jy

Judging by the lack of agreement in the model thread,im starting to wonder if on Thursday anyone can agree what the weather will be like on Thursday even though its Thursday,i see a husband and wife looking out the same window and not agreeing,time for a lie down methinks lol

LOL HELL NO,all my hilarious stuff goes on Facebook,this is a serious forum where humour only occasionally sneaks under the wire,if you did jokes every bad spell of weather I would have been P45d years ago,in truth,i enjoy and use the site every day,but don't have the knowledge to post in our revered Mod thread.

A fine nearly 12 year unblemished career on here ended with a rap on the knuckles for attempt at humour in the Mod thread,not gloating,but it had got so doomladen,anyway no warning points ,ban or firing squad,so I now start again lol

Just a one off to lighten the mood,this period of weather,reminds me and folk of a certain age,of the Eric Morecombe..Andre Previn classic....I know we have high pressure....but not necessarily in the right places.

Busmans gardening holiday for me,confidently went to the supermarkets to carry on buying up ridiculously low priced stock that their poor management had caused them...to find they had been cleaned out by people like me lol...had to console myself with equally low priced bulbs,but still a bit grumpy lol

yes bosconbe was chilly but lovely,masses of people too,going back to my market trader days a paste table serving coffee and hot chocolate would have been a Del Boy nice little earner lol

Im off for a nice long walk along Boscombe beach,hope your forecast is correct Dorset,just hope a café might be open for a coffee lol

Similar conditions here Jethro,except its been cloudy all day here,with a few spits and spots of rain,surprised how many customers took up my grass cut offer yesterday,really tidies up the leaves though,still 5 more days before some much needed time off for me,hopefully rest will cure some niggling little injuries ect.

Interesting forecast today,6 53 this morning overnight rain giving way to dry conditions with sunny intervals,actual conditions steady drizzle and rain,low light levels and gloom,not ideal for gardening work,but completely wrong.Anyway,a quick visit to TWO yesterday saw posts for the outlook for next April and May,thats almost worthy of a police officer,a doctor and a Sectioning Order.

Whilst waiting for the ever educational Match of the Day to come on,i by chance came across my gardening diary for 2010,what surprised me wasn't just Dec 2010,but also the previous January.Also very notable was the amount of frost at both ends of the year.What made this year so remarkable was that only the thundersnow of 28/1/04 [I think],and a couple of fairly minor snow events,largely covered my snow experience since moving down here in 1990.Im sure ive missed some bits,26 years is a long time,i guess living in London and then upland Kent60s to 80s I was used to seeing snow.What I find interesting though is all the archive pictures of Devon,Dorset ect showing communities snowed in during a similar period of time,makes you wonder sometimes how long peoples kids might have to wait to see low level snow for any time in the South of England,who knows....maybe this Winter.

Yes that stacks up in as much as when quoting my previous post,i was young enough to play football,but also lived 5 miles South of where I live now and also with 100ft elevation,which makes a bit of a difference.

Mind you Dorset when I travelled from here to play football in Bournemouth,might be say 40 degrees in Bournemouth,just above freezing here,also in fairness I wasn't at home so didn't check any maximum for here,just near to freezing on my return.

Was surprised to see the frost lasting all day in the shade here today,close to freezing now,tomorrow much the same,lovely conditions to be out and about.As Andy above suggested,these conditions are every bit a part of Winter,used to be much more in evidence in years gone by.Seen icicles this year,years ago commonplace,but slightly more unusual in recent years.If the people suggesting that cold ground conditions aid snow to lie [I don't know] then these conditions will do no harm.As for my gardening work tomorrow,might just find a crust on the earth,certain bits of lawn in the shade have that hard bobble underneath,sure sign the cold is getting down.

As a fellow veteran of Snow watch, Nick was one of the few sane there,excellent summings up then as now,however,as many on here have said,cold weather can arrive out of the blue as it were,so because the models show mild for a while,so be it,10 day ahead forecasts are fun to look at,but in the grand scheme of things little else.

Another glorious day for outdoor work,frost in the shade for 3 days now,really thick frost on the grass,icicles seen for the first time in a while and sub zero on my return home,some of the trees in the sun still look great.

Great picture above,thats the way forward,another cracking day for outdoor work,seems like more to come,busy on Autumn duties,leaf clearing,cutting back ect,also 3 ton of shingle laid which saw the body warmer discarded again.Only downside is the cold weather has put the big female pike off the feed in the rivers,however,after a cold spell,a change to SW winds does the trick.....now then snow or pike fishing,tricky one this.

Lovely day today doing my gardening work,long may it continue,can do work in the coldest of temps,its the heat that does for me,being dry too really is the proverbial bonus.

Self employment sometimes dictates you work whatever the conditions,mind you having worked in the rain for 6 hours,ironically its stopped raining on my way home lol,the curse of the riverkeepers also holding up,many complaining about the low clear rivers making coarse fishing so difficult at present,well at one of my work places the Hampshire Avon is up nearly a foot and going faster than Usain Bolt lol

Cool rather than cold sums it up,totally laughable tv forecasters saying it will feel bitterly cold....what 48 to 52 degrees,wind or no wind chill,thats just not true,if,in the unlikely event that we had an Easterly gale and 30 degrees,yes that is bitterly cold,either that or the Met have drastically revised,how they assess temps nowadays.

Cloudy all day,drizzle from time to time,nothing to stop todays hedgecutting and chainsawing,useable if not all that nice.

Having gone through it personally in Kent my split would be Frightening 85%....Spectacular the other 15....when the back roof of the house is gone and you are listening to this roaring monster attempting to lift your entire roof off I can tell you its an instant cure for constipation lol

Yes,not fun,i lived at over 700ft in Kent at that time,very scary,our village was cut off for 7 days,i pushed up the loft hatch to see just clouds lol.As luck would have it the tradesmen couldn't leave the village so it was quickly secured.It was eerie,seeing just emptiness where once there were masses of trees,Sevenoaks became one oak overnight,the Weald got devastated. Like lots of rural villages,there are folk in the big expensive houses,who rarely spoke to anybody other than fellow rich,however during the crisis they were out and about,sandwiches,tots of scotch ect,telling us chainsaw guys how wonderfully well we were doing ect,soon as the roads were clear they were never seen again lol

Ah its all good stuff,just in from a messy days gardening work,spirits a bit low,quick look on Facebook and all is forgotten,laughing my head off,in September,the toshmeisters at the Express are promising 4 months of snow,polar bears on Swanage beach glaciers slipping into the sea off Newquay,the usual guff,but even funnier are some of the comments.....Oh no I hate bitter cold,we are in a rural location and will be cut off ect ect,Just out of interest see how long it is before in pubs,shops ect you hear .....THEY SAY its going to be a severe winter this year.The Daily Mail are furious,beaten to the sensationalist punch lol......and relax.

Just back from a lovely week in the Swanage,Weymouth....oh the whole area really,fabulous weather,2 monster storms,rather dodgy very small boat ride from Weymouth to Portland got the nerves jangling as the wind suddenly picked up,only mistake swimming in the sea at Lulworth Cove,bloody freezing lol but the sun and gorgeous views soon took the edge off the hypothermia lol.

I go the coombe bisset route,yes the drizzle is neither here or there,however as you say some decent rainfall tomorrow.