The Weather Thread (Sponsored by the Autumn Equinox 2015)

[Giggles]

Gardening in this is an absolute bitch.

[Spikey M]

The decent weather has finally turned up here. :drool:

[Waffdon]

Glasgow looking like Costa Adeje thie next 10 days. Cunts.

[Boydy]

I sat out in the garden for about 30 minutes and had to come back in. It's too hot.

[Waffdon]

Hayfever is going to be grim as fuck next week.

Cloudy every day with it ranging from 22c-24c. Gies my sun back

[Magic]

It hasn't been sunny here for like 5 days. Shite.

[Waffdon]

Saturday and Sunday were glorious. Base tan sorted for the holiday already :cool:

[Don]

I had my lunch outside and was on the verge of getting sunburnt within 30 mins. Sizzling baby :drool:

I've cleared my Saturday and Sunday ready to enjoy sustained heatstroke but Met Office are saying possible clouds until Monday. Fuck aaarf.

[Spikey M]

Still 16 and windy here. Meant to change soon though, thank christ.

[Boydy]

It's been a little cooler and a bit cloudier here this week and I'm happy with that. At least I can sleep at night.

[Mike]

Got a gazebo and some outside furniture to enjoy the fantastic run of weather. So it’s my fault when it rains all weekend.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Was scorching here today.

Went for a 20 minute walk earlier and almost melted.

Ended up shaving my hair off because of the heat (not bald, Lewis, I used the 0.5 clipper guard).

[Waffdon]

Let’s see

[Kikó]

30 here the next couple of days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Scorchio today, I'm doing 120 overs in it. Bring it on.

[Ben]

Factor 50 the first item in the cricket bag today. :cool:

[Spikey M]

Apparently it will be 37 degrees on Saturday. :sick:

I would love a repeat of last year's summer here, but the 35+ shenanigans is a no go. The nights without aircon were merciless. Could do without the field and forest fires too. That aside, global warming gets a big thumbs up from me so far.

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[Luke Emia]

I would love a repeat of last year's summer here, but the 35+ shenanigans is a no go. The nights without aircon were merciless. Could do without the field and forest fires too. That aside, global warming gets a big thumbs up from me so far.

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Buying an air conditioner last year even if it was only for like 3 weeks use was the best thing I’ve ever done.

[Manc]

24 degrees in my garden genuinely feels warmer than the 32 I was being hit with in Mexico.

[Mike]

Got a gazebo and some outside furniture to enjoy the fantastic run of weather. So it’s my fault when it rains all weekend.
Money well spent

[randomlegend]

Buying an air conditioner last year even if it was only for like 3 weeks use was the best thing I’ve ever done.

What sort did you get?

I looked into getting proper aircon fitted in the bedroom but the quotes were like £1500 minimum which seemed mental.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Went to the shops.

When I went in it was 30c, when I cam out it was absolutely pissing it down.

I'm completely drenched.

[Baz]

My phone is telling me it’s 29 degrees. There’s a very gentle warm breeze. This, in my opinion, is perfect weather. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Went to the shops.

When I went in it was 30c, when I cam out it was absolutely pissing it down.

I'm completely drenched.

I had the same thing yesterday. There's a certain point of being wet when you can't get any more wet than you already are, and then it starts being quite nice in a way, at least with this warm tropical thunderstorm type rain.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Better than the water pressure in my shower at home.

[Ben]

The weather station at work is reading 24.1C. There's no wind and that's pretty perfect I'd say. Too far north to be troubled by thunderstorms.

[Waffdon]

Aye, this is fucking wonderful.

[Baz]

I’ve just replied to everyone who tweeted the words cool bath in the last 12 hours with that’s what Mike Tyson calls me.

[Baz]

Anyone elses hands feel permanently minging in this weather? I wanna wash them every half hour.

[Lofty]

24 degrees in my garden genuinely feels warmer than the 32 I was being hit with in Mexico.

I've seen it said it is to do with the humidity difference.

[Adramelch]

Yeah humidity is far worse than temperature. It routinely hits 40 in the summer over here, but there's been humid days at like 27 degrees that are far worse.

