Snowangel-MK

Good Morning Everyone! Happy damp squib Saturday ️ Looks like the risk of heavy snow early next week has all but gone (for now) We will have to see what happens, maybe the high ground of Kent will catch something but sounds more like it will go for a swim in the channel instead Hopefully the arrival of some cold polar air will give us a break from this miserable wet stuff, what we need then is a Scandi High / Best from the East for end of Jan or early Feb just to give us one more blast of wintery weather…..after then I’ll be ready to welcome spring In the meantime here is a photo from 10 years ago today….feels a bit like saying “have a look at what you could have had” All enjoy your weekend, personally I’m hunkering down with a good book (not that SPARE one) I said a good book, I prefer fact to fiction lol

Happy Birthday for Monday, you might have to wait for your present though but enjoy anyway x Belated birthday wishes Ed, I hope it was a good one ! I have a big one coming up end of Aug, so I can remember Dixon of Dock Green I also have to take responsibility as I too prematurely purchased new snow boots, they are still waiting to be christened !

I do hope so.......I did just double take your comment before replying to make sure it was boots you said not boobs Anyway looks like pretty much anyone anywhere could get some wintry precipitation early next week, after then who knows....I'm trying very hard to ignore talks of SSW and the SPV doing the splits and not get too excited about something way out in FI when we don't even know what's happening beyond Sunday !

Friday The 13th Take care ! At least it’s drier but Saturday looks pants (maybe a duvet day needed) all change from Sunday….hopefully we all get a ticket to ride the snow train next week

We will see, time for a pattern change… I’ll take dry and cooler even if it’s just average and a few wintry showers thrown in, enough of this wet & mild mush I say!

No washing out - Ratty is owning it in the front garden now, dogs are going nuts they don’t mind the birds & squirrels but they haven’t seen a rat before

Sleet and snow symbols for me next Tuesday, first time this year that I've seen the snowflake used, only time will tell if any will actually fall from the sky of course but it's encouraging ! Meantime I have a rat in me garden....what am I gonna do ?

Seems it never rains in southern California.........It pours, man, it pours Studio City neighborhood mired in debris after heavy rain triggers mud flows, surrounding homes - ABC7 Los Angeles I must not complain about the soggy weather here ............ I guess it could be worse !

It went well apart from the second stage rockets failure to reach orbit altitude. Watching it live, it looked like the liquid oxygen was being used up much quicker than the kerosene RP-1 rocket fuel. I'm sure Virgin Orbit noticed, after all it’s not rocket science.... erm....

Worst things happen in space…. or not as it happens …

Cosmic Girl has now launched her payload forcing her to sharply bank right and is now returning to Spaceport Cornwall - her part of mission start me up is complete

As long as your not stuck watching the Ginger Whinger

Watching live

Anyone see this .. Huge meteor spotted in night sky over UK as residents ‘stunned’ WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK A large, bright meteor was seen streaking through the night sky over Britain on Monday. my son did as he was walking home from football training, I thought it was the Virgin Orbit launched early when he described it

Oh dear you did seem a bit keen to get back to work, at least you tried! Meanwhile the weather is still the friggin' same....UGH! I just want some snow ! For todays fix (as ski Sunday didn’t really help much yesterday) I watched “The Big Snow of 1982” (it was after then and the “great storm of 1987” that I got really into the weather & forecasting) anyway it was interesting especially regarding the Albedo effect on the temperature. Also it reminded me we couldn’t get any milk delivered from the dairy so we had to manage with “five pints” I’d forgotten all about that!

Hope you can see where your going, mind the gap These boots were made for walking in the snow, they are still waiting - starting to wonder if I’ll get to use them this winter, I had such high hopes, maybe I should have got wellies

Just watching ski Sunday, it looks unseasonably bare…

TODAY'S WEATHER: crappy with continued crappy until tomorrow when the weather is expected to be slightly less crappy before turning more crappy on Tuesday! As you can probably tell I’m fed up of this windy wet January already, also sick of hearing about the Ginger “spare” and Me-again whinging on about their terrible life so I’m immersing myself in a weekend of binge watching, so far all of “Litvinenko” and now started on “the light in the hall” both very good

On this day 13 years ago, snow blanketed the UK…… On January 7th 2010, overnight temperatures had plunged to -18 degrees Celsius (-0.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in isolated spots, with more widespread temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit). Snow covered most of England, from the east to the west coast. (The large image shows snow cover over the entire island of Great Britain.) The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray shapes against the white land surface. Immediately east of London, clouds swirl over the island, casting blue-gray shadows toward the north. The heavy snowfall downed power lines, leaving several thousand homes in southern England without electricity.

Well this is a new one on me, can't wait until the Daily Fail or Excess headlines pick up on it, "UK to be battered by pineapples" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/05/california-weather-explained-pineapple-express-storm/

Planning for the next 12 months… I’m not sure about the weather but there is no way I’m doing dry January No sign of a big freeze, beast from the east etc in the foreseeable despite the tabloid’s scaremongering, I was pleased to see the Met O set the records straight yesterday!

If only …. No point going to the Alps though, they are having to make their own snow for the very green & rocky looking ski slopes speedy recovery

Christmas January is over, tomorrow I officially enter real January…… No more alcohol and cake for breakfast (all the nice food is gone now so only healthy options available) the pretty lights & decorations are down (the living room feels huge…but bare) and sadly no more afternoon naps (well not the days I’m working anyway) what I really need now is some snow to cheer me up!

We had a frost last night ! Hope you get on okay tomorrow for your eye op I had my stitches out this afternoon, my hand has healed well but I needed a tetanus shot, apparently I hadn’t had once since 1969

Happy new year to all - at least it’s started out dry (the weather) can’t say the same about myself Fireworks going off all evening and into the early hours, some big bangs too the ones that sound like mortar bombs