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Crepuscular Ray

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  1. Andy. I apologise for doubting you. There is settling snow outside. I haven’t heard a gritter yet, so the Mountain Road could be nasty in the morning.
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  3. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Garreg Lwyd about an hour ago. Melting already by then, but with snow and hail showers.
  4. Dxnielwashere Nothing in the way of thunder the westernmost of your circles. After a gloomy morning, the afternoon became gloriously sunny, although out of doors, it felt a lot chillier than the 13.5 °C the thermometer was registering.
  5. @snefnug Hopefully without the bad acting. After the change of the cold snap, it’s been back to variations on the theme of wet and grey here. According to my weather station, there were 8 hours and 58 minutes between sunrise and sunset here today, so there should be 9 tomorrow. It would be nice to catch a glimpse of blue sky or the Sun …
  6. I have been keeping an eye out, but this village seems to escape snow when the wind is in the current direction.
  7. As Wetterfrosch says, the jet stream has dumped the rain here, not there. My running total for the month is 318 mm, and I’ll top 100 mm for the week sometime in the next few hours. Most of the garden seems to have survived intact, although the watering-can has disappeared. This side of the village was only without electricity for an hour, but the other side took almost four to get power restored.
  8. Penetrating drizzle has just set in here, after a few brief breaks in the cloud earlier. It’s banana-bread-making time here. If I get over the ridiculously early appearance of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs in the corner shop, I might manage to pick up the enthusiasm to put some lemon frosting on my creation.
  9. Down to -5 here last night, and another gloriously sparkly morning. After four days languishing with the you-know-what, I’ve finally got the energy to get outside to enjoy the sunshine before the return of the rain (fingers crossed for at least a sprinkle of the white stuff in between).
  10. Me, too, generally about 4 degrees lower than the forecast. Someone else’s weather station about half a mile away registers temperatures closer to the forecast ones, though, so I have been putting it down to microclimate.
  11. I concur with Midlands Ice Age’s comments about the BBC not changing their information early enough, their inherent bias towards southern England. You wouldn’t have known that there was also bad weather in the north from a different system. I don’t think the problem would be solved by returning to the Met Office as a data provider, though, as the delay is - as far as I can gather - in the BBC’s own systems, which lead to a gap of some hours between the arrival of data from the model runs at six- or 12-hourly intervals and the final forecasts/graphics being produced. Obviously, this should be quicker now than it was before the introduction of computers, but I don’t think things would have been updated any quicker on the Beeb on Wednesday/Thursday whichever provider they used. I doubt that the Hampshire and IoW Council, National Rail, etc. - unlike MIA’s golfing friends - rely on the BBC for planning purposes, rather than subscribing to the Met Office or any of the commercial providers. In addition to their inflexibility, the Beeb forecasts can never go into enough detail. My local council has roads ranging from sea level to 500 metres within the space of under 20 miles; the Beeb just can’t cover that level of information in a 2-minute national forecast.
  12. 2006 London tornado - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG It was an interesting morning, to say the least.
  13. Perhaps because Dawlish is east-facing and better sheltered?
  14. Human nature being what it is, the last two words of that will prompt the few who haven’t already stockpiled necessities to head out and snap up the last few loo rolls.
  15. After yet another wet night, it was a gorgeous sunny morning again, mostly, so I had to get out into the garden to finish off moving various pots, tubs of plants out of harm’s way in case Ciaran does take a left turn, especially my Nye Bevan roses, which were about as exposed as they could be in what is relatively sheltered spot, considering I’m on the edge of the Bannau. One of them took revenge on my arms. I was pleased to see that the moss is finally making a comeback in the lawn, after it took a beating during that hot dry patch all those months ago in May/June. I’m perhaps odd in wanting it there, but I’m not bothered about having a perfect lawn and the moss helps to regulate the flow of water off the hill - towards the kitchen floor - in wet weather.
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