[Don]

We're cat sitting (fuck knows) and can't open windows beyond a 1cm gap as it may be stupid enough to fall out or some shit. Last few days has been good character-building for when the real heatwave begins.

[Ben]

My mood is so much better when the weather is like this. Can’t get my head around people who enjoy cold weather or dark nights.

[Boydy]

Cause we're actually people and not just plants.

[Magic]

We're cat sitting (fuck knows) and can't open windows beyond a 1cm gap as it may be stupid enough to fall out or some shit. Last few days has been good character-building for when the real heatwave begins.

Have the same issue. Brutal.

[Lofty]

Got a Meaco fan :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I got a massive fan and it's almost too big. Living room is ending up like that scene from Toast of London where he's trying to prove he's the best high winds actor in the world.

[Manc]

I've completely sacked off work this week to make the most of the clear skies. Clouds look to be rolling in from Sunday onwards.

[Waffdon]

Are you using all your Annual Leave within a few months or are you WFH still and playing the system?

[Giggles]

They all work very hard Waff.

[Manc]

30° predicted for Sunday. RIP to you boys in the south.

[Spikey M]

I plan to Rest In Pool indeed. :drool:

[Shindig]

Is Michael Barrymore coming round?

[Shindig]

Thunder as fuck right now. And some hail.

[Giggles]

Could we not even get the tail end of this heat wave in mainland Europe? It's rained for 3 fucking weeks now.

[Spikey M]

It's been such a shit summer here. We didn't get the "record breaking June" the news have been banging on about, because of that easterly and July has just been showers and wind.

The Summer Holidays start this Friday, so I imagine it only gets worse from here. :moop:

[Manc]

July has been piss poor. June had it's moments.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It was quite a nice 23-25c here today.

[Manc]

This rain is ridiculous.

[Mike]

It really is. Bring back the heatwave!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It was a nice 23c here today.

Pissed down all day yesterday though and it's meant to rain the rest of the week.

[Spikey M]

Worst summer for about 10 years here, while Europe is on fire. Lucky bastards.

[Jimmy Floyd]

2021 was worse than this. This year it just keeps raining at weekends.

[Spikey M]

Not here. It's been shite since May here.

[Magic]

Incredible June but July has rained every day (most of the time all day and night), with the odd sunny moments in between.

[Waffdon]

Yeah, June was really good. Not idea what it was like the first two weeks in July but since I’ve been back it’s been 18c max with clouds or rain most days

[niko_cee]

Having a named storm in the first week of August is a bit unusual is it not? Weather's absolutely tragic at the moment.

[Magic]

34C in the Algarve. 13C and weather warnings back home. :harold:

[Don]

The mental health of this country come January :happycry:

Need to plan some winter sun trip cause this is desperate.

[Baz]

Heating is on today to dry the washing. 5th August.

[Spikey M]

It's meant to improve next week, but this summer has been absolutely unacceptable.

[niko_cee]

It was good early doors although I accept you seem to have been in that small bit of the country that has been shit the whole time. I was in Woburn at the end of May for half term and experienced a bit of that inexplicable nice everywhere else but bastard cold wind for you guys over here treatment.

[Pepe]

27 degrees over here. :drool:

It has been a great summer so far. Only got like a week of stupid heat. The rest has been quite bearable.

[Spikey M]

29c at the end of this week lads. Better late than never.

[Baz]

Why does it appear to have rained brown?

Car is filthy.

[Gray Fox]

It's sand/dust from the Sahara that's been carried over. Saw a guy who had washed his car a day or two ago SEETHING about it.

[Baz]

I don’t blame him.

When is it likely to be done, so I can wash it off?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's rain? It's 30c here.

[Spikey M]

Same here. Had the day off today too, so took my boy to the beach. Beautiful stuff, but as ever, the nights are a bitch.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah I was sweating like crazy last night.

[Gray Fox]

I don’t blame him.

When is it likely to be done, so I can wash it off?

Not sure when, but it's rough and might scuff up the paint if you dont hose it off first.

[niko_cee]

This weather is beyond a joke. After months of utter shite don't be rolling this out now.

