Weather

Merry Christmas folks.  10 degrees and just started raining.  

Second of the family get togethers today and I'm not cooking this one .  One more tomorrow and then back to some form of normality for a couple of days anyway.

Seasons greetings Dave, good walk with Tag earlier, turned wet with light drizzle ,lots of other walkers out today.
Have a great day ,take it easy on the sprouts .  
Boaby

Not very festive weather here being grey and overcast but our relatives in Australia are complaining because they had a horrific thunder storm in the Brisbane area yesterday.
Just waiting for orders to go to daughters. I hope it’s not long, we had breakfast whist we open our his and her presents at breakfast time before muttlies walk.

Cool dry starlite morning, big moon too,great walk with Tag down the prom to the spa and back for a big Dod of porridge .
Not many folk about this morning, it's like lock down again.
Have a good day,take car if your on tour.
Boaby. Morning Dave, Tony,GH Ian mike Paul.

Morning Boaby Dry and cool this morning with a touch of ground frost. Only 2°c now but should get up to 6° later, no rain expected expected so there's a washing out It would be a fine day for a walk but there's drink to drink, food to eat and toys to play with so I'm going nowhere

Hope you all have a great St Stephen's Day

Askit wrote:Morning Boaby Dry and cool this morning with a touch of ground frost. Only 2°c now but should get up to 6° later, no rain expected expected so there's a washing out It would be a fine day for a walk but there's drink to drink, food to eat and toys to play with so I'm going nowhere

Hope you all have a great St Stephen's Day

Morning Tony,fine here too, chilly though ,suns out,second load of washing on, get that out and relax with a can
Have a nice day.
Boaby

A nice bright start with a chilly breeze for our walk. Muttly is total confused this morning because daughter gave his a special Christmas biscuit for his breakfast. He normally has a denta chew after his walk so he is wary about the extra biscuit. He really struggles with changes.

Morning folks.  Chilly at only 4 degrees bit it is bright and sunny.  Final family get together today then peace and quiet again and time to play with all my toys.

Easy one today, rain now, rain later, that's it. Might get up to 6°c but it's pretty irrelevant, no chance of us venturing out today.

Take it easy folks

Storm Gerrit has arrived.
It only seems a few days ago that we had Debbi.
Whatever the wind strength is, its enough to blow some water through the vents of our velux widows in the bedroom!

Dry until 3, then the heavy rain started and not stopped since, no chance of getting out for an hour or two.
My son up in Argyle has had to batten down the hatches ,trees and land slips blocking roads .
Take care have a nice day.
Boaby

Blowing hard down here too although rain is beginning to ease a little after the overnight soaking. Forecast is not a lot better for the immediate future. Christmas was spent with our now only immediate relatives over here, Son, daughter in law and Grandson. It was great and very traditional, they have a small but beautiful old cottage on the fringes of Exmoor, no TV, very little phone signal and a log fire to enjoy. It was gorgeous and makes you question do we really need so many of these modern things and have we forgotten how to live a real life.
A day of odd jobs today, no plans to do anything outside then probably a film and a fluffy throw this afternoon, someone has to do it.
Have a great day all

UPDATE:

The rain is now pouring in through the frame of the bathroom window.
Mopping up continues.

Sorry to see that Nuevoboy, know how you feel it is still coming through our kitchen ceiling which I thought I had fixed. Hope you can get it sorted soon!

Clearly you need some nuts Hog, I have some spare!!!

Wx not very nice over here either, rain on and off all morning, dark and miserable really

Not as bad as some places here but the rain was horizontal when we went out for our walk. We only went as far as muttly needed before turning back. If he would go in the garden like normal dogs it would save us both getting a soaking but that’s the reward for taking on an older rescue dog that’s set in his ways.
Our son arrived mid morning absolutely soaked. He had to go into work to do a stock order before the pub started serving food. The cupboards were bare after it being manic including Christmas Day. We gave him a brew before taking him home.
He lives fifteen minits walk from work but if he goes by bus he has a five minit walk into town and a twenty minit bus ride. Today he is going back to work at four hopefully after the rain has eased off. It’s days like this I am glad I am not at the roadside doing breakdowns anymore.

We've had far stronger winds (even during non-storms) than todays.

It must be a combination of the direction and the amount of rain.
It could be interesting, given the forecast of five more storms over the coming nine days. 

Up here in NE Wales we had a cloudburst for about 10 minutes and strong wind for around an hour, nowhere near as strong as other recent storms. All calm now with a clear full moon.


Update - wind back with a vengeance now together with short sharp downpours.

Vile morning here on Anglesey, everyone soaked twice today. Winds were very strong overnight and plenty of damage in the forest. 67mph forecast tonight!

Wind has ramped up again, although the rain has stopped, glad I'm not on the A 9 these days.
Take care. Stay warm
Boaby

Take it easy especially those in the frozen lands of Hibernia, just had a call from a neighbour about 80 feet of our fencing has blown down, quick look it is a write off so there is a nice job to look forward to!

Take it easy especially those in the frozen lands of Hibernia, just had a call from a neighbour about 80 feet of our fencing has blown down, quick look it is a write off so there is a nice job to look forward to!

Seven hours to get back home from Essex. A127, M25, MI, A50 and A515. Accidents, breakdowns and torrential rain makes for an average speed of less than 27mph over the whole trip..
Al.

Paulmold wrote:Up here in NE Wales we had a cloudburst for about 10 minutes and strong wind for around an hour, nowhere near as strong as other recent storms. All calm now with a clear full moon.


Update - wind back with a vengeance now together with short sharp downpours.

Further update - wind still howling, rain pelting down and now have thunder and lightning.