The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread
Discussion
Under extreme duress from the Mrs radiators bled, system topped up and heating system test carried out. This includes the electric underfloor heating that takes ages to warm and ages to cool due to the thermal mass.
It is too hot in here now so I'm off out to pootle in the garden, in the garage and with the cars.
It is too hot in here now so I'm off out to pootle in the garden, in the garage and with the cars.
colin_p said:
mcelliott said:
We've had some spectacular high tides here in Guernsey over the past week - some over 10m, which caused a fair amount of flooding. Lorenzo is expected to bring some gusty winds tomorrow morning but with a 6m wave height warning.
The tidal range we can get round these shores is bonkers. Any floods happen?
mcelliott said:
Mid week we had a 10.3m tide, with a fairly gentle southerly wind town sea front was flooded, if it had been a strong easterly....
Sounds precarious.Puggit said:
Various papers predicting a brutal winter and snow event after snow event.
Obviously a load of horse manure.
I still reckon on a dampy blowy mild one.Obviously a load of horse manure.
colin_p said:
mcelliott said:
Mid week we had a 10.3m tide, with a fairly gentle southerly wind town sea front was flooded, if it had been a strong easterly....
Sounds precarious.Puggit said:
Various papers predicting a brutal winter and snow event after snow event.
Obviously a load of horse manure.
I still reckon on a dampy blowy mild one.Obviously a load of horse manure.
Ahhh, can't believe I missed this thread! Been going a whole week!
Maybe a week ago we had our first real wintery feeling day in Kingston, looking forward to more. I'm contemplating buying a set of winter wheels for the Evora so I can get max use out of it, as soon as I do we're guaranteed a mild one. Of course.
Maybe a week ago we had our first real wintery feeling day in Kingston, looking forward to more. I'm contemplating buying a set of winter wheels for the Evora so I can get max use out of it, as soon as I do we're guaranteed a mild one. Of course.
I spent the afternoon up a ladder clearing out the moss and leaves from the gutters. Resealing the joints with silicone etc.
The rain about 8am in Maidstone today was enough to flood the gutters, flood our boot room and wash most of our drive into the street. Grrh.
Mental rain.
Edit. When I was in Wickes earlier buying various bits of gutter I filled a trolly with coal and logs. Won't be long before the open fire is lit. The only good thing about the cold weather..
The rain about 8am in Maidstone today was enough to flood the gutters, flood our boot room and wash most of our drive into the street. Grrh.
Mental rain.
Edit. When I was in Wickes earlier buying various bits of gutter I filled a trolly with coal and logs. Won't be long before the open fire is lit. The only good thing about the cold weather..
Edited by HairyMaclary on Sunday 6th October 19:18
Lowestoft was very wet yesterday.
I pushed two cars out of a ....puddle....4x4s got through fine, but when water goes over your bonnet whilst driving, surely there's some thought about it not being a good idea?
4 cars in total buggered up through stupidity, one was left there (I went out so left them to it) it was there when we got back and if anything drove past it, it bobbed up and down with the waves lo!
Madness.
I pushed two cars out of a ....puddle....4x4s got through fine, but when water goes over your bonnet whilst driving, surely there's some thought about it not being a good idea?
4 cars in total buggered up through stupidity, one was left there (I went out so left them to it) it was there when we got back and if anything drove past it, it bobbed up and down with the waves lo!
Madness.
Puggit said:
Liam Dutton talks about the Colorado weather: https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/118121650002...
Having just come back from Colorado i'm not totally surprised. Very cold in the mornings, and the temp gage on the van saw 17F one day, ice on the inside of the windscreen stuff. We were up at 10,000ft though (Leadville). Day temps were upto around 80F (27c) though. Glasgow is a bit damp and grey today, very uninspiring weather.
I predict a winter of damp, ocassionally wet, occasionally frosty, with a couple of mornings of light snow cover that will have mostly melted by lunchtime in South Manchester this year.
I predict anguish about airports not being kitted out like an Antarctic base, when holiday makers are delayed for a few hours one morning.
I base this on my 4 decades of experience.
It could, of course, be an outlier, which involves a colder period and/or a week (OK, a few days) or so of snow, which tend to happen around once a decade and result in wall to wall "news" coverage.
A "beast from the East" or any other such embarassingly over-exaggerated event are unlikely to cause much inconvenience.
I predict anguish about airports not being kitted out like an Antarctic base, when holiday makers are delayed for a few hours one morning.
I base this on my 4 decades of experience.
It could, of course, be an outlier, which involves a colder period and/or a week (OK, a few days) or so of snow, which tend to happen around once a decade and result in wall to wall "news" coverage.
A "beast from the East" or any other such embarassingly over-exaggerated event are unlikely to cause much inconvenience.
xcseventy said:
Puggit said:
Liam Dutton talks about the Colorado weather: https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/118121650002...
Having just come back from Colorado i'm not totally surprised. Very cold in the mornings, and the temp gage on the van saw 17F one day, ice on the inside of the windscreen stuff. We were up at 10,000ft though (Leadville). Day temps were upto around 80F (27c) though. Glasgow is a bit damp and grey today, very uninspiring weather.
Incidentally, it doesn't get much about 80f at altitude (according to friends who live up near Blackhawk).
jimmyjimjim said:
xcseventy said:
Puggit said:
Liam Dutton talks about the Colorado weather: https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/118121650002...
Having just come back from Colorado i'm not totally surprised. Very cold in the mornings, and the temp gage on the van saw 17F one day, ice on the inside of the windscreen stuff. We were up at 10,000ft though (Leadville). Day temps were upto around 80F (27c) though. Glasgow is a bit damp and grey today, very uninspiring weather.
Incidentally, it doesn't get much about 80f at altitude (according to friends who live up near Blackhawk).
It was a bit chilly this morning - 20f up here. And we are predicted to get around 6" of snow on Thursday.
schmalex said:
We debated whether or not to get the Rayburn services last night. Either way, it’ll break down at some point.
My parent’s Rayburn seems to always be either:a) broken
Or
b) trying to gas them if they get a strong westerly (the 2 doors between it and outside resemble Swiss cheese due to the number of vents and the kitchen is dotted with CO alarms).
Although this week’s drama is wet carpet in the lounge due to a cracked radiator.
I am in Fort William for a coupe of nights and it is wet but not cold. No sign of snow on any of the mountains as far as I can tell.
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