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Miserable up here in Portishead. Drizzly and overcast, despite the sun peeping out briefly earlier. Seems to have been like this for weeks. At least it ain't cold.

A merry christmas to all!

Spent the last 4 days in the west of Ireland and got a taste of some pretty brutal wind and rain, the sort that stops you sleeping. It's amazing how it always seems to be a notch more intense than what we get here in the SW.

It's Baltic here but no sign of any white things blowing around in the sky (apart from the odd seagull)

Just over the Somerset Levels, at around 1420 today. The picture doesn't really do it justice; it really looked very spaceship like, with a nice curve to it.

Passed through a heavy cell today with some biblical rain within it. A nice shelf on the south side.

Gloomy start to today. Just need some drizzle so that I can officially file it under Miserable.

First frost of the autumn here last night. Cracking day now, gonna sit on the decking (dressed appropriately, of course!).

Yes, what on earth could an orange glow be in a built-up area with low cloud? :-)

In Portishead we barely got any rain off of the last yellow warning this week, despite being in the catchment area.

Looking lively in the skies this morning!

Very blowy today but at least it is fairly bright. No doubt worse the further north you go.

Biblical rains here this afternoon. So bad I'm using the plural.

Just checked the satellite animation, Ciaran is already a fast-moving storm and I certainly wouldn't want to be on the southern side of it this evening. Red warning now issued from the Channel Islands. I hope my old home doesn't take a battering as bad as October '87.

My guess is that the Met Office feel that the low is tracking too far to the south to merit that.

Yep, looking nasty for CI and Brittany. Needless to say, these systems are very unpredictable and any of us could be on the wrong end of some very high winds.

I spent years working for network operators such as BT, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc. mostly in operational support systems management. (i.e. the stuff that keeps the lights on.) These companies are all getting worse, cutting costs and outsourcing work to service companies that don't care much about the quality of what they deliver. The fact that nobody can diagnose a problem as simple as making an outbound call just astounds me. It's almost certainly BT's fault, not Openreach's. p.s. I still get bills of £0.00 every month from BT, despite leaving them in 2021! Seems like they have completely lost the plot.

Nothing doing. Just a few light showers. Autumn has finally arrived. The trees are shedding leaves now. Still some remnants of summer left nonetheless, I saw a few butterflies and dragonflies today and yesterday.

possibility of some thundery action tomorrow afternoon - crossing fingers

Sunny with quite heavy showers up here.

Gloomy day today after such a nice one yesterday

Soggy day today. It's a long time since I've driven through so much standing water on local roads.

Met Office said it would be gloomy today for the most part - but it was actually very sunny.

Looks like it's going to be a cracking day today. Mind you, got severely soaked yesterday in S Wales despite the Met Office forecasting a dry day. So I'll pack my coat nonetheless!

Mild today, around 19 degrees at lunchtime. The sun has gone in and it's persistent rain now.