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

[RustyMX5]

There's this strange yellow blob in the sky over South Bucks. Are aliens coming?

[Puggit]

RustyMX5 said:

There's this strange yellow blob in the sky over South Bucks. Are aliens coming?

Tumble dryer is on for free

[jimmyjimjim]

And in Colorado....a foot of snow. Heavy, wet, snow. 90% done shoveling my drive; I'm knackered. Most snow I've seen here in a few years.

[Ashfordian]

Puggit said:

Glorious day in West Berks - lovely warm lunch time walk with a bit of a gusty breeze.

Confirmation that it has been the wettest year and wettest 18 months since records began for parts of England:

https://x.com/DaveThroup/status/176754582471465388...

How long ago did you get solar panels installed?

[Puggit]

Ashfordian said:

How long ago did you get solar panels installed?

Good memory sir... Exactly 18 months ago.

[Matt..]

Is March going to break rain records like February? The rain is endless and it’s mightily depressing. I am glad to be escaping the country for a few days soon!

[Hereward]

My Magnolia is just starting to flower (In Surrey). That means that a hard frost is imminent on the first night after opening its petals.

[JakeT]

Puggit said:

Glorious day in West Berks - lovely warm lunch time walk with a bit of a gusty breeze.

Confirmation that it has been the wettest year and wettest 18 months since records began for parts of England:

https://x.com/DaveThroup/status/176754582471465388...

You jinxed it! No sooner after posting this it was cold and wet again.

[Tim Cognito]

Really fed up of the constant rain and damp down here in Devon. More forecast for the weekend as well...

[UTH]

As expected the weekend forecast was vaguely positive for about a second, and now it's back to cloudy with rain. The Corvette shall remain dormant.

[cuprabob]

West of Scotland, yesterday heavy rain all day with an overnight low of around 7 degrees and today light rain with an overnight of minus 2 degrees and tomorrow forecast overnight is 7 degrees. Strange to see a blip of one night like this.

[Puggit]

Loire Valley sitrep... delightful sunshine and vicious showers.

Last night's crossing was supposed to have been rough. Was a great crossing.

[McGee_22]

Puggit said:

Loire Valley sitrep... delightful sunshine and vicious showers.

Last night's crossing was supposed to have been rough. Was a great crossing.

Love the Loire Valley - did an epic drive from Warsaw to there in a Quattro Avant and returned a few years later from Yorkshire in a TVR Griffith. Stayed in the hotel a stones throw (literally) from Chateau de Chambord - the locals and guests thought the Griffith 500 was epic.

[Puggit]

McGee_22 said:

Love the Loire Valley - did an epic drive from Warsaw to there in a Quattro Avant and returned a few years later from Yorkshire in a TVR Griffith. Stayed in the hotel a stones throw (literally) from Chateau de Chambord - the locals and guests thought the Griffith 500 was epic.

We loved it so much we bought a house here...

Keeping it on topic, the problem is the weather is similar to southern England 90% of the time.

[tim0409]

It’s rained here in East Lothian pretty much non stop over the last 36 hours, but finally the sun has appeared!

[juice]

tim0409 said:

It’s rained here in East Lothian pretty much non stop over the last 36 hours, but finally the sun has appeared!

We have 2 x WHV. Bet your smooth has been seriously unimpressed with the weather

[tim0409]

juice said:

We have 2 x WHV. Bet your smooth has been seriously unimpressed with the weather

Massively! My wife enjoys her morning walk with him at 6.30am before work but today she got 50m down the road before he turned back in disgust!

[J6542]

tim0409 said:

juice said:

We have 2 x WHV. Bet your smooth has been seriously unimpressed with the weather

Massively! My wife enjoys her morning walk with him at 6.30am before work but today she got 50m down the road before he turned back in disgust!

With a house like that you could just walk him around the ball room.

[tim0409]

J6542 said:

With a house like that you could just walk him around the ball room.

We are lucky to live on the edge of the estate and it’s a great walk; I think parts of Outlander were filmed here (I’ve not watched it myself but have been out for a walk when they were filming).

[p1stonhead]

Finally a spring feeling morning and fking hell its glorious.