Puffy MacCloud

February 7, 2021

3 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Then I stand corrected! You won't starve 'till Wednesday!

Only one ell in 'til. Short for until, you see. This gets published outside Fife you know. Best to get it right.

February 7, 2021

1 minute ago, Blitzen said:

Erm... There's no food in that fridge!!!

There is so!

There's a packet of smoke salmon that became two packets of smoke salmon right after the game today finished when my daughter that brings me smoked salmon brought me another packet of smoked salmon.

February 7, 2021

11 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

It's there, in front of you, in blue and yellow and white!   (same wind up as I am currently experiencing)

Gawd, this weather watching is becoming exhausting!   I am slowly becoming tuned to the moon!   All the promised good stuff appears to be inching forward just out of reach one day at a time.

I am starting to HATE models, charts, Greenland highs, Scandy highs, high pressures, low pressures, isobars, MJOs, PDOs, AOs temperatures, dew points, stratospheric warmings, inversions, convections, dam lines...etc etc etc. THEN!! that little Fruechie... erm... person, nonchalantly posts up the conundrum of how to calculate the wet bulb temperature!!!... Whit?!!

So, how was your day, did you enjoy the Rugby?

Yes, I did thank you. The story of the day is below. And I'm not stopping now. Well, it would be rude, wouldn't it? Not to say pointless.

February 7, 2021

Temperature now down to zero, humidity 77%, only very light flurries of very small snows and the dew point is now at -3deg.C.

Diablo, he say nuffin. He's just sat there smoking a cheap cigarello with his sombrero pulled down over his eyes. He a erse.

Sorry, dp just gone down to -4deg.C this second.

February 7, 2021

28 minutes ago, jellybaby1969 said:

How did you do in BFTE 2018..? I worked in strathaven and level snow was over a foot deep, drifts were several feet. West of Darvel had very little.

In February 2018 I was living and working in Inverness, except I wasn't, I was in Raigmore Hospital. Inverness had next to no snow down at sea level, a couple of inches of snow up at the hospital, which was half way up the escarpment that Inverness stands on, and at the top of the hill there were people digging out the people that were digging out the snowplows. No idea what it was like in Ayrshire.

February 7, 2021

14 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Central belt sandwich anyone?

This is a clear wind up. All these snow showers stop exactly on the East Ayrshire boundary. I'm getting the slipper out and then someone is getting the blitzened bahoochie.

February 7, 2021

3 hours ago, Hairy Celt said:

Sounds like decent winter tyres would help. Pirelli Scorpion all terrain plus would do the job nicely.

Sorry, missed this, but as above.

February 7, 2021

3 hours ago, Sceptical said:

I took an old Defender 90 for a test drive around 2014. There was 2 foot of snow around the hills of Echt and the Defender breezed through it.

Remarkably, I didn't have to use the diff locks and it was running on normal road tyres. Most heavy 4 x 4s I've driven are prone to sliding, particularly if its icy. Might tyres be the issue?

2 hours ago, Scottish-Irish Skier said:

Aye, every car is a 4x4 with the brakes on.

Why not get a set of wheels (second hand?) with winter tyres for it? Or snow + mud if you are off-road a lot. I've got a set of 'all seasons' on some alloys for the winter which are not full winter, but manage the snaw/rain/cauld/mild of Scotland in winter, and a set of full on sports summers alloys. Can swap them myself one by one with a regular jack.

As for the rugby, I got an Irish passport so I could support a team that wins stuff sometimes. As soon as I did that, Scotland qualified for the Euros and then won the Calcutta cup at twickenham.

EDIT

Wee dods ae yellae in some o' they blobs heidin ma way.

You're both right, even in a 4x4 it's the tyres that matter. Thing is, my current chunky tyres are 33" x 10" with 19mm tread depth and cost around £90 each. There aren't winter tyres that size. Nearest would be 30" x 8.5" with 8mm tread depth and they cost between two and three times as much for decent ones. The chains cost £35 each. No second set of wheels needed.

Shame Ireland lost but a good game to watch.

Weather update: It's dark now.

February 7, 2021

3 hours ago, Mair Snaw said:

Ive just promised Mrs Snaw a good 6 inches by the end of the night..

It's not only mair snaw she'll be looking for then?

February 7, 2021

17 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

With the amount of beer bottles you have apparently had to clear up, should you even be driving today?!! Thought not!!

I won't be driving tomorrow either. Another coo's nest building up.

February 7, 2021

1 hour ago, Sceptical said:

Is that a Land rover Defender? If so, I've never seen one fitted with snow chains, even on the farms higher up. Those machines are pretty much unstoppable in snow.

Nice colour by the way

It is a Defender, an older one, pre traction control and ABS, and it is just about unstoppable, which is exactly the problem. It will go just about anywhere but in 2, 3, or 4 inches of snow it's really hard to stop. Like a two ton toboggan. I'm hoping the chains might help. I like the colour too. I call it blue.

The rugby is good. Wales looked surprisingly competent early on but Ireland, despite or is it because of having an 84 year old stand off, are now controlling the game. Stamina will decide who wins, and I don't care who it is as long as it's not Wales.

February 7, 2021

1 hour ago, snowy owl said:

@Puffy MacCloudWere on full cleaning mode here too until the Wales /Ireland later ! Watching a few snow showers passing through whilst Cleaning .

Good for you! Keep up the good work and then enjoy the game.

Would the team consensus be that it's a tad early for the snow chains?

Thought so...

