Wild Out There Tonight

[Bobbisox1]

Stay safe everyone

[Buenchico]

It's far more pleasant outside now (with much lighter winds) than it's been all day here in Suffolk. If I could shift this 6.5 kg weight off my knee (of the type that's got soft fur and purrs a lot), I'd be going out shopping!

[DTCwordfan]

quietened down here after some weather missiles earlier....

[DTCwordfan]

Storm Dennis for the w/end now.....more of the same. LUVVERLY!

[Bobbisox1]

It’s bad here sleet snow and heavy winds

[237SJ]

Very calm here (SW London) I`m supposed to be driving across the Devon moors on thurs. Should be interesting.

[DTCwordfan]

having said that, more rain (less wind) out there with the latest weather exocet ....a 'weathexocet'?

[cashier]

Very windy in the North West, nearly got blown away whilst shopping.

[jourdain2]

You're not kidding, Bobbi. I'd to drive back from York this morning and then walked small dog. The drive required intense concentration, because of the car being buffeted, then this afternoon I took said small dog (Tyke for future reference) for a short walk to return bits of the local pub's sign which had ended up in our garden. They'd be better just to paint it on.

It's called Winter, but it is handy to know when the worst bits can be expected, Remember 1947! That started end Feb.. (My parents had just moved into the house in which I grew up -they had gas lighting and from the tales I got... it was pretty hard going for a couple of months.

[Captain2]

Well, he said, touching as much wood as he can, it's as calm as a millpond tonight, just been admiring Venus, bright as a button in a virtually clear sky (Cheshire).

[Bobbisox1]

Too right Jourdain, been out with friends, came back, wheelie bins all over the place , we are quite lucky though, we are too high up for floods, I feel for those in the Dales

[jourdain2]

The A64 crosses the river Ouse - when I drove over it was hard to distinguish the riverbed from the surrounding fields. I had to cross the bridge at Tadcaster (eventually rebuilt after the 2015? floods) and that was quite scary -- the water was up to a few inches below the top of the bridge arches. It had collapsed earlier. The Derwent was well over its banks at Malton.

As an aside (chatty) our village has 'The Gypsy Race' running through it (it appears as it will, hence the name - lots of legends associated with it). We met the Hydrologist for E. Yorks, the other morning (he was measuring the flow - looked a cold pursuit) and he said it was running as high as was recorded. In the past it precursed a momentous event. Examples are 1)execution of Charles 1, 2) before WW1 and 3) before WW2. Interesting.

[albaqwerty]

It's calm outside for a change, still raining but at least no snow/hailstones at the moment.

Jourdain, I googled The Gypsy Races, fascinating history, foretold more doom and gloom than happy things.
It gave good fortune of Queen Henrietta Maria in 1632 when she sheltered from cannonballs :-)

[jourdain2]

alba - yes the riverbed was dry at the time and they were at the Bridlington end. It's running pretty fiercely now (the most northernly chalk stream in Europe the hydrologist informed me) and I keep an eye on it every day.