WHAT'S YOUR WEATHER LIKE - 2017 a

OOOoooo It's a tad windy out there

 

Been windy here but so far absolutely nothing to be concerned about. As per usual these days the forecasters say we are in for terrible weather and "The end is nigh", yes I'll bet it's pretty interesting up in the Islands and around the north coast but apart from that it's just fairly average.
It's no wonder people get so stressed these days. You are bombarded with dome and gloom when in effect most of it is unfounded.
I'm likely to get caught out by the weather 1 day ,as I now pay b all heed to weather warnings (far too much cry wolf for my liking). After flying around locking down the double window openings in my greenhouse a couple of years ago in preparation for "serious gales" which never materialised and then had to unlock them all again,I decided to just take things as they come.
Hope everybody else is ok and no dramas around the country.

 

Heavy rain and gale force winds overnight now easing (a bit!), last mild day for a while?

 

I agree with @silu, too much scaremongering with the weather these days. Perhaps the forecasters are over predicting after the boo boo from Mr Fish many years ago. I have four weather sites on the go and not one of those was predicting storm force winds, and that includes the Jet Stream map.

Gale force winds here overnight until around 2pm this afternoon. The very north of Scotland and the islands suffered quite badly with the storm but here around Inverness there was little to worry about. It's been a very grey day and the snow is now on it's way in with a sprinkling on the lawn already. It's expected to be with us all day tomorrow.

The temperature was 10C/50F just after midnight last night but had plummeted to 4C/39F this morning. From early afternoon it has been reading 2C/36F.

 

Coldest morning this year by a long way. I tried to go poo picking in the field but my fingers gave out (rubber gloves are not the warmest!). Seriously cold but with it wall to wall so not all bad. i intend to enjoy the from inside and hug the wood burner.

 

Woke up to snow-capped mountains, lightly snowing still but forecast for heavier snowfall later this afternoon ... Thankfully, all safe warm and stocked up ....Heading into ....as we say just another Winter in Wales Keep safe and warm anyone with snow forecast

 

We've got what was promised yesterday. It's been snowing on and off all day with a few sunny spells in between, -2C/28F. More expected overnight and tomorrow morning.

 

@silu pooh picking?.....

 

Well @Sheal you did want to be fairly remote. No snow here but looks absolutely lovely where you are. Hope the heating is working?

Sorry @CanadianLori what I am referring to isn't quite as grim as it sounds. Poo picking is the normally used term in horsey language for removing horse droppings from their grazing areas. The removal helps to eliminate/dramatically reduce any worm burden horses might have and keep the pasture clean. We do it pretty well daily.