[Baz]

Teachers crying. Rain and clouds all summer holidays and now 28 degrees while they’re back in the classrooms. :harold:

[niko_cee]

I guess that's a silver lining.

[Jimmy Floyd]

32 on Saturday, I might cry.

[Offshore Toon]

Teachers crying. Rain and clouds all summer holidays and now 28 degrees while they’re back in the classrooms. :harold:
I was off for 24 days flopping between overcast 18 and suffocating 40 then went back to work Monday and picked up a cold to make it all the worse. Praise jah.

[Spikey M]

I usually love weather like this, but there's something about this particular bout that is just unpleasant. Last night was like sleeping in a kiln.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This needs to be in June or July. In September with the light going earlier, it's absolute hell on earth. My head is all over the show.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Going to the gym and walking probably wasn't the best idea. My body was like a tap on full blast and I feel sorry for anyone who saw me on the way back.

[Dark Soldier]

I've been working in the back garden, lounger out, top off and tits on display. Vast vast whiteness projecting off me. I'm a sausage roll, Stella and firebombing a coloured person's house away from being perfectly English.

[Ben]

In classic British fashion when the sun is out, I’ve ditched work and am sat in the beer garden with a Stella. We all love this weather, don’t deny it. I actually feel patriotic.

[Dark Soldier]

You better get a kebab on the way home and start a fight with a shuttered shop window.

[Giggles]

Especially if it has a forrin sounding name.

[Giggles]

I just made the mistake of turning on the news. Rain CLIMATE CHANGE, wind CLIMATE CHANGE, sun CLIMATE CHANGE. Twats.

[Spikey M]

twats.

climate change?

[Giggles]

climate change?

Probably.

[Giggles]

That would have been better if all caps worked here.

[Spikey M]

It was typed in all caps. I forgot the obligatory small letter in white and it did me dirty.

[Offshore Toon]

The Irish calling outsiders 'Arabs' trumps anything I've heard in England.

[Giggles]

:D unlikely.

[Spikey M]

95% humidity overnight. Absolutely disgusting.

[Clunge]

It was 24C here at midnight.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't get how I'm supposed to sleep in this.

[Luke Emia]

I don't get how I'm supposed to sleep in this.

Air-con unit. It’s the best thing I’ve ever bought. Even this year when the weather hasn’t been that great it’s been more than worth having just for the past week or so.

[Mike]

A good quality fan too. The last heatwave we had some cheap fan lightly pushing hot air around and it was awful.0
Costco were selling the Meaco 1056 fan and having heard good stuff online about it, I picked one up. It’s brilliant. Actually cools the room down.
We also got a Woozoo Globe fan for my daughters room for half the price, it does a good job, but nothing like the Meaco.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thankfully the last few nights have been fine for me.

Temperature dipped at the right time with a nice breeze coming through.

[Shindig]

Build a fucking ark, lads. It's monsoon season. :drool:

[Baz]

Hoping these impending thunderstorms give the car a good blast.

[Spikey M]

Nothing of the sort here. Hottest day of the year so far. Had a barbecue and pool day. :cool:

Another night of fuck all sleep to follow. Un-:cool:

[Baz]

Worst summer for about 10 years here, while Europe is on fire. Lucky bastards.

No pleasing you. :p

[Spikey M]

The lack of sleep is annoying, but I will gladly take it over the utter shite we had for most of the summer.

[Lofty]

A good quality fan too. The last heatwave we had some cheap fan lightly pushing hot air around and it was awful.0
Costco were selling the Meaco 1056 fan and having heard good stuff online about it, I picked one up. It’s brilliant. Actually cools the room down.
We also got a Woozoo Globe fan for my daughters room for half the price, it does a good job, but nothing like the Meaco.

I also have a Meaco and confirm it is the bollocks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tonight is a shitter.

[AJ23]

Sweating like King Kong wrapped in cling film. Just drop the temperature by 5c and it'll be alright.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unbelievably violent thunderstorms ongoing here, to the point that sleep is impossible.

