Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Plenty of rain in the offing, now that the jet stream has got its act together, for almost the first time this year, and is driiving the Atlantic depressions through unimpeded. Back to normality, in a big way!

Yes and I have to go out to the butchers tomorrow morning as well!

[BBMmk2]

Very dull, and raining! Hello winter!

[Serial_Apologist]

Very dull, and raining! Hello winter!

Still quite mild though for early December! I even tried switching the c/heating off last night, but my body now seems less able to adjust as temperatures fall, and needs the flat to be above 19 C or I have to keep a coat on and take a hot water bottle to bed with me!

[DracoM]

Fells invisible: forecasters say rain/ mist/low cloud / fog will all go east.....[ha!]...... Looks like it's in for the day and night up here as I look out.

[vinteuil]

Still quite mild though for early December! I even tried switching the c/heating off last night, but my body now seems less able to adjust as temperatures fall, and needs the flat to be above 19 C or I have to keep a coat on and take a hot water bottle to bed with me!

... 19 C?

You're more hardy than I am! 23.5 is what I ask of our central heating.

Mebbe it was all them years in the tropics....


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[Bryn]

... 19 C?

You're more hardy than I am! 23.5 is what I ask of our central heating.

Mebbe it was all them years in the tropics....


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A pleasant 12°C, both outside and in, here at the moment, and me a soft southerner. I don't believe in wasting energy heating up the house when an extra layer of clothing will do the trick.

[DracoM]

Disappearing from NW to east, is it?
No chance.

Utter yuk - fine, totally saturating rain and VERY low visibility indeed.

Just been out in it, and guess where the wind is coming from up here..........yup.....ENE, so...........??? Chances of drift of rain etc to the east....?

Well, that was at Sat 15.50; here we are at Sat 20.26 same day and it is exactly as dense with rain, mist, fog as it was. - like I said above, 'movement east' much talked of on BBC forecasts...erm... zilch happening here, I can tell you.

And now, this is Sunday mid-p.m: cold, damp, visibility low, rain. Clammy way to start December and northern winds predicted in next 48 hrs.

It has been non-stop drab wetness: it as if everything outside is simply composed of different densities of water.

[Joseph K]

Normally I'd've gone for a walk by now, but it's been raining all morning.

[Serial_Apologist]

On-and-off alternations of thick drizzle and moderate rain here, interspersed with, once more, surprisingly warm sunshine for this late in the year. Very odd cloud combinations as the precipitation lines up as showers along a slowly passing cold front: hard to determine if the brilliant billowy white cloud masses with low bases to the north are cumulonimbus or just supersaturated cumulus enveloped in drizzle. Snow can produce the same effect, but it's obviously far too warm for that, even at altitude. It reached 15 C earlier this morning - warm enough to go out in jacket and open-necked shirt, were it not for the drizzly rain. Doncha just love it when the winter season gets shortened in this way? Unfortunately that's often an illusion, as winters that start off mild have a habit of ending cold, with the start of spring delayed.

[BBMmk2]

Seems to have brightened up this afternoon.

[BBMmk2]

Still quite mild though for early December! I even tried switching the c/heating off last night, but my body now seems less able to adjust as temperatures fall, and needs the flat to be above 19 C or I have to keep a coat on and take a hot water bottle to bed with me!

Certainly been quite mild today. MrsBBM was saying the same earlier for being rather mild!

[Beef Oven!]

Certainly been quite mild today. MrsBBM was saying the same earlier for being rather mild!

Pouring down here, I'd just stepped outside to go shopping. Had to return, and I'm waiting for it to pass, rather than cramp my style with an umbrella.

[DracoM]

Kids at school wear shirt sleeves / no hats / etc in almost all weathers IME because of the social pressure from peers.
Forecasts rarely make much impact.

And if RS truly does not know how kids at school have to function and as a result insisted on foisting an umbrella on his poor kid - yes a Dad might well think poor kid, give him a brolly - but it tells us a lot about his instincts for how societies operate at different levels!

Schools are very, very heftily socially structured and it is hard for an individual to stand out against whatever the prevailing culture is. If it's no brollies, or no coats to appear 'cool' etc, then so be it, and the more cosseted you look, the more like a pansy you are made to look...........

.....................No, I don't like it either, but that's how it is, Mr RS!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Others have probably reached this conclusion before me, but after the last few days of changeable weather, I'm fairly convinced that the BBC Weather App is a waste of time now. I've been comparing that with the Met Office app, largely because of a couple of trips across town, in relation to which I needed to know if I could plan to cycle or use some other means of transport (it would have been inappropriate to have arrived sopping wet at either destination).

This morning for instance: I needed to set out about 11.30. Since yesterday, the BBC app had been predicting a cloudy day but zero rain. The Met Office app since yesterday morning was saying that it would start to rain at 10, and be heavy rain by 11.

The rain started at about 10.05 and it was pouring by 11. When I checked the BBC app around 10.30 it was still saying no rain. Then by 11.15 it was saying rain.

It seemed that whoever operates the weather for the BBC was looking out of the window, but taking their time over updating what the app said

Waste of time So much for them jettisoning the Met Office ("cost saving" no doubt...)

[DracoM]

Others have probably reached this conclusion before me, but after the last few days of changeable weather, I'm fairly convinced that the BBC Weather App is a waste of time now. I've been comparing that with the Met Office app, largely because of a couple of trips across town, in relation to which I needed to know if I could plan to cycle or use some other means of transport (it would have been inappropriate to have arrived sopping wet at either destination).

This morning for instance: I needed to set out about 11.30. Since yesterday, the BBC app had been predicting a cloudy day but zero rain. The Met Office app since yesterday morning was saying that it would start to rain at 10, and be heavy rain by 11.

The rain started at about 10.05 and it was pouring by 11. When I checked the BBC app around 10.30 it was still saying no rain. Then by 11.15 it was saying rain.

It seemed that whoever operates the weather for the BBC was looking out of the window, but taking their time over updating what the app said

Waste of time So much for them jettisoning the Met Office ("cost saving" no doubt...)

If you live in rural Northern England, I can tell you, the BBC / Met forecasts are by and large an approximation at best, and downright bizarre at others..