Weather

[Blaze]

The cold north-easterly has dropped but is due to continue, with strong gusts and possibly snow on Friday night morning. Temps pretty stable around 6 - 8°C during the day, a little colder at night, but no freezing temps forecast yet.

[Bayleaf]

Well at last the rain promised for two days has arrived, just fine as we have just planted 8 new trees/shrubs in our park.

The rain outwitted me. Had two jobs to do before it rolled in, planting a load of shrubs for a client and getting a load of fallen wood in. The fallen wood won, as we need that more urgently! I always think of today, 25th, St Catherine's Day, as the perfect day for planting (old French myth!), but I'm sure doing it next week will be fine. Just hope it doesn't get frosty ....

[Liz]

St Catherine's Day and the month after is always reckoned here to be the best time to plant shrubs and trees

[Blaze]

St Catherine's Day and the month after is always reckoned here to be the best time to plant shrubs and trees

Yes, because in most areas the ground is still relatively warm. I have a load of stuff to plant, though sooner rather than later ...

[Blaze]

90 to 100km winds from the north expected here overnight and tomorrow morning. The wind's already got up so everything is battened down, shutters shut and we'll disconnect the phone tonight as a precaution, as usual.

[Pathca]

Storm Arwen has hit here ,where I live we are the meeting point of the coastal influence and the Penine influence so we are just wet and very windy,but other areas have had it a lot worse and there’s been quite a bit of snow around

[exile]

Snow overnight but only a light covering.

Arwen sounds as if it has been pretty unpleasant and I guess we will get he tail at some stage - even down here.

[Char]

It was very windy here last night and we had some heavy rain and hail - we're due snow tonight and tomorrow, according to the forecast.
I've become too accustomed to the mild winters we've had here for several years now, so a normal winter's coming as a bit of a shock.

[MAD87]

Il neige. Just get the snow shovel out and parked on the terrace.

[Blaze]

It's still very windy here but apparently far worse a few kms down the road where the coast it hit directly by the NNE winds. The land is flat with no relief so houses there are very exposed.