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Hi everyone

Are you all ready for this weather that's about hit the UK this week, my barometer reading has dropped like a stone this is the lowest its been for year's, I know we need the rain but last night it hammered down for most of the night and there is more to come

Regards

Arnie

Cleared a raised bed of weeds and cleared up round the strawberrys and currant bushes, carted all down to the allotment compost heap on the chariot as our garden one is full. Just got back as the heavens opened. Some days luck is with you! Cheers, Tony

The wind is roaring in the trees outside - glad I am in here! Walked to the shops this morning (a mile and a half) and just got home again before the heavens opened with sleet, snow and rain. We also had the first bramblings on the feeder today, the poor things are being battered as well!

Very wet and windy last night, but it was bright and sunny this morning

Went to the allotment and noticed quite a few sheds had blown over down the exposed end of the site. One of those flashy looking metal sheds was just a mass of twisted metal this morning Somebody won't be very happy.
Luckily nothing of mine was damaged

It's nice to get a bit of moisture in the ground again. Makes it easier to get the parsnips out

Arnie wrote:Hi everyone

Are you all ready for this weather that's about hit the UK this week

As is often the case, we have seen very little of the said storms. We have had more rain than we need (we don't need any here ) and the wind has been a steady stiffish breeze. No more wind forecast for us over the weekend. I see it's now only southern England likely to see the worst.

Bad again tonight in south, and Snow tomorrow apparently.

It does seem to have been exceptionally stormy recently!

The general rule is to watch weather systems on the eastern coast of USA, as they turn up here a week later.

Slight subject change, but there was a worrying article in the 'i' this week about massive plumes of Methene gas escaping from the ocean.
Methene being 20x more damaging to the atmosphere than CO2
It was escapeing from the seabed from massive reserves, and the general worry was such huge sudden increases in such gases could cause rapid climate change.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 76134.html


On the bright side, the Fish & Chip van stops outside my house tonight. Yum

KGAdmin

Enough snow here to stop me working out of doors, and i'm not a man that likes being stopped.

Although, there's plenty of indoor jobs to do.....

Well, we've had no gales, no torrential rain - and now no snow!

Morning Alan, i must say your weather sounds quite intollerable....

oldherbaceous wrote:Morning Alan, i must say your weather sounds quite intollerable....

And I have to say it's forecast to get even worse - sunny weekend

Good morning Alan,

Grab it while you can.
Come the Spring, you'll probably have 6 months of rain to look forward to

A white world this morning and hard frost tonight - that should kill off a few bugs (what an uncharitable thought for Christmas!).

Parsons Jack wrote:Good morning Alan,

Grab it while you can.
Come the Spring, you'll probably have 6 months of rain to look forward to

Thanks for that PJ.

Looks like spring's come early - It rained last weekend, most of the time since and this morning it's settled into the Christmas rain forecast for at least the next five days.

It never seems to stop raining here at the moment, I can hear the cars going down the road outside my house and it sounds very wet indeed. Mmmm looks like it is going to be inside jobs today. It never seems to get light properly these days.

Dear Catherine, it looks as if we are in for a wet day here, too.

If you are indoors all day, no tearing little peep holes in Christmas wrapping please.