Batten Down The Hatches: Winter 2013/14 Chat

[2cvbloke]

Any minor quibble with energy supplies causes a rise in the cost anyway, there's also scaremongering about electricity supplies being pretty strained this winter and powercuts being more prevalent, so, no heat, no light, no power, if the scaremongers have their way, this winter could be quite grim...

So, buy up your calor gas, stock up on petrol, buy a generator, and prepare for scummy people nicking off with it all...

 

[Channel Hopper]

I've been out Oiling my Garden Bench ....

A euphamism I've not heard before.


It's also got rather foggy round here in the past hour.

 

[PaulR]

Did your doctor have a cousin who was an estate agent over here by any chance?

Lol, no.

And speaking of which...

and I can report no rain and about 19C.....still won't stop me lighting the log burner tonight......

Arrived down at Maison Fosse de l'Argent at just before 9 this evening and the temperature is still 19C.

 

[Lazarus]

Warm, wet and windy this moaning.

 

[Analoguesat]

Just back after a trip to York. Wednesday was a grim afternoon - we spent the morning in the warmth of the National Railway Museum, by the time we came out it was bucketing it down, and there was one of those stiff northerlies that cuts through you and chills you down in no time.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Warm, wet and windy this moaning.

Ditto, just need a break from the rain to cut the lawns for the final time this year.

 

[PaulR]

Sun is trying to break through but temperature is already a balmy 21C.

Suffer...

 

[Lazarus]

Oooh err.

Big change - still very mild (muggy, even) but we are having a mega Storm right now.

The lightning just lit up the entire Vale of Mowbray and the thunder is deafening.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

It came very black here around 5ish but we had no lightning, i saw a lot of storms around Lancashire and Merseyside earlier. The sky is now crystal clear here and its very chilly out

 

[Lazarus]

..... and its very chilly out

Hmmm.

 

[Analoguesat]

Oooh err.

Big change - still very mild (muggy, even) but we are having a mega Storm right now.

The lightning just lit up the entire Vale of Mowbray and the thunder is deafening.

Ah yes - you are just under one of the little white crosses!

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&subpage_0=12

 

[Channel Hopper]

Hmmm.

Eric Morecambe rises again

 

[PaulR]

Another warm morning, 21C according to the car display. We have a warm wind blowng from the south, unimaginatively named the vent du sud, which brings hot air straight over from Africa.

We've just had a thunderstorm and now it's raining, which is a shame as I was thinking having a barby this evening and asking for the old thread to be reopened.

 

[Lazarus]

Yes, went out to indulge in my Sunday Tintinnabulation and on the return journey I had to engage the Car Air-Con (Open the window), it's so mild.

 

[sonnetpete]

Blimey Paul, we had a thunderstorm this morning, it's raining now and so miserable, I've lit the log burner.....am I living in a micro climate???

 

[PaulR]

Could be, It's still raining here (have just discovered a leak in the roof - groan) but it's warm enough to not have need to light the fire yet.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Bucketed it down here for about two hours, some roads impassable as the drains are blocked with leaves.

Tomorrow looks similar, but with six hours of constant precipitation.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

We've just had a big flash of sheet lightning, a huge clap of thunder and a short rain storm, but at the moment the vast majority of storms are down Hampshire and Isle of Wight way.

 

[skomedal]

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Today from my veranda Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Thats a really nice photo. You keep the cold though!!