Weather Thread

[John Arne]

It's fucking hot today. 34, with a feels like 38.

End of the rainy season too, so it's clammy and sticky. Wearing trousers sucks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Meanwhile, I can't see to the other side of my road.

[Magic]

Already a thread.

[John Arne]

Morning mist :drool:

[Spoonsky]

It's lovely here but it's supposed to snow on Tuesday. Not that I'm complaining, nothing beats that first snowfall.

[John Arne]

Already a thread.

Apologies. I did Google search but it didn't find anything.

[Giggles]

Foggy as fuck here, and the schools are open again today so it's bedlam.

[Byron]

Same here, visibility must be no more than 100m

[Lee]

I can't see a thing outside either. Which is a pain in the arse as I have the morning off to deal with some family stuff but have to drive down some shit country lanes to do them.

[wullie]

I love the fog, like snow it makes it feel really wintry but unlike snow you don't get the clueless drivers and days of brown slush that follow.

[Giggles]

Don't get clueless drivers? :dirk:

[wullie]

Not really. The worst I've encountered is people forgetting to turn their fog lights off when it clears up, which I'd take over the people immediately reducing their speed to a steady 5mph at the sign of a snowflake.

[Toby]

Last foggy day we had here I passed several cars going around not just without fog lights but without any headlights at all.

[Giggles]

There's not enough of a gap between the cars around here to need any lights on. Plus, nobody will be going over 10km/h.

[Toby]

This is on winding country roads with every other car looking for the slightest opportunity to overtake at 90mph, so they're taking a pretty big gamble.

[Benny]

Had some right idiots driving today in the fog, several without headlights on and one nearly hit me by coming into my lane without looking in his mirror. Surprised there's not more accidents on days like this, as there's a lot of lorry traffic in the area and they're not renowned for their considerate driving.

[Boydy]

It's not too bad around here but there's still enough of it to need at least sidelights on but there were so many cars with no lights at all on when I was out earlier.

It was really bad on Saturday night. I couldn't see ten metres in front of me on the way home from work.

[ScousePig]

My football pitch is completely flooded (again) and so are both the main and quiet roads around. I have to get my sister to Leeds train station this aft and at least two of the regular routes are impassable.

Roberts Park in Saltaire:
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/52F6/production/_87383212_llamas.jpg

Kirkstall Road, the main road from Bradford side into Leeds:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/704/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2015/12/27/0a36c60d-1223-4372-a87c-8858f7ad5cd6.jpg

Baildon:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/704/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2015/12/26/c2ba1cb2-0a8a-4acb-b8f2-35e31733afb0.jpg

All within a couple of miles of where I live.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that a llama and its child in the first picture?

[Lewis]

I live at the highest point in the town. Even if the Humber flooded and drowned half of the North I would be fine. :cool:

[Baz]

Everywhere is apparently flooded round here, if you believe social media. I've not seen more than a puddle. :confused:

[ScousePig]

Is that a llama and its child in the first picture?

Llama statue.

[Giggles]

When did this thing of naming 'storms' start? A few years ago we used to get a forecast of wet/windy, now we have Storm Jimbob is coming and AMBER WARNING toss. It just creates more panic and I can't see a reason for it.

[GS]

It was introduced this year so it would be easier for people to track its progress and the accompanying relief efforts, where applicable.

[Giggles]

It was introduced this year so it would be easier for people to track its progress and the accompanying relief efforts, where applicable.

And it has to have a persons first name for this reason?

[GS]

Yes, they're using the same naming system as is applied to tropical storms / hurricanes etc. in the Atlantic.

I believe this one went to "public vote", given we're apparently incapable of doing anything these days without first canvassing the views of the unwashed masses.

[Giggles]

Yes, they're using the same naming system as is applied to tropical storms / hurricanes etc. in the Atlantic.

I believe this one went to "public vote", given we're apparently incapable of doing anything these days without first canvassing the views of the unwashed masses.

No wonder it went American then.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What would you prefer?

[Giggles]

What would you prefer?

Just call it wind and rain like was always the way, rather than this sensationalist bullshit.

[Lee]

They didn't just call it wind and rain. For as lomg as I remember they've spoken about Atlantic storms through autumn and winter. They're one of the most distinctive weather events we get. They're just giving them names now which makes them more easily identifiable than calling them "the storm of --/--/--".

[Andy]

ScousePig

This is the view from my girlfriends mums house onto Roberts Park, pretty sure that cricket field is Roberts Park anyway, may be wrong, it's the park that runs alongside the canal down towards the big mill.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2100zv9.jpg

I am driving up tomorrow evening are the roads ok from the motorway into Saltaire?

[ScousePig]

It will be Roberts Park, though I think that's Shipley Providence CC as opposed to Saltaire. Saltaire was voted the third most pictureque place in the county recently apparently, Andy.

You're coming from Southampton, so I take it M1? Then it depends which way you go from there. If you go M621 past Elland Road and in through Leeds ring road, you'll be okay up until Stanningley lights but then if you go through Calverley you might need to turn left at Stanningley rather than going straight on, or you'll basically come unstuck where I live. Let me know your route and I'll let you know. Of course it could be cleared by then. I nipped up to Pudsey earlier and had to go a different way.

I'm going up to London Thursday but I'll be going A1.

[Andy]

Usually m1, m62 and then m606. After that it's all the a roads through the centre of Bradford. Is it better to go through Leeds atm?

May leave it till Tuesday morning so I get into Bradford when it's light.

[ScousePig]

Ah right, you go that way. I prefer staying on the M1 then onto the M621 but there's little in it. My way brings you out the right side of Bradford so you don't need to go near the centre.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/leeds/incidents/road

The only issue there is when you get to Shipley, where the main road is closed going down to Baildon.

[Davgooner]

Saw the footage on ITV of Cawood on the way into Selby. Used to be driven that way to school back in the day when I'd missed the bus. :cool:

[ScousePig]

Everywhere except Kirkstall Road in Leeds appears to be open again Andy, so you should be fine.

[Pepe]

It's been raining for three straight days. :moop:

[Waffdon]

Fucking Jackie lad bringing sheer despair to the streets of York, mate.

[Lewis]

York always floods. They should really be used to it by now.

[Shindig]

Durham's flood defences look to be alright. Would secretly love the office to be flooded tomorrow, mind. The rain in the area's not the problem. Just the Wear being swollen due to water from other areas.

[Raoul Duke]

Absolutely wanking it down here.

I'm assuming Yorkshire is now just one big fuck off lake

[ScousePig]

It's been alright here except for the past couple of hours, when it's come on strong again. All the roads have been re-opened at least. Though I jogged past the river this evening where it's burst its banks and it was alarmingly high.

[Manc]

Snow has finally landed in Manchester. :drool:

[Dquincy]

Hi folks,

With regards to a weather report for a ski town....What does "snow line falling to resort level" mean in layman terms?

Thanks

[Raoul Duke]

It's been raining just now and it's a heavy as I've known it. Bonkers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I had that about half an hour ago. Mental as fuck.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm pretty sure Cumbria is now some kind of Atlantis.