[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Heard the rain on the dormer roof when I got up this morning and although it looks to have passed through now, it’s left everything damp so nowhere near as good a start to yesterday and Tuesday.

doesn’t look like a bad day coming up though, maybe a few showers but compared to the conditions we’ve endured for much of this spring, passable.

just need the warmer air to push up ahead of Saturdays system and for that to remain to our south, then we may manage to get a half decent few days.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 carinthian now that is some snow, not the piddling amounts we have to put up with.

It’s bad enough when wagon wheels and mars bars are affected by shrinkflation but these days it’s even snowfall.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Cut the grass on Sunday, cut it again today although with the blade set a notch lower and I’ve took as much off now as I did last time around.

at least it looks more like a lawn and less like a upland meadow now but the sooner it dries out and growth slows down the easier it gets.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

A lovely day although still a nagging cool feel to things.

at least it’s dry though so probably worth cutting the grass before things no doubt deteriorate towards the weekend.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

The first chink of daylight starting to appear when I got up at 4.45 this morning so even though the weather might still think it’s winter, summer is definitely on its way.

just hope it doesn’t forget to bring its mates sunny, dry and warm with it.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Another poor days weather, rain never really that heavy but the wet periods were certainly longer than the dry bits in between and a raw feel to things just to rub it in even more.

the decent couple of days over the weekend are a distant memory now and I’m glad I managed to get the grass cut as I doubt it will be dry enough over the next 5 days.

We may have just been spoilt over the last few years with decent springs and even last year which was a bit iffy had its dry, sunny and warm periods but this one really takes crappyness to a whole new level.

nowt we can do about it though and selfishly, at least it is a countrywide crappyness rather than us looking on enviously while the decent weather is hogging other parts.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

A much better day and weekend than I was expecting, especially this far east.

coolish under the cloud first thing today but once the sun got to work it felt warm and the sunshine has been just about constant since.

still cool in the shade though but it was nice sat having a pint at the side of the canal at Sowerby Bridge when we went over the see daughter and family.

probably back to the usual conditions tomorrow and not looking very good for the rest of the week but after the absolute dross over the winter months, it was nice to get a couple of decent, if not spectacular days coinciding with the weekend.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Cloudy start but it’s turned  into a lovely sunny morning now and feels pleasantly warm.

I haven’t seen the forecast today but it’s certainly better than I was expecting looking at what yesterdays was saying.

grass cut and strimmed so off over the top and down Calderdale to see the little lad and family.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

A dry day yesterday and a dry start this morning……..when will this dry spell ever end

as already said, probably later today so a bit of a wait for the late sleepers to surface and then my morning will be making the most of it by cutting the grass and a bit of tidying up then possibly off over the border to see grandson and family.

already 4 months old, does time fly.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Had Worse it’s been an half decent day being a Burnley fan although it’s a bit easier when your expectations are measured in games won rather than trophy’s won

relegation still pretty well nailed on but a few points picked over the easy games of Man U away, Newcastle at home and Spurs away and my the next game on the Turf, the last one against Forest could be an interesting couple of hours.

as for the weather, been in the sunshine at Cheshire Oaks for a good few hours but the cloud at home disappeared and since late afternoon it’s been lovely.

As for tomorrow, forecast not as good but providing its dry it’ll do.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Thought I’d get up to see the sunshine before the expected cloud starts to block it out across this part of the region.

it’s a lovely morning so far though with a good coating of frost on the usual prone surfaces.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Scuba steve  just walked in the living room as the Granada regional weather was on and wish I’d have turned the other way.

Apparently Saturday looks to be the best day with plenty of sunshine but then she put in the disclaimer that the more eastern parts will keep the cloud

Sunday is supposed to be a more cloudy day so whether my cloud is more cloudy than Saturdays cloud I’ll have to wait and see

either way it looks like west is best and east is least so maybe I can make the short walk over the hill from East Lancashire into West Yorkshire and bask in their wall to wall sunshine

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

No surprise that in a period where a dry spell is measured in hours, a dry sunny morning was spoilt by an afternoon of alternating brightness and heavy showers.

even the dry days have ended up being wet and after several days of northerly’s which would usually give nothing but gin clear skies this far inland, we have ended up with deluge after deluge.

