luckily there was no traffic following and I am OK apart from a bit shaken up and today a nice bruise on my butt! The attachment had got badly bent, and I've just spent an hour trying to bend it back into shape, without success. This means walking the bike up to the cycle shop first thing tomorrow and leaving it there while I shop for my groceries - possibly longer if he has a lot of jobs going. It will probably need a new derailleur!

[oddoneout]

Would have been an ideal day for a ride today, except my derailleur is b*ggered. Yesterday for inexplicable reasons it suddenly got caught in the back wheel, bucking me like a bronco horse onto the road. Luckily there was no traffic following and I am OK apart from a bit shaken up and today a nice bruise on my butt! The attachment had got badly bent, and I've just spent an hour trying to bend it back into shape, without success. This means walking the bike up to the cycle shop first thing tomorrow and leaving it there while I shop for my groceries - possibly longer if he has a lot of jobs going. It will probably need a new derailleur!

A derailleur derailment that derailed your plans. I well remember the mucky joys of disentangling the set on my bike and like you I have experienced the thrill of departing through the side door, as they used to say of mount to manege mishaps at the riding stables where my daughter worked. The one time it got completely jammed I was fortunately only a short distance from home and had nothing in the panniers so I could carry it.