I think I’m a little envious
Looks like a major one is headed to Rhode Island tonight. Much snow and heavy wind.
I had mixed feelings about snowstorms when I was there. I love snow and wild weather, but I became increasingly nervous driving in snow and the policy at my job was not to call off work. I had a long commute during which several scary near misses.
It didn’t help that I basically drove a rear-wheel-drive tennis shoe.
It seldom snows here, which is a pity – the village is beautiful under snow. I don’t think we got any at all last Winter. Just endless rain, rain, rain.
Any of you in the path of this beast?
p.s. happy anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Uncle B says we still can’t make a decent brew. Must be the salt water.
December 16, 2020 — 7:49 pm
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Pff!
They billed Ciara as the ‘storm of the century’. Dude. I’m not even sure it was the storm of the last six months (we had some nasties in September).
We had high winds, sure. But — at least where we are — not far out of the ordinary, and not much rain. We didn’t even lose power.
The seas were high and I gather there was flooding in places that got more rain. Hence the picture. Not mine. Don’t know whose it is. It was the most stolen Tweet on Twitter yesterday.
Now, the Coronavirus? Doubled our cases overnight to eight, all due to one ‘super spreader’ who came from a conference in Singapore and infected a group of people in France, too. Brighton clinic on lockdown. Yes, that’s in our general area.
Wot fun!
February 10, 2020 — 9:06 pm
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Any pilots in the house?
What is this weather pattern? Picture doesn’t show it very well (I nicked from someone else’s social media).
The sky was relatively clear on one side, rumply clouds on the other. But the line between them was…well, a line. A sharp line of demarcation from horizon horizon. Slightly curved.
The weather had been mostly sunny today. It dipped below freezing last night for the first time this season, and it will again tonight.
Never seen this before.
Oh, and happy MLK Day, which falls on Blue Monday this year.
January 20, 2020 — 7:36 pm
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Half an hour ago…
Because it’s not obvious, his location is my lap. Also not obvious: his other side is soaking wet. Equally not obvious: we are both seated in the only comfortable chair in the whole place.
We fight for it. I bought myself a little second hand tablet computer specifically to use as a Kindle when I sit in that chair, but the cat usually wins.
As for the wet, it has rained here every day for weeks. Everything is soaked. The ground is all slippy. My chicken runs are mud and the chickens are miserable. I’m thoroughly sick of it.
The weather isn’t always like England in England, but sometimes it’s the most England place imaginable.
November 7, 2019 — 8:51 pm
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Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Go check out the pictures in the article. It’s a real thing, not a practical joke — at least, that’s what Google tells me.
When the wind and snow are just right, it rolls the snow up into big ‘bales’. There are even what look like tire tracks (or, I suppose, tyre tracks) in the wake of the thing (but no footprints). Six of them were spotted in a field in Marlborough yesterday (not far from Stonehenge, woo).
I guess it’s like those big rocks that get pushed around Death Valley.
Can confirm the wind was fierce and strange today. It blew over some stuff at work with an unsettling bang first thing, before I had my coffee.
February 4, 2019 — 9:41 pm
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Fizzle
Not really. Maybe an inch. And it was raining hard this morning, washing it all away.
So I didn’t pay it much mind, went dashing out to feed the chickens first thing, put one foot onto the wet snow and went ass over teakettle. I slid across the wet grass and got soaked, but my head came to rest with the gentlest kiss of the cement walkway, so I’m counting it a win. I MAHT HAVE DAHD.
After I changed clothes, Uncle B gave me a ride into work. The end.
Have a good weekend, everyone. Stay warm. Be dry. Somebody at work saw a baby lamb yesterday (poor little thing, in this weather) so hold on just a bit longer.
Image courtesy one of the nice old ladies on my FaceBook feed. It’s like having Grandma back!
February 1, 2019 — 8:25 pm
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Here come de snow
I always make the mistake of thinking weather moves more-or-less straight West to East, as it tended to do in Rhode Island. Instead, it moves in a large and lazy swirl, effectively a long diagonal from the mouth of the Channel to London.
So that blob of weather in the Channel that I assumed would float harmlessly over and dump its payload on France is actually about to curve up into the oval area on the map (that’s me) and snow all over us.
Eh. It’ll turn to rain by morning. We’re just so dang bored of the cold gray monotony, we’re excited by a few flakes.
Any of you caught under this ‘polar vortex’ thingie?
January 31, 2019 — 9:49 pm
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Here come the weather!
Thunderboomers off the coast of France. Heading: weaselwards.
It’s okay; I didn’t have anything to report today. I’m’a go take a bath and wait for it to blow over.
June 6, 2018 — 9:26 pm
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Hotter than Riyadh
You guys! Seriously! I have never known a run of weather like this here. Granted, my sample size is less than ten years, but still…
Every day, it’s been about 80°, not a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky. The 80° is astonishing for May, but the cloudless and windless is unheard of at any time. It’s windy here. And cloudy. Usually.
Of course, EVERY SINGLE THING I had lined up for my holiday was an indoor thing (more or less evenly divided between arting and computing), but that all went out the window. I have spent a week in the garden draped over a deck chair reading trash.
It’s been glorious. Not what I planned, but glorious.
And now I’m back.
May 7, 2018 — 8:50 pm
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She found herself a little patch of sun…
They predicted rain all weekend long, and they were wrong. For a few hours, gloriously wrong. Sun, lambs, chickens…it’s here at last.
Of course, they predicted dry and cloudy today and it pissed all over me on the way home, so bad forecast giveth and bad forecast taketh away.
In this country, you’re better off just looking out the window.
April 9, 2018 — 9:38 pm
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