Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Family member in far NW Scotland mentioned that there is a wildfire risk alert in place there now. Strange times...
More here https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...extreme-freeze
Although the conditions may encourage the lighting of fires the number of folk around outside to do it is minimal which is something, but again it also means that there are fewer to see when it does occur - swings and roundabouts.

Conifers are much more combustible than deciduous flora. I'm thinking of setting fire to abandoned Xmas trees languishing in our bins area, as they would burn up faster than any chance of any infringement of council rules being reported.

It's just being reported that temperatures fell to - 23 C in Braemar last night. We've repeatedly been told in recent years that this would never be likely to ever happen again in the UK now that global warming was underway.

[oddoneout]

Conifers are much more combustible than deciduous flora. I'm thinking of setting fire to abandoned Xmas trees languishing in our bins area, as they would burn up faster than any chance of any infringement of council rules being reported.

It's just being reported that temperatures fell to - 23 C in Braemar last night. We've repeatedly been told in recent years that this would never be likely to ever happen again in the UK now that global warming was underway.

Which conveniently overlooked the issue of such change driving more extreme weather, so windier, rainier, warmer, colder, and more unpredictable.

[Bryn]

Which conveniently overlooked the issue of such change driving more extreme weather, so windier, rainier, warmer, colder, and more unpredictable.

Quite.

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite.

Yes.

[DracoM]

More or less unbroken sun and brutal cold in easterly air stream.

[Pulcinella]

Quite.

Yes.

More or less unbroken sun and brutal cold in easterly air stream.

Yes; quite!
A glorious day here, but bitterly cold!

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes; quite!
A glorious day here, but bitterly cold!

I was talking to upstairs about the difference between standing still in this relatively dry cold and moving at speed through it, self-generated windchill as experienced this afternoon on cycle trip to W Norwood. Tom and Stacey are regular motor cyclists, and couldn't have agreed more!

We have just two more days of this - three at the most - before milder air invades from the SW, bringing day temperatures to a few degrees above the average (still 7.5 C at this time of year). The North may experience some snow or freezing rain before this cuts in. At the moment the betting is on for it remaining mild for the remainder of the month.

[oddoneout]

So frustrating after several less than good years

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/feb/12/closed-ski-resort-scotland-glencoe-coronavirus-in-pictures

[johncorrigan]

So frustrating after several less than good years
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...us-in-pictures

...and not just the slopes, oddoneout. It's years since there has been snow like this; snow that has come and stayed for a while. There's been snow up in Glenshee for over a month. I was in Blairgowrie the other day and at the supermarket check-out was imagining the queues of shoppers all with there ski gear, the cafes full, the pubs busy, the shops heaving, as skiers stopped on their way up or back home from the ski lifts. All the B&Bs and hotel rooms booked out...great for the local economy. Also a great time for the young people in the area to get active and fit especially those who can't afford to get to more salubrious skiing centres in Europe...and it's mid-term and there's lots of work up there for the locals. Sadly everyone can only sit and watch and try to find some nice sledging hills instead. Not that I'm a winter sports enthusiast...hard enough for me to walk in it - another wee drop snow through the night, but a bit milder today. Managed to get the car out yesterday afternoon.

[BBMmk2]

A sunny day today!

[DracoM]

Sun, yes, and cloud, BUT against that is the blistering cold and an unrelenting easterly.

[oddoneout]

"Sunshine and showers", but with the showers being snow flurries. I think we may have had the best of the sunny spells now judging by the location of the big cloud patches on the map and the fairly uniform cloud cover. Unsurprisingly it's cold...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sun, yes, and cloud, BUT against that is the blistering cold and an unrelenting easterly.

Indeed - not looking forward to my shortly forthcoming outing to the local St Sprees, nearly a mile away. Shan't be biking it today - yesterday wasn't so bad in that respect.

I shall be looking forward to the ending of this on Monday. We have thick concrete floors in this 1950s block of flats; I only noticed yesterday that the temperature was falling below 15 C during the daytime hours when the heating switches off - my feet turning to ice and the chill then spreading through my body, despite keeping coat and woolly hat on indoors.

[Petrushka]

The sun is well out here but the cold is intense and it's a problem keeping warm indoors never mind out. I usually keep one room heated and it's a struggle to keep it above 21C in there while the bathroom is like the Arctic!

[DracoM]

Well, up here, www.yr.no says official temp is -3C, and next to it 'in wind chill' -8C.
Having just been out for walk on lower slopes, I'd say that was a serious underestimate.
Incisive, mind-eroding, and relentless easterly. More worrying is the massing clouds to the SW which at the mo cannot get into us, but if the dominating easterly drops at all, that westerly stream could edge in to hit the serious cold - and bang.....we're in for snow etc etc, I'd hazard.