Weather.... late 2009

[Maggi Young]

Lovely day.  Breezy (!), dry, warm, even a little sun.  I'll take this any November.  Going to rain again tonight

 Hmmmmm..... are you sure you're not just standing under a strong light by an open window, iann??

[David Nicholson]

Lovely day.  Breezy (!), dry, warm, even a little sun.  I'll take this any November.  Going to rain again tonight

Manchester? Can't be, surely

[Michael J Campbell]

Heavy rain here and 16c, very murky= wet and humid. Took the dog for a walk and what was not wet with rain was wet with sweat. Had to change every stitch of clothes.

[Darren]

Appalling here in lancaster (not far north of Cliff). My many colleagues who live in Kendal have left work early to go home - if they can. And poor Susan has just had a 40 mile commute to Ulverston to work a night shift but thankfully she just phoned to say she has made it despite numerous flooded stretches of road. We have a group meeting in two hours but don't know what the turnout will be like! As I'm on foot I expect to get rather soggy!

[iann]

I know there are sceptics out there, but I actually mowed my lawn today.  For the second time in November!  The wind dried everything out nicely.  There were always low black clouds off to the north and west but we haven't had a drop during daylight hours and the river is back to more normal levels.  My thoughts for the people only a few miles away who are having real problems.

[David Nicholson]

I know it well Ian. Before I was recruited for missionary work here in Devon we lived in Bury for a spell and often had good days whilst "The Homeland" on 'tother side of the Pennines was having a shocker (and vice versa!)

[mark smyth]

street lights on all day here again. 7cm of rain

[David Nicholson]

street lights on all day here again. 7cm of rain

you had a "lovely blue sky" at 1252, make your mind up

[Paddy Tobin]

Despite the efforts of the local corporation workers we have been unable to get out our road today as it is flooded. Maybe tomorrow as the rain is easing at the moment.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

I have never seen rain like it! Bad smash on the M9 at Stirling this morning. Outside lane just a river at Bannockburn coming home tonight. South west Scotland to have 100mm rain tonight on top of the 100mm they've had in the last 24 hours. 12^oC (yes Paul, you don't need to use the apostrophe) this evening! Start work of The Ark on Saturday!

[Maggi Young]

Start work of The Ark on Saturday!

Too late, Anthony, colleague at the BBC, who lives in Stonehaven, has his nearly built already.... just having trouble sourcing female giraffe to complete, he tells me..........

[Anthony Darby]

I was only having a giraffe!

[Maggi Young]

I was only having a giraffe!

Yes, but is it female, and can you send it to Peter.... sharpish???

[Paul T]

Anthony,

I am not aware of the code for "not using the apostrophe" and I really can't be bothered copying and pasting from elsewhere to put the correct one in.  I'm assuming that everyone understands the use of the apostrophe as a standing for the degrees symbol?  I'm sorry if it is bothering you.... I really wasn't aware it is a problem.

Paddy,

I too find it amusing that we're complaining about the exact opposites.  You may not want to hear the following though...... at around 11am this morning it was already 45.4 degrees celsius (that is degrees centigrade to our American readers) and just before 12:30pm it was 38.3 degrees celsius.  I think our record temp for November is looking seriously in danger of being broken.  Add to that it is quite windy, with raised dust etc.  I think the only thing that might slow the temperatures a bit is that cloud is building and we have a chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon.  Tomorrow is forecast relatively cool at only 33 degrees celsius.

So to me it is nice to hear about your rain and cool.... to remind me that it DOES happen!    Isn't this forum great. 

[Paul T]

We ended up with 38.9 degrees celsius today, which apparently equals the record November temperature for Canberra.  The higher temp I had heard must have been wrong.  It was that temp around 1:20pm, and the only reason it didn't get higher is we had a line of thunderstorms go through.  Didn't cool down much at my place, but the airport (where the official Canberra reading are taken) dropped by 10 degrees in 10 minutes.  After the storms went through we ended up back up to 35 degrees later in the afternoon, so I dread to think what we would have had if the storms hadn't gone through.