Stormy Weather II

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Apparently the Patron of bricklayers and vintners, too.

[BBMmk2]

More rain!

[DracoM]

Absolutely rodding it down here. Fells totally invisible.

[Serial_Apologist]

Some think the highest temperature record for Jan 23 of 14.5 C could be broken today, most probably somewhere down the SW or the Welsh Marches. Batten down the hatches for tonight, widespread gales forecast lasting through until tomorrow afternoon in the SE.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

More rain!

Absolutely rodding it down here. Fells totally invisible.

- sunshine all morning and mild temperature in this bit of the Pennines. A pleasure to take a walk in - only my second this year. (First snowdrops out in the local "park", too.)

[greenilex]

Warm and puddly - too windy for an umbrella.

[teamsaint]

- sunshine all morning and mild temperature in this bit of the Pennines. A pleasure to take a walk in - only my second this year. (First snowdrops out in the local "park", too.)

"Park" ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Park" ?

It's very small - an extended open garden around the river, home to the "village" War Memorial. Too small to really be called a "Park", but more interesting than a "Village Green".


("Village" in inverted commas, because it's a former Mill place, rather than the Midsommer Murders/St Mary Mead ideas usually associated with that word.)

[Serial_Apologist]

"Park" ?

National Park, teamy, I expect...

[teamsaint]

It's very small - an extended open garden around the river, home to the "village" War Memorial. Too small to really be called a "Park", but more interesting than a "Village Green".


("Village" in inverted commas, because it's a former Mill place, rather than the Midsommer Murders/St Mary Mead ideas usually associated with that word.)

Ah, all clear now. I think.

Anyway, I've been in London today, where a "village " often doesn't look much like a village, and it hasn't been too parky .

[BBMmk2]

Storm Georgina round these parts methinks? SA?

[DracoM]

Wild, wild night and a.m. up here as I write
Wind so loud, woke me c 4 a.m.

[Stanfordian]

A wild and rainy night and morning here close to the Ribble Estuary in West Lancashire. It is a lot calmer now.

[Serial_Apologist]

Here comes the cold front right now - wind's dropped out suddenly, torrential rain expected any second.

[DracoM]

Right: a weary rant.
My newspaper / BBC forecast showery, breezy but drying conditions in NW England for today. Temp getting to 10C or better.

Well..................

...at the moment, as I write, it has been teeming with rain, driven by a sneaping and nasty westerly for the last four hours, the sky is heavy with more, temperature is 6C, and the fells are completely invisible in rain / mist / fog literally down to ground level - as if they had never been there! .

The distance between 'official forecasts' and what is actually on, round and rattling at my windows is always a source of cynically exchanged smiles in this town. In fact, most of us simply ignore what we're told, and check out the skies for ourselves. Yes, this is an area of fells and passes, it is in the NW, and it is beautiful and I'd never leave..................
But the erratic and not infrequently comically inaccurate official forecasts can rankle a bit de temps en temps.

And now, @ 5 p.m., it grudgingly came to a stop, wind still blowing, but, mirabile narratu, temp up to 9C......




So galling, because yesterday was sublime in every way. Hey ho!