Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 281006 times)

ElyDave · « **Reply #675 on:** 16 March, 2018, 03:15:43 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 16 March, 2018, 01:02:27 pm

It's been rather well-ventilated here today. We've been watching the waves crash over the lighthouse on the breakwater and boats struggling to get in and out of the harbour

Oh dear, I have a colleague offshore, due back today. She was not hopeful last night

Guy · « **Reply #676 on:** 21 March, 2018, 03:36:16 pm »

Is my memory fading, or is today really the first day this month I'll have a tail wind home?

I'd almost forgotten what a west wind felt like.

T42 · « **Reply #677 on:** 22 March, 2018, 08:06:32 am »

Usually wet.

hellymedic · « **Reply #678 on:** 19 April, 2018, 05:38:51 pm »

Our posh Oregon Scientific indoor and outdoor thermometer/hygrometer is showing a 'rain' icon.

Weather does not look like rain here in Outer Londonton...

orienteer · « **Reply #679 on:** 19 April, 2018, 07:51:16 pm »

My weather station is also indicating rain!

Kim · « **Reply #680 on:** 19 April, 2018, 08:45:04 pm »

Our weatherbricks are still indicating 'scorchio'. Even the one barakta tried experimentally scrubbing with water half an hour ago to see if the salts would come off.

hellymedic · « **Reply #681 on:** 20 April, 2018, 11:17:18 pm »

David is outside observing. He's been getting cold.
He has just put on his down jacket.
My outdoor thermometer reads 16C.

Kim · « **Reply #682 on:** 20 April, 2018, 11:21:10 pm »

Standard BRITISH thing of rate-of-change-of-weather being what matters, I suppose. I've just closed the window I'm sitting next to as the breeze was getting chilly as the outside temperature dropped below 14C (it's nominally 23C in the room).

ElyDave · « **Reply #683 on:** 20 April, 2018, 11:34:47 pm »

I've been wearing shorts since the clocks changed.

Kim · « **Reply #684 on:** 20 April, 2018, 11:36:54 pm »

Now I think about it, I've been able to feel my feet for at least a week.

ElyDave · « **Reply #685 on:** 20 April, 2018, 11:59:56 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 20 April, 2018, 11:36:54 pm

Now I think about it, I've been able to feel my feet for at least a week.

I suffer reynaud's like symptoms in my feet, having spent most of the winter with either sensationless or hypersensitive toes, they are now pain free but shedding the dead skin like nobody's business, looks like I'm unravelling

Torslanda · « **Reply #686 on:** 21 April, 2018, 01:22:09 am »

Eww . . .

ElyDave · « **Reply #687 on:** 21 April, 2018, 07:14:56 am »

Try it from my end, far more than ewwww.

I have a choice of painful feet from about November to March, or a winter on the turbo trainer.

andrewc · « **Reply #688 on:** 21 April, 2018, 03:53:35 pm »

First day this year I’ve put the washing out to dry.
Currently enjoying an al fresco beer.

hellymedic · « **Reply #689 on:** 21 April, 2018, 04:39:56 pm »

Raining here now. Big drops too!

Jakob W · « **Reply #690 on:** 21 April, 2018, 05:58:41 pm »

Forecast was for sun all day but rain later this evening, so at 2PM I started to put new felt on the shed roof I stripped yesterday. So of course it began to piss it down for an hour as I got underway.

At least it has dried enough for me to finish most of the job - just need to finish nailing the edges down.

rafletcher · « **Reply #691 on:** 28 April, 2018, 11:32:12 am »

Just checked the forecast for Monday. 2C and sleet

rogerzilla · « **Reply #692 on:** 28 April, 2018, 12:09:23 pm »

I don't think outdoor sex is likely on the first of May this year, unless you take a blanket.

SteveC · « **Reply #693 on:** 28 April, 2018, 12:15:37 pm »

Speaking as someone who has watched the sunrise on May morning something like twenty-five times over the last thirty-five years, I can assure you it rarely, if ever, is warm enough for that sort of activity!

T42 · « **Reply #694 on:** 29 April, 2018, 08:33:36 am »

Unusual thunderstorm last night: rolled in around 9 pm and stayed for two hours. Not much rain, no noticeable wind, but monster flashes and crashes, fortunately over the hills a couple of K to the south.

ElyDave · « **Reply #695 on:** 30 April, 2018, 10:27:05 am »

Bloody hell it's windy

I've just moved a small potted plant inside to stop it blowing away, a recently potted bonsai into the greenhouse to stop it blowing out of its pot, and another down to the sheltered lower layer of the display bench. Hardwood cuttings seem to be rocking in their compost

Basil · « **Reply #696 on:** 30 April, 2018, 10:59:34 am »

On my daily perambulation with the dog through the park, I have noticed that the oak leaves are coming out (just) before the ash.

Doesn't the rhyme go something like
Oak before ash, we'll get a splash,
Ash before oak, we'll get a soak?

Beardy · « **Reply #697 on:** 30 April, 2018, 11:15:51 am »

Twas windy enough this AM to warrant the closure of the big bridge over the river Orwel. Cue lots of traffic and well, queues through the centre of Ipswich. They re-opened the bridge at 7:20 so major chaos was mostly avoided.

Giraffe · « **Reply #698 on:** 01 May, 2018, 09:32:21 am »

Friday: Northamptonium would have downpours and northerly wind on Monday - great, appointment at 10:50 hours a.m. in the morning and 2 miles to walk (North) to be sure of a bus.
Saturday: still the same.
Sunday: rain might not get here until lunchtime; still wind and max. 5 deg. C.
Monday: no rain all day; temp. at 10.5 deg. C in p.m.
So pleased that I had a rucksack with all the gear in it.
Went to Malt Shovel to celebrate.

What would we do without weather forecasts.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #699 on:** 01 May, 2018, 10:40:57 am »

I drove home fro Skipton yesterday. Cold, horrible day, but at least the rain didn't start until I was in the environs of Cambridge.

The lowest temperature the car recorded during the day was 5°C, just south of Chelmsford. That's absolutely dreadful.

Sunny again today, but not warm.