Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Hurricane Ophelia heading directly for the UK!

For the selfsame reasons given in my post above, I think not - unless you're going to be in Ireland this weekend?

[DracoM]

Well, here, it is still a warmish, whiteout / shutdown, and winds much stronger than a.m. Would not like to be at sea off the west coast of UK at the mo. You can always tell it's rough out to sea when seagulls gather this far inland!!

[BBMmk2]

Lovely day down here. Can't believe it!

[DracoM]

Oop 'ere , exactly as yesterday. Fells totally hidden, sneaping drizzle, westerly. Crikey! How the other half lives or what?

[vinteuil]

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... choices, Draco - we all have choices


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[DracoM]

I LOVE it here, I just wish I could SEE it!!

[DracoM]

Weirdly ominous sky here at 10.20 a.m. - mix of yellow horizon beneath a uniform grey, dark, barely a breeze, everything waiting.
And, even more weirdly, not a single bird to be seen flying, preening, pecking in the fields

[pastoralguy]

Weirdly ominous sky here at 10.20 a.m. - mix of yellow horizon beneath a uniform grey, dark, barely a breeze, everything waiting.
And, even more weirdly, not a single bird to be seen flying, preening, pecking in the fields

Same here in Edinburgh. Sky very grey and wet without actually raining. A real feeling of the calm before the storm.

A good day to stay in and listen to music!

[Pulcinella]

Same here in Edinburgh. Sky very grey and wet without actually raining. A real feeling of the calm before the storm.

A good day to stay in and listen to music!

That's what I'm doing.
Hoping that the Salonen Stravinsky box turns up in the post, but lots else to choose from.

Not dissimilar weather in York.
I thought that the sun might break through earlier, but no such luck.
Not many birds around either, though the ducks and geese normally on the lakes might have flow off to the university nearby for their morning lectures/seminars.


Update: Stravinsky set arrived. That's this afternoon sorted!

[un barbu]

Yesterday the sky was astonishing just after daybreak: the east had the luminous colours and special effects associated with a Tiepolo Assumption while the west was as black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat. Then nothing untoward for the remainder of the day. This morning it is barely light now at 10. 30 and the rain is coming down like stair-rods. We are due to feel the blast from ex-Hurricane Ophelia ("Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia") by mid evening. Now to struggle out and batten down hatches.

[Stanfordian]

... I finally get it!

Northerners are masochists - they actually enjoy all this : and that's why in Newcastle in midwinter in a howling gale and temperatures well below zero the lads disport themselves in wife-beaters ...

I love being an effete southerner


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Don't forget the whippets, flat caps and brass band playing! Nothing like a stereotype!

[teamsaint]

Sky here is very odd. At the moment it is pretty heavy cloud, but with a bit of an orange glow. Kind of reminds me of the last eclipse.

Earlier ,when the sky was clearer, the sun was an amazing sight.

[Joseph K]

Sky here is very odd. At the moment it is pretty heavy cloud, but with a bit of an orange glow. Kind of reminds me of the last eclipse.

Earlier ,when the sky was clearer, the sun was an amazing sight.

Same here.

I have had to resort to putting on the light, it's so dark and hazy. Very much Halloween weather.

[pastoralguy]

The sky at the moment remains very grey and overcast and there's still an eerie silence. It's what I imagine it would be like if The Donald had one temper tantrum too many and decided to Nuke North Korea. Although it's a long way away I imagine our instinct would know something horrific had happened.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sky here is very odd. At the moment it is pretty heavy cloud, but with a bit of an orange glow.

Yes - with a sort-of olive-green tinge to it here, quite sulphurous. Unpleasantly weird - no evidence of any particularly strong winds yet, though - and eerily warm, too. I'm not sure if I don't like it or not (sic).