Stormy Weather II

[HighlandDougie]

A mink?

Thankfully not. Martes Martes aka a Pine Marten. Quite common in my part of Scotland, although not often seen as they are largely nocturnal. Red squirrels keep out of their way and, by being smaller and lighter than their grey cousins, co-exist, albeit somewhat uneasily, with martens. The latter will happily feast on grey squirrel kits but that’s probably TMI.

[Serial_Apologist]

Really intense thunderstorm here in the past hour - viz down to 100 metres for 10 minutes accompanied by a powerful downdraft. The reward has been a spectacular sunset, with the rippled back cloud shield sub-illuminated in vivid orange-pink. Householders just now were out, staring at the western sky in stunned amazement: everything enveloped in a dream-like rose-pink, accentuating the autumn tints in a way I've never seen before.

Edit: At least one mature tree blown down in Anerley, just a mile south of here, plus reports of a tornado down in Croydon causing considerable structural damage and trees down.

[oddoneout]

Hah! Just realised that I have misinterpreted what my eyes and ears have been picking up for the last 20 or 30 minutes. There is a badly aligned security light in a nearby property which reflects in the kitchen window and then onto the glass in the dining room door so when I was seeing occasional flashes I thought they were that. My next door neighbour has taken to having his music and TV too loud again so the intermittent rumbles I was trying to screen out. Having just gone upstairs it was apparent, especially once I opened a window, that in fact there is a storm trundling around...

[BBMmk2]

Not at all too bad a day, today, as opposed to that storm,yesterday! Gawd!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not at all too bad a day, today, as opposed to that storm,yesterday! Gawd!

Some photos which captured some of the sheer strangeness of last evening's light show across London, but actually under-dramatize the intensity of the light and colours.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/se19

The shot from Barnes, taken this morning, shows an interesting cloud formation which dominated the northern horizon for a few hours. The cloud is remnnants of a wrap-around cloud swirl left over from yesterday's twin rain events - thick altostratus or altocumulus high enough to be freezing in the upper regions of the band, giving an impression of cirrus or the top of an elongated anvil. The lower (much lower) clouds appearing to be at the base of this layer are in fact much closer to the camera, and consist of stratocumulus, probably with a base at about 3,000 feet, as opposed to the altostratus - which would have a base at around 8-10,000 feet - which is being blown from the left of the picture.

All that has now disappeared to the NE, leaving just a scattering of cumulus humilis and fragments of cirrus. It is certainly a lot fresher than yesterday. Forecasters are predicting temperatures possibly a high as 21-22C for Thursday, which while not records would be the equivalent of heatwave values in July.

[BBMmk2]

SA, we certainly had a light show! Not a bad day, so far.

[DracoM]

Yesterday filthy - wet, wet, wet and westerly 'breeze' [ha ha].
Today, nasty grey, humidish, horizons heavy with incoming showers.
Coming this way, of course!

[Serial_Apologist]

Pleasant enough here, temperature reaching about 16C, with puffy cumulus and a fair amount of middle and upper height cloud, indicating the passage of a northward-moving warm front which strengthens the further west one is, so pretty miserable for Wales and the western half of the country.

[Pulcinella]

Phone says 14C, nice and bright (though not so clear as it has been).
Living room 22.5C (no heating; that's the effect of the sun and insulation!); very pleasant!
Didn't really need my jacket for this morning's cycle trip to local Lidl!

[Serial_Apologist]

Phone says 14C, nice and bright (though not so clear as it has been).
Living room 22.5C (no heating; that's the effect of the sun and insulation!); very pleasant!
Didn't really need my jacket for this morning's cycle trip to local Lidl!

Oh I did mine to Budgens half an hour ago. You must be tougher than me, Pulcers!

[oddoneout]

It should feel warmer than it does outside, given that there has been quite a bit of sun and any airflow is SW. Never mind it is dry, and was pleasant for my walk into town for errands and to see if anything in the market appealed, and the front of the house in particular continues to benefit from the removal of the scaffolding. Should be warm and dry for volunteer gardening tomorrow, although I seem to be developing a tiresome cough which may prevent me doing much.

[Pulcinella]

Oh I did mine to Budgens half an hour ago. You must be tougher than me, Pulcers!

Ah: you misunderstood perhaps.
I didn't really need it (but I was wearing it, ha ha).
That said, I HAVE toughened up since moving here in 2017.
No longer a namby-pamby southerner (as my partner's father, from Sunderland, used to describe people that we in Liverpool just thought of as 'nesh', a wonderful word.)

[BBMmk2]

I think it’s going to be an occasional shower day, today.

[Joseph K]

T-shirt and shorts weather again.

[DracoM]

Sun and wild winds here.