Winter Weather - 2015

[ashley]

The spice of life Maggi

[Chris Johnson]

The weekend forecast here is for 'incessant falls of heavy rain', which will make a nice change from the torrential rain of late

  No different here, Ashley, and we're in for quite a breeze this evening.

[David Nicholson]

According to Maureen's diary in which she records days on which it has rained, in a fairly unscientific way, we had 27 rain days in November. This, and a case of man-flu means I ventured into the garden on only two days in November.

[fermi de Sousa]

We are suffering through a heat wave here and see on the News that Storm Desmond has been causing floods in northern England and southern Scotland.
I hope all Scottish Rockers are safe!
cheers
fermi

[YT]

Hopefully everything is fine with SRGC members around northern England and southern Scotland.

[ashley]

Hilarious re-working of a news report from Galway on recent weather conditions shown last night on Irish TV.

[art600]

Best remix since Nick Clegg's "I'm Sorry"

On serious note we hear very little about the effects of the incessant rain in Eire.  Has there been severe flooding?

[ashley]

Yes extensive flooding, particularly in the west and south-west, and millions of euro in damage. 
Fortunately there have been no fatalities although a young person remains in critical condition having been swept into the sea.

[Darren]

Hope fellow rockers in the north and west of the U.K. are ok.

We got power back at 5:30 this morning after being in the dark since Saturday evening. We had been told it would be another 36 hours until Lancaster substation dried out but presumably some temporary solution is in place. Other than this we have been lucky. Neither of us need to travel today and I am on leave this week anyway.

What made things worse was that the mobile network and local radio station was also down so getting information was really difficult. The total lack of trains going past on the main line at the end of our garden was weird, coupled with the only lights being the very frequent emergency vehicles whizzing up and down the A6.

One of Susan's nursery colleagues lives in north Cumbria and has been flooded out , together with his mum.

[Dave M]

Hi Darren, glad the power is back on and you are starting to dry off. Hope you managed to take your weeks leave.

Thanks to the both of you for your hospitality and looking at the collection (despite no power!) - despite the foul weather it was looking good even at this time of the year. Yesterdays frost was most welcome here.

Im just looking forward to more days that are not mild and damp!

[Maggi Young]

Welcome, Dave!   I reckon there are a lot of us hoping the same thing as you, regarding the weather - it's just jolly difficult to  function in every day life with our fingers crossed all the time, isn't it? !!        Flippin' weather! 

[Dave M]

I can't remember the last day that it hasn't rained here in some form over the last month or more. Thankfully the prolonged damp and still has passed but a mild touch of botrytis occurred on a couple of Dionisias and Saxifrages that has now been dealt with. Following storm Desmond the alpine houses were really tested but held up well although I found water can get around the roof vent hinge on both a Robbinsons and a Rhino! Roll on spring.

[Darren]

Hi Darren, glad the power is back on and you are starting to dry off. Hope you managed to take your weeks leave.

Thanks to the both of you for your hospitality and looking at the collection (despite no power!) - despite the foul weather it was looking good even at this time of the year. Yesterdays frost was most welcome here.

Im just looking forward to more days that are not mild and damp!

You are most welcome Dave - and welcome to the forum.

I did get my planned week's leave. Annoyingly my workplace was closed all week anyway due to power outage and all my colleagues also got a week off - but without taking it out of their holiday entitlement!

[Yann]

The weather forecast announced a warm January, may we must fear from late frosts?

[johnralphcarpenter]

17°C here today.