After one of the driest and brightest Januaries I can ever remember, February started out well too.
Then it all fell apart.
On Saturday, it started to rain at 1pm, just in time to get a good soaking out on the dog walk. That rain continued all day. Then all night. Then until 9am on Sunday.
After a bright start, Sunday ended up under water, with icy cold rain that made the whole day forgettable.
Then it rained all night Sunday night too.
I was fooled into thinking it had stopped raining when I went out with Ollie on Monday. But no, down it came again, accompanied by gusty winds that made it difficult to hang on to my umbrella. Ollie was saturated, and even using three large dog-towels hardly got him dry.
Time to head off to the supermarket for my regular Monday ‘big-shop’.
Driving there in quite heavy rain, wipers going. I was inside the shop for around 45 minutes, and as I emerged with a fully-loaded trolley, I could see it had been really bucketing down. The car park was awash, and just getting across to the car, my trainers and socks were soaked.
After stacking away all the groceries, I came inside and started to prepare dinner, then watched the news.
Two storms are on their way later this week, arriving one after the other. Bad enough to be given ‘names’, and an Amber Weather Warning, they will bring 80-90 mph winds, snow and blizzards in Scotland and the north, torrential rain and damage to trees and property elsewhere.
Who said a crocus was a sign of Spring? 😦
As you know, we got just the same, some days later. Lets hope the storm now will find another area. Better we will get spring. xx Michael
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Four storms in one week. That was not good at all. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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I cant remember similar things. The nature is doing her own thing. xx Michael
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I would love to be sick of the rain. ☔️C
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Move to Beetley, and you soon will be. As I type this, Storm Franklin is driving rain against the windows of my office room, and drenching the entire property. If England had any desert regions, I would be moving to one. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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The good news is that weather changes in a heartbeat. We have gone from ice to more ice, to snow, and to 60 degrees. Go figure!.
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It’s all very strange, I agree. Fortunately, Beetley escaped the worst of both storms. Our luck held for a change.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Winter is wet here too. Warmest regards, Theo
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Your country is so big, you seem to have every season at the same time. 🙂
Best ishes, Pete.
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We had a 70 degree difference between one day last week and one this morning. Crazy times.
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The storm coming on Friday has been warned to be ‘the worst for 30 years’. I will be keeping an eye on the huge oak trees in our garden.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep, rain on the way here
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I can hardly see for bright sunshine at the moment, but the storm is forecast to arrive later.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh dear
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we have some storms heading this way tomorrow
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Stay safe, Beth. American storms can be fierce.
Best wishes, Pete.
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they can indeed, thanks
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I’ve been reading about the bad weather in the UK, Pete. Time to batten down the hatches.
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Storm coming late tonight, Robbie. So they say on the weather news.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. Try to stay dry.
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Always trying to do that, Peggy. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have rain and cold here here too, Pete, just when it felt like spring. It’s so easy to be fooled in February!
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Oops! Heavy handed on the keyboard! 😉 One *here* will do!
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I stick by the old-English saying, Susanne.
“Ne’er cast a clout, ’til May be out”.
(Don’t throw off your heavy coat until the end of May)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh dear. Clouds rolling in here too, but a big warming trend though still very cold after dark.
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First storm arriving tomorrow, apparently. Strangely warm here today too, already 13 C at 8am.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My drive down south was wet and horrible on Sunday, and the forecast for my drive back on Thursday looks even worse! Fed up of it.
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I hate it when Winter comes late. We get fooled by a decent December and January, then it comes back to laugh at us during February and March.
Be careful on that long drive.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Will do! cheers Pete.
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Here in Las Vegas, we supposedly got a bit of precipitation on January 18, 2022. I’m not so sure about that. But Mt. Charleston’s summit is white, as viewed from the valley. So at least it snowed in the Spring Mountains. (Note: Mt. Charleston’s elevation: 11,916 ft / 3,632 m)
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Snow on a distant mountain is fine. And that mountain is very distant from Beetley! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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February came in strong here in the mid-west. We got 12 inches of snow after hac=ving a mild winter. They say another storm is on the way. Try to stay dry.
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Thanks, Molly. At least we didn’t get your snow. Not yet, anyway.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Here (I mean in Spain as a whole, although apart from a few drops on Sunday, we haven’t had any rain for a while here either) we have a draught already and the levels of water on the reservoirs are dropping, so it doesn’t look good. I am not sure I’d ask for you to send us the storms, but some rain would be more than welcome. Stay as dry as you can, Pete!
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Thanks, Olga. You might get that rain after the weekend, it is moving north-west to south east.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep, we’ve got Dudley tomorrow and Eunice on Friday. Deep joyload …
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I think they should give them more evil names! Dudley can be ‘Demon’, and Eunice can be ‘Eligos’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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We need a bit more rain in Florida Pete. Send it along 🙂
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You can have it all, June, with my blessing. The weather people said it came from America, blown across on the Jet Stream. You must have missed it by a few states. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, your worst nightmare when they “name” something – that is never good! Sorry it’s raining – we need your water!
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Get building a pipe, and I will work the pump to send it to you, John. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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There are no words…
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I can think of one, Annette. ‘Aquatic’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thankfully, after one of the coldest winters in History, my hometown is rather warm and dry. The weather predictions so far look good and predict a dry rest of Feb, but I will not be fooled by the most unpredictable science. I still have my thickest coats out, ready to put on at a moment’s notice.
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I can’t imagine needing a thick coat in India, except in the far north of your country where I have seen it snowing on the news.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hahaha. I have acquired three thick coats this year…imagine.
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We were smug when it was pouring down on a Spurs game last week and we’d had no rain, but it soon found us. We’ve managed to get the dogs out so far without drowning (although this morning was a close thing) but the winds are brutal out here in the Fens (a similar latitude to yourself).
We’re down Epping Forest way next week, so at least will have the cover of trees, albeit mostly naked trees. More mud though. The upside of Fenland winds is that they dry things out quicker.
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Yes, we are quite flat here too, and today’s winds are very ‘gusty’, to say the least.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sorry about the weather again, Pete. I have always dreamed of traveling to the UK but I must admit your weather advisories make it a little less tempting. Stay dry!
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You should come in August, when it’s hot. But then the tourist places are too busy. It can be nice sometimes in May, and less tourists then. Always a gamble with British weather though.
Just back from walking Ollie, and we are both muddy and soaked.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sorry for you and Ollie…makes walking miserable…..be well chuq
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Thanks, chuq. Bracing myself for that walk soon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We don’t have seasons in Britain: we just have weather! Sun’s shining now in beautiful north Yorkshire, so I might be able to get a dry walk after lunch, but anything could happen later on…… Cheers, Jon.
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I hope you miss the worst of it from Thursday on, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yikes! Sounds like hurricane season.
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They are apparently Atlantic storms all the way from America, Liz.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sorry about that, Pete.
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Mmmmm . . warm and sunny here in London . . !!
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You bad fibber! 🙂 x
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