[Don]

Just found it's way to SE23 and this might be one of the most beautiful bits of weather I've ever witnessed. I don't know if I'm finally a fully fledged gammon or what but fuck the sun, this is transcendent shit.

[Clunge]

We're CR4 and I slept through the whole lot :sorry:.

[Shindig]

19 degrees in October is a bit ominous. We're going to baking when we reach our 50's.

[niko_cee]

At the moment we're still in credit from the shit summer.

I was a bit confused when I saw something about record breaking July and August temperatures this year, before realising it was global average.

[Spikey M]

We were promised 26c on Sunday but they've now pulled it back to 21c. If we weren't going on holiday next Thursday I'd be going fully Jurgen Klopp at the MetOffice.

[Waffdon]

iPhone weather app definitely the most accurate.

[Giggles]

There's not one of them accurate, even the national ones, unless they're forecasting later the same day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I spend the whole summer poring over minute details of weather, and can confirm that the Met Office shits all over any of the others from a great height.

[Boydy]

I remember reading a while back that 5G was going to disrupt weather forecasting accuracy (actually not a conspiracy theory despite it sounding very much like one) and I wonder if that's why all the forecasts seem shit these days.

Also did read something recently about the BBC switching away from the Met Office as their source of data/forecasts for some cheaper option so that's why BBC Weather is shit. I dunno.

[Don]

As Spikey said, I was gearing up for a 25+ heatwave weekend before having to brace myself for a few months of hibernation but it's diluted down to more of a 20+ week of nothingness instead. Pretty much the same happening to the seasons as a whole, I haven't even started wearing any layers on top of my T-shirt yet and it's a week into October.

[Ben]

Ventusky always serves well for cricket I've found.

[Giggles]

I spend the whole summer poring over minute details of weather, and can confirm that the Met Office shits all over any of the others from a great height.

They haven’t a breeze either. None of them do.

[Waffdon]

A little bit of rain and they’ve cancelled trains for the full day. Christ

[Waffdon]

Red warning for rain. Hopefully the Council shut the flood defence gates this week after forgetting to the other week. :lol:

[Ben]

I only remember red warnings being rolled out for heat, not rain.

[Waffdon]

Looks like I might just about miss the actual area given for the red warning. A bit too south. Phone still says it’s going to rain for the next week though.

Looks like they’re proper confident about it too. ‘There is now high confidence in exceptional rainfall across Angus and South Aberdeenshire’. 250mm in 24 hours for some :drool:

[Spikey M]

We fly back tomorrow. Landing with a yellow warning for rain and wind in place. Yay.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It was meant to be THE STORM TO END ALL STORMS here but it's barely windy and there's been fuck all rain. It's not even that chilly.

[Lewis]

I think it's definitely the end of Shorts Season.

[Giggles]

Never.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wore shorts today, I'm not doing a gym workout in trousers.

[niko_cee]

It was meant to be THE STORM TO END ALL STORMS here but it's barely windy and there's been fuck all rain. It's not even that chilly.

The rain is on the way, it's biblical down in Horsham at the moment.

I see we named this one, what the fuck is this name all about? Can't even give the Irish grief for their weird names when we roll Storm Babet out. Has that been through some sort of inclusivity filter?

Edit - I see it is the Dutch who are at least partially responsible.

[Manc]

I think it's definitely the end of Shorts Season.

Not a chance.

[niko_cee]

If anything it's been getting warmer in the last few days.

[Waffdon]

Poor Brechin have been given an evacuation order :lol:

[Magic]

It's wild here, but to be honest not *that* bad. Drama queens.

[Waffdon]

Aye, rain hasn’t been too bad. Very windy and a bit grim. Red alert covering Perth and Dundee now. Let’s see the chaos - if any - that 6pm brings.

[Waffdon]

Not even fkn raining :D

[Magic]

The wind is pretty horrendous but it's just like fine, pishy rain. It was way worse two weekends ago.

[Magic]

Ok I take it all back l.o.l.

[Waffdon]

Hope the boats aren’t too unstable for your rescue mission

[Spikey M]

It's just the greyest grey I have ever seen here. And drizzle. Relentless, never ending drizzle.

