Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 278702 times)

Basil · « **Reply #1775 on:** 25 October, 2021, 02:52:08 pm »

As I have learned, when the dog says it's time to go out, it's time to go out.

Anyway, you get a better set of fellow walkers early on. Leave it too late and you're with the tattooed grunters being hauled around, and failing to control 'Fang'.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1776 on:** 25 October, 2021, 04:24:19 pm »

I have major building to do. Remove window and block walling on side of barn (it used to have a 'garage' sized entry that has been walled up). Prep for 5cubic metres of concrete. Level said concrete. Install windows and door in space.

The wall has to go first, so the concrete lorry can get the chute in.

Bloody weather has changed to 'winter' mode, which means 20knot to 50knot winds. Can't just take side wall off, the winds might rip the roof off.

So I have to put temp sheeting up - that has to be removable for when concrete is delivered. First attempt, using spare DPM and 4x2 is semi successful. I'm not confident of it holding in gusts - might have to repurpose some old corrugated asbestos sheeting for a few weeks.

I have a weather window, but it keeps shifting.

Guy · « **Reply #1777 on:** 27 October, 2021, 09:55:49 am »

This is getting silly. This is the third morning this week I have left home at 6.30 and strolled to work in a polo shirt. In late October.

andrewc · « **Reply #1778 on:** 01 November, 2021, 11:52:57 am »

Casts a wary eye out of his 4th floor window & wonders whether he'll be safe from the rising floodwaters. It's a bit damp & windy at the moment. I'm glad I came back from London on the Saturday , If I'd stayed overnight I might have been stranded at Euston!

T42 · « **Reply #1779 on:** 02 November, 2021, 01:11:33 pm »

Pissing down again.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1780 on:** 02 November, 2021, 10:11:53 pm »

Just seen my first gritter of the season. $:-\$

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1781 on:** 02 November, 2021, 10:54:57 pm »

Forecast to be 2°C tonight/tomorrow morning in sub-tropical Saarfend!

Giraffe · « **Reply #1782 on:** 03 November, 2021, 08:15:58 am »

Close to -2 here near Norfapton.

Guy · « **Reply #1783 on:** 03 November, 2021, 08:40:03 am »

Dunno what the temperature was, but it must have been a bit on the low side. The second frosty morning in a row here in darkest Bedfordshire.

T42 · « **Reply #1784 on:** 03 November, 2021, 08:48:27 am »

Pissing down again.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1785 on:** 03 November, 2021, 11:03:23 am »

It was cold enough to put the heating on yesterday evening. I think it's going to rain this afternoon again.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1786 on:** 03 November, 2021, 08:00:48 pm »

Second frost in a row here in leafy Bucks too, mainly down to evaporative cooling. It was around 0.5C this morning at 7am.

Beardy · « **Reply #1787 on:** 24 November, 2021, 09:32:16 am »

It’s a bit chilly here in the Angles of the East this mornAM. Sufficiently so for me be pleased not to be a brass monkey. And it seems to be remaining so which is making it difficult for me to contemplate climbing the scaffolding I have erected.

Pingu · « **Reply #1788 on:** 26 November, 2021, 12:46:36 pm »

The Met Office have issued a Red warning of wind for up here

SteveC · « **Reply #1789 on:** 26 November, 2021, 01:08:40 pm »

I am spending most of the weekend in a castle on the top of a hill.
This could be interesting.

L CC · « **Reply #1790 on:** 26 November, 2021, 01:19:16 pm »

I've just had a call from one of our suppliers- they've recalled the delivery as they don't want their lorries on the road after 3pm when the wind is expected to hit.

Pingu · « **Reply #1791 on:** 26 November, 2021, 03:55:51 pm »

It's getting a tad breezy out there now.

Pingu · « **Reply #1792 on:** 26 November, 2021, 04:00:25 pm »

Lights just flickered...

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1793 on:** 26 November, 2021, 05:08:57 pm »

Our living room windows are doing an alarming impression of a creaky galleon.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1794 on:** 26 November, 2021, 06:21:24 pm »

Looks like the wind is peaking for you in the next couple of hours.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1795 on:** 26 November, 2021, 06:28:14 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 26 November, 2021, 12:46:36 pm

The Met Office have issued a Red warning of wind for up here

The rotten BBC has just made TV's Lorna Gordon stand in the street in Stonehaven and deliver a piece to camera while looking like a drowned rat.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1796 on:** 26 November, 2021, 06:43:11 pm »

Judging by Fubar News Furrybootoon and environs is mostly closed, having a power cut, fallen trees or garage roofs in the street.

Jaded · « **Reply #1797 on:** 26 November, 2021, 07:18:32 pm »

We need an update from the Pingus every 30 mins - else they've been blown away!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1798 on:** 26 November, 2021, 07:27:27 pm »

Well, Pingu just called me through to survey the damage so far, and the fence running between ours and one of the 2 adjoining dog owning gardens on the RHS of our garden is erm, mostly thinking about having a lie down in our garden.

Pingu · « **Reply #1799 on:** 26 November, 2021, 07:55:38 pm »

And now a section of fence on the opposite side of the garden is down.