The weather - General Thread

[TheLocalYokel]

There was a cheerful/grim (dependent upon point of view) weather forecast today for my part of Wurzel Land with heavy and frequent storms sometimes accompanied by thunder and lightning promised/threatened throughout the day.

It's now half past five and for the most part it's been a sunny and warm day with some dark clouds from time to time which brought a few spits of rain on a couple of occasions earlier today.

 

[JENNYJET]

My point exactly, promises but the BBC are good at wording forecasts. "Not all places will get any rain". No comfort to me as my district is dry as the Kalahari!

 

[HPsauce]

On the eastern fringes of Birmingham on Tuesday, we had an hours downpour at midday, followed by thunderstorms from 4.30pm until 6.15pm. Looking at my rainfall app it was very hit & miss. Similar weather expected today.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Here just to the north of Cambridge, we had an incredible thunder storm around mid-afternoon. The thunder just seemed to be one continuous rumble. As for the rain, I swear I have never known it rain that hard. We had been forecast rain but not the storms (we had another one in the early evening, but nothing like the mid-afternoon one).

Kevin

 

[JENNYJET]

Just been informed by the BBC, splutter!, that a storm is a coming. Evert....dear me, give it a name? Should I bake cakes to greet it?

 

[Aviador]

UK weather warnings

Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm, lightning and extreme heat.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

 

[Aviador]

Time to bake a cake @JENNYJET

 

[Aviador]

Fun and games this evening maybe, or is it overuse of the "RED" warning by the Met Office?

 

[JENNYJET]

I imagine that the Met. Office got burned with its previous warnings not being impactful enough. Red is rare so expect a mention of a Weather Bomb by the ...splutter....BBC!

 

[Ashley.S.]

It appears to be blowing a hooley out there and is very cold with the odd hail shower thrown in for good measure. I still gotta walk the dog, so if it gets any worse (as predicted) then someone might not get walked tonight!

 

[Aviador]

It was sleeting and as dark as dusk blowing a gale a 10am this morning here in Leeds (well the micro climate that is in Yeadon up in the gods!)

 

[JENNYJET]

When I pick up the lead, Peggy hides under the bed, she hates going walkies, her joints can't take it anymore and she detests rain. She is a pampered Staffie!!

 

[Ashley.S.]

@Aviador that's an interesting weather update! They say Cornwall has its own micro-climate too!

@JENNYJET Benjy will insist on going out in all weathers for a walk, but funnily enough, he won't go out for essentials if the weather is horrible! He's a pure border terrier, and he can be a right old terrorist sometimes 😆

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I wonder if it's due to the after effects of all those Americans stuffing themselves silly with their Thanksgiving dinner.

Kevin

 

[Aviador]

Or maybe all the political hot air spouted this week. Haha.

 

[JENNYJET]

How does one respond to that?

 

[Aviador]

I wonder if it's due to the after effects of all those Americans stuffing themselves silly with their Thanksgiving dinner.

Kevin

Do they eat sprouts with a thanks giving meal?

 

[JENNYJET]

I love sprouts if prepared correctly. The after effects are avoidable but it comes with preparation and an additive to the water when cooking.

 

[Aviador]

I love sprouts if prepared correctly. The after effects are avoidable but it comes with preparation and an additive to the water when cooking.

?? Additive ?? Are we back on the Alcohol thread?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Do they eat sprouts with a thanks giving meal?

I don't know if they have sprouts, but they do have stuffing which tends to give that same results.

Kevin