Foul weather

What on earth do we expect it is WINTER. Does'nt it always have storms in the winter. Everything is hyped up in the media and theyre all being hysterical. What a fuss

A very high tide today in N Wales. Apparently spring tides are at an 18 year high today and tomorrow. Spectacular here - made eye contact with a slightly surprised looking seal as it shot the rapids through the bridge as the tide started to drop. It is even higher than the storm surge a few weeks ago.
Can't understand why the PM said we were "looking to experience" these high tides today - "expecting" would have been better but actually "we are going to have them" would have been made it clear to people.
Isaac Newton was the first person to do the equations to work out the tide tables and there have been a few improvements in the calculations since. Anyone with a tide tables spreadsheet could have told him a few years ago exactly how high the tides would be at an date in the future and at exactly what times.

So glad for some sun. And so lucky here. Commiserations to everyone having problems because of the weather!

Actually put some washing outside for a bit. It didn't dry much, but I always like to put it in the fresh air!

A tiny bit brighter at the moment, after torrential rain yesterday. Still lots of flood warnings for the south west..

Wet and windy again today. Was taking the bag from the kitchen bin out to the dustbin, just as I got outside the door the damn bag burst, and there was I, in the wind and pouring rain, picking up all the manky horrid stuff, and getting soaked and cold into the bargain. Not a good start to the day.

The paraffin for oil lamps cost a fortune now. It was a great same that the flooding in the East of England was ignored. Like recent flooding in Yalding. It did not get any help until Cameron visited then all of a sudden everyone turned up and had some sort of pathetic apology why they were not available before.
The wind has still not reduced. Hope it does soon but the rain is stopping.

Hi Bluebelle, I'm from Suffolk too - clue in the name - and near me in Snape and along the coast, it was really bad flooding a couple of weeks ago. I count myself lucky we live up a hill, not right by the crumbling coast. But of course, ditches can still flood etc. The horrible thing about flooding, it takes months sometimes for it all to dry out, and people able to go back home. I was dreading another power loss over Christmas, but we were lucky this time.

Have bought my OH a proper old working oil lamp for Christmas, gives out a good light and heat, so next time we're off for a couple of days, we'll have some good lighting at least.

Bluebelle I think the flooding got upstaged by Mandela dying didn't it.

Wow - how awful, I am so sorry. Hardly dare tell you this was a lovely sunny day again in our mountains. A sparrowhawk came to check the sparrows on our birdtable- sitting just a couple of feet from my kitchen window.

Stay warm and safe.

Got a rope round the fence post and round a thick trunk of a bush. The ground is totally waterlogged. It will be a miracle if their is no flooding.

The weather here in East Sussex has really deteriorated and it's blowing a gale and heavy rain. The side fence has one post moving and I hope it stays upright until see can get the fencing company out. Though I expect they are very busy.
Water is pouring down the drive and the road is a flood, the electric and phone wires are hitting together but as yet no flickering of the light.
I can't remember when we had so many episodes of bad weather.
Hope everyone ok. I worry that the Tonbridge barrier will need to be lifted and Yalding floods again.

Thanks Mamie- I think they all arrived today. It was such a winter wonderland day that we decided to go to our local ski resort. The queues were almost as breathtaking as the views of the Alps. Daughter and I did enjoy a few good runs though finished with a Vin Chaud and a Crêpe au sucre.

I am so sorry to hear of all the destruction and great inconvenience and even hardhsip many are still enduring in part of UK.

It cleared up for a while this afternoon and I had to go to the chemist, not crowded, then S-------, but everyone else had the same idea about shopping and here it was packed out! But at least I didn't get wet.

Extremely windy all day today. Our daughter sleeps in what was once our front room, and was kept awake all night last night by the letterbox rattling, looks like more of the same for tonight,.

The gales before Christmas caused our roof to leak. We think the tiles at the back, which get the full force of the wind lifted and broke the concrete haunching around the chimney were it meets the tiles, and this let in the rain so we have water marks on the wall in one of the bedrooms. Ah well the room was about to be redecorated.

We had our neighbours around this morning as they can only see one area of their roof from our garden and they seem to be having similar problems.

I am going a little green already thinking of our cross channel ferry journey on Friday. I try not to medicate but I suspect that the first thing I will do on board is take see sickness pills!

Here in Suffolk we had terribly floods a couple of weeks before Christmas barely made the news yet it was worse than the terrible East coast floods of 1953 Suffolk rarely seems to make any headlines I was lucky and was about half a mile from where the water came up to Again the wind is blowing a hooley and I find it quite scary as I have a very large tree near my house but as said before it is nothing compared to the poor folks with no homes no food and little hope and living in daily war zones Although it doesn't feel like it sometimes we are a rich country but just like most places the wealth is not divided correctly

Dreadfully wet and windy here in Kent. There is so much damage here already with lots of trees down and flooding.
Granjura, when we were driving up to the tunnel on Saturday, the other side of the autoroute had a nose to tail procession of 4x4s with ski boxes on the roof; all heading your way!

Pretty wild all night here in NW Wales with the met office predicting v windy even after rain stops later. It's heading east!

Bristol Channel looks really grim today.

Well I shouldn't complain because I haven't been flooded out and my thoughts go to those really suffering this winter. One storm blew 2 of my little plastic greenhouse over, I put them back up again and the next storm blew them over again. I dis-assembled one and stored it and left the other lying where it fell. Glad I didn't bother as yet again another raging storm.
Annoying to me as this weather is, I am one of the lucky ones. I do know what it's like having to desert your home. When my house caught fire I had to live in another flat for 7 months during repairs.

Sorry to hear that you have all been having such devastating weather and I feel particularly sad for those of you who have been without power. I haven't really got used to the sort of weather we have here at Christmas and New Year – it's very wrong-footing. Mind you, it has been quite overcast since Christmas evening with intermittent showers and quite heavy rain today. However, the lawns need it – they are dusty and threadbare – and at least I won't find myself watering my vegetables and herbs at nearly midnight tonight.

Nothing wrong with worrying about our families, granjura! Some of mine are on the way down to us, and I will only stop when they get here - and it's only raining.

One of DH's friends lives near Godalming. He said the water was 80 yards from their front door on Christmas day. Christmas dinner was a bacon and sprouts fry up and the power came back on just after they finished eating!

Snowing like absolute crazy on wet roads- let's hope all travelling down to the Alps will make it safely (I know it does pale into insignificance compared to so many ills- but 100s are travelling down today- including some GNetters and family)

Indeed. In view of last night's news, I do wish I could delete my post from yesterday. It has been said before, but I do wish this site would allow us to alter or delete a message.

Weather is foul here today, raining on top of the heavy snow- but it is just that, foul weather- and so different to what Ariadne wrote about.