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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12936

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    ... sunshine, pleasantly warm, perky southerly breeze.


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    • Pulcinella
      Host
      • Feb 2014
      • 11062

      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      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.
      Sun occasionally strong enough to be producing an orange glow on the carpet where it's shining through the window.
      Oddly appropriate for Stravinsky's Firebird, perhaps!
      Spooky music, eerie-looking outdoors.
      Wind getting stronger as leaves now fluttering.

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      • un barbu
        Full Member
        • Jun 2017
        • 131

        The sky here is now absolutely perfect as a backdrop to, say, "The Fall of the House of Usher."
        Barbatus sed non barbarus

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        • Joseph K
          Banned
          • Oct 2017
          • 7765

          Saharan dust and forest fires are to blame for the phenomenon, says a weather expert.

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          • DracoM
            Host
            • Mar 2007
            • 12986

            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
            Sun occasionally strong enough to be producing an orange glow on the carpet where it's shining through the window.
            Oddly appropriate for Stravinsky's Firebird, perhaps!
            Spooky music, eerie-looking outdoors.
            Wind getting stronger as leaves now fluttering.

            Exactly as oop 'ere. Saharan dust in atmosphere. Wind now getting up, BUT we have sun and blue skies as well! But for how long?
            Strangely warm.
            Last edited by DracoM; 16-10-17, 15:09.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26572

              Most odd atmosphere out today, reminded me of the Mad Max films...

              Street lamps all on at 3pm. And people scurrying along in the gale, glancing at the yellow sky like scared Medieval peasants.



              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • jean
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7100

                They've just told us on the news that this strange yellow colour is sand being swept up from the Sahara. And a bright red sun shining through it this morning.

                I was talking to my sister in North Wales an hour or so ago, and she said that as well as the strange colour, she noticed a strange smell of burning. And Radio 4 says that's smoke from forest fires in Portugal.

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                • Lat-Literal
                  Guest
                  • Aug 2015
                  • 6983

                  Originally posted by un barbu View Post
                  The sky here is now absolutely perfect as a backdrop to, say, "The Fall of the House of Usher."
                  Yes.

                  Most peculiar.

                  I have never seen it quite as it has been here in the past two hours.

                  Almost like liquid.

                  A milky grey armageddon.

                  Originally posted by jean View Post
                  They've just told us on the news that this strange yellow colour is sand being swept up from the Sahara. And a bright red sun shining through it this morning.

                  I was talking to my sister in North Wales an hour or so ago, and she said that as well as the strange colour, she noticed a strange smell of burning. And Radio 4 says that's smoke from forest fires in Portugal.
                  Extraordinary.

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                  • jean
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7100

                    I keep hearing of a condition called Stormophilia.

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12986

                      Grey here, big very blustery winds, as yet no rain.

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                      • un barbu
                        Full Member
                        • Jun 2017
                        • 131

                        It will be dark soon here on the West Lothian/East Stirlingshire marches , the usual crows are making wing to the rooky wood, and there is no sign of the gale as yet though the forecast is for fierce winds in a couple of hours. We will be on the periphery of the gale by all accounts. It seems to be heading in a north westerly direction. Of course, by 2 am I could be giving a far different story.
                        Barbatus sed non barbarus

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          The orangey-green hue to the sky cleared suddenly at about 3 o'clock this afternoon and there was a couple of hours of bright sunshine. Just as I was thinking that we'd escaped the gales in this bit of the Pennines, there was a sudden fierce gust at a quarter past six - but even that calmed down within half-an-hour. We seem to have been lucky (at the risk of tempting fate) - the horrific news reports from Ireland and parts of the UK were greatly humbling.
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Padraig
                            Full Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4250

                            19.35

                            Winds beginning to blow here, raging somewhat and cracking cheeks a bit. Coward that she is, my dear wife will not let me out - she suspects I am a closet stormophiliac.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                              19.35

                              Winds beginning to blow here, raging somewhat and cracking cheeks a bit. Coward that she is, my dear wife will not let me out - she suspects I am a closet stormophiliac.
                              Surely that's where she'd wish you to be, Padraig?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Padraig
                                Full Member
                                • Feb 2013
                                • 4250

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Surely that's where she'd wish you to be, Padraig?
                                I made a mess of that, didn't I?

                                It's the weather!

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