A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own.

[TimC]

Just mowed the lawn. 23rd December!!

[Pingu]

It's snowing.

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27561.0

[Wowbagger]

12.9°C and rising at 3.30am on Christmas Eve is not what I consider to be normal, but that is what it is here. Very consistent westerly, but getting stronger.

[rogerzilla]

I think Christmas Day 2015 was 15 deg C outside.  Not very seasonable.

[Mr Larrington]

15.6 in Devon in 1920, according to the Met Ossif.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Currently 14C in York. Windy.

[Kim]

Currently 14C in York. Windy.

About the same in Middle Earth

[Wowbagger]

We seem to have peaked at 15.2°C, at 12.46pm. Below that now.

[Pingu]

Good nacreous cloud display all day today.


IMG_6442_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6458_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6471_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6476_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6487_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6501_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_6502_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Mrs Pingu]

That'll be the wind on again.

[mattc]

Good nacreous cloud display all day today.

Lovely pics - good use of purple

We had some here in the Warm South, but nothing like your scale or number.

Here's a reasonable pic taken very near us, pretty much what we saw: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17997/production/_132136669_mediaitem132136668.jpg.webp

It was quite odd having lower altitude "normal" clouds scud past them , and then eventually obscure them.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

 C. 1995 I took pictures of this cloud-type from my York garden. It was exceedingly rare to see them back then and I didn’t see them reported anywhere else.

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/24/uk-weather-christmas-day-wet-windy-unseasonably-warm

Met Office forecaster Liam Eslick said: “It’s been an exceptionally mild couple of days across all of the UK, temperatures have been well above average for the time of year, the maximum for December being 7C. Temperatures today have reached 15C in quite a few locations across the UK, the highest being 15.3C in two locations – one in Heathrow and one in Cippenham, Berkshire.”
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Forecasters said it was unlikely that the record for the warmest Christmas Day on record – set in Killerton, Devon, in 1920, when the temperature reached 15.6C – would be broken, but temperatures would still be 5-6C warmer than normal for this time of year.
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The warmest 25 December on record was 15.6C in 1920, while the highest Christmas Eve temperatures of 15.5C were set in Aberdeen and Banff in Scotland in 1931.

I recall one Christmas day, some time between 1987 and 1995, when it was unusually warm and sunny. I wasn't recording temperatures then, but my bees, in my parents' garden, were foraging on my mother's ornamental heather in the morning sun.

It's still 14°C now.

[Mr Larrington]

Still blowing a bit, though.  B-i-L reports nearly freezing utterly to DETH at the foopball in SE Londonton on Saturday in spite of the benign temperatures.

[rafletcher]

I recall one Christmas day, some time between 1987 and 1995, when it was unusually warm and sunny.

Yep, I think it was ‘87. I remember it too.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Tomorrow’s storm is named ‘Gerrit’.

Gerrit will bring “Heavy rain ..set to batter York tomorrow (Wednesday, December 27) bringing with it a chance of power cuts and flooding, the Met Office has warned.”.

Other parts of the UK may be affected.

[robgul]

Tomorrow’s storm is named ‘Gerrit’.

Gerrit will bring “Heavy rain ..set to batter York tomorrow (Wednesday, December 27) bringing with it a chance of power cuts and flooding, the Met Office has warned.”.

Other parts of the UK may be affected.

Looks grim here for Weds - I'm supposed to be leading the club's between Christmas & New Year ride - 20 gentle miles and to the pub . . .  looks doubtful (and I cancelled last year too as it was extremely wet)

[Wowbagger]

Brother announced that 2023 is the wettest year he has recorded, in what I think is an amalgam of records from the Essex Water Company starting around 1960 at Hanningfield Reservoir treatment works, and, since he retired, his garden, about 3 miles away in Ramsden Heath. 2012 was the previous wettest.

He tells me that 2012 was also the wettest year on record at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, whose records began in 1797 or thereabouts. Their data seems to be available in arrears - so far as I can tell, the latest data available on their website is up to April 2022, which can be downloaded as a .csv. It's a big file because there are a lot of days in 220 years.

[Mrs Pingu]

Looks like it's going to be a day for DIY / rooting about in the loft tomorrow.

[Mr Larrington]

Uck.  M25 tomorrow afternoon 

[chrisbainbridge]

The annual Matlock raft race was cancelled because the river was dangerously high.

[Basil]

Full Welsh here today.

[Jaded]

It is very dark here.

[Salvatore]

Full Welsh here today.

Same in Pontardawe.

[Pingu]

It's fairly breezy up here. I can here wheeliebins going on walkabout.