[Shindig]

Aye, I've just been out and it feels like 10pm.

[Baz]

Forest vs Luton meant to be postponed due to rain. What a joke.

(Although apparently the derby is at risk so :sst:)

[Yevrah]

I was in the Midlands for work the week just gone and on Friday morning a journey that should have taken 20 minutes from the hotel to work took nearly an hour and at one point I thought I was going to end up on local news. Thankfully a kindly resident guided me through what I can only describe as a lake, but having already driven into a kerb head on (that was completely submerged) my car is now sans a front number plate.

How easy is it to get a new one? It's a hire car so I guess I'll have to go through Lex, but I need to be driving the thing from Tuesday onwards and I'd rather not get 3 points for doing so...

[Jimmy Floyd]

I seem to remember Halfords do them in store, could be bollocks though.

[niko_cee]

You generally need the V5C to get proper plates printed, don't you?

[Boydy]

They're advising people here not to travel between 9pm tonight and 9am tomorrow due to heavy rain. There's gonna be chaos at tomorrow morning's rush hour. Thank fuck I work from home.

[Giggles]

Fuck, I've to be up there for 8am.

[Magic]

Fuck, I've to be up there for 8am.

Well the obvious answer here is not to go. Fuck you work.

[Giggles]

Or just leave a couple of hours earlier.

[Magic]

Or just leave a couple of hours earlier.

As long as you're getting paid fine.

[Boydy]

Fuck, I've to be up there for 8am.

If you're going west you might be alright as I think the worst of it is Armagh, Down and Antrim.

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[Giggles]

Belfast, but I'll stick to the A1.

[Magic]

When are these constant storms going to stop? Firmly cementing October/November as the worst two months in the calendar.

[Giggles]

They've always been there, it's just that weather porn sells now so they name them and cause panic for clicks.

[Giggles]

Customer rescheduled until tomorrow after all. What's the word on the street up there now for tomorrow Boydy?

[Boydy]

There's a yellow warning for tomorrow but shouldn't be as bad as last night's/this morning's amber warning.

[Spikey M]

Amber warning for here now tomorrow. Fence-gate part 2 on the cards? Seething.

[Don]

Still seems fairly mild temperature wise. Trialling sleeping with the window open this autumn/winter. My clothing choice for sleep is a t-shirt and boxers and so far, it's still working out well but I suspect layers will quickly be needed come the end of this month before we bin the experiment off in mid-December.

[Offshore Toon]

We've got a stay at home order for Thursday. This could be the greatest storm of our lifetime, so I'm gonna check it out later and probably have a tree fall onto my car. I can already hear the world rumbling away and we're nowhere near started. :drool:

[Spikey M]

The track still looks quite uncertain as to weather Northern France or Southern England is going to get the brunt of it.

France, Hopefully.

[Ben]

The weather radar we use at work very firmly believes it'll be the south coast getting bummed.

[Giggles]

I'm just glad we're not due to be what breaks it up for everyone else for once.

[Spikey M]

The Amber warning for wind seems ridiculous at the moment. It's windy but nothing abnormal.

[Ben]

We've got a yellow warning for rain but the forecast has it peaking at 2mm/hour around lunchtime.

[Spikey M]

It is absolutely wanking it down here, so they atleast got that bit right.

Looking at the models I think it's taken the southern track and the brunt of it is hitting where it's most deserved: France.

[niko_cee]

And Offy's manor, where the superhorsepower mentality has seen their local politicians gathering up hailstones and posting pics of them next to rulers for scale. Gutted probably doesn't begin to describe their airport 'only' clocking 93mph winds.

[Shindig]

This might play havoc with the train home but that's future me's problem.

[Offshore Toon]

Some serious damage here. A fair amount of roofs gone and walls tumbled, mostly due to a tornado ripping through St Clements.

Tornado:
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1719901294864032245?t=EueMaTeV3wgdOSkqiZHKWw&s=19

There's a video of a cyclone out at sea that looks insane too. I'd have loved to see that irl.

But thankfully I'm fine, so please don't worry guys. How's Guernsey, Niko?

