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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
It is almost as windy as yesterday here, and unfortunately looks likely to continue thus for much of the remainder of the year. Earlier on two women were setting up a food stall with all manner of fruit, veg, nuts, pre-prepared microwaveable Chicken Supreme and Macaroni Cheese packs, in the east-facing shelter of one of the neighbouring council blocks. I asked if they had smaller spuds on offer - one of them said they'd have them on display, ready for my return from shops further down the hill. She ushered me inside and proceeded to fill a bag with quality new potatoes. I looked around in vain for a weighing machine; when I asked how much, to my enormous embarrassment she told me everything was free, this being a food bank! I donated the tenner I happened to have on me.
On the weather front, after all that the rain didn't arrive until 2 pm(wasn't particularly heavy and didn't last very long), just as I got back from town. The wind was rather tiring and made it feel colder, but has done a good job of drying up the excess wet of recent days. As you say the wind is set to continue, and indeed the recycling bin is lying down again, and the plastic chair I leave out on the patio will stay wedged under the back door step where yesterday's gale blew it.
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostUp here. horizon to horizon utter murky filth. Driving westerly, non-stop rain going from drizzle to drench. Yuk.
The nastiness gets dumped on you before getting across this side of the country it seems.
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostYep, windy, but currently dry here in the East. Quite warm too (currently 13°C).
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostDark, wet and chilly filth up here.
Lovely day yesterday, though - great for the "bracing" resort of Whitby.
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
Pretty much Dracoid weather this side of the Pennines too today, perhaps not so much wind. The Met Office yellow wind warning seems confined to the West.
Lovely day yesterday, though - great for the "bracing" resort of Whitby.
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Blackpool storm chaser Nodrog was out on the promenade recording last night's storm, the same one that dropped a tornado on east Manchester mentioned on the lunchtime news. It all kicks off around 6 minutes in - truly astonishing, terrifying - almost unbelievable.
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<< Storm Gerrit - Huge Christmas, thunderstorm, Tornado/ Squall? Blackpool and Wales Storm Gerrit has brought widespread disruption across Scotland, with much of...>>
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........ALL of Cumbria!
Last 48 hrs, genuinely scary winds, tornado rumblings, and rain like even we experience rarely.
Oh, but I forgot, 'Cumbria' doesn't exist, does t? Hill, odd jagged banks, drops, edges + NW sea access, via Morecambe Bay etc..........
...no, we're pretty straightforward to forecast - NOT.
Yet the word 'Cumbria' rarely or never is heard on BBC - despite its oddnesses in contours that massively shape/magnify etc all air currents, AND contains one or two of the nation's tourist hotspots eg the Lake District..............
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Originally posted by DracoM View Post<< Storm Gerrit - Huge Christmas, thunderstorm, Tornado/ Squall? Blackpool and Wales Storm Gerrit has brought widespread disruption across Scotland, with much of...>>
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........ALL of Cumbria!
Last 48 hrs, genuinely scary winds, tornado rumblings, and rain like even we experience rarely.
Oh, but I forgot, 'Cumbria' doesn't exist, does t? Hill, odd jagged banks, drops, edges + NW sea access, via Morecambe Bay etc..........
...no, we're pretty straightforward to forecast - NOT.
Yet the word 'Cumbria' rarely or never is heard on BBC - despite its oddnesses in contours that massively shape/magnify etc all air currents, AND contains one or two of the nation's tourist hotspots eg the Lake District..............
Today it has quietened down considerably from the past few days - in readiness for the next blow tomorrow and Sunday. I was able to cycle the 3 or so miles over to the large E Dulwich Sainsbury's for my weekend shopping wioth nothing more than a few spots of rain to contend with. Charts after Monday suggest a quieter regime from the wind point of view but remaining unsettled, with temperatures cooling, but closer to the expected for January.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Indeed, from checking cloud developments as that particular system moved north-east across Cumbria and on to Northumberland a catherine wheel-like spiral suggesting an MSC complex was clearly observable from aerial views from the moment it touched down over Manchester.
http://mets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.4456
Off now for my short afternoon stroll!
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