Stormy Weather II

[cloughie]

7C - a wet and cheerless morning - the Winter Solstice went over 2 weeks ago but it doesn’t give lighter mornings yet!

[oddoneout]

Plenty of sun this morning, getting rather more overcast during the afternoon, distinctly chilly especially in the wind. Good to have a drying day though as tomorrow is looking distinctly wet.
The mornings may not be getting noticeably lighter but the afternoons don't seem to be in such a hurry to get dark as just a couple or so weeks ago, or perhaps that's the result of having some days that aren't wall to wall grey gloom. Having a clear(ish) sky as the sun gets low does make a difference.

[Serial_Apologist]

7C - a wet and cheerless morning - the Winter Solstice went over 2 weeks ago but it doesn’t give lighter mornings yet!

I think that's right - evenings get lighter earlier than mornings do - something to do with our elliptical circulation pattern around the sun.

Very annoying that weather presenters speak of showers, or "showery rain", in connection with weak frontal systems, as happened this lunchtime, when they mean intermittent rain. In the good old straightforward definitions I continue to use, showers were the product of cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds, separated by clear or at any rate dry spaces, not cloud sheets of varying density associated with frontal systems that can be thick enough in places to produce rain, but not continuously. Back then rainfall, whether of the shower or frontal type, was divided firstly into torrential, heavy, medium, light and drizzle (heavy, medium and light); and secondly continuous, intermittent, occasional, and thundery.

[Old Grumpy]

Plenty of sun this morning, getting rather more overcast during the afternoon, distinctly chilly especially in the wind. Good to have a drying day though as tomorrow is looking distinctly wet.
The mornings may not be getting noticeably lighter but the afternoons don't seem to be in such a hurry to get dark as just a couple or so weeks ago, or perhaps that's the result of having some days that aren't wall to wall grey gloom. Having a clear(ish) sky as the sun gets low does make a difference.

I think you'll find sunrise is now getting (imperceptibly perhaps) earlier each day...

... 0823 today, 0822 tomorrow, 0823* on Sunday (at least here, anyway)

Edit: Oops, should read 0821 for Sunday

[oddoneout]

I think you'll find sunrise is now getting (imperceptibly perhaps) earlier each day...

... 0823 today, 0822 tomorrow, 0823 on Sunday (at least here, anyway)

Lie-in on Sunday? Here it's 0806, 0806, 0805. And you're right, it is imperceptible on a daily basis, weekly comparisons are a bit more convincing, especially if it's not cloudy at dawn, so the lightness has an effect before the sun shows its face.

[DracoM]

At the mo, it is -8C.
Blisteringly cold.

[Joseph K]

Milder apparently. But it still feels quite cold in my room (no radiator and above a garage) so a jumper and socks in addition to pyjamas were necessary overnight. It's raining now and it's going to rain all day.

[BBMmk2]

Milder apparently. But it still feels quite cold in my room (no radiator and above a garage) so a jumper and socks in addition to pyjamas were necessary overnight. It's raining now and it's going to rain all day.

I hav have the heating on!

Raining!

[Serial_Apologist]

I hav have the heating on!

Raining!

Glad to hear your boiler's been rectified, BBM! Rain here since daybreak, though fast improving visibility to the north-west and signs of cloud now lifting suggest the cold front must be nearly through here.

[RichardB]

Rain here since daybreak

You're not kidding. I left Swansea by car for Heathrow at 9 this morning, expecting the monsoon to magically lift once I was out of Wales, but Wales followed me all the way, which was quite tiring.

[cloughie]

You're not kidding. I left Swansea by car for Heathrow at 9 this morning, expecting the monsoon to magically lift once I was out of Wales, but Wales followed me all the way, which was quite tiring.

That swift rain-bearing westerly is travelling your speed your way - you may have a swift bumpy flight ahead too - Bon voyage!

[oddoneout]

A thoroughly unpleasant day. Apart from a brief let-up early afternoon it rained all day. It's now clearing away but the wind is picking up noticeably and the temperature is dropping quickly - risk of frost later, more so towards morning they reckon. Last night there was quite a frost - surfaces thickly covered and showing white at 3-30am - but at 8-30 the minimum of -4 had gone to +6 (and rain). Not a day for going out and thankfully I didn't need to, but on the plus side I have managed to get a lot of small but tiresome tasks completed and off my list, which is always a feelgood.

[BBMmk2]

A sunny but cold day, today. At least it’s sunny!

[Serial_Apologist]

A sunny but cold day, today. At least it’s sunny!

Yes - and best make the most of it as it looks to be pretty cloudy for next week; winds should be light and temperatures around normal, however.

Although our shadows are about 8 metres long at midday at this stage of winter, (longer the further north you happen to be), I noticed a hint of warmth in the sun just now as I took a quick pre-lunch walk around the block.

[cloughie]

Raining here and not looking like stopping!