Whats the Weather like?

**neloon** · 7th January 16, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by The Q

Sad to say we here down in Norfolk have had heavy rain since I left for work at 06:00, it's still raining now at 14:18 and I believe its on it's way to Aberdeenshire and to rain for longer there!

They're more or less telling us not to go out.
https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/...px?newsID=4326
We are OK on the top of a hill.
Alan

**Jock Scot** · 7th January 16, 02:24 PM

The road from Spean Bridge to Dalwhinnie and the A9 South was a grim trip this morning with very slow moving traffic, serious amounts of rain and wind and sleet over Drumochter. Floods everywhere and getting worse by the looks of it, several inches of water on the road in places and it looked like the river Tummel has broken through the flood banks. Amazingly the M6 and M5 were dry all the way to Gloucestershire.

**neloon** · 8th January 16, 03:01 AM

The police in the Northeast of Scotland have now run out of "Road Closed" signs

Alan

**Bruce Scott** · 8th January 16, 02:43 PM

Hot, hot , hot in my part of Western Australia with bushfires - 95 homes lost at Yarloop:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...-hits-yarloop/

**LANCER1562** · 8th January 16, 09:14 PM

It's 9:13 p.m. local time and a "balmy" 23F. It snowed earlier and there's a chance of more snow overnight.

**Downunder Kilt** · 8th January 16, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Bruce Scott

Hot, hot , hot in my part of Western Australia with bushfires - 95 homes lost at Yarloop:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...-hits-yarloop/

Yep it's a bugger over there at the moment mate. Also to bring in another on going thread ,one of the news readers on Channel 10 in Melbourne described Yarloop as being totally decimated

**The Q** · 9th January 16, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

Yep it's a bugger over there at the moment mate. Also to bring in another on going thread ,one of the news readers on Channel 10 in Melbourne described Yarloop as being totally decimated

So one house in ten was burnt down?!!

Sorry couldnt resist it see decimated thread.

The laughter is at the misuse of English, not the misfortune of the residents, my sympathies to them.

**Profane James** · 9th January 16, 03:30 PM

Not much to add, other than we are finally getting some winter temperatures.
We get to experience all the seasons here in the southeast US - the summer being the most extreme, and I quite enjoy the dynamic.
There is a great (and abrasive) saying that I like to repeat when necessary, 'if you don't like the weather in the south........go back to wherever the h*ll you came from.'

**Pleater** · 9th January 16, 08:04 PM

It rained very hard today.

No change there then - except my drains are blocked and the ground water is so high that they are backing up.
Oh the joy of Victorian pipes.

Tomorrow morning I'll be delving into the waste water sump and poking around to try to move the blockage. I just hope that when it starts to run it is outwards and not into the conservatory.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Pleater** · 10th January 16, 08:11 AM

Wow - it isn't raining this afternoon - it did rain this morning as I delved into the drain, really hammering down on the roof - but the water seems to be running freely now,.

There is, however, an ominously huge great glowing thing in the sky, so bright we have turned off the lights.

I don't know if it bodes at all well - could be portentous, though I think I remember seeing something like it before - long ago.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: