DJ Fart

Looking like they're girding their loins for one last chase over on the model thread...last week of Feb now being the target. I actually don't want snow on 24th so it may well come off this time! Still an astonishing amount of flood water around these parts. I don't recall so many water covered fields on this level, for this amount of time, before.

I agree, I think it's only us types who care. If my parents, for example, received a text saying "It's going to be very windy tomorrow", I think that suffices. Obviously I'm being purposefully simplistic, but it's people like us who then pore over the details, of just how windy it is, for example. For the vast majority of the public, they just need to know in decent time that there is going to be some weather which is out of the ordinary, be that heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, whatever. There will always be individuals who need greater detail, but they will a very small minority, I'd suspect.

Way to miss the point, Fi. You're in Scotland. It was very windy in Scotland.

What are you on about? Is your neighbour on here, is she? If a 50mph gust is enough to dislodge her tiles, I suspect she has greater issues!

Absolutely not suggesting anyone would lie, it was the fact that people exaggerate (without even meaning to) based on a psychological need to belong.

Some salient points made here this morning. It's often the way that people get swept up in the moment and want to be seen to be 'joining in' or experiencing the very worst when, in reality, they're not. In a world where calm and reason doesn't get heard, people resort to hyperbole to get themselves noticed. I was up working on a presentation for today until about 01:30 last night here in the far north of Essex. I knew the worst had passed and it had probably topped out at around 55mph, yet you still have people on here talking about it as though it's the storm of '87 all over again! I don't mean this to sound condascending, but I do understand it from a psychological point of view. Same when it snows or there's a heatwave: "It's 47 degrees in my garden!" No, it's not. But nobody will respond if the same person says "It's 33 degreees in my garden". It's obvious the storm was extremely impactful for large parts of the country, and I hope everyone there is OK. But it's also OK for your area to have got away with nothing more than a very stiff breeze. Anyway, pseudo-psycho analysis over. I'm just glad my trains are OK this morning and I'm not going to be late! (He says).

Ahh, Storm Eunice, that was fun.

Really? I'm only up the A12 from you and wouldn't have it as remarkable for our area at all. Gusty, sure, but nothing of particular note.

I'm due to be in Marlow, Bucks, tomorrow from north Essex, so I'm glad to hear it's not too bad out there.

Looks like that's been downgraded/changed now. Looks more like midnight for you.

Seems to have died down here in north Essex. Was definitely louder an hour or so ago.

Here you go. This was your nearest station's data: 0600: -6.2 deg C 0630: -6.5 deg C 0700: -6.2 deg C 0730: -6.2 deg C 0800: -5.9 deg C 0830: -5.3 deg C 0900: -4.1 deg C

Indeed. If it could we'd all be under 12 foot drifts! Honestly, the ignore user feature is great over there. Anyone asking "Will it snow in..." gets blocked. Anyone trying to use reverse psychology gets blocked. Anyone crowing that they called it weeks ago, or says "As I predicted" (before it's even happened) gets blocked. It does make the whole thing so much more enjoyable.

Oh yes, totally agree. While sunny and cold is quite nice to look at, I'm not such a fan of having to have the heating on all day (working from home). I've said it on the model thread plenty of times, but the "Get the cold in first!!!" and "Once the cold is in, it can be hard to shift!!!!" lot are just repeating tropes they've picked up from others. How many times now have we had very cold, but very dry spells? With all the advancement in technology and, alleged, understanding, we're still no better at predicting the weather, not really.

Ha ha ha! My bad! Trust me, don't pay attention to cars/vans/lorries/motorbikes/scooters temperature readings. Get a proper station set up in the garden.