I can't believe it's not better

Over the next few hours Sheffield is in a cooling trend

It could be as deep as upto about 24 UK mountains down! Which seems quite a long way.

I wonder if there is anything that could be put in there that spiders don't like? Hmmm. Very small mothballs maybe - spiders are a bit like moths only they have more legs and eyes , but less wings.

Exactly, that tree is staying there most likely - it's all very well us in the .. and Norway laughing at such a thing...

someone earlier was saying the differential with the tides is only 1 or two feet. If that's right then it makes not a lot of difference really. May not be right though.

The moon isn't going to play much of a part in this, strong as the moons pull is obviously.

Well, if your Geoff Wright, my old geography teacher and mobile fruit n veg seller, and you've moved to North Wales - then I'm tempted to believe you. Otherwise - Bang, Bang, Bang!!

was watching one of the news feeds posted on here earlier. Emergency services were trying to persuade some folk to leave, but they wouldn't have it - that's their last chance. Some other guy was saying he's staying put because he lives on high ground. One of the news men said 'high ground' just meant the house was on stilts! Judging by some of the images already, 20ft+ on top and the waves too, wow - major disaster.

Various dead birds... More dead birds coming up...

Not better at all!

Wet, breezy and wet. Very low visibility. Blazing sunshine above the clouds.

Bloody hell, those trees are stripped bare!!

Hopefully you may get more interest in your pink dolphin pedalo shuggee.

Hopefully it turns out the wind was coming from the east!! I want to believe.

Why not just go straight to winter?

You didn't mention it PIT, but there was a Meto warning for NI issued for heavy rain this PM. GFS was pointing at this also on the 12z with some CAPE around there , also some -2LI and zilch inhibition. Just looked at the radar accumulated precip in the last 12 hrs, and there's 20 - 30mm spread around - I was watching till 2.00pm and not much going on, so there must have been some heavy rain about this pm? :o

"Rain in May, barnfull of hay", so the saying goes. Obviously not this year, because there's a barnfull of hay! Thanks for the stats Tonyh, very interesting, including the daily weather. (Folks are from Coventry, I was born in Nuneaton - still got family in Coundon area, NW Coventry).

I can't see how 'all the models are wrong', when we haven't been there yet.

Jan, Nestle gave free samples of their baby feeding milk to mothers in 3rd world countries. After they got got 'hooked' they increased the price, increased the price, increased the price etc. They don't just make chocoloate and coffee for westerners. To be honest, it's way past my bedtime to be having a serious disco on this.

Monsanto are the scum of the earth. Closely followed by Nestle, Barclays bank and the Student loans company. I only wish I could boycott all of those. I can at least pinch biros from Barclays bank. (Oh, someone already has!)

You'd jump too Hannegan, if you'd been trying to keep your nose above water for so long and then suddenly a great giant friendly gurning hand reached down and libererated you from that sticky meniscus watery hell hole.

Was reading a Forestry Commision book recently Russ, an interesting section in there about the different amounts of insects various trees support. The oaks clearly support the most diverse and abundant habitats.

Been on the tube a few times when I lived in the smoke for a bit (quite a handy way of getting around town). Hadn't realised it was so hot to be honest. Smelly, yes. How about, erm, some intakes at the front that blast air through the carriages as it trundles along, thus evaporating water from our stinking sweaty bodies, taking the heat with it. Dunno. (This of course will be no use when it inevitably just stops in the middle of nowhere, plunging you into total darkness, leaving you wondering why it's stopped, and getting a bit of a sweat-on worrying about the next train coming along, and whether everyone's going to die in a nasty collision). Leaves on the line - presumably not!

"One reason is that Co2 is a minor greenhouse gas. It is at least 100 times less effeciant as a greenhouse gas than CO2...",

Did you mean to say methane or water vapour?