The official NerdZoner's weather zone! How's your weather today?

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Climate change continues to put on extra storms for the UK, nice, dangerous ones. This one affects the north and Scotland.

UK weather: Storm Darragh to bring 80mph gusts as amber wind warning issued

Fourth named storm of the season follows concern over lack of flooding warnings for Storm Bert last week

www.theguardian.com

 

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At the core of the jet stream, speeds are expected to top 240mph, driven by cold air across the northern US and Canada.

How fast?!

UK weather: Storm Darragh to bring 80mph gusts as amber wind warning issued

Fourth named storm of the season follows concern over lack of flooding warnings for Storm Bert last week

www.theguardian.com

 

[Geffers]

Not so good when the cold sets in early, here in UK although we are less that three weeks away from Winter Solstice we tend to get our worst weather in the latter part of the winter, January and February. Breathe a sigh of relief when March starts but few years back I recall below freezing temperatures and snow into mid March.

 

[Mars]

No heavy storms here, but enough to dislodge an old rickety fence; never mind, had to be replaced anyway.
".....below freezing temperatures and snow into mid March?" ok with me. (I know, I am in a minority of 1here)

 

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Red alert. It just keeps on escalating.

Storm Darragh: Red weather warning issued for Wales this weekend

Gusts of 90mph or more are possible and people are being warned to look out for flying debris.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mars]

just got a text alert from our electricity provider: they are on yellow alert. Warning of winds 50 mph or more.
A nice quiet weekend.....

 

[Tiffany]

During the big freeze, we were one of the few houses on the street that actually had an ice/snow free roof. As for propane use... learned years ago with our first RV if you have exterior tanks in the winter it helps to have a heat wrap for them to get decent gas generation. So we have had 2 as long as we've owned an this RV (2019 model).

I'm sure you were the envy of your neighborhood. We have a few homes that have added generators since the BIG freeze of 2021. One of the homes, owned by a plumber, had the foresight to add a generator when it was built several years ago. His house always stands out with lighting no matter what kind of bad weather we have. We do have a propane heater to use if needed, but it hardly does the job in our house. We would install a generator but our house is poorly designed and we don't plan on staying here for retirement. So we freeze lol.

Totally with you there, Tiffany. I love the rain as well. As a kid i'd have my red rain poncho with white dots, when I wore it I looked like a mushroom.
I'd go out in the rain no umbrella all wrapped up in my hooded mushroom poncho, walk into nearby fields looking for tadpoles in the puddles.
....And then, after the rains, the sun would come out and there would be that unmistakable scent in the air, the scent of rain-soaked earth, happy earth, replete with water. Like the earth was sighing with relief after being parched for days on end.

Tiffany, I do hope that Ercot is wrong and their prediction for a winter like 2021 will not come true.

Love your childhood story!! I was a puddle-jumper. I had a pink raincoat with flowers, very 70ish, and a matching hat. My mom forgot the rain boots, but that didn't bother me....though I did get scolded a bit when I walked home from school since I was soaked and didn't miss any running water to jump in. Now a days, kids don't experience walking home like that because it's a new world, plus kids are too pampered lol.

Hope Ercot is wrong too. I track our weather pretty closely and to me, our weather pattern is more like 2015. It's been too warm and dry and December became the transitional month for winter instead of November in 2015. North Texas had a severe weather outbreak that I'll never forget. This was a terrifying storm system with unbelievable damage. Here's a little reading if you are interested.

December 2015 North American storm complex - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We have rain expected this weekend, yay! I hope everyone stays warm and cozy!

 

[Tiffany]

I'm catching up and reading about your storm Darragh! Is everyone doing okay? Fifty to ninety mile an hour wind gusts are terrifying!

 

[Geffers]

I'm catching up and reading about your storm Darragh! Is everyone doing okay? Fifty to ninety mile an hour wind gusts are terrifying!

Park close to me I walked round day after and there was no obvious indication of the storm, very little debris, no fallen trees, surprisingly many houses back on to the park and no fences were down apart from one that was in a poor state before the storm.

Guess lucky it is December and leaves off all the deciduous trees, that reduces chance of damage.

It was however, by UK standards, a bad storm, two died due to falling trees.

Geffers

 

[Geffers]

Another grey day in NW London today, saw a wee bit of blue sky yesterday but back to normal today. It is depressing, my Nan used to blame the weather on the sputnicks, but then Climate Change wasn't a thing back then

 

[Tiffany]

Sorry to hear that two people died in your storm. I just hate to hear that sad news from any storm. Storm damage can be fixed, but lost lives are such a tragedy.

I'm so glad to hear your close neighborhood park did okay through the storm. Sorry there were fences down though. Fences down can be a challenge when people have pets.

I never really thought about the leaves taking some weight off of trees in the winter, hence helping to give them some edge on potential storm damage. Our leaves are still falling this year. It's been such a warm fall. My back property is covered with oak tree leaves and I'm having heck with keeping the leaves out of the pool.

Are most of your days in London throughout the winter usually cloudy? I hope you get some sun to brighten your day soon. I'll virtually send some sun over across the pond. I had a Nana too. She had funny weather sayings like, "if the cows are laying down it's going to rain".

 

[Geffers]

Sorry to hear that two people died in your storm. I just hate to hear that sad news from any storm. Storm damage can be fixed, but lost lives are such a tragedy.

I'm so glad to hear your close neighborhood park did okay through the storm. Sorry there were fences down though. Fences down can be a challenge when people have pets.

I never really thought about the leaves taking some weight off of trees in the winter, hence helping to give them some edge on potential storm damage. Our leaves are still falling this year. It's been such a warm fall. My back property is covered with oak tree leaves and I'm having heck with keeping the leaves out of the pool.

Are most of your days in London throughout the winter usually cloudy? I hope you get some sun to brighten your day soon. I'll virtually send some sun over across the pond. I had a Nana too. She had funny weather sayings like, "if the cows are laying down it's going to rain".

The cows and rain is one I heard of too, makes sense, they'll lay down on a dry bit.

We have been getting a lot of grey days of late, island nation so changeable weather the norm. A consolation of cloud is it acts like a blanket and keeps the temperature up a wee bit. Blue skies in Winter equals cold.

 

[Tiffany]

Interesting that when your weather is clear that reflects colder weather and the clouds do not act like insulators keeping your temperature up a bit.

In the spring, summer and fall days in Texas, when it's clear, it's usually warmer unless a cold front by some miracle came through, like today. We had a little rain that preceded a cold front and it's been pretty cold and windy today.

I didn't even process the fact that cows like to sit on dry grass and how the rain affects them. Well, I guess my Nana had a little bit of farm animal knowledge after all.