Stormy Weather II

[Petrushka]

Raining incessantly since towards the end of the morning!

Heavy rain here since early morning and only just stopped. Sun now out! It's not too warm either and the first time I've worn a jumper indoors for many weeks. On the verge of putting the heating on. How I miss that heatwave!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Woke up at 3 am; had to grab the dressing gown and spread it across the bedclothes to get warm - something that doesn't usually occur until October or November!

Heavy rain here since early morning and only just stopped. Sun now out! It's not too warm either and the first time I've worn a jumper indoors for many weeks.

- The only difference for me in this bit of the Pennines is that I gave in and put the Central Heating on for a "trial run" for a couple of hours this afternoon.

[teamsaint]

The washing on the line here is very definitely rain rinsed (for extra softness); I couldn't be bothered bringing it all in again.

No chance of that working down here with our hard water........

Stopped raining now,hopefully looking ok for the BH tomorrow..

[Serial_Apologist]

No chance of that working down here with our hard water........

Rainwater doesn't get hard until it absorbs high PH from the ground... but you knew that, for sure!

[teamsaint]

Rainwater doesn't get hard until it absorbs high PH from the ground... but you knew that, for sure!

I wondered why they never give a degrees Clarke estimate on the weather forecast for chalk areas.......

Edit: Of course they have the soft rain in Ireland.................

[BBMmk2]

Typical weather today.

[Serial_Apologist]

Typical weather today.

Cumulus convection from ground heating spreading out into stratocumulus infill when the rising air hits the cap/ceiling/or inversion layer, if you prefer - this in turn switching off the heat source from above and then below, allowing the incoming humid Atlantic air to accumulate more cloud. I expect this will go on until Thursday, when a fresh ridge of high pressure is expected to build in from the west, switching the winds around to a somewhat drier, north-westerly direction. When that happens, any infill resulting from surface convection as aforedescribed will hopefully be limited or squeezed out by the lowering of the inversion layer bringing about larger holes at the cloud formation level, and eventually drying out the air sufficiently to limit cloud development altogether, as happened during the heatwave - although the sun being weaker by this stage in the season means it won't get as hot again.

By the way, what's happening to the forum today? Has the person responsible for turning the handle or treading the treadmill back at HQ gone down to Margate for the day, because it's taking an absolute age to get anything posted?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

By the way, what's happening to the forum today? Has the person responsible for turning the handle or treading the treadmill back at HQ gone down to Margate for the day, because it's taking an absolute age to get anything posted?

??? No problem here.

[Pulcinella]

??? No problem here.

Completely froze on me a while back; I had to delete a post as I was unable to continue typing or to edit it after posting. OK now though. Might have been an iPad glitch.

[Serial_Apologist]

Completely froze on me a while back; I had to delete a post as I was unable to continue typing or to edit it after posting. OK now though. Might have been an iPad glitch.

I'm wondering about that. In the first instance the delay seemed limited to getting into threads of several thousand postings, which is to be expected, but when I tried returning to edit a just posted message, I too was timed out.

[BBMmk2]

Ordinary day today by the looks of it. Lots of cloud cover, with maybe a bit of sun, perhaps?

[cloughie]

Ordinary day today by the looks of it. Lots of cloud cover, with maybe a bit of sun, perhaps?

Same here BBM!

[Constantbee]

Magnificent displays of rowan berries here this year - hawthorns, too, but not quite ripe yet. Birds are in for a treat. This is something I associate with cold winters, though

[oddoneout]

Magnificent displays of rowan berries here this year - hawthorns, too, but not quite ripe yet. Birds are in for a treat. This is something I associate with cold winters, though

Conditions when the fruit buds are being initiated and when flowering occurs(temperature and pollinators are key) are what influence the set of fruit. To what extent those historic conditions have a bearing on the forthcoming winter - movement of jet stream and such like - which can therefore be linked in anything other than a coincidental fashion re fruit set and severity of winter I don't know.

[jayne lee wilson]

Ordinary day today by the looks of it. Lots of cloud cover, with maybe a bit of sun, perhaps?

Is it just me, or do grey skies seem worse than ever since the wonderful summer faded? Gloomy and doomy...
We see far too little of what you once called "that big yellow thing in the sky".... I often think of it as the BFL - Big Friendly Lion...