Sun-bathing................WOW! Lucky. lucky you!
Up here it's been heavy non-stop rain all p.m. so far.
Up here it's been heavy non-stop rain all p.m. so far.
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Virtually non-stop rain since around 0000h here too, rivers are well up...Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Once that sharp boundary line between warm and cooler air hits our NW uplands it can even lead to record-breaking amounts of rain. It should all clear by midnight, and we'll all then be into "returning maritime polar air" which will still be coming from a warm source, so it should remain on the warm side, at least until next week.Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostComment
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Drizzle and dark all day here today but mild. Typical October day, really. Wet pavements mean slithering on fallen leaves."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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A grey start, and a little chilly but with the forecast indicating it would stay dry, and get warm later, Late morning the temperature started to rise as the sun came out properly and by midday it was definitely shed layers time - especially as it was my volunteer gardening session. This afternoon was properly warm - over 20 in my garden. More sun with luck tomorrow but not as warm.
When my children were young October often gave us bonus weather, and I have pictures of paddling and sandcastles at the coast, and the last ice creams of the season before the kiosk closed for the winter; always welcome, especially when it coincided with half term.Comment
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By Sunday we will all be feeling glad we made the most of the pleasant weather while it lasted.Comment
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Well I'm certainly pleased I ditched the jobs I had lined up today and went off to the sea-side. No small people and no paddling as in an earlier post, but it was glorious - warm(very, after lunch peaking at just under 18), light southerly breeze and unbroken sun. The sea looked mostly blue - not a given with the North Sea! - and made a lovely contrast with the golden sand. Although the big visitor attractions were shut up there were still plenty of places to get ice-cream , drinks and, in my case, postcards. They will stay open until the end of half-term, but the recent sunny days will have been a bonus for them, with plenty of very young families, and older holidaying folk, happy to take advantage if today was anything to go by.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Looking at the day's weather report back at home confirmed I made the right decision - it was grey and damp, with the sun not coming out until well on into the afternoon, and quite a bit cooler.
Tomorrow looks as if it could be something of a payback weatherwise, for my trip into the city for the last of the lunchtime concert series; rain getting heavier through the time I will be going to catch the bus and then walking to the venue at the other end.Comment
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Today marks a temporary change to very windy conditions tomorrow and Monday as Storm Ashley experiences "explosive cyclogenesis" as it approaches then swings past N Ireland - especially in that part of the world and western Scotland. My laundry drying will have to be postponed by one day! Thereafter we move into a typical zonal patterns of westerlies - for a change!
Here are some lovely pictures from weather watchers submitted to the Beeb from yesterday morning's "fog event" - scroll to the bottom of this page - the one on the left, taken from the top of the 400-foot Shooters Hill (I checked the A-Z for the street name sign) an excellent example of temperature inversion placing an impenetrable lid on the layer of grey fog blanketing central London:
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The picture at the top of this article makes it look as if London has disappeared in smog!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostToday marks a temporary change to very windy conditions tomorrow and Monday as Storm Ashley experiences "explosive cyclogenesis" as it approaches then swings past N Ireland - especially in that part of the world and western Scotland. My laundry drying will have to be postponed by one day! Thereafter we move into a typical zonal patterns of westerlies - for a change!
Here are some lovely pictures from weather watchers submitted to the Beeb from yesterday morning's "fog event" - scroll to the bottom of this page - the one on the left, taken from the top of the 400-foot Shooters Hill (I checked the A-Z for the street name sign) an excellent example of temperature inversion placing an impenetrable lid on the layer of grey fog blanketing central London:
No fog here but murky with drizzle in the morning. Not as cold as I had expected and as it was drizzle not rain my bus catching and walking was not much of a problem.
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Fortunately London doesn't experience smog anymore, thanks to the Clean Air Act, but that doesn't mean the our air is much cleaner, just less colourful in the khaki direction!Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
The picture at the top of this article makes it look as if London has disappeared in smog!
No fog here but murky with drizzle in the morning. Not as cold as I had expected and as it was drizzle not rain my bus catching and walking was not much of a problem.
Neither today's rain nor the wind have turned out as bad as I had expected. I shall now proceed on the laundry, which I had decided to postpone until tomorrow.Comment
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Batttering westerlies up here - WOW!Comment
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It was rather windy for a time, but not as bad as forecast/threatened, and there was less rain as well.Surprisingly mild in the afternoon, but some heavy showers made taking advantage to go for a walk were abandoned. Like you I have got laundry ready to go out tomorrow - it looks as if it should be dry and possibly a bit sunny in the morning, but in any case the wind will get rid of some of the moisture.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Trailing cloud and rain to the SE from yesterday's cold front caught me on the hop this morning, having expected the front to be 200 miles further east, based on the ruddy BBC charts. At least the washing had dried on the line - no "messages" from the squirrels that use the line as a public convenience either! And the week ahead doesn't look too bad for most places.Comment
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Today's claggy. drizzly weather for my afternoon cycle to Brixton Tescos did not disguise the fact that the 17 degrees C reached was pretty good for this end of October. However it should be down to normal by the start of November as high pressure edges in from the west then crosses the country ending up switching winds round to a more north-easterly direction. For us it should become mostly dry - the northern half of the UK will be within the range of Atlantic frontal systems: nothing drastic, just nuisance value, really.
I return to Brixton tomorrow with the intention of buying a low-priced electric blanket at Argos. The £30 model is a lot cheaper than I'd been expecting. The advancing years find me increasingly subject to cold in the feet and lower legs at night. Seems such a change from the days of my comparative youth, when in one bedsit the room temperature would go below freezing on very cold nights, which now come with much less frequency in any case. I can remember one morning waking up to find a layer of ice on the glass of water I had by my bed!Comment
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Brilliant red/gold/hazy sunrise today up here.
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