Norfolk Sheep
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Nohing but dull grey skies here all afternoon.
Normal for Norfolk.
Every "event" has been a total yawnfest here, not even any decent rainfall.
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3 hours ago, Ed Stone said:
Well, despite umpteen days' predictions for heavy showers and thunderstorms NOTHING has materialised. Not only have we not heard any thunder or seen any lightning, there's never even been a cumulonimbus cloud in sight -- even on the far horizon! For here at least, recent days' forecasts have been sheet!
PS: And whatever miserable excuse for rain we had last night has long joined its mates over Lincolnshire!
For some reason the forecasts for the eastern region are wildly inaccurate!
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3 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
Now here's an interesting species, Birch Polypore, which was once used as an alternative for leather in belts. I wonder if JD Wetherspoons now use it as an alternative for steak?
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8 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
But at least (as every cloud has a silver lining) have a wonderful crop of mushrooms, when eventually makes a visit?
But a warning to any would-be mushroom 'scrumpers': notwithstanding the fatally poisonous Death Caps & Destroying Angels etc, there are others for which (although they very closely resemble perfectly palatable species) it only takes one minuscule slice of a 'wrongun' to completely ruin a meal: as I myself found out when I mistook a Bitter Bolete (bleurgh!) for a Bay Bolete (yummy!)!
Bay Bolete:
Bitter Bolete:
I guess the moral in the tale is: Don't pick mushrooms in fading light!
Hmm. thankfully I equate mushrooms with the flavour and texture of old car tyres
Another one to be watchful for is the yellow stainer (looks identical to a standard field mushroom), which will stain bright chrome yellow when the stalk is cut. The OH had a close call a few years ago, luckily it's a mushroom which flags itself as "probably best not to try this"!! Apparently it smells wrong when cooked - if anyone ever gets to that point....
PS Surely you mean the "morel" of this story. Arf.
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20 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
I've just watched this MetO forecast, and have come to the conclusion that, as with just about every thunderstorm-warning issued these past few years, many parts of Suffolk and Norfolk will miss 99% of whatever rain that falls?
When the wind is in the south, we are too far east; when it's in the north, we are too close to the North Sea!
I think we'll just have to accept that Norfolk and Suffolk are too far east/west/north/south for anything!
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4 minutes ago, Norrance said:
Frequent thunder and lightning here in Dundee just now. Storm is just offshore to our SE and closing in.
Amazing how something can travel out to sea, die off and then re-invigorate further north and head inland, thanks to all the right ingredients.
Ah, if only that happened further south more often. It's only happend here once, when a storm system did a complete about turn and headed back across the Norfolk coast and moved SW. Would have been back in the late 90s.
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2 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
Good grief! It actually rained last night! But, before y'all reach for the nearest defibrillator, barely enough to wet the ground. But it's a start!
Funny how the rain band narrowed considerably when it reached me.....
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Just checked the rain gauge, we had as much rain lst night as we had for the whole of July!
A whopping 5mm.....
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Morning all, beautiful start to the day.
Has as much rain last night as I had for the whole of July!
Mind you, 5mm isn't exactly saying much.....
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Definition of a severe storm in Norfolk.
Damp tarmac for 800m and a few leaves on the road as it got a bit windy for about 20 mins.
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Definition of a severe storm in Norfolk.
Damp tarmac for approx 800m and a few leaves on the road as it got a bit breezy for 10 minutes.
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Nearest lighting - 83 Mille's away.
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Well, the only exciting news is it's got windy enough to rock the van a bit. Honestly, what a waste of time, last flash was ages ago. Bring in the drizzle...
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Currently parked up watching paint dry. Sorry, I meant the flash every 15 mins over towards Ely.
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7 minutes ago, LightningLover said:
Watching a cell in the channel produce bright IC lightning every 2 seconds, after 3 direct hits and a phenomenal, distant sunset-lit display earlier in the evening. What an event, truly lost for words!!
Edit: make that every 1.5 seconds...
Here it's a flash every 15 minutes. Yawn.
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Ooh. I may have just seen a flash. Gosh
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Just now, Gonzolio Martinez said:
Lightningmaps definitely isn't what it used to be
Well, I've found some rain, and of course as soon as I take a drive everything dies the death. East Anglia is pants. Even the rain's stopped!
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Just now, Gonzolio Martinez said:
Something's happening, seen some good flashes in the last few mins - last lot was just west of Long Stratton.
Lightning maps isn't having any of it but my StrikeAlert seems to think something is going on somewhere!
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1 minute ago, Gonzolio Martinez said:
Loads of convection has kicked off heading up East Anglia in the last half hour.
Doesnt seem to have electrified much yet though.
Am getting the occasional distant flash though.
Doubt if it will come to much tbh. Some places might get a few mm of rain though.
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I'd have more chance of seeing a storm if I was staying with a friend just outside Middleburg in Holland!
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3 minutes ago, ResonantChannelThunder said:
I was very scared getting this shot earlier. Blistering CG strikes started to rain down out of nowhere while I'm exposed on the top of the highest point in the west of the Island. Exhilarating stuff!
If only I'd been standing just a little to the left to get both of these strikes fully in frame....
That is amazingly incredibly awesome!!!
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Doubt if it's worth staying up if you're in the east, unless light rain floats your boat. Activity off Kent is as usual moving into the N Sea, the rest of it will probably turn into mush somewhere west of Cambridge....
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22 minutes ago, VillagePlank said:
And lo and behold,
Well, that's put the kybosh on it!
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56 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:Absolutely sod all: almost flat skies, bone dry ground and not a single blade of green grass to be seen. It's just like last year was -- storm warning after storm warning, and bugger all in the way of rain!
Here ya go Pete, one from the archives (August 5th 2012) just to prove that East Anglia can do (or could do) magnificent. Right on my doorstep.
We may never see its like again.
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SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion
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Pictures or it didn't happen!
It's actually gone quite dark here, although I'm not sure whether that's just normal sunset...