[niko_cee]

I think it's fine, but I no longer live there. The west coast may have been a bit flooded at the high tide this morning, but other than a few trees down don't think the wind did much damage.

[Yevrah]

An actual Tornado in Jersey? We really have upset the almighty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Might have to invest in a boat if this keeps up.

[Magic]

Noah's Skidmark

[Shindig]

Everything went fine. All the rail bother was happening on other routes. All the same, I'd like the bus strike to be swiftly resolved so I don't have to rely on one train every two hours.

[Offshore Toon]

Noah's Skidmark
Floating forward.

[Magic]

Floating forward.

:baz:

[Yevrah]

The wind in the South East is genuinely ridiculous at the moment.

[Waffdon]

The rain is back. Missed you, old friend.

[Spikey M]

The wind in the South East is genuinely ridiculous at the moment.

It's sunny and just a bit breezy down here. I think the North has a NAMED STORM today though.

[thommo]

Had to skirt around another fallen tree due to the wind on the way to work this morning. That's 3 in the past 2 months or so, the B road is an absolute mess with leaves and sticks all over the shop.

[Giggles]

We've had a named one all night (what sort of spelling is Debi?) and it was rough enough but nothing near the "SEVERE THREAT TO LIFE" we were told.

[niko_cee]

I reckon we blame the Dutch again.

Although I have been emailing someone called Taylah this morning, so who knows. Debi well within the realms of modern possibility. If anything, perhaps a bit too normal spelling. Dhebby.

[Manc]

Insane winds round my way. Shorts just about held out.

[Spikey M]

It's fairly blowy here now. Worse than when we had the Amber warning a couple of weeks ago, but no warning this time. I'm not sure how the warning system works, but it doesn't seem to make much sense.

[Baz]

https://gifs.cackhanded.net/that-mitchell-and-webb-look/please-remain-indoors.gif

[Spikey M]

I feel like the SAD is kicking in early this year. The relentless grey and damp. Dear lord, please just transport me to May.

[Magic]

I feel like the SAD is kicking in early this year. The relentless grey and damp. Dear lord, please just transport me to May.

Yep. It's not even so much the dark, just the diabolical endless shades of grief that currently occupy the space where there should be day.

[Boydy]

I feel like the SAD is kicking in early this year. The relentless grey and damp. Dear lord, please just transport me to May.

Early? Surely just after when the clocks go back is its peak?

[Spikey M]

Early? Surely just after when the clocks go back is its peak?

I'm normally OK until January, where the distraction of Halloween, Christmas and New Years disappears and I'm met with the stark realisation that we still have another 3 months of this shit.

[SvN]

It's unbearably grey and bleak at the moment. I can't remember the last time the ground wasn't wet.

[Baz]

Quite sunny here.

Also SAD is one of the worst “backronyms” I’ve ever heard.

[Ben]

I just thought Spikey was really sad.

[Waffdon]

Me too. :D

The weather isn’t that bad. Hasn’t really rained as much as it was in October and start of this month. can’t even wear my new jacket either as the weather is still in the low teens or just below.

[Offshore Toon]

Yeah, it's been way worse than this before at this time of year. It's basically Christmas now, so there's that. New year is sound as well as it gives you space to get your shit together. March/April is usually when shit starts falling apart for people, just before we get that much needed blast of vit D to bring us to peak.

[Giggles]

Yeah, fuck that.


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[Kikó]

Don't believe the climate change idiots. It's just another way to tax you. Tornados are normal in Ireland.

[Spikey M]

I mean, Britain gets the most Tornados in the world pound for pound, they're just small, as was that one. I imagine the aren't unheard of in Ireland.

[Giggles]

They're not, it's just unlikely that they'd hit an inhabited area. Kiko is just another in a long line of nuts claiming it's climate change related. They clearly didn't buy enough electric cars in the area.

[Shindig]

I'm more bothered about the mosquitos hitting our shores in 2040.

[Baz]

My patio furniture had done a merry dance all around the garden on Saturday night/Sunday morning but it seems to have calmed down now.

