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    Autumn 2021 - Moans, Ramps & Chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Autumn is the best season in my opinion, plenty going on, beautiful colours on the trees, cooler evenings and mornings, blackberries, chestnuts!, Halloween!, bonfire night.  The list is endless.
     

    One of my favourite poems by John Keats

     

    Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, 

       Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; 

    Conspiring with him how to load and bless 

       With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; 

    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, 

       And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; 

          To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells 

       With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, 

    And still more, later flowers for the bees, 

    Until they think warm days will never cease, 

          For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. 

     

    Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? 

       Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find 

    Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, 

       Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; 

    Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, 

       Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook 

          Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: 

    And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep 

       Steady thy laden head across a brook; 

       Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, 

          Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. 

     

    Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they? 

       Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— 

    While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, 

       And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; 

    Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn 

       Among the river sallows, borne aloft 

          Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; 

    And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; 

       Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft 

       The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; 

          And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

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    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Sunny76 said:

    I do understand, but living in a country where most of the year we suffer from a lack of sunny days, it just confuses me that some on here moan about it being too hot and uncomfortable for sleeping between June and august, if the temp hits or exceeds 26c. 
     

    The reality is, even in a hot summer like 2018, the heat only lasts for a few weeks at a time, before have a cooler interlude which lasts for several days at a time.

    2019 and 2020, had more cooler or average summer days, with just brief hot spikes. 
     

    The long and short of it is, the hot weather and humid conditions never last that long. The damp and cool eventually wins out, which is why I tend to enjoy the heat when it does arrive. 

    Not moaning about it being hot or uncomfortable just the fact I don’t like the long evenings, I suffer from depression and have to take medication, and I find myself more down through the longer days.  I know it’s strange, but  it is form of reverse SAD.

    so roll on September!

     

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    South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion Jan 2021 Onward

    in Regional

    Posted

    Well I am an optimist and I hope that we have some snow even if it is a slight dusting.  Although the realist in me knows that we need a few things to fall in our favour to get a proper taste of winter.

    come on everyone let’s all be nice to each other....it’s only the weather after all, if we don’t get snow then it will be a shame.  There are far worse things going on in the world at the moment and I have a dear friend fighting for their lives with COVID so to be honest be thankful we are healthy and if we get a bit of snow it will be a bonus, this puts everything into perspective.

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    Winter 2020/21 - Moans, Ramps & Chat

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bobafet
    Gramma

    47 minutes ago, terrier said:

    Thankyou finally at least someone can see that they is far too much hope casting going on in this thread at moment. When will people learn this is what causes the toys been thrown out the pram when it all goes the shape of the pear. Yes the gfs & ecm show something abit more seasonal over Xmas with some frost and a few wintry flurries over the highest ground. But all this talk of snowy winter wonderland is wide of the mark for vast swathes of the U.K. Just look at the met they certainly aren’t thinking we are heading for the next 1963 winter style symbiotics. So I’d be very cautious at the moment because snowmagedon it is not. And people are just once again setting themselves up for huge disappointment 

    Yes you are probably right that it will be a disappointment!  But what is wrong with us hoping?  It has been an awful year for many of us and to see charts like we are currently seeing gives us a bit of chance to dream!! 
     

    Some in here can’t wait for things to go wrong just so they can say  I told you so!  Nothing wrong with people getting excited, good grief this is our hobby why shouldn’t we!

     

    These are some of the best chances we have had for a cold spell developing for a few winters, and hopefully with the Strat playing ball for January - plenty for us to be excited about.  
     

    Merry Christmas to all.

     

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