Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Yet again the unflagging changeable weather this country produces a fine day today.

[DracoM]

Well, I reported 'wild' yesterday. Then overnight snow on very tops.
Ha! All that as nothing compared to the wildness today - and COLD.
Temp here as I post at 1400 hrs is 3C, rain / sleet is rattling roofs,

[BBMmk2]

Draco, you certainly get the weather oop there!
Down souff, sunny!

[oddoneout]

The wind was vicious yesterday, very cold, very strong and very gusty. I got stopped in my tracks several times when doing the errands in town.The greater inconsistency of direction this time has been fretting away at things previously not overly affected - or already repositioned! I found a blue waterbutt cover which had obviously done a frisbee during the night from somewhere sitting in the middle of my lawn. I think it may have come from 5 houses down as I can see a blue barrel beside a shed at the bottom of the garden there - all the other butts are standard green, up against houses, with secure lids. Good thing I wasn't in the garden at the time...

[DracoM]

Yes, yes..............and BBC described it all as 'breezy'.

I seriously begin to think that the weathermen / women are specifically told NOT to use stark language so as to alleviate or pacify. If you had a wind that oddoneout and I and many, many others will have experienced and call it a 'breeze', do you not run the risk of making your audience simply reject the weather predictions as at best the merest half truths and thus untrustworthy?

Like to see them try that with the shipping forecast.

[greenilex]

I think what to Nelson was a stiff breeze might be approaching hurricane to us lubbers...

[BBMmk2]

The wet stuff is coming down! Yuk

[oddoneout]

The amount of rain isn't that great but given the, er, vigorous nature of the air movement, it's more unpleasant than might otherwise be the case so I'll wait until this afternoon for walking into town. Tiresome enough having bags and scarves flapping around without adding wetness to the mix.

[cloughie]

I think what to Nelson was a stiff breeze might be approaching hurricane to us lubbers...

Hardy?

[Serial_Apologist]

We could be in for a cold spell of indeterminate length, starting midway through next week, as the high pressure system set to bring much-needed dry weather relocates to the NW of the UK, bringing down air of Arctic origin.

Just what the farmers don't need right now!

[DracoM]

Esp sheep farmers - various lambing timetables etc etc..............!!

[Joseph K]

Mild and the sun is sort of semi-out.

[BBMmk2]

The Met Office said rather cloudy and breezy, with rain later. Hmmmm.....

[DracoM]

Or, in the case of up here...it's actually all that .....now.

[Joseph K]

Don't think it's stopped raining yet today...