Stormy Weather II

[Pulcinella]

Bright and sunny for the most part here today, though with a sharp wind (good for drying clothes).

[Joseph K]

Looks like today is a washout.

[Joseph K]

Looks like today is a washout.

Well, I got out for a half-hour walk, and got a bit wet. It's not heavy rain, but it has been and looks to be relentless.

[Pulcinella]

Raining here too!


Partner currently in Tuscany, where a state of emergency has been declared.

[DracoM]

Dry, decent, but dull start, then temp drop, rise of NE wind, and now whips of thickening rain - driven even the usually resolute footie kids off the field outside!

[Serial_Apologist]

Good sunny intervals for most of today following early heavy rain, with shower/thunder clouds skirting mostly to the south and an air movement standstill as the centre of this deep low slides across the South and Midlands. Less mild than predicted, maxing out at 11.5C, one degree below the daily average for early November. Fireworks kicking off in the past hour.

[Joseph K]

Sunny earlier for my walk, albeit with a cold wind. Rain now.

[oddoneout]

We've been pretty lucky the past few days, with some good stretches of sun and dry. Yesterday was forecast to be very wet all morning, not good for the volunteer gardening slot, but in the end the rain stopped pretty quickly and it stayed "dry" (the air was damp and the breeze wasn't drying things up) until lunchtime when some intermittent light drizzle turned up. Today has been dry, breezy (good for line drying washing) and a fair amount of sun, but cooler than yesterday. The leaves are really colouring up now so when the sun does show trees and shrubs light up - even better if there's a patch of blue sky behind. One of the car parks in town has a mature silver birch by one of the entrances( a lucky survivor from a piece of garden) and because of the open space around it, at this time of year the shimmering gold leaves are often displayed against a blue backdrop. It delights me each time I see it but what a pity the thousands of folk who go by don't take a minute lift their eyes and also enjoy it.

[Serial_Apologist]

I got caught earlier in a torrential shower - the result of seeing a friend off at the bus stop down the hill while too engaged in conversation to look upwards, then deciding to carry on to the chemist's despite the obviously oncoming rain. And my statins still hadn't arrived!

Nice retreating thunder-type clouds set behind autumn colours however, as described by odders!

[vinteuil]

The leaves are really colouring up now so when the sun does show trees and shrubs light up - even better if there's a patch of blue sky behind. One of the car parks in town has a mature silver birch by one of the entrances( a lucky survivor from a piece of garden) and because of the open space around it, at this time of year the shimmering gold leaves are often displayed against a blue backdrop. It delights me each time I see it but what a pity the thousands of folk who go by don't take a minute lift their eyes and also enjoy it.

... there have been occasional times in the last few days, walking thro' Kensington Gardens or along the Thames at Hammersmith, when I was almost in tears at how beautiful the light was on the trees and the London stock brick against a clear clear sky - just how unbelievably lucky we are to be 'given' such moments

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[DracoM]

Already 3C up here - at 5.15 p.m.!!

[Serial_Apologist]

... there have been occasional times in the last few days, walking thro' Kensington Gardens or along the Thames at Hammersmith, when I was almost in tears at how beautiful the light was on the trees and the London stock brick against a clear clear sky - just how unbelievably lucky we are to be 'given' such moments

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Some composers manage to capture such moments in their music - but I dare say we probably wouldn't agree as to which ones!

[Serial_Apologist]

Another coming week of changeable weather and soggy fallen leaves, with odd fine days sandwiched between wet ones. Tomorrow looks pretty vicious for N Wales, the N Midlands, North-West and N Ireland as a deepening little low traverses ENE across the N bringing storm-force winds and Yellow Warnings widely (but not as far S are here). Temperatures will be back up to around or slightly above mid-November norms (12C max here), however.

[oddoneout]

Another coming week of changeable weather and soggy fallen leaves, with odd fine days sandwiched between wet ones. Tomorrow looks pretty vicious for N Wales, the N Midlands, North-West and N Ireland as a deepening little low traverses ENE across the N bringing storm-force winds and Yellow Warnings widely (but not as far S are here). Temperatures will be back up to around or slightly above mid-November norms (12C max here), however.

Changeable indeed. Slight frost overnight Friday, bright dry day for Armistice Day procession through town but very cold wind, very sharp frost Saturday night with Sunday dry and quite bright, but today high winds and heavy rain first thing that's now clearing. It's a lot milder but I don't think it will feel that much different given the wind and wet. I'm weighing up whether to continue with me original plan to take the large bags of garden waste to the tip, and then go on to get petrol(which I'll have to do whatever else does or doesn't get done) and some shopping. The bags will be very wet, and the wind will make handling them more difficult than usual, but on the other hand I'm sick of them filling up my front pocket-handkerchief "garden", and I try to get in as many errands as possible when I do take the car out.

[Serial_Apologist]

Changeable indeed. Slight frost overnight Friday, bright dry day for Armistice Day procession through town but very cold wind, very sharp frost Saturday night with Sunday dry and quite bright, but today high winds and heavy rain first thing that's now clearing. It's a lot milder but I don't think it will feel that much different given the wind and wet. I'm weighing up whether to continue with me original plan to take the large bags of garden waste to the tip, and then go on to get petrol(which I'll have to do whatever else does or doesn't get done) and some shopping. The bags will be very wet, and the wind will make handling them more difficult than usual, but on the other hand I'm sick of them filling up my front pocket-handkerchief "garden", and I try to get in as many errands as possible when I do take the car out.

Well, half an hour ago, today's promised "outside chance of a light shower" manifested as a mini-hurricane of blinding torrential rain and huge heaving, roaring gusts at what must've been at least 55 mph; and on half my TV channels it's playing havoc with the signal: I am having to sit next to the telly switching channels to try and get uninterrupted news on Sunak's so-called re-shuffle.