Wildswimmer Pete

Seems like the nights are rapidly drawing in. Obviously psychological as we've only lost about seven minutes at sunset.

Yet another high summer Sunday evening ideal for having a BBQ. The only thing now missing is snow*. (irony*)

What we now have is "Forever Autumn" with little difference between seasons. In my area summer '19 was a non event with a front parked over Merseyside for most of the time, followed by six months of grey skies together with endless wind and rain. Although I don't like the cold, a few days of snow would give me something to look at and enjoy. Hasn't helped my SAD which also occurred during our last sunless "summer".

Not a single flake of snow here unless snow fell while I was asleep.

And Wirral, Halton and Merseyside.

Short hail shower last evening. Now wheelie bins blown over and strewed around. Icy gale.

Extremely windy overnight and now. Wheelie bins and contents blowing down the road.

Had a sleepless night so experienced quite a few squally hailstorms, but no visible snow.

It was January last year when I ended up in hospital twice with bacterial pneumonia.

Although I usually detest the cold, a cold snap would be a great benefit to kill off all the chest lurgy going around here. Everyone I know is down with it but so far I've escaped it (fingers crossed). Looking at the Netweather forecast we might have a bit of a cold snap this coming weekend.

Incredibly windy morning after last night's calm. All the fronds on the ornamental palm in my garden are plastered backwards. Otherwise cloudy and dry.

It was a 1984 docudrama set in Sheffield. I watched it then on holiday and it was shocking in its depiction of the after effects of a nuclear explosion on a large city. No punches were pulled. Watched it again a year or so ago and it was still shocking.

I live on Merseyside - NW England.

Remarkably mild today, heating hasn't come on and the temp. in my living room is what it should be - 19-20C.

Yesterday was mostly cloudy with 5C when I went to bed around 1:30AM, this morning clear with just above 0C with no frost visible. Currently full sun with no cloud so I suspect it's going to be cold overnight. Although I detest the cold, a few days of snow would be welcome if only it's something new to see. I don't drive so snow doesn't affect me although I can't ride a bike in icy/snowy weather.

Very cold, clear night. Hard frost with min. -2.4C. Probably a couple of degrees colder in the nearby countryside. Had to sleep with my bedroom window closed which is unusual for me.

Another grey, damp November day. I haven't seen much of the sun this past week. When I was young I enjoyed this time of year. Full of atmosphere and I spent much time with friends messing about with old radios. Looking back I wasn't messing about with transistor radios rather old valve radios. Putting a finger in the wrong place in an old radio running 350 volts HT could be fatal. Puts some spice into life! Sadly no more especially as I'm now practically housebound.

Today, another typical British day - cold, dark, cloudy and thoroughly depressing.

Another vile cold and very windy day. Only the odd shower, currently dry and cloudy. Looks like it could be a cold night with that Arctic blast.

Thoroughly foul day, cold, blustery and an icy near gale. Just had hail rattling against the window. Meanwhile I'm watching my energy monitor relentlessly clocking up the cost, £2.15 up to now: 4:10pm.

Thanks Markyo. Fortunately I wore my electrically heated jacket and at high power it can be like a portable sauna, usually mid- or even low power is enough but today was that cutting wind and icy rain so it was full power. Spent much of the afternoon in 30C water listening to classic Sixties hits - yes, waterproof mp3 player.

Overnight min 0.2C, currently 4.1C. Netweather reports 2.7C for my location but that will the temp. reported by Liverpool AP whereas I live in a minor UHI. Currently dry but the cloud has that yellowish tint of snow cloud. Glad I'm getting a taxi to my local leisure centre this afternoon as being out and about in that sort of temp. would be risky.

Overnight rain but now damp and cloudy and 10C. No discernible breeze but pressure is 956mb! Probably the reason I feel even more stiff and achy.

Had the first ground frost of the season with an overnight min of 0.8C. Saw it on neighbouring roofs. Bright during the morning but intermittent banks of cloud in the afternoon. With the dark evenings on us unfortunately it's now SAD season.

On a delivery to Norwich area, dry there but on the way home our route was via Sheffield and Manchester. Cloudy but dry until we began the descent from Woodhead Pass through Tintwhistle when we hit the rain, and I mean "hit" as the rain became almost torrential round Manchester. Rain still heavy when we reached Runcorn and it's been raining constantly overnight. The rain has just stopped falling. Temp. all yesterday and overnight a miserable 9C so we didn't encounter any of that very mild air further south.