Come rain snow or shine

Major beast from the east in March *and* April in 1965. Or was it '66...

Hope it's not a bitter pill to swallow.

Come closer, oh mighty beast!

Not so many cars on the roads in those days. Plenty of people still used bicycles, buses and trains. And walked. The windows inside the buses were often iced up. The wind whipped in from the beastly east, south east and north east. Take your pick! The coldest days were with a south easterly and leaden skies. The weather forecast at 5.55pm on the home service [now radio 4] quite often had warnings of moderate to heavy snowfalls in various parts of the country, or countrywide. Totally dream weather for snow fanatics. Here's a pic of a leaden sky in the South East [Sutton, Surrey], in Jan or Feb 1964, grabbed from the web...

...and knitting them with weeds or summat else from the garden. Impressive!

Three months of it was great for children but not, i suspect, for adults ... except for the snow geeks. I wuz there.

Strictly speaking, and as you may know, December 1962, and Jan + Feb 1963. The "big freeze" fizzled out as March got going.

The model output discussion indicates a Beast From The East MkII might be on the cards, in about 10 days.

Yes, March and April '65 very much were.

I'm not keen on normality of any kind. It's soooooo ...boring - except when the sun is shining on unthawed snow, or wher shining in the spring, summer or early autumn.

Good idea. I'm hoofing it for the night now. G'nite one and all.

Just seen this - possible snow event on 16th March... in the SE.

2010 i believe was the year a small low formed over NE France or Holland in the evening, moved north-ish while expanding in size, then a tad west, and sat over southern england all night ... giving us in west sussex 1ft of snow. i presume east anglia was too far away to be much affected by it.

Maybe on the 10th day or just beyond.

Not an udder pun!

"Ricochet" also a very good album, by TD.

Yes. LPs/albums were a tad shorter back in the day lol. The album "Phaedra" was a big hit. "Rubycon" was also gr8. Loads more albums by Tangerine Dream

I'm into Alpha Centauri

Scandi high in place a week or tomo or Tuesday/Weds... on at least one set of synoptics. Another set shows a low over Norway giving us a cold northerly/north north westerly ... with a polar low moving south. I really like polar lows. But that's all quite a way off.

Talking of frogs, as some of us were ... i snapped this mass of spawn this afternnon in a field that is often quite flooded. A smaller mass was nearby. Click the image to enlarge it if you like.

Parsnips are fine during and after frost. They can be kept in the ground all winter. I dug two up today and - they were in very good condition and tasted yummy.

The well advanced ones here were not at all keen on the mega cold at night. The leaves and budding stems drooped big time - without any snow on them to weigh them down.

Absolutely by no means. The synoptics aside, frogs can be mating here in Jan/Feb one night, then wake up one day to see snow falling. It happens. We have a pond, lol. 2 or 3 nights before the beast hit last week, i saw a female great crested newt on the hunt for food. Hope she made it to somewhere not mega freezing.

Or from polar regions? I'd better have a look at the latest synoptics. Yes, now looks like easterlies [-ish] from the continent, not northerlies, and not directly from Siberia, could be on the cards. Interesting. If it happens, those easterlies would be slipping south, but not from polar reagions. Maybe we'll all be radar watching in a week's time if not before, lol. NB, the winds might come in from scandinavia, but sort of not from directly from a scandi high. Fun times *might* be approaching in a few days.

Next weekend - possibly very windy with the potential for rain to turn to snow in central and southern areas. Source: the met office. That'll be caused by a deep low that's expected to move east-ish across the south or the channel.