I’m not going down the road of who is to blame for climate change and whether it’s even man made but if this is what global warming is going to give us then I need to find my receipt and see if I have been miss sold something.

anyway I just about managed to cut a length of skirting board outside between showers so it could be worse.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Weather-history from memory the summer that followed wasn’t anything special though.

I certainly remember a lot of local cricket matches being effected by rain with a few games being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Jan  you want to live up here, jumper and jacket can be essential wear in any month of the year

as for todays weather, the rain arrived on time and certainly didn’t hold back once it started with it turning into a miserable and thoroughly wet afternoon.

still not cleared through yet and I’m expecting the usual damp conditions to still be hanging around in the morning.

at least it’ll keep the frost away though.

[April 2021 - Very Cold but Very Sunny]

 Don aye it’ wasn’t a bad one really.

a few snowfalls but the main thing that set it apart from most winters was the gin coloured skies that came with it, maybe the lack of aircraft as the skies were similar to those during the spring of 2020.

some of the best walking conditions I’ve seen though and with the winter lockdown meaning that there wasn’t a lot else to you, we made the most of it.

the third picture is my local and what it didn’t show was a decent sized gazebo put up on the car park ready for the pubs opening that weekend.

it completely collapsed under the weight of the snow as did a few others around these parts

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Just watched the forecast and another weather front coming in from the northwest.

certainly a change from the default southwesterly direction and something that we’d have sold our mother for in the depths of winter.

[April 2021 - Very Cold but Very Sunny]

 My main memories are a sunny and decently warm Easter followed by waking up to this on the following Saturday.

the heaviest fall of snow here in a winter that started at Christmas and had already given plenty.

 

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

I scraped a bit of ice off the windscreen going to work yesterday morning and looking at the bathroom window, I’ll be doing the same again today.

probably not an issue tomorrow though as the wipers will no doubt be clearing the last of the rain that looks like ruining the second half of today before hopefully a dry couple of days coincides with the weekend.

Unfortunately it’s not looking like sunny dry though.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Best day of the week so far but even today couldn’t escape a couple of afternoon showers.

A coolish feeling breeze as well with little strength in the sun to modify the cold airmass currently over us.

oh to have the had the same set up in the middle of winter.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Rush2019 same up here, it’s nice to see a bit of sunshine first thing and for a dry day coming up.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

A better day than yesterday with plenty of blue sky and only spoilt by a couple of heavy hail and rain showers early afternoon.

It looks like the majority of the showers were further west than here which is pretty much the case whenever there is a NNW flow and it’s turned into a lovely although cold evening.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 Rain Lady  aye it doesn’t matter which side of the GW debate you sit on, the conditions since early summer last year have been abysmal and we will all likely feel the effects in terms of substandard foods at higher prices.

if this turns out to have been a freak event and conditions settle down into a lengthy period of good weather then some sort of normality will return and GW will suddenly become a positive thing but months of continuing wet weather has certainly played havoc with all aspects of life and I really feel for anyone trying to make a living in these conditions.

Thankfully the dire conditions of yesterday should improve into something drier over the next few days with that rarest of beast, a high pressure system looking to set up shop around this part of the world but to me it looks like a drier but largely cloudy affair and, given the need for sunshine at this time of year, suppressed temperatures.

I certainly cannot see us reaching for the sun cream and dusting the BBQ off anytime soon.

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Deafening 15 minutes of hail left everything white and my missus struggling to hear Emmerdale.

Could do with the same again for when Corrie is on shortly

[Northwest Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

We spent the morning stuck under the type of northwesterly streamer and high winds that would have given a massive dumping and blizzards in winter but nothing but disgusting torrential rain today.

A slight improvement in the afternoon but another couple of lighter showers have just passed through in the last hour but after all of the rain, the grass will have to wait until things seriously dry out again.

maybe June if we are lucky