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It's not been a bad day here despite the cloud and there was a bit of early-afternoon sunshine for 15mins at around 2pm which briefly pushed the temperatures up to 12'c, i've been living in the Peak District for the past 37 years and only today have I finally visited a somewhat busy Padley Gorge after hearing all the hype about the place.

A nice drive out to Alton today under the morning blue skies, it's just a shame the rest of the week looks to be typically overcast with plenty of rain despite the snowdrops & daffodils almost making an appearance.

Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management said a state of emergency was declared Thursday after consulting with emergency officials in the area. Officials said that the main pipeline that delivers hot water to the region was destroyed after lava flowed over it, causing a lack of hot water. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68237327 It's currently forecast to be -7'c tonight and tomorrow on the Reykjanes with the only hot-water reserve tanks set to run-dry within 6 hours (if used sparingly), the main concern is that 20,000 of the population will be needing to keep their homes warm to stop pipes from freezing-over and the only feasible means of doing this is by them using the electricity grid at max capacity. Certainly going to be a juggling act over the next few hours/days as to how much indirect damage this eruption is going to cause.

We've seen some snow here today, but nothing near the 15-20cm that was predicted with only Buxton copping the best of today's totals. A Yellow warning was necessary but the Amber was a bit overkill.

From DCC. And the snow keeps on coming .... we are now starting to see road closures due to the white stuff. Please don't travel unless absolutely necessary, particularly in the Peak District. These roads are now closed: A57 Snake Pass A54/A537 Cat & Fiddle Road A53 Leek Road A5004 Long Hill A6024 Holme Moss A515 Between Brierlow Bar and Buxton A624 Chunal - just

Very marginal here at 210m, looking east in-to the valley from the front and it's just sleet with no snow settling whilst looking west at the back towards the hills and it's settled snow all-around. There's already been a overturned car on the A5004 closing it both ways. Flash Bar Cafe and Shop WWW.MACCINFO.COM Flash bar Stores, the highest village stores in Britain, now offers a coffee shop.

Thar she goes again at Sylingarfell. The forecast of a eruption between the 7th - 11th based on computer-model accumulation rates were spot on, and i'll be interested to hear if the borehole at the power-plant fluctuated in temp+pressure beforehand, and whether the Icelandic volcanologists will now use this method going forward in giving a few hours 'heads up' notice about future eruptions in this area. 4 hours later and the eruption-rate seems to have dropped significantly with a common trend now forming in this volcanic complex where it releases magma after a certain input point is met, but the eruptive rate compared to what's been seen at Fagradalsfjall is fairly short lived.

Just a few hours before the Amber warning comes in-to effect here and luckily I managed to pick up my new Hyundai i10 from Stoke this afternoon without needing to worry about the weather, plenty of grit is already being spread on the A53 Staffordshire-side but it seems that Derbyshire are typically using their stock sparingly.

I've been bathed in glorious sunshine all day yesterday, obviously not here at home, but on a short day-trip to the Lakes. I saw the MWIS forecast and couldn't resist packing the car and heading up for a overnight stay near Keswick to be up early and out on Walla Crag-Bleaberry Fell-High Style before the weather turned (and before half-term next weekend). It was a bit gusty at times with the Central/Western fells occasionally set in cloud, but on the Eastern side it was almost wall-wall sunshine at times.

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MWIS Peak District forecast is looking a bit concerning, I didn't think this next storm on the way was going to be of much interest?? Severe conditions over the mountains - hurricane-force upland winds. Showers with hail follow in northwest. Severe upland gales strengthen for England & Wales, heavy rain arriving from north afternoon. How windy? (On the summits) Southwesterly 40 to 60mph, strengthening into afternoon, gusts 70mph up to dusk. Marked increase with height, powerful gusts near edges and downslope to east.

Its a considerably darker & dull day here than usual with a slight 'tinge' to the clouds that's due to the Saharan Dust mixed in with the rain which is still passing overhead. A slight increase on yesterday's temperatures at 9.5'c so the cold front hasn't crossed just yet.

The Saharan Sand effects were also exacerbated by intense wildfires that were ongoing in Portugal at the time, seeing daylight turn from a typical blue summer hue to the dusty yellow/red was eery and somewhat reminded me of the lighting effect that I saw during the Solar Eclipse in Turkey just before it completely dropped to 'twilight' and then darkness.

A 65mph gust was recorded in Buxton overnight as that squall line passed at 3:20am, which doesn't surprise me.

Well that woke me up quickly so much for 'light rain until the morning' as per the MWIS and local overnight forecast.

Jocelyn has definitely been a lot more noisier than Isha in terms of the energy some of the gusts have had, it sounds like things are slowly beginning to calm down outside now but the warning doesn't expire until 1pm. Fortunately I was having a headache at midnight and once that shifted I was straight off into the land of sleep. Buxton recording a 57mph gust at midnight but locally it's been a lot higher when directly exposed to the SWly winds.

Must be some kind of Foehn effect going on that's coming off the Welsh mountains, temps remaining at 10'c with gusts ever increasing since 8pm.

I wonder if there's a foehn effect going on that's coming off the Welsh mountains with temps, as the gales have increased here notably since 8pm.

Peak gust in Buxton today (so far) has been 42mph, but what was more noticeable is just how mild it felt outside at 12'c when in the shade. Not quite 'shorts & t-shirt' weather but definitely didn't need the down jacket for a walk into town.

It's slightly concerning that there's been no reports yet from anywhere around the Western Isles or areas in the Highlands, I expect power-outages are to blame, but they've still got another 3hrs of Isha's wrath to endure before things finally settle down for them.

Today's 'worst diverted flight' winner?

I wonder if this was the feature the UKV was trying to pick-out, albeit on the model run it was supposed to have passed at 11pm and not 1am.