Woollymummy

Hope you all get to see the Aurora tonight, too bright here Check out the Glendale App Aurora Alerts UK - Glendale App AURORA-ALERTS.UK Glendale App is the world's most accurate aurora app.

Not sure where to post this but today in Oxfordshire did anyone else get a mini tornado type storm? I was teaching so couldn't check the radar but it was very dark and stormy at around 9am and there must have been sudden intense wind over Boar's Hill as lots of plants got knocked over. Any idea? Many thanks.

Interesting to see the pressure dropping so much since 10pm, hope everyone stays safe tonight

Working in a classroom with windows open,( must ventilate as Covid is back in our school and I cannot afford to get pneumonia more than 3 times in one year) , can keep it at around 28 degrees until around 2 pm but then it’s up to 29. Horrible sweating, but better than being in our school labs last year when it was 38/39. Looking forward to being able to sleep again next week.

Thankyou, we were lucky last weekend at FolkEast where the entire storm system went past while we were asleep

Serious help needed: off to Shrewsbury Folk Festival by train on Friday, minimal camping for a change as no car, limited ability to haul stuff: Forecast page shows no rain, GFS precipitation model shows plenty of rain. Who is correct, and what should I pack? many thanks in advance for any advice

Lovely mild dry day today, woohoo! any idea what this cloud formation is called? (Currently driving in Suffolk towards Diss)

Ooh, Kelvin turned up here ( briefly) yesterday….

I was too far from the A 40 to see the ground, but the underneath of the cloud was being pulled down into points. I saw similar formations before, multiple eddies. We have had a v small tornado cross through our garden one it’s way to Oxford once, knocked a bit of our giant conifer down, as well as a couple of friends’ damage in a straight line in the direction the squall was moving. We missed it but got back to find the wrecked tree. These clouds looked similar.

we just saw this lot going by, my camera ran out of battery so no photo but I like to imagine there were little mini tornado formations as it swept past. Very strange edge.

Genuine request, are the rainy storms showing in the forecast for UK 10 -13 July likely to verify? I will be doing field-work on the rocky shore of Gower and prob need to buy more adequate waterproofs if what I see coming turns out to be real. What a shame we couldn’t have run the trip in June

Thankyou all, annoying thing is it is for a gig which may eventually be cancelled after all if no one can make it so going to be a financially annoying day as well as hazardous.... All the best to you folks out on the roads over the next few days, hope it is manageable and safe

Any advice on likelihood of being unable to drive from Oxford to Buxton tomorrow due to snow? And if the roads are passable, which ones are best to aim for? Asking for a stressed friend....

AW are not know for their good management of water resources. I feel for farmers in that area, knowing that this kind of weather will no doubt repeat, and they are not given support. As much as we love a good heatwave, food security is not guaranteed if water resources are mishandled. I can’t wait for some decent storms now ️️️

Amazing stuff I love this summer! I’ve been heating up water to do the dishes in the nice free heat. I have a question, don’t know where to post it - is there any pattern to winter precipitation following on from this hot dry summer? I remember huge snow falls in Devon after the v dry 1976 summer, but don’t know if anyone can judge by now what this winter will be like? Only because, Anglian Water bragging that their aquifers are 80% full meanwhile not implementing a hosepipe ban seems really annoyingly arrogant. Do they have inside knowledge that we are forecast a wet winter, or are they just stupid and short sighted?

Making do with the Coop ones for now

You can - chop up mushrooms and dry them in the sunshine, they synthesise Vit D just like we do, esp with increased surface area exposed to light. When dried they can retain the vitamin for months. Add to your winter stews to get a summer boost. As far as the potential for rainfall from 17th onwards, how likely is that to verify looking at it from this distance? It looks so promising, but I don’t want to get my hopes up.

Just imagine my 30 minute commute on 2 buses, then following that with four lessons, Yr 9, Yr 8, and 2 lots of Yr 10, having finished all their courses this week, why the hell do we need to be in there in school with them, we have nothing to offer except a babysitting service at this point, in a room which I will not be able to keep cool AND ventilated, and I myself am in a Covid household at the moment and the likelihood is either I or my students will get ill from either Covid or Heat exhaustion. I am furious that despite the models showing the wave for at least the past week/10 days, the schools have not put into action any kind of plan to close or collapse the timetables to make it safe. What is the point of hi tech modelling if the systems which should use it to make contingencies are ignoring the warnings? Full marks to the models btw, just not happy that they seem to be showing such spectacularly unpleasant heat.

Getting my son into watching storms, a nice one passed by from Witney to Oxford, here is a snippet. IMG_7775.MOV

Closer, closer… I miss decent storms SO MUCH

Same here, I had to lie down, heat in Oxfordshire too much, too soon. Just clouded over a little now, first time for hours.

Beautiful evening last night, open day at school so lots of visitors able to move around the site in still, balmy air, glorious sunshine and sunset, warm, dry, comfortable. Today, a whole day of meetings, performance management work and online assignments so no chance to really enjoy the gorgeous sunshine, but glad to see it was there and kids enjoyed a sunny day off. Next week though....

Absolutely beautiful day, I wore a summer dress, and coincidentally two people on separate occasions stopped me to say how nice my dress looked This is a good day, happy Autumn everyone, make sure you enjoy tomorrow's rain too!

Before I get stuck into following the wrong thread, is Oxfordshire usually classed as South East for snow purposes, or are we South Midlands? Or does it depend on which was the wind is bringing the snow? So excited about Sunday, literally like a small child....

Is that right now? Exciting!