Puddy Galore

Yes, agree with @TSNWK Awful set of circumstances coming together there. Many thoughts go out to you @offerman Terrible.

At last we have some decent rain falling, for how long who knows. It has been so dry around these parts of late.

all over my head and will take a bow to superior knowledge so will wait as you suggest . I’m a woman, not completely useless though as I can charge the battery and fill the windscreen water bottle . It is likely to be another 2 years before I change the car so hopefully they will have sorted it by then?

Electric cars appear to me to be so expensive too unless I am imagining it? Maybe reflects the rare metals used I guess. My mini cooper coupe is 8 years old this September and the local mini dealership contact me every so often to see if I am looking to change my car. Nope as (a) mine has only just under 15k on the clock and (b) they don’t make the coupe model anymore They offered me a test drive in the electric mini but I didn't take the offer up and I’m probably ashamed to admit this but it was because I have driven a geared car now for 45 years and the thought of automatics worried me somewhat. I wouldn’t know what to do with my left foot and hand

Lovely photographs.

brrrr, very cold this morning . Clear, calm and crisp with a widespread air and ground frost. Very pretty.

Another dusting of snow overnight around these parts. Now clear, sunny but very cold.

snowy here in Wolves too

We have a sprinkling of snow this morning, yay!

A very mild morning with no heating required. It was a very blustery wet night, which continues this morning Do so miss the calm, cold weather of the weeks before Christmas

yep, I’m there!

Yes, I would really love to go to Finland…..however, a trip to Sweden or Norway would also do just fine too!

I’m fed up of this horrid wet, windy mild muck too. Wish we could return to the crisp cold bright weather we had. I’m using just as much energy to heat to be honest because the wet weather makes everywhere feel damp I’ve even taken my outside Christmas lights down today as the windy weather forecast may damage them.

Dreadfully wet, dull and damp Christmas morning albeit mild. It is a case of Merry Wetmess more than anything. So miss the calm cold crisp weather of a couple of weeks back.

I found this extremely sad news today. I know zero about raising Pandas but can’t help but feel perhaps that Longleat took their eye off the ball here and surely some questions should be asked Longleat safari park red panda cubs die in cold snap WWW.BBC.CO.UK Tala and Sumi are thought to have died from hypothermia in their nesting box. So to cheer me up after reading the above I watched this Panda having fun in the snow. So cuddly

Lovely and frosty. Had to take a couple of photos outside for a job to be done so took some of the sparkly frosty patterns on windows and plants. May be some years before I see it all this cold again!

Lovely and frost again this morning. Disinfected all my cat litter trays this morning outside and had a trouble cleaning the layer of ice that formed on them as they were left to dry. Back to horrid windy wet weather over the next few days it seems Will have to take outside Christmas lights down until the windy weather has “done one” as it sometimes breaks them as they bash against the windows panes - right pain in the derriere.

Putting aside the worry of heating costs we all have. Although my Smart meter has regularly been on red this last fortnight for electricity as I try to keep rooms warm the log burner heat cannot reach and don’t have radiators I have enjoyed the cold calm frosty weather and am really not looking forward to the forecast windy weather. Absolutely detest windy weather Hoping we have another shot at cold before winters end.

Something is falling from the sky but not nice flakes of snow. Looks like very fine graupel to me ?

Very cold this morning. So cold I couldn’t get my magnetic gate locks to work despite being protected overnight. I am told me had a smattering of snow showers around 2.00am this morning.

I can understand some aspects of it all but nowhere near enough at all. I have tried reading up on meteorological phenomena but do find that perhaps not having a grounding in basic physics seems to hamper a better understanding and I soon get lost! All girls church school in the 1970 - physics didn’t seem to be on the curriculum.

I am struggling to keep up with the pace in there I just hone in to see what specific long time posters are saying when the thread gets so busy, usually posters who always seem to know where they are at with regards to reading the models and translating it into a simple enough language I can follow.

Take care of yourself Eagle Eye. A great deal of the technical posts in here are well above my meteorological knowledge but I can get the general direction of travel from them but I do respect the knowledge and learning that goes into all the posts in this thread.

Has been quite a lovely day here after a very wet start. Temperature 8c. Wind 14mph SSW. Pressure 998. I note the Met Office has a weather warning out for my area tomorrow for wind and rain.

Heavy torrential rain for the last hour. Trying to sew patchwork pieces together and its so dark I may have to give up soon