A very British question - how's your weather?

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We're forecast a little snow for friday - I can hardly contain myself!

Right now it's dull, overcast and showery. A little windy but not too cold yet, it's approximately 10 degrees celsius.

How's your weather - any snow yet?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Snow? In London?!?!??!

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Like I said - San Francisco - foggy.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

kentucky-warmish, about 60 farenheit, cloudy and gloomy. the fall leaves are beautiful though.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Windy!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

it was surprisingly nice and fairly sunny this morning, especially considering how freezing the house was when i was getting ready (boiler, i curse thee). now, i'm not sure. there's some nice pinky-blue streaking in the sky.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite lovely down here! Sun, some clouds, perfectly temperate. (These are the months where I start to gloat when I think of the block of dark ice that is most of the rest of the country.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago - warm and rainy with a chance of lots of more rain for the next week.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleveland, OH
CURRENT CONDITIONS
54°F
(12°C)

Haze

Rel. Humidity: 71%
Wind: SSE at 8 mph (13 km/h)
Sunrise: 7:18 AM
Sunset: 5:05 PM
Barometric Pressure: 30.32"Hg (F)

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

tucson - sunny and fine with a mild chance that i may vomit.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww. hello, cleveland.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, weather forecasts are thorough in Tucson (xpost)

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it's dark.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren, I'm looking at an apartment on Murray Hill today. I'll tell the Italians you said hello.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

good for you. get some sour cream donuts from the hole-in-the-wall place that used to be presti's while your at it.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

and wet.
but not where I'm sitting.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i vomited.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

not too cold in college park, md.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Rumpy in Scotland?

With my brand new double glazing it's never cold in the Markelby/sgs household! We may feasibly be carbon monozided to death, but we won't freeze fo sho.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Stockholm's first snow of the year predicted tonight! (Would be "YAY!" except I wear way too thin clothes today.)

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm just outside Glasgow. Tres disappointed with the lack of snow for the past couple of years, hope we get some this season to make it feel more like christmas-time.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too mild.

Looking forward to a nice blast o':

WIND CHILL FACTOR!!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Late-autumn miserable. In a nice way. Actually not too awful. I was pleasantly surprised on the walk to work this morning.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cold and windy, with leaves blowing everywhere.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

chilly now, but that is coz its night in the moutains and night

the days have been glorious - sunny, warm clear blue skies, trees slightly swaying in the breeze. perfection.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think it was too bad for November, but Rumpy has scared me now that I may be battling through blizzards in just-outside-Glasgow-land :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Current Conditions for Worcester, MA (01609)

43°F
Cloudy

Feels Like
39°F

UV Index: 0 Low
Dew Point: 32°F
Humidity: 65%
Visibility: 10.0 miles
Pressure: 30.24 inches and steady
Wind: From the West Southwest at 7 mph

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Melbourne: yesterday was blazingly hot and sunny, 32 deg C or thereabouts. Today, more overcast and muggo, but its still 24 C according to my intranet weather doohickey.

I like it when its hot and overcast.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

A very British question - how's your father?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

9°C
Overcast. Light drizzle and fog.
WIND: SW 13 km/h
RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 100%
DEWPOINT: 9°C
PRESSURE: 102.25 kPa
VISIBILITY: 61 m
CEILING: Null (0)

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

We never get much snow here - too near the coast. It just rains - horribly cold rain.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Tartu, 'stonia: the first snow of the oncoming winter.
Not cold, though: 'bout 0 C.
November so far has been rather mild overall, 5-9 C up to now.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now: cold, windy, dark and rainy.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Here it's 3°C at 2:10 AM, today's high was almost 12°C (15° above normal), and it's clear with only a light breeze. I could see many stars when I was out walking tonight. Won't last long but I'm happy for now.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the sky is whitish, it's misting rain. I hate the outside today, barring maybe the beautiful yellow tree in front of the window. Luckily I don't have to go outside to see it.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Trh rolling mist was strangely comforting.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum rang me to say it was snowing in the peak district this afternoon - a complete whiteout and she never got above 20mph back into Chesterfield from Rowsley

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vader/js/data/jsfiles/images/83e4843d55ff345eaf1cf781a190991a

― Hanna (Hanna), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Chappie on the morning news huddled in a layby in North Yorkshire amidst a mild dusting of snow looked rattled, as if he was about to be brought down by ravening wolves or something. Hah.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wolves II - The Ravening"

I got very cold walking over Hungerford Bridge this morning. Please can people suggest me a stylish, uber-warm hat to cover my bald head this winter?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitter cold and bright sunshine in Edinburgh

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun (when you can see it) in Helsinki. A tiny bit overcast, getting colder and darker everyday. A light dusting of snow with more promised over the weekend. Thus, things will brighten up, no doubt. Temperature hovering at -5 or so. I like this weather, actually.

