Stormy Weather II

[Bryn]

I hope you fully recovered Bryn! A very brave venture, given the weather, iimss!!!

All good fun, really. The tent is a Eurohike Pop 400 DS (the DS referring to the double skin). Folding it in the significant breeze was not (a breexe, that is). This is how it's done when there is no wind to contend with:

[Serial_Apologist]

All good fun, really. The tent is a Eurohike Pop 400 DS (the DS referring to the double skin). Folding it in the significant breeze was not (a breexe, that is). This is how it's done when there is no wind to contend with:

I like it! - you could probably squeeze a couple of large cymbals in there too - just for entertaining fellow campers!

[Bryn]

With the fibre-glass pole supported flysheet installed, the centre of the tent is lifted to give useful headroom. However, if one of the door sides of the tent faces into the wind, there is a distinct tendency for that side to flip in towards the centre unless the 'V' of flysheet is securely grounded (not an easy thing to achieve on a sandy beach.

[DracoM]

Up here, wildest, wildest, rain on window like thrown gravel, trees don't know which way is up. Streets pretty well empty. Tiniest kids mums with buggies on post-school run in some danger of being blown under cars - not joking.

[Bryn]

From scenes on the News, of waves hitting the seawall at what looked a bit like Dawlish, I reckon my discretion in leaving Shaldon Yesterday evening was the wise option.

[BBMmk2]

Turned out to be a really windy day hereabouts! Look at the weather at Windsor!

[Joseph K]

Yesterday I could have worn shorts - today, I felt like I needed gloves, at least for the first half of my walk.

[DracoM]

.........and up here, as fine a mid-Autumn afternoon as you could wish.
After yesterday's outraged battering, it's as if the weather is a bit sheepish and embarrassed and this is its way of saying sorry!

[Serial_Apologist]

The "bad weather" is all in a line, about 100 miles wide, that stretches all the way from the north of Norway down to Morocco, literally lying in a trough of low pressure. And it's like, the two enormous high pressure systems, one to the east over central Asia and the other out in the mid north Atlantic, are each doing their best to keep that zone where it is - the one to the west pushing at it and the one to the east likewise. And whoever is stuck under the meteorological Maginot Line has to put up with the consequences for as long as it stays put. It will eventually give way on the eastern side, but not very much, meaning that we are likely to be in this will it/won't it limbo unless and until the jet streams - that in pre-global warming times tended the majority of the time to keep these wind and rain-bearing weather systems (lows) on the move - take less of a zig-zagging route that is thought to be in part a result of polar ice melt, we will all be subject to extremes, making our climate more akin to that of Canada and the States.

[DracoM]

Yipes!

[BBMmk2]

Another wet and windy day!

[Serial_Apologist]

Another wet and windy day!

If we had some of your wind, it might just blow all this clag away, BBM! Very heavy rain last night, just before midnight, let to a total of over an inch altogether for the preceding 24 hours. They're "promising" it will warm up again tomorrow, but I shan't be holding my breath.

[BBMmk2]

Just a bit of rain today. Not too much though. Bit later on the sun has been trying to come out, without much success.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just a bit of rain today. Not too much though. Bit later on the sun has been trying to come out, without much success.

Interesting to observe, in that everyday way one does, that humidity levels at this altitude are so high right now that all I have to do is go outside and breathe out, and my breath nearly equalises the dry bulb/wet bulb readings, as indicated by my being able to surround myself with my very own self-made cloud of water vapour. It's the first time anyone could rightly accuse me of deliberately creating a fog!

[Serial_Apologist]

I hope neglect for this thread for some time does not mean people will be unprepared for the outbreak of strong northerlies this coming Friday. Make sure to locate the winter wear, people, and get the tender plants indoors quick, as temperatures from Friday to Sunday will be at December levels - or be in for a shock!