February 7, 2021

Good morning fellow Scottie Threaders, how are we all today? My continuing joy at yesterday's result feels very much like a hangover, quite possibly because it is. I am also a bit confused. Usually in the West we have an ever pervading winter humidity that leaves all external surfaces damp, even through prolonged dry spells as we had in December and January. Yesterday, for no apparent reason, everything dried up. Still dry today even although there are wee snows in the air - not many, but constant. They land and are blown about, which means there is no build up. Why's that then?

Temperature 0.8deg.C up from 0.4deg.C min at 08:20, humidity 81%, wind 0 to 5mph east-northeasterly with a gust of 16mph at 01:19, pressure is 1018.8hPa steady, no precipitation recorded but snowlets in the air, cloud cover is 7/8 and the dew point is at -2deg.C.

I shall be spending the next hour touring the house and picking up empty beer bottles, which appear to be everywhere (usually the sign of a good binge) and the place has to be tidy before Wales/Ireland later. Apparently.

February 6, 2021

Well. That was good. A 5 point massacre.

February 6, 2021

44 minutes ago, MAXcrazystorm said:

I technically don’t live in fife, I am in Abernethy like 2 miles out of fife....

Quite right. You fight for your rights and don't allow yourself to be lumped in with that lot!

February 6, 2021

5 minutes ago, Sceptical said:

Snowblowers get more efficient the deeper the snow. I bought a Stiga Blizzard back in 2009 as I was fed up constantly digging out the house. It could clear up to 2 foot of snow at walking pace and throw the snow 20 feet away no problem. That winter i was suddenly very popular with the neighbours keen to borrow it.

I'm sure you were, as they all fired their snow into the next door neighbours' gardens.

(Can't believe @Ravelin got away with associating @Blitzen with blow back. I mean that's a bit below the belt.)

February 6, 2021

Good morning one and all, and what a fine morning it is. Sun's out, rain's stopped, wind has almost disappeared and we have the rugby to worry about rather than the possibility of snow. Plus we have a valid excuse, should one be needed, to open a few bottles of beer at lunchtime and snuggle down in front of Italy v France, which should be an entertaining interlude before the main course at tea time.

Temperature 4.1deg.C up from minimum of 2.3deg.C at 07:47, humidity is 87%, wind 2 to 5mph with a max gust of 18mph at 05:23, pressure is 1016.8 rising slowly, there's been 0.2mm of rain today, cloud cover is 7/8 and the dew point is at 2deg.C.

February 5, 2021

2 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Would you really? That there was a double hit my friend!! See they sherps that you returned to the hospital the day? Well, I hope that wan accidentaly fell oot and you find it when you sit doon on yer most comfortable chair!

Ah, so it was you that shopped me. It was Crosshouse Hospital that I attended and when I swung into the car park there, on my mobile and swigging ginger wine, obvs, I nearly ran into a swarm of polis and a herd of tv crews! Inconvenient to say the least. Sounds like a tragic series of events though.

February 5, 2021

3 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Erm, naw. Nuffin like that.

Actually, with further thought, @Blitzen could go the Disney route and put a big mechanical feature, like, say, a snow blower, in the middle of the lake and blast water at anyone trying to cross the bridge. I'd pay to see that.

February 5, 2021

2 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Okay...

Couple of pics from last August which forced us to put in the pumping system. Didn't take these pics until the weather broke a bit and the water was starting to recede. It was actually almost up to the border at the fir tree (top right) The garden is on a gradient, so the water/mud mark on the gazebo frame in front of the wall (bottom left) measured 4'3". (deepest part.)

Off out now to take some pics of what we have today.

Right, get a Japanese style humpy wudden bridge and a water colour set - you'll make a fortune in reprints and tourist visits. Or at least it worked for auld Claude.

February 5, 2021

5 hours ago, Quinach said:

What a dog's breakfast these warnings are in terms of clarity.

For here it appears that we are under a Yellow Rain Warning, Yellow Snow Warning and a Amber Snow Warning all at the same time!

And they wonder why people ignore these warnings.

I think you'll find that the "Yellow Snow Warning" is satisfyingly simple. Don't eat it. The Yellow Warnings for Snow, however, are a lot more complicated and therefore unreliable. Ignore them. If you can't ignore them, accept the consequences...

Temperature now 2.1deg.C, rain up to 6.8mm for the day and the dew point is at 1deg.C with not the slightest hint of snow.

February 5, 2021

It's still raining here and the pond that forms towards the foot of the garden now that the trees are away has become sizeable. I'm going to put a deck chair and my fishing umbrella around the far side of it and hope for some lake effect snow later on.

Temperature 3.5deg.C, which is the minimum for today so far, down from a max of 4.9deg.C at 02:51, humidity is 91%, wind is 2 to 5mph gusting to 12mph and Diablo says it's a north to northwesterly flow but i think it's bouncing off the trees at the foot of the garden, pressure is 1009.9hPa rising slowly, there's been 5.2mm of rain since midnight and 17.6mm in the last 24 hours, cloud cover is 8/8 and the dew point is at 2deg.C.

I've got to go to the hospital now to get my sharps box emptied and pick up this month's meds. Don't let anything happen while I'm away.

February 4, 2021

41 minutes ago, Hairy Celt said:

Email is probably best. Why?

I'm desperately seeking someone that I can beat at Scrabble.

February 4, 2021

1 hour ago, Hairy Celt said:

Christ. You can still write things I wouldn't say to my mother

Relax, I wouldn't say them to your mother either.

Just out of interest, how would one contact your mother...?

February 4, 2021

1 hour ago, asjmcguire said:

Was it a female dog or mens dangly bits?

Dangly. Definitely dangly.

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