[Spikey M]

They're not, it's just unlikely that they'd hit an inhabited area. Kiko is just another in a long line of nuts claiming it's climate change related. They clearly didn't buy enough electric cars in the area.

Yeah, same here. They're normally F1's or F2's and over fields or water, but they do occasionally hit populated areas. Romford and Kings Heath spring to mind.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/5xYMwD4.jpg

Fence panel broke off last night.

[Giggles]

Carbon footprint clearly too high at the Mahow residence.

[John Arne]

Proper mixed bag this week. #consistency

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[Ben]

Don't care what anyone says about heat and humidity being a ballache, I'd take that in a heartbeat right now. It's fucking freezing here, I've had a permanent nipple on for the last two months due to the cold and as if it hadn't rained enough, I've looked out of the window to see what only can be God's arsehole approaching as daylight is fading away fast already just after 10am.

[Spikey M]

It's only day 12 of winter :(

[Waffdon]

Nice and mild this weekend though. Global warming :drool:

[Waffdon]

It's only day 12 of winter :(

You and your Adele gimmick

[Kikó]

I mean, Britain gets the most Tornados in the world pound for pound, they're just small, as was that one. I imagine the aren't unheard of in Ireland.

Rule Britannia, pound for pound tornado champions.

[Spikey M]

Rule Britannia, pound for pound tornado champions.

https://i.ibb.co/njtKwzH/Screenshot-20231212-135126-Facebook.jpg

:o :o :o :o

[Manc]

How many storms are we on for the calendar year?

[Pepe]

I don't know but I can tell you that every single one of them is due to climate change.

[Kikó]

Thank you Pepe for the backup.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Neighbour fixed the fence panel on Sunday but he didn't do a great job.

It wasn't straight and as such it was pushing the rest of the fence up against our gate making it hard to open/close said gate.

Anyway, I just got home and found this:

https://i.imgur.com/PT1N4QA.jpg

Same panel has broken and it's created a new gate!

[Gray Fox]

Your light is fucked as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Your light is fucked as well.

We have 3 lights and they're all fucked. Two were hit by wind and that one was hit by a football.

[Gray Fox]

Tell him his shoddy fence work broke them and ask him to put in for fixing them.

[Giggles]

Worst wind of the year here so far since last night and not a warning at all like they had for the fuck all ones over the last couple of weeks.

[Spikey M]

Fucking fence. :moop:

[Yevrah]

One of my neighbrours a few doors down has a roof covered in scaffolding. Not only can I hear the tarpaulin sheets blowing forever, I'm also becoming increasingly convinced I'm going to hear it all come down any time soon.

[Spikey M]

I completely missed that we were even expecting a hurricane....

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here's my question: where do birds hide during this? And I mean the flying kind, not the ones that Bamster says oi oi to of a morning.

[niko_cee]

They probably just hole up in a bush somewhere, oi oi etc.

[Yevrah]

I like the question as I hadn't considered that before, but I'm guessing they just hide in human made structures. What they would have done before that is die, I suspect*. Don't they have a sixth sense for this shit anyway and know well in advance that it's coming, or did I just see that in a Hollywood movie and believe it?

EDIT: *Or what Niko said.

[Foe]

They’re birds, why wouldn’t they just fly somewhere it isn’t windy?

[Giggles]

There's a huge amount of birds around the place here and they tend to just be around during the weather. You'd see them going at the bird feeders even in the wind.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Three fence panels have fallen so far tonight with a fourth looking likely.

CARNAGE.

[Manc]

How many storms are we on for the calendar year?

Henk getting us off to a blistering start in 2024.

[Yevrah]

I've had a mare with the birds thing here, which is compounded by the fact that I'm well aware how long they've survived on the planet for already and when you're posting that sort of longevity (and all the shit that's happened on Earth in that time), some wind that can't even do a proper job on Mahow's fence panels or my neighbour's dodgy loft conversion is probably a walk in the park compared.

[Spikey M]

I don't think you have had a 'mare. I have no idea when it comes to wind storms, but I remember hearing about wildlife dying during the winters of 2009 and 2010 when we had record cold temperatures.