And I'm always meaning to ask: Why do people think any one nation can claim that "talking about the weather" is indigenous to just them? In my experience, it's a global thing, not peculiar to any one place or people. Simple and fundamental gesture of communication, really. Even in Finland, where they claim not to do "small talk," you get it all the time (I think that many of them are particularly proud of their dark and cold winters. Their weather in a sense defines them. It defines all of us. Weather has this curious way of mediating between us and our landscape, wherever that might be, an experience which in turn often takes on a nationalist kind of inflection. Finns always a bit surprised when I announce I'm Canadian and have lived through -50 degree winters. I say it's the dark that's the problem. They often nod in solemn agreement).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Friday, 19 November 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, I recommend a felt Chitrali hat, as worn in chilly mountainous Sindh:

http://www.islamicfinder.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/H_C_1.jpg

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 19 November 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

My apologies Geoff, I did believe that 'chatting about the weather' was a stereotypical assumption made of the British and was pandering to it, albeit with my tongue firmly in cheek.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's telling that i look at that Chitrali and think 'mmmmmmm pasty'

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a certain Cornishness to it. Very warm though, or so my dad tells me.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Part calzone, part loofah.

Chilly and rainy yesterday in Mississippi, extending through the night, but it's starting to clear up (in line with the local saying "rain before seven, gone before eleven") and expected to reach 70F/21C.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No need to apologize. Some people think Canadians have a monopoly on talking 'bout the weather.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway - it may snow here, the chance remains. It's been clear all day but I can see some clouds moving in. What they'll bring with them though is anyones guess.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A torrent of frogs perhaps

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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you snow-covered BASTARD

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

my car

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's not snowing here. Bah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

thank FUCK. snow is shit.

actually, i think i'd rather have to deal with six inches of shit than of sno ... no, on reflection, i most certainly wouldn't

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

No snow over Monkey's house. And I covered my car with a blanket last night, in case. So now I just have a soaking wet blanket.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

yeah its actually snowing here in warrington. okay its only about 2cm so far but its NICE FAT FLAKES

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's snowing hard here in Oxford. You snowed in CJ?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

About 10cm snow in Muswell Hill this morning, was expecting TRANSPORT CHAOS but apart from the Northern Line being suspended (shock!) I didn't have that much trouble getting in. In fact it took me nearly 2 hours to get in yesterday due to a defective tube train, today it took about an hour.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Couple of inches in Streatham but by the time I got to Clapham Common it was already turning into half-hearted slush.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

The snow is very thick where I am (w.midlands) and it's still coming down quite heavily. I may (have to) go out in it later. For a frolic. And some light shopping.

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Several inches here in Crystal Palace and still snowing steadily. Hope I can get my daughter out there in her wellies before it turns to rain. Boogie Beebies to be negotiated first.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Mark! Yes, snowed in here in my little Oxfordshire village. I expect I *could* get out if I wanted to, but I'd rather stay indoors today.

My husband took our Land Rover to work this morning, and rescued a girl whose car had skidded off the A34 and flipped over onto its roof trapping her inside. Luckily she wasn't hurt, but just very badly shaken. He got her out of the car and took her to a doctor's surgery for a check up, and waited with her until her boyfriend could come and collect her = he is a hero.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, you must cook him a special dinner CJ (seeing as your not at work grrr)

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's raining in south Devon. There is fat chance of snow. However, we're meant to be going to Bristol for a gig later. I'm unsure what the situation is there.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

hero indeed wow! Also it is very surprising that someone could flip their car over yet still come out unscathed. If the girl believes in God she must really be thanking him now.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

You know that if it snows here nobody will have to go to work

If only Trish, if only...

My feet are soaked and cold from sleet this morning and wet jeans hitting my legs. I am sad now :(

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

hero indeed wow! Also it is very surprising that someone could flip their car over yet still come out unscathed

I overtook on the motorway just after Christmas in front of two guys who were driving at a ridiculous speed and they flipped their car right over in the median strip. The car was a total wreck, but they sustained no injuries other than a bad cut on one finger. Amazing.

