Storm Darragh is a frightening prospect, particularly for Wales and the West Country as it swings its way across Lancs and Yorks. Predictions are for winds to gust to 55 mph here in London, and I am expecting this and the other windows here on the north side of our block to be rattling from the winds and pelting rain for much of Sunday - after which the weather is safely predicted to settle down with a strong if temporary high in residence to the north west for most of next week.
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Blimey! Anyone else's mobile just gone berserk with a UK government (thanks Keir) Severe Alert? Batten down the hatches!
Advice is to look out torches, charge batteries. Just as my new electric heater has been fitted in the kitchen this morning
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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No...Blimey! Anyone else's mobile just gone berserk with a UK government (thanks Keir) Severe Alert? Batten down the hatches!
According to Met Office we have only (
) yeller warnings here. A red warning of wind is present over much of Wales and on both sides of the Severn Estuary, but just misses Bristol.
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Not mine, but the four iPhones currently in the house did (we have visitors).Originally posted by french frank View PostBlimey! Anyone else's mobile just gone berserk with a UK government (thanks Keir) Severe Alert? Batten down the hatches!
Advice is to look out torches, charge batteries. Just as my new electric heater has been fitted in the kitchen this morning
Good luck over in Bristol.Comment
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Mr Starmer tells us otherwiseOriginally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
And I'm fully charging my task lamp.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Good idea. I just checked to remember where two candles rammed into wine bottles are located in case of events, and also that a couple of cigarette lighters still work. They've been sitting on a dressing table alongside the candles ever since I gave up smoking eleven years ago, and yes, the do still work!Originally posted by french frank View PostBlimey! Anyone else's mobile just gone berserk with a UK government (thanks Keir) Severe Alert? Batten down the hatches!
Advice is to look out torches, charge batteries. Just as my new electric heater has been fitted in the kitchen this morning
For want of something to do on what will be too distracting a day to undertake concentrated activity tomorrow, I shall be watching ongoing reports on this forum for as long as power holds out:
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MET office forecast was for gusts up to 55-61 mph on the coast near here (c6m) - it sounds like they're close to that now.
Not here as I've broken the only phone I own, having recently given up my landlineOriginally posted by french frank View Post
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Isn't this mainly a dry run in case of a Russian invasion (look out for chaps with snow on their boots)?Originally posted by french frank View PostAdvice is to look out torches, charge batteries. Just as my new electric heater has been fitted in the kitchen this morning
I believe there's a section in the Book of Common Prayer for that.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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The word 'Cumbria' not mentioned in current weather outlooks etc...........as per usual we apparently don't exist ...but it is a scary gale up here too, hods of rain, numbers of kids and older people being literally blown off their feet - just doing shopping bravery.
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I hope & trust everyone's all right? - especially in the red and amber warning areas? Here it probably peaked at around nine this morning, with huge wind roars and thrashing trees just about visible through rain-drenched windows - since when it has been mainly drizzly, with winds, surprisingly, in the fresh to strong ranges, although it might become windier again as the day goes on and winds veer around to more of a northerly direction, less interrupted by succession of uplands and escarpments on the way down here. I've replaced my max-min thermometer weighted down with a large pebble back on the external railing below my north-facing windows, having earlier on been fearful of it being blown down onto the tarmac below. Barometer now a steady 990mb, temperature falling, currently a raw-feeling 6.5 C.Comment
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The rain and high wind got here during the night, but as is often the way with weather coming from the west it had lost some of the extreme oomph by the time it got here. The wet and the rain had both dropped away quite a lot by the time I went into town to catch a bus for a lunchtime concert in the city. It was building again by the time I came out and went to catch the bus home, but getting damp on the way home is OK - it's the getting wet before sitting in a rather chilly church that's not so good! The bus was getting pushed about a fair bit - exposed road in a flat landscape - but the rain was coming from the side or behind so at least the wipers(which always seem to be less than satisfactory on buses) were coping.Comment
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Utter filth of a day up here: all is murk / fog / mist, driving drizzle on a cold, cold NW wind.Comment
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Changeable mainly westerly or south-westerly type weathers from now to Xmas and beyond, with a brief anticyclonic episode possible around Xmas day. So - a white Christmas pretty much ruled out, except possibly for some Scottish mountain areas.Comment
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While not quite the 15C predicted in today's forecast for London, it seemed pretty mild for my cycle ride to the shops a mile away this afternoon - by which time thankfully this morning's strong winds had considerably abated, though they are expected to return with a vengeance tonight, along with considerable rainfall, already being experienced down west. I even spotted three bumble bees taking nectar from the last few rose blooms to be remaining on mostly now bare stems, ready for pruning back whenever our gardener can find the time. Christmas Day temps here are now being predicted to reach into the lower teens - closer to what would be expected in late March!Comment
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Some sunshine but a mere 5° here (N Wilts) and breezy but at least staying dry for our final oldie tennis foursome of the year this afternoon. To be followed by a seasonal pint at Five Bells.Comment
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Just two remaining days to the Winter Solstice - after which time the days start lengthening once more, beginning at the back end of the day. A friend who has paganstic tendencies sends out email greetings at Christmas in place of cards, and always signs off "Solstice Greetings".
This is the final year in which I am keeping a meteorological diary - a practice I have mostly maintained, with gaps due to circumstances, since the age of 12 in 1959. My intention had always been to build my understanding of the weather, which is now sufficient for me to feel enough is enough. In recent years I have experienced the growing anxieties about climatic warming reflected in its pages, almost to the point that I feel that I am charting the beginnings of a slide to the extinction of human existence in what will become unsurvivable conditions unless or until the large and growing percentage of humanity drilled in a mindset geared to wasteful unsustainable consumption undergoes a massive reversal of what it means, both psychologically and in practical terms, to be part of its life support systems. At present, collectively speaking we mostly seem to be travelling at 180 degrees in the opposite direction, while the voices of opposition trail off into cries in the wilderness.Comment
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