It's part of the reason small animals in particular have such high reproduction rates. They fall victim to predators, the weather and viruses all the time. They just have the ability to fuck their way out of trouble.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Which is also the reason Mormons have multiple wives, because they'd settled on the salt flats of the least fertile land imaginable and so needed to roger their way to enough offspring that they could weather most of them dying of starvation.

Presumably Muslims/sand produces the same effect.

[phonics]

Most of Worcesters underwater. Annoyingly the bridge is open. Thought I was about to get a day off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Local Kwik-Fit's sign has taken a battering (road had to be closed a bit yesterday apparently) and I saw a cul-de-sac that was now inaccessible to cars because a tree had fallen down completely blocking the entrance.

[Gray Fox]

I thought we had escaped the damage this time, but went to the shed just and the door is almost completely off it's frame. I'm hoping a hammering in the morning will put it back in.

[phonics]

Updated picture of Worcester with my flat circled.

https://i.imgur.com/ETEhr7G.png

[Yevrah]

That lake isn’t meant to be there, right?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the New Road cricket ground in the foreground and floods pretty much every year.

The bridge behind it is probably the greatest infrastructural chokepoint in western England. You want to get from one side of town to the other? You're crossing that.

[phonics]

No that would be the County Cricket ground and the thing just below my flat that's also underwater is a Racecourse.

[Waffdon]

It's the New Road cricket ground in the foreground and floods pretty much every year.

The bridge behind it is probably the greatest infrastructural chokepoint in western England. You want to get from one side of town to the other? You're crossing that.
Was going to say. Looks a pretty bog standard picture of a flooded cricket ground. Football pitches also love turn into mini lakes.

[Kikó]

18° in Rome today. Ridiculously warm.

[niko_cee]

It's raining A LOT.

[Gray Fox]

https://i.gyazo.com/72df5a13440fedb88ee1ed48a5ebc95e.jpg

Our town is also underwater. Worst bout of it I've seen since moving here. All of the building on the flood plains has really been genius. It's just got nowhere to drain to.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's raining A LOT.

I just drove home in genuinely atrocious conditions, the sort that make you concentrate far harder than normal as if you miss a puddle in the dark you'll aqua-plane. I don't get how it can rain this hard for this long. It'd better be a quality summer.

[Foe]

I just drove home in genuinely atrocious conditions, the sort that make you concentrate far harder than normal as if you miss a puddle in the dark you'll aqua-plane. I don't get how it can rain this hard for this long. It'd better be a quality summer.

I drive the 120 miles back to Aberdeen on the 27th of December completely oblivious to the storm that was happening. First hour was fine, but the following 2 and a half hours were spent boating my way along the a96. Christ alive it was pretty terrifying at times just aiming for the middle of the road through puddles aiming for the camber.

Mad how quickly it comes and goes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Snowing here

[Yevrah]

I just drove home in genuinely atrocious conditions, the sort that make you concentrate far harder than normal as if you miss a puddle in the dark you'll aqua-plane. I don't get how it can rain this hard for this long. It'd better be a quality summer.

I did the same, but leaving just about when you were posting. Other than being stuck in traffic forever, it was the worst drive I can recall doing. It didn't take that much longer either and I never once had to stop, it was just hideous from start to finish - at one point the stretch of the M40 I was on was full of cars doing 35mph and under.

[Spikey M]

I don't know how cold it got over night, but it's 8:30 and it's -5c. :moop:

[Shindig]

-3 here. I got caught out by a nasty patch of ice yesterday morning. Flat on my back a minute after leaving the house. :moop:

[Ben]

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Well then.

[Yevrah]

I'm not sure I've ever laughed so much at 8:18am. What the fuck?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Either it's a misdirected Americanism, or we're about three years away from mainstream media outlets tweeting 'The UK to be anally fucked by deadly snow and ice' to get those sweet clicks, likes and shares.

[Spikey M]

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[Shindig]

"Storm Tyrone is set to gang rape most of the south-coast. Met Office advises against unnecessary travel."

[Dquincy]

Interesting that you used a traditionally negro name when discussing gang rape. Interesting.