Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 286397 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2500 on:** 16 February, 2023, 09:48:32 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2023, 09:47:02 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 16 February, 2023, 08:14:19 am
There are rumblings of SNO in March. March SNO never lasts long, though.

It did in 1947. The early arch blizzard is down as one of the worst in the entire 20th century.

Is an arch blizzard one that settles in Canterbury Cathedral?

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2501 on:** 17 February, 2023, 09:04:32 am »

60mph gusts here according to the Met Office observations, tho Windy Wilson reckons some measurements closer to 90.
I hung some washing out and then chickened out. We'll see if it ends up in the neighbours gardens. Or Fittie.
Pumpkin's gone out in that. I think she likes chasing the flying leaves

Pingu · « **Reply #2502 on:** 18 February, 2023, 10:36:34 pm »

Some obstacles today in the local woods after Otto.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2503 on:** 19 February, 2023, 01:15:56 am »

There was an arboreal obstruction blocking the A12 in suburban Essex on Friday.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2504 on:** 05 March, 2023, 11:14:18 am »

So, according to the Graun (well, Observer) this week will see “the coldest day of the year so far”. Hmmm, I bloody hope not, seeing as we’ve already had something like -6C, and Chesham got down to -9.1C earlier this year.

Which prompted the thought, how is “the coldest day” defined? Slackly I suspect.

diapsaon0 · « **Reply #2505 on:** 05 March, 2023, 01:53:55 pm »

I haven't used my heating at all this winter so far. Past few days have severely tested my resolve.

T42 · « **Reply #2506 on:** 05 March, 2023, 04:41:58 pm »

We were supposed to have rain followed by snow overnight. As it turned out we had neither and the temperature soared to 5°C so I managed to get a half-decent ride in.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2507 on:** 05 March, 2023, 08:08:02 pm »

We had unexpected hail here as we were out on a walk. Not forecasted.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2508 on:** 12 March, 2023, 10:12:38 pm »

(Looks at tomorrow’s forecast)

Glad I've got to have the motor-car out tomorrow. I really don’t fancy riding back from Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles into a 50 mph headwind

hubner · « **Reply #2509 on:** 12 March, 2023, 10:30:53 pm »

Rain is forecast for the next 10 days.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2510 on:** 12 March, 2023, 10:42:30 pm »

I had thought about a bike ride tomorrow, but perhaps not...

Flite · « **Reply #2511 on:** 13 March, 2023, 07:46:04 am »

We are back on a yellow warning for snow and ice tonight.
Not to mention the very strong winds and the amount of water pouring off the fells as the snow melts...

T42 · « **Reply #2512 on:** 13 March, 2023, 09:52:00 am »

15°C last time I looked, supposed to top out at 20.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2513 on:** 13 March, 2023, 10:08:45 am »

Supposedly 13 C out there atm but winding furiously.

T42 · « **Reply #2514 on:** 13 March, 2023, 12:29:56 pm »

Now 19°C. Just saw a bloke walking down the road in winter jacket & woolly cap nonetheless.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2515 on:** 13 March, 2023, 12:39:45 pm »

Mega windy here with gusts up to 70 km/h.

My journey home was super speedy (tailwind - although that isn’t usually that much of a help to my sharp-tailed velomobile) but getting the lid to stay open when I was getting out was a challenge.

Overheated badly in my usual commuting clothes.

Kim · « **Reply #2516 on:** 13 March, 2023, 12:55:21 pm »

It's a bit blowy out...

T42 · « **Reply #2517 on:** 13 March, 2023, 12:58:57 pm »

Our wind's high enough - gusting just below 60 kph. It's the direction that's critical: we're fairly sheltered to the south but a gust from the NW at ~70 kph the other night took half a dozen tiles off our barn roof. It's something a bloke with a couple of long ladders could fix in half an hour, but knowing H&S practices these days they'll probably sting us 1000€ just to put up a scaffolding.

I'd do it myself if I had the ladders and a working sense of balance.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2518 on:** 13 March, 2023, 11:06:13 pm »

Windiest day my device has recorded so far this year. Top gust 56.3kmh at 9.22am. Daily average wind speed over 16k per hour. My anemometer is too low to give accurate readings. It's probably most exposed to NEerlies. SWerlies slightly less so, but Werlies ends up with next door's yew tree being a bloody nuisance.

Basil · « **Reply #2519 on:** 13 March, 2023, 11:14:19 pm »

The noise last night was dreadful. It sounded like a train constantly passing 2 meters away from my bedroom window. I really wanted to get up to close it, but couldn't wake up enough to get out of bed to do it.

hubner · « **Reply #2520 on:** 13 March, 2023, 11:17:03 pm »

I heard a lot of whooshing noise today but I did my usual 13 miles each way commute and didn't really notice the wind. I rode my ebike.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2521 on:** 22 March, 2023, 08:01:57 am »

We have a solar high tide atm, plus a storm surge.

The sea loch has completely covered the local pier, and is coming up into the crofts. Some small islands in the loch are submerged (normally about a metre sticks out of water at high water springs).

T42 · « **Reply #2522 on:** 24 March, 2023, 10:34:46 am »

Watching the poplar down by the footie not-very-grandstand swaying bodily in the wind just now. One of these days it's going to restyle the place.

Was planning a ride once the rain let up but looking at that I've kinda lost interest.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2523 on:** 24 March, 2023, 05:49:20 pm »

LOUD DONNER here at around 14.30.

Observed kein Blitzen.

D said he'd never heard such loud thunder. This was quite prolonged.

I have, but the lightning struck next-door-but-one neighbour's house, when I was a kid.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2524 on:** 24 March, 2023, 06:23:26 pm »

Thunderbolts, lightning, mighty rushing wind, hail and a plague of frogs* in E17.

* Lie