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just calmed down after snow storm

It's summer here in South Africa and where i am it means huge thunderstorms every night. Just recovering from a bit of thunder that shook my house. When it's not raining ít's about 30 degrees C.

12.05am Monday 10th, North Pennines.

We're getting the gales now GB so they should reach you in a couple of hours. Batten down the hatches!

(The water seems to be pouring in faster than it was on Friday night but the wind can't be as bad as last night's because my Rayburn's thermometer isn't anywhere near going off the scale the way it did then)

Sitting here in Dublin, Ireland in the wee small hours, having just posted a new thread at the Forum re climate change ( hi Tefkat), and it's blowing a gale, yet again, but a weirdly warm westerly gale, weirdly warm for mid-winter January.

Snow-drops already blooming, and daffodils budding....in January!!!!

Just for the sake of scientific accuracy, Dublin lies at 6 degrees 15 minutes West, 53 degrees 20 minutes North.

It was wild last night but it's earily calm now - like a dog that has done something bad...

Much calmer in Blackpool ,UK too.For now,at least.

hi all
its 10-10am monday here in bradford yorkshire,england.
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yet another galeforce wind all night, but as pinky said its starting to calm down at last.
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its claimed at least one third of my roof,and damaged about 10 roof slates front and back.what a start to the new year lol jimxx

London - 10 January - 10.45

Grey and cloudy and the predicted rain has just started to fall in dribs and drabs. Miserable really, although not too windy. About 14c.

I was in Catres in the South of France at the weekend and it was clear and sunny and about 16c - lovely!

Its fine but very windy in Gladstone temp 30 but this cyclone off the coast should mess up the weather shortly.Hope it goes away and does not cross the coast.

About those snowdrops and daffodils - we have catkins on some of the willows.

It's fairly calm here (about as calm as it ever gets up here) but they're predicting more for tomorrow night.

Hi all well its wet cold and miserable here
windy as heck too in bonnie dundee (scotland)

hope everyones safe happy and warm

2005-01-11 9am Manchester
The dark cloud that was overhead as I walked for the train seems to have been left behind (or is it blown away) and the low winter sunlight is highlighting the city centre buildings. Those red bricks and terracotta fronted buildings are positivly glowing right now.

Hope those affected by the last lot of bad weather are coping ok and that the storm forecast for later today and this evening doesn't do much more damage.

hi all bradford 9-15am
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i thought the lull in the weather was to good to be true, the winds and rain are back again tonight, but 50 mph not 90 to 100 like last time
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or so the the forcast said lol jim

Dublin, Ireland.

Can we agree to put our locality and country at the beginning of each message. Where's Gladstone, Tyrone? You mention a cyclone off the coast. Which coast?

Meanwhile, we're battening down the hatches here for 90 - 100 mph gusts, and a huge Atlantic storm hitting the west and north coasts.

Bewildering weather. And not just bee wildering, but bird and plant wildering too. Here we have the worst storm, the fourth in a succession of bad storms since October, where three bad storms per year has been unusual until recently. But it's still really mild, and plants are beginning to flower a month early, trees are budding. But the insect hatching cycles are increasingly out of synch with the flowering/pollinating cycles, and the birds who feed off them at nesting time are going to be in serious trouble too.

Interesting times??? No wonder the Chinese use the phrase, "May you live in interesting times" as a curse.

BTW Commiserations and sympathy to any readers from Carlisle, still largely under water. I lived there in 1973-74, lovely city, really friendly people.

PS. Should have put a time on that message. 2.00pm. Wind's getting stronger. Full force of the storm expected 6 - 8pm tonight accompanied by very high tide and heavy rain.

hi all
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you guessed it, its now 3-50pm,its been blowing a gale and raining on and off since 5pm last night,here in yorkshire, england.jim

3:57pm Cardiff, Wales. Has rained here slightly today, but is now calm, sunnyish, and pretty much free of clouds!

Here in Dublin, it's a cold clear night with a beautiful sliver of a new moon. Last night the savage storm that ripped across the country blew a huge container lorry right off the Foyle River Bridge onto the mudflats below, killing the driver.

In today's Irish Times, it points out that severe storms are typical Irish weather at this time of year, and the present run of storms is nowhere near as bad as the "Big Wind" in the late 1800's which devastated the countryside.

Melbourne, Australia Thursday 1535hrs

Hot and windy We have had the high 30's for the past few days.

I think the Gladstone referred to above is Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

Maz

London - 13 January 10.30

A bit chilly but bright and sunny and clear and lovely. About 7c.