How's the weather?

[A Lark Ascending]

We've had new heating at work. Last week it wasn't working properly, radiators leaking etc. We were freezing as autumn bit.

This week the heating's kicked in big time - just as the weather went sub-tropical. I think we all lost pounds today.

[Soulstation1]

Still in the 90s in Tucson

[A Lark Ascending]

Think Brits might need this thread.

Will also stop us cluttering up the Post a Pic thread.

Wind starting to pick up. I've just gone out to clear the garden of anything likely to blow around.

Edited October 27, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Think Brits might need this thread.

Will also stop us cluttering up the Post a Pic thread.

Wind starting to pick up. If just gone out the clear the garden of anything likely to blow around.

Looks like a repeat of the '87 event - south devastated, north spared. Clearly God is not a Tory.

[A Lark Ascending]

Think Brits might need this thread.

Will also stop us cluttering up the Post a Pic thread.

Wind starting to pick up. If just gone out the clear the garden of anything likely to blow around.

Looks like a repeat of the '87 event - south devastated, north spared. Clearly God is not a Tory.

Then how did he become Education Secretary?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The forecasters don't seem to think it's going to be as bad as 1987. (Michael Fish says so, however, and he's the one who bolloxed up the 1987 forecast.) Anyway, we've battened down the hatches. I'm worried about one of our bay trees, which is in a very aesthetic pot that my wife likes but which ALWAYS falls over in a blow. It's in a sheltered place but...

MG

[sidewinder]

I've got a plantation of bay trees facing SW which is my first line of defence. Another plantation next door should take the sting out of it (hopefully).

Edited October 27, 2013 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've got a plantation of bay trees facing SW which is my first line of defence. Another plantation next door should take the sting out of it (hopefully).

Yes, bay trees are good when they're planted in the ground. The one we have in a pot, however, has been trimmed so it's a sphere about two feet across, about three feet above the pot.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

The perfect music for what's coming (even though it's still October):

http://youtu.be/abuEGBa-C4Y

And I love this from the BBC News site:

It said the predicted storm - named St Jude after the patron saint of depression and lost causes, whose feast day is on Monday - was not one "you would see every year".

Only in Britain!

Edited October 27, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[Tom 1960]

I just heard on the news parts of Britain can expect hurricane wind gusts. Hopefully, damage will be minimal? Stay safe guys!

[jazzbo]

This is my first winter in Ohio in 32 years. It already snowed, rode my Fat Bob home through the wet snow earlier this week, was sort of fun. But I know I'll be very tired of snow very soon.

[A Lark Ascending]

Porthleven in Cornwall today.

Though what went through the minds of these nutters in Newquay I'm not sure:

They get into trouble and other people have to come out.

From:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24690552

And a nice slideshow here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24694139

Still very calm here.

Edited October 27, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[Blue Train]

By the time St. Jude hits us on Monday....it's thankfully going to only be a 40% chance of rain.

Everyone stay safe and dry.

[sidewinder]

Still very calm here.

Famous last words Mr Fish !

[Blue Train]

Still very calm here.

Famous last words Mr Fish !

As long as he remembers to follow the yellow brick road, avoid winged monkeys, anyone on a broom, or just cut to the chase and click his heels three times and saying there is no place like home.

[JSngry]

fine, thanks!

[sidewinder]

Strange - not even a dustbin blown over here. So far..

Suspect that you had to be right on the coast to feel the worst of this one.

Edited October 28, 2013 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Strange - not even a dustbin blown over here. So far..

Suspect that you had to be right on the coast to feel the worst of this one.

Indeed. The people across the road left their recycling bags out on top of their wheelie bins and hadn't moved this morning.

Phew!

MG

[erwbol]

Two uprooted trees when I went out for a walk this morning. One in the park, the other blocking a busy road.

Edit: Two more uprooted trees around the corner from where I live.

Edited October 28, 2013 by erwbol

[A Lark Ascending]

Never really happened here. A fair bit of rain, a bit of light wind but clearly we were spared. I will return my flagellation kit to the loft.

[Blue Train]

Same here....though no F kit on my end.

[BillF]

Never really happened here.

But we've still had to listen to hours of coverage by the Londoncentric media!

[sidewinder]

Strange - not even a dustbin blown over here. So far..

Suspect that you had to be right on the coast to feel the worst of this one.

Indeed. The people across the road left their recycling bags out on top of their wheelie bins and hadn't moved this morning.

Phew!

MG

I spoke too soon - there was a major branch fall down the lane blocking me from getting out for a while this morning. My place remained unscathed though.

Most of the people at my place who ended up working from home were London-area based. Nambies !

[erwbol]

My parents had to call the fire department to have a large tree in their backyard which was about to fall over dismantled.

[porcy62]

Sorry for your problems, hope you're doing well. Here in center/south Italy the weather is gorgeous, steadily sunny between 10 and 25 degrees celsius, quite an event considering the season.