Preparing for Winter V

juliettet

I crumbled up the last of the panettone this morning. Mr Robin who is in charge was telling off the baby pigeon for eating the raisins. I love the birds.
Snow settled here last night, two minor bumps on the A74 going to work. Lovely day here.

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It`s vile outside, cold, rain battering the windows and blowing hard. Yesterday I saw signs of spring and took the big heavy warm lounge curtain down, to prep it for a potential house sale. Maybe was a few days too early but it makes me appreciate the good work it did

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Vile here too, mega wet and horribly gusty wind and has been for most of the night too and kept me awake for most of it. This (according to the weather forecast) ought to clear after lunch today but there's another horrid day in store tomorrow if they're right. Yesterday's calm and mildness is going to have to be spread thin until the next nice day arrives I feel!

mardatha

We've got wind and sleety snow, lying snow melting very very slowly. Poor wee birds in a bad way and I'm stuffing them full of digestive biscuits

Laura_Elsewhere

Yesterday was fine here (Shropshire) but today has been as vile as you describe! Just the short ten minute walk back this morning nearly took the skin off my face with the sleety hail coming onto my face at 40+mph horizontally... I was well wrapped up but my face took hours to feel right again...

I've been lucky enough to spend much of the day tucked up with a hot "stone pig" (ceramic Victorian hot water bottle like a mini storage heater!), knitting contentedly and staying cosy, just getting up periodically to move the laundry from machine to dryer to cupboard...

Hot meal tonight, when Mr Nice gets in - we reckon Tesco's 4-portion 'pasta carbonara bake' is excellent - £5, but it does us four portions - we'll eat half of it tonight between us, but then freeze the rest as two portions, using one-person microwaveable trays saved from previous one-portion ready-meal. We only have a small freezer, but the drawer will take these trays, stacked two deep and three high, so we're aiming to gradually fill that drawer with home-made ready-meals - homemade pasta and meat sauces, or soups, or stews... a quick 'ping!' in the microwave and a lovely healthy hot meal!

Laura_Elsewhere

Just so you know... there's weird weather stuff happening at present, way up in the stratosphere - little agreement on what the results will be, because this event (Sudden Stratospheric Warming or SSW) doesn't happen often, isn't fully understood and is most known in Nov or Dec, not in mid-Feb!

Anyway, the upshot is that the huge global weather patterns up there have been severely disrupted, some now going backwards from their usual direction, etc., and the most probably outcome is that in 5 day or 10 days or 15 days, agin, nobody's sure of the timescale... but in the next week or two we are probably going to have some bitterly cold weather. It may well bring heavy snow, or it may not But one of the strong possibilities is day after day of strong Easterly winds, bringing heavy snow all down the eastern side of the island of Britain. With or without snow, the most likely outcome is frost every night for a lot of nights.

It could, of course, turn out that when it happens in mid-February, an SSW only leads to a sunny mild spring

But the probability is for cold, quite a lot of it... so I thought I'd mention it...

mardatha, you'll already know this, of course!

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I'm so glad we're wood womblers, it doesn't matter what the weather can throw at us, unless the house falls down I KNOW we'll have at least one warm room for the duration, I LOVE my woodstove!!!

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Laura_Elsewhere wrote: »

Just so you know... there's weird weather stuff happening at present, way up in the stratosphere - little agreement on what the results will be, because this event (Sudden Stratospheric Warming or SSW) doesn't happen often, isn't fully understood and is most known in Nov or Dec, not in mid-Feb!

Anyway, the upshot is that the huge global weather patterns up there have been severely disrupted, some now going backwards from their usual direction, etc., and the most probably outcome is that in 5 day or 10 days or 15 days, agin, nobody's sure of the timescale... but in the next week or two we are probably going to have some bitterly cold weather. It may well bring heavy snow, or it may not But one of the strong possibilities is day after day of strong Easterly winds, bringing heavy snow all down the eastern side of the island of Britain. With or without snow, the most likely outcome is frost every night for a lot of nights.


It could, of course, turn out that when it happens in mid-February, an SSW only leads to a sunny mild spring

But the probability is for cold, quite a lot of it... so I thought I'd mention it...

mardatha, you'll already know this, of course!

Here's me getting excited because I has my towels out on the line today. They didn't dry at all but the sun was shining and they smelt of cold air. I will watch the forecast. No sign of anything yet.

mardatha

I was reading that on the Scots weather forum Laura- we're def getting our money's worth out of this winter

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I have a decent sized food order coming tomorrow and am keeping electric heaters on in various places around the house, keeping the warmth in the house fabric as long as possible. There are some dire predictions out for next week. My vac flasks will be out and ready