Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

Sleeting and bitter nastiness up here on and off all day.
Looks to settling into a chilly night as well.
'Sire, the night is darker now......'.

It's amazing the difference even a few hundreds of miles can make, in our little islands. Tomorrow they're forecasting + 10 C maximum for London, but only + 2 for Glasgow! It is said that in Canada the Eskimos regard Toronto as enjoying a subtropical climate!

[DracoM]

In places in the rural north west, skies have somewhat cleared after a day of intermittent sleet / snow etc. Stars visible as I write.
So guess what happens over night? Freezing pavements and roads.

Urge everyone to be v.careful.

[BBMmk2]

Do hope members are alright, where there are weather problems! So far all ok down here, thanklfully, although tomorrow, I see, we could have some problems, including power supply? SA?

[Serial_Apologist]

Surprising the amount of damage from last night's gales in parts of London: trees down, trains disrupted etc. Just now heard my first clap of thunder for 2018, from a passing shower down Croydon way: cumulonimbus clouds impressively illuminated bright orange in the setting sun.

[greenilex]

Still mildish and damp in So’ton, and the wind not too strong after a wild night yesterday.

[BBMmk2]

Me and MrsBBM were sound asleep last night, not even heard anything!

[Serial_Apologist]

Steady moderate snow been falling since about 9 this morning here, and I'm patting myself on the back for predicting this when, even just now on the telly forecast, nothing was said about snowfall for the SE other than for the highest spots - less than 100 metres above sea level hardly qualifies as among the highest spots in the SE!!! Hardly any of it has managed to settle: the air temperature hovering as it is around 2 degrees Celsius, would mean snow having to fall a good deal harder than it is for it to accumulate faster on any surfaces than melt! And in any case I am thinking that by the time of the passage of the associated warm front, mid afternoon, rising temperatures will have brought rain rather than snow.

[DracoM]

Dusting of snow after a night of hard frost, now rain, except a hundred feet up from me, it's snow!
Weird to see both happening simultaneously only about a hundred feet apart as I look out of the window up onto the fells above.

[Joseph K]

Snow, rain, snow, rain...

Not sure I can be bothered going for a walk.

[BBMmk2]

Snow, rain, snow, rain...

Not sure I can be bothered going for a walk.

Stay in!

Rather wet here, dull and cold!

[Serial_Apologist]

The temperature rose from 2 C at midday to 10 C right now. Must be the biggest leap in temperatures I've ever recorded in under 12 hours!

[DracoM]

Real fog up here already. And, as you say, temp very obviously climbing even at this hour.

[BBMmk2]

More rain!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

More rain!

I hope it gets better some time during today, Bbm, as it's St Vincent's Day - and, as the old rhyme has it:

Remember on St Vincent's Day,
If the sun his beams display
Be sure to mark the transient beam,
Which through the casement sheds a gleam;
For 'tis a token bright and clear
Of prosperous weather through the year.

Currently doing its best up here at the moment - but too much cloud.

(How many "old rhymes" use the word "transient", mewonder'th?)

[vinteuil]

it's St Vincent's Day ...

...poor old S Vincent -

"“AT Valencia, in Spain, while the wicked Dacian was governor, St. Vincent, deacon and martyr, who, after suffering imprisonment, hunger, the torture, the disjointing of his limbs; after being burned with plates of heated metal and on the gridiron, and tormented in other ways, took his flight to heaven, there to receive the reward of martyrdom. His noble triumph over his sufferings has been elegantly set forth in verse by Prudentius, and highly eulogized by St. Augustine and pope St. Leo.”
Today is the feast of Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr (d. 304). A native of Huesca and a deacon in Saragossa, he was martyred in Valencia in the persecutions of the governor, Dacian. Having loudly proclaimed both his faith and the governor’s perfidy in the court, strengthening and comforting his fellow Christians, he was condemned to be tortured as an example to the rest. The Golden Legend describes these tortures - his limbs pulled from their sockets on the rack, his flesh torn with iron combs and burned with iron plates, his body left to lie on the prison floor which had been strewn with broken potsherds.
Horrible tortures not working, the governor tried the opposite approach, thinking that comfort and luxury would make the young man submit. This failed as well. No sooner was Vincent’s torn and burned body laid on a rose-strewn feather bed, than he yielded his spirit to God and was borne by the angels to his heavenly reward.
He is the patron saint of Lisbon (Portugal), Zaragoza and Valencia (Spain), Milan and Vicenza (Italy), and the islands of Sao Vicente (Cape Verde) and St. Vincent (Caribbean)."


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