The official winter rain, wind, snow and ice thread 2023/24

[Jim H]

I honestly thought I’d be throttling back on this, after all it’s April the 15th.

It running full chat.

[BossHogg]

This cold snap is playing havoc with my arthritic knees, roll on the warm weather so I can walk without pain.

[rossub]

Jim H said:

I honestly thought I’d be throttling back on this, after all it’s April the 15th.

It running full chat.

Appreciate you’ll be further south, but there have been occasions when we’ve needed our Stove on in June.

[Jim H]

It’s hailing now FFS!

[a311]

It's generally been a very wet, windy, and often cold fortnight and a bit in the Western Lake District. It's coincided rather inconveniently with the schools and my wife and I being off school and work.

On average April is usually decent more settled weather here, while the weather doesn't usually affect my overall mood it's ground me down this last couple of weeks. This is possibly more to do with being off work and off the back of winter, in hindsight if the kids are going to be off and the weather is ste we'll either put them in holiday club for some of the time or fk off abroad.

[ben5575]

Yeah I was going to head over to the lakes for a run, as Keswick was due to be sunny and 13 degrees tomorrow according to last night's apple forecast.

MWIS now putting tomorrow's windchill at height at -10 with added hail for good measure! Perhaps I'll wait. Again.

[a311]

ben5575 said:

Yeah I was going to head over to the lakes for a run, as Keswick was due to be sunny and 13 degrees tomorrow according to last night's apple forecast.

MWIS now putting tomorrow's windchill at height at -10 with added hail for good measure! Perhaps I'll wait. Again.

I just normally dress appropriately when walking the dog but stay off the high fells in wet weather/poor visibility. It's been a bit wild today, some sleet this morning and heavy rain showers on and off all day.

[pidsy]

Lost the roof off the Pool plant room this afternoon- 10 mins of biblical rain and wind in NW London.

[SS9]

Puggit said:

Video of possible Stoke tornado.

It even has PH content (destruction of caravan)

https://x.com/PaulKnightley/status/177983616126069...

Love how the tornado also has the audacity to jog the camera down at the end of the video to show the new resting place of that caravan

[RustyMX5]

FFS There's sleet coming down in South Bucks and we've already had hail today.

[Scabutz]

It's just getting worse, not better. Not only is it fking raining, again, it's bloody freezing. Had a titful of it.

[21st Century Man]

I've been outside most of the day trying to clean my car, one moment it's been warm and sunny, then a shower, then warm and sunny, then cold, then hail, then warm and sunny, then more showers. Repeat.

Stupid weather.

[loafer123]

21st Century Man said:

I've been outside most of the day trying to clean my car, one moment it's been warm and sunny, then a shower, then warm and sunny, then cold, then hail, then warm and sunny, then more showers. Repeat.

Stupid weather.

To be fair, it is April.

[21st Century Man]

Showers?

[Sheets Tabuer]

This is what April used to be like, certainly was when I were a lad in the 70s and 80s.

[CallThatMusic]

Roads been gritted heavily here tonight, just south of Edinburgh…

[B'stard Child]

CallThatMusic said:

Roads been gritted heavily here tonight, just south of Edinburgh…

They gritted our road today - Norfolk.................

They sprayed some tar down first and then chucked the grit on it and we are expected to roller it in for them.............

Edited to fix formating

Edited by B'stard Child on Wednesday 17th April 09:56

[thepritch]

As it’s a weather phenomenon I’ll mention the Aurora again. The app was pinging red again tonight, 2-300. Just about visible to the naked eye, but the bright moon on such a clear night didn’t help and our north is obscured by a forest.

Will have to head to the AC at some point to get the full colour show. Maybe Svalbard, looks an amazing place.

[geeks]

We had to put the heating on again last night, honestly assumed we were done with it for the year, same with the log burner but looking at the weekend its going to be cold again so I am going to restock the wood in the house

[ChocolateFrog]

Sheets Tabuer said:

This is what April used to be like, certainly was when I were a lad in the 70s and 80s.

My birthday was last week.

As a kid I was always in shorts by then, literally without fail.

It was 4 degrees last night, baltic.