The Weather Thread

It's blowing a storm here - wild, wet, windy (even for Lancashire in December) and unseasonably mild. I'm just going outside for a bit to tether the cat down...

Today the clouds parted around 11 am and we saw the sun. I went out for a walk and it was astonishingly mild, like early October. The BBC website says it was 15C locally today, which I can believe. But very heavy rain is again forecast for tonight

sospiro said:

Very mild here, most unusual, but I'm not complaining and happy to be saving on the heating bills.

Have you been flooded? Or are you slightly too far south to be affected?

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Slightly too far south, thank goodness. But the Ribble was terrifying a couple of weeks ago after the last but one lot of heavy rain. I'm sure that Headphone Hermit will have tales to tell us when his electricity comes back on (which looks like being some days yet).

Wet (again). Warm. We went out to the supermarket last might about 22:00, got back 23:45. 14C and getting warmer. Weird and unseasonable. Instead of winter we now seem to be getting an annual monsoon.

It is 5 am here and 13C.

North West England Forecast Summary

Very mild for most of today and rather cloudy. Rain, locally heavy will be moving in from the west this morning with strengthening winds. It will clear during the afternoon with brighter, cooler and showery conditions following.

(I don't think that we ought to be fracking our shale deposits so we can burn some more fossil fuel...)

In central Lancashire it continues to rain, as it has done for the last two months. Many of you will have seen on news programmes the devastation caused by the recent floods in northern Lancashire and Cumbria to the north of us.

I just went down to the cellar to get a bottle of wine and noticed that there is a substantial trickle of water out of the base of the cellar wall across the floor, I presume from the saturated subsoil. It would have to rise a foot or two to reach the cellar electrics, but watch this space.

The next door neighbour's back garden is a shallow lake today!
There is a shallow stream running across our lawn which drains into the new lake.
No wonder there is a large and growing pool in our cellar...

dogen said:

Oh crumbs Mr Vox...

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The electricity distribution board is in the cellar.

Hmm well, we have a coal stove and fire, and the hob is gas...

I think we're getting a daily average of about 27" just now!

We'll see if I'm laughing tonight...

There really are going to be a lot of cold, wet, miserable and displaced folk in the North of England tonight. For a first world country, it's going to be a fairly uncomfortable experience, especially for those flooded out of their homes, for a few weeks or months until things get back to 'normal'. But increasingly, it seems that is a state in which heavy rainfall may result in flooding at almost any time of the year.

Thanks for members' expressions of concern and sympathy. I and my family are all lucky enough to be safe and dry at home, thank goodness.

Whereas the presence of a sewage tide-mark on the walls, undulating floorboards, a pile of sodden furniture on the quayside and a dolphin poking out of the chimney would...raise property prices?

I hope you're safe and dry, Wood. It's pretty shocking to see the north Deeside road so badly damaged - well, swept away in places.

dogen said:

Indeed. Very interesting. It was also surprising to me to see that apparently the government are liars.

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Your suggestion that any member of Her Britannic Majesty's Government might utter the merest hint of a falsehood, Sir, is deeply painful and shocking to me.

dogen said:

I'm sorry, I withdraw my assertion and admit that I am a communist spy.

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Ah! You must be that Corbyn chappie in real life.

For the second day running it's cold (2C) and very bright and sunny. But no rain!

Pugg said:

That is so cruel, wait till we have summer and you have below zero like we do now

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EddieRUKiddingVarese said:

You'd like the winter here, doesn't get below 10C.

We start to feel cold at below 15C.

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You wait till summer here. It doesn't get below 10C, usually. Or much above 15C either.

^^^ Well, not a bad way to spend such a day.

We had an amazing 'flash' snowfall on Friday. We woke up to falling snow and two inches already lying. It was so warm, however, that all trace of it was gone by lunchtime the same day.

It rarely snows in Preston (4 times in 20 years, and only once in any significant amount). It's odd after growing up in North East Scotland where it snowed most winters.

It's warm and close and very grey indeed in the Paris of the North (© Clarke's Shoes). It's been very warm here for more than a week now; when the sun breaks through the cloud it has been very pleasant.

Hmm. I spoke too soon. Still grey but cool and very, very wet! The broken garden bench will have to wait for a dryer day to be repaired.