Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

I watched today's dark bulky frontal cloud advancing from the NW this afternoon, telling upstairs that it would be a couple more hours coming, only to see the rain arrive within 20 minutes! Rare occasions when it happens that the winds change direction by 45 or more degrees and you can witness it about to happen in the clouds moving from a different direction acting like a bulldozer on its relentless way, always represent drama to the cloud enthusiast, but the rain, when it arrived, was less heavy than I had expected. The windows are starting to steam up, so outside temperatures have clearly taken the expected tumble.

[Serial_Apologist]

Should have got out earlier than I did when it was almost warm enough for sunbathing! Instead took a 4-mile circular walk, admiring the first autumn tints; surprisingly little mud on the local woodland paths given the amounts of rain lately. The rest of the week doesn't look as good.

[Serial_Apologist]

Gradually thickening cloud spread from the south, indicating rain in a few hours' time. Better get off to the shops before it arrives!

Extraordinary footage on one of the social media showing a forest floor heaving under some sort of underground pressure - never seen footage like it except in earthquakes. Has anyone from here been flooded out?

[Joseph K]

Pleasant, today. Warmer outside than in.

[DracoM]

Here, grey. chilly NE breeze.

[oddoneout]

Gradually thickening cloud spread from the south, indicating rain in a few hours' time. Better get off to the shops before it arrives!

Extraordinary footage on one of the social media showing a forest floor heaving under some sort of underground pressure - never seen footage like it except in earthquakes. Has anyone from here been flooded out?

I saw that but I don't believe it's wind underground I think it's the trees losing their moorings. They looked to be conifers which have shallow rootplates(cf deciduous trees such as oak which have taproots going down deep) and I would have removed myself from the vicinity asap. As the trees were swaying around in the wind the rootplate was lifting the soil and vegetation over them and I wouldn't be surprised if they've now hit the deck.
Not too bad a day today, chilly and a bit murky to begin but the sun got out pretty quickly and cleared and warmed things up. Yesterday was a lovely autumn day - the wind was a tad chilly, but the sun was out all day, and highlighting the changing colours - a day to be outside.

[gradus]

We had torrential rain last week in S.Suffolk flooding houses in low lying but unlikely flood locations to a considerable depth. Large villages -Debenham and Framlingham for example have small rivers not much more than large ditches but both flooded dramatically. The lane at the side of our house is in a dip and once again became a deepish long paddling pool that washed into my garage, not helped by the morons who drove through it at 20+mph broadsiding yours truly as I was struggling for an hour and a half to unblock a drain at the end of the ditch.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Tomorrow will see rain clear to the east, and the odd is likely to persist" - current BBC online forecast!

[Old Grumpy]

"Tomorrow will see rain clear to the east, and the odd is likely to persist" - current BBC online forecast!

Well, we are approaching Halloween......

[Joseph K]

Fine weather for a two-hour walk today, namely for the fact that there is hardly a breath of wind.

[oddoneout]

Currently the day has borne little(Met Office) to no(BBC) resemblance to the forecast. Drizzle at 8 turned to heavy rain at 9, and wetness of some sort has continued since. I had to go out for a couple of errands postponed from yesterday, but managed to hit the period in the morning when the heavy rain suddenly cleared back to spots and drizzle, and got back just before the rain roper resumed..
The regional summary has been pretty useless since it was changed from "East Anglia" to "East of England", but today is particularly adrift

Tuesday is likely to be mostly dry, with increasing amounts of brightness.

[Serial_Apologist]

Currently the day has borne little(Met Office) to no(BBC) resemblance to the forecast. Drizzle at 8 turned to heavy rain at 9, and wetness of some sort has continued since. I had to go out for a couple of errands postponed from yesterday, but managed to hit the period in the morning when the heavy rain suddenly cleared back to spots and drizzle, and got back just before the rain roper resumed..
The regional summary has been pretty useless since it was changed from "East Anglia" to "East of England", but today is particularly adrift

Can't think how your local forecasters got that so wrong, odders. After all, a slow-moving active occluded front is pretty difficult to not see. In London it hasn't reached anywhere near the 16C maximum promised - only 12.5C locally, as I found out in creating my own chill factor while cycling over to W Norwood on this otherwise mostly sunny afternoon. Low slung sun (which sounds rather like a Korean name!) starts to become a problem at this time of the year, and will continue to be until March in the new year.

[vinteuil]

Low slung sun (which sounds rather like a Korean name!) .

... whereas Least Heat Moon is an American -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon

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[Serial_Apologist]

... whereas Least Heat Moon is an American -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon

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[eighthobstruction]

....what with all this US college fraternity stuff - Tau Kappa Epsilon - and such like stuff...(of which Lest Heat-Moon was member...