Kev, yeah, the weather is the worst combination of freezing, windy, rainy, and not snowy. Rubbish.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

A lorry jack-knifed on Clapham Common Northside at the turn into Cedars Road which caused a bit of a tailback.

The writing on its side read: CHILL SLAG CEMENT.

It is at times like this that I wish I had one of those new-fangled digital cameras.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

On tenterhooks as meant to be flying to Berlin today and bloody Stansted is closed "temporarily". My flight is not until the evening so they might have stuff under control but this is snow in Britain (OMG WUSSIES) and also argh Ryanair.

Snow is slushy stuff and despite the volume of it shouldn't be too annoying, but there is probably more of it in Essex.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

these ppl getting out of vehicles unscathed stories make me think of the A Team.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Snow snow snow!!!

I woke up at 6 and did a double take looking out the window to see everything covered in snow. Went out and played in it for a bit then went back to bed coz it was cold.

As I was leaving Streatham an hour ago or so, it was proper blizzard conditions. Bloody marvellous! But as I got closer to London, it turned into rain and tapered off, bah.

― Probability Smear Of Possible Quantum Katehood (kate), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Queens Park just now. I imagine some of these kids have never seen proper snow like this in their lives before today.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/383595474_c1b81e5634.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/383595475_d1d49922f3.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bristol had more than last time i.e. some at all, but it was pretty much all gone an hour ago.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Still snowing here!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking that it hadn't snowed like this in London for years and years, but then chris reminded me that the snow was very heavy on his 30th, so January 2003, only 4 years ago.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

That is very precise!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Snow off in London about 15 minutes ago, you'd never have known it'd been there, &c.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

The melt is in full effect here but still a carpet of white everywhere. You gotta love the elevated 'burbs.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

That move to Fulham can't come soon enough.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am having fun (a) throwing snowballs at my dog and (b) trying to identify what some of the animal tracks in the snow in the back garden are. There are the usual cat and bird ones, of course. Some must also belong to the family (mum, dad and one young'un) of muntjac deer who are living in a tunnel of overgrown hedge at the end of the garden, but there are other tracks I don't recognise. There's a line of tracks right across the middle of the lawn which are about 12" long and only about an inch wide, closely spaced at regular intervals for about 30 feet, and then vanishing without a trace. Odd.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

pouring down with sleet now. snow all gone

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

View from my bedroom window around 9am:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/383691813_03bff56109.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

How's the carpet of white looking now?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

A little patchy; trees are now mostly clear, as are roads. Pavements are uberslushy. I think the garden will stay white overnight. It's 2.6C here in Palace, which is probably as high as it will get today.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Which means that pavements will be ubericy in the morning. Ah well...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the whiteness may not persist - it's now raining. :(

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

YAY STANSTED OPEN.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Thus does another British winter reach its anticlimactic end.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

YAY STANSTED OPEN

I would like this to be the London Lite's front-page headline this evening.

Rain has stopped.

My elder daughter attacked by a monkey:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/383711460_f7b0d794fe.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

It's hellu windy here in the North West of england right now, hows u ?

― Ste, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I keep expecting a horrible old woman on a bike to go flying past the window.

And I have to bring the dogs for their second walk soon. They are looking at me pleadingly. Can they not hear the storm force winds?

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

National Weather Service reports/updated Wind Advisory for the Los Angeles area.

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL PREVAIL TODAY. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT WITH NEARLY SATURATED GROUND OVER MUCH OF THE REGION...THESE WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN TREES WITH SHALLOW ROOT SYSTEMS.

― get bent, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

17°C
Mostly Cloudy
Wind: E at 19 km/h
Humidity: 22%
22°C | 10°C

― Embarchie, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

pff get bent your wind is weak and crappy!

― Abbott, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

We're having gusts of up to 70mph here in the West of Scotland.

― ailsa, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Now THAT is some proper wind! 50 mph was hell of common in the area of Idaho where I lived most of my life. It was way windy like every day. There was no point in styling my hair.

― Abbott, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Raining and 31 degrees. I had to go out to the office for something tonight and nearly busted my ass on the slick deck. Glad I don't have to go anywhere tomorrow.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 26 January 2008 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

London weather forecast for Sunday starts at around 0 and rises to 11 by midnight, and status there for 24+ hours. seems odd... (it's been below zero for the last week based on the thermometer i walk past on the way to the park in the morning)

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcpvj0v07#?date=2022-12-23

― koogs, Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:04 (three years ago)

(but welcome)

― koogs, Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:05 (three years ago)

Don't forget the steadily increasing rain.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:07 (three years ago)

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