Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

... No Abnormal Findings? Notice of Adverse Findings??



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Not As Forecast. I've used it before but probably shouldn't, force of habit from longstanding usage with family.

[vinteuil]

Not As Forecast. I've used it before but probably shouldn't, force of habit from longstanding usage with family.

... ah, thanks for that.



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[cloughie]

... ah, thanks for that.



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It’s going to be Naff here in the next few days.

[oddoneout]

It’s going to be Naff here in the next few days.

Indeed. Today's loveliness is going to be paid for. Such a shame to have high winds just as the spring flowers are beginning to really get going.

[Bryn]

Indeed. Today's loveliness is going to be paid for. Such a shame to have high winds just as the spring flowers are beginning to really get going.

It is March, after all.

[Serial_Apologist]

One of the loveliest days so far this year here, temperature maxing out at 12 C. Brixton Tescos was packed out - people stocking up, with more time to wander, not having sprogs in tow to slow them down - but only two staff on the check-outs, until the woman behind me in the queue, who was rapidly losing her patience, went and "had words" with the store manageress, whereupon in a jiffy bag four other tills were magicked into operation. Normally I enjoy the laid-backness of the regular clientele at that branch, but half an hour in a near-stationary queue with passers-by taking no cognizance of the two metre requirement... The return journey revealed all as back to normal, more long queues, this time waiting outside primary school gates.

[cloughie]

It is March, after all.

...and the Ides are nigh!

[Serial_Apologist]

...and the Ides are nigh!

You mean, we're all in for a good 'iding?

[oddoneout]

You mean, we're all in for a good 'iding?

Some might prefer to be lionised? It will be interesting to see how the month pans out as the pattern the past few years has been the opposite of the old saw; there has often been good or at least quiet weather at the beginning and then it all goes pear shaped and angry, in time to clobber emerging seedlings and tender new growth, and disrupt events at work.

[BBMmk2]

High winds this afternoon.

[cloughie]

With a hey ho the wind and the rain - it’s back!

[Serial_Apologist]

Today is the day on which maximum average temperatures over much of SE England reach 10 degrees Celsius - which might not seem very much, just 3 degs higher than at their coldest, between 10 December and 20 Feb. But the sun (when we get to see it!) is now higher in the sky, and even if shade temperatures still feel like winter, the extra energy makes itself felt - yesterday I noted my midday shadow as being 2 metres long. This year has been unaccustomedly slightly on the cold side so far, and this looks likely to remain the situation through the middle of the month with winds predominantly from the west or north. But those temperature averages are now on a slow but steady climb until reaching their 22 C. maxima between July 10 and August 20, so things will eventually balance out.

[DracoM]

7C here, thrashing it down unrelenting - with rain and an inisidious, chilly 'breeze' [ha!] driving it.
And now, pretty well from fell-feet upwards in whiteout.

[BBMmk2]

Today is the day on which maximum average temperatures over much of SE England reach 10 degrees Celsius - which might not seem very much, just 3 degs higher than at their coldest, between 10 December and 20 Feb. But the sun (when we get to see it!) is now higher in the sky, and even if shade temperatures still feel like winter, the extra energy makes itself felt - yesterday I noted my midday shadow as being 2 metres long. This year has been unaccustomedly slightly on the cold side so far, and this looks likely to remain the situation through the middle of the month with winds predominantly from the west or north. But those temperature averages are now on a slow but steady climb until reaching their 22 C. maxima between July 10 and August 20, so things will eventually balance out.

A rather wild, wet and windy night, as predicted by the forecast. Still rather windy, with quite a lot of cloud and a fair amount of blue sky.

[oddoneout]

Wind peaked at 60 mph overnight. Dropped back a tad now and due to drop a bit further, but I don't think I'll be out and about - I don't like being buffeted and destabilised while walking and flying debris is unpleasant! Quite enough excitement just going round the garden earlier to see if there are any problems and take a look at the roof. Should be dry most of the day and the sun might appear later so I might venture into the garden again to tidy and stamp down the pile of beech hedge trimmings which has been reshaped by the wind and is shedding small bits into my neighbour's garden. Days like this I'm glad I no longer have my allotment, as high winds always ended up with relocation of belongings; sometimes they could be found again but it's such an exposed site with fields on much of the perimeter that once something got airborne it could travel quite some distance.