Is winter finally here?

[drstitson]

"I don't like to start shooting or hunting until the proper frosts set in"

when IS the open season for drug mules and illegal immigrants????

 

[mbc]

"I don't like to start shooting or hunting until the proper frosts set in"

when IS the open season for drug mules and illegal immigrants????

Not half as long as the season for bankers and polititians should be. and some journalists

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

"I don't like to start shooting or hunting until the proper frosts set in"

when IS the open season for drug mules and illegal immigrants????

If the government had their way they'd be protected - saves spending money on catching them!!

 

[drstitson]

"saves spending money on catching them!!"

sure - but must be nice to have a job paid for by HMG which lets you play with guns AND dogs!!!!!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It's a sh*t job but somebody's got to do it (as the officer in charge of internal smugglers at Heathrow once said!)

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Okay, I give up now - cold, wet and windy last night, and cold first thing this morning but now the sun is shining brightly on the hives (it's in a little sun trap in the garden and only shaded first thing in the morning) and the bees are out in force - there doesn't seem much evidence of pollen though, I think a lot are carrying water (to deal with the fondant probably)
Can't win can you?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Hail here this morning.

 

[drstitson]

So met office have finally come out and said it'll be a mild one whilst the long range forecasters who were spot on last year are saying winter will come in dec and be a cold one with snow.

 

[Storm™]

Well here its 20 degrees .... I cant believe it. Like a summers day. Bees foraging on the last few fusia flowers that weren't torn off in the high winds. My guess is when winter hits, it will hit hard. I would say in two weeks time it will start.

 

[drstitson]

"I would say in two weeks time it will start."

That's what the LRFs are suggesting.

 

[The Cumbrian]

Maximum temperature here so far today is 6.2C and this morning we had "thick rain", not near enough sleet to show white when falling but left a few ice crystals on the windscreen for a second or so.

 

[Luminos]

1 degree this morning, thick fog; only 6 degrees now and still foggy

 

[oldsalthouse]

Nice and sunny again 14, bit of wind and lots of pollen on the bees...

 

[oliver90owner]

"thick rain"

What some might refer to as 'sleet'? Just means it is colder up there in the clouds than down there at 6 degrees. Nothing to worry about.

 

[For want of a better word]

MUST have something to do with Global Warming........













here we go again?

 

[Skyhook]

MUST have something to do with Global Warming........

Hard to say. Was Hurricane Katrina caused by global warming? Certainly warmer seas make more and stronger hurricanes, and the seas are getting warmer due to increased CO2 levels...

It's probably only in retrospect that you can put individual weather events down to global warming, when you se where they came in the pattern. All I know is, there's red clover and dandelion in flower here, summer flowering shrubs are starting to put on next years flowers, and my bees don't know if they're supposed to be in bed or not.



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[johnandyrob]

"thick rain"

What some might refer to as 'sleet'? Just means it is colder up there in the clouds than down there at 6 degrees. Nothing to worry about.

I watched a tv program about the weather it claimed all rain in the uk starts as either hail or snow. Talking of which we had hail here today temp never topped 5c

 

[Erichalfbee]

Maximum temperature here so far today is 6.2C and this morning we had "thick rain",

That's just what it is.
BIG rain that isn't quite frozen.
Sleet is what I used to see when I lived in the London suburbs
Thick Rain is indeed what we get here.....good description

 

[Andy Duff]

Sunglasses away, thermals on. 4c max Driving rain, hail and a bitter wind.
Winter has arrived in sub-tropical Bury and no sign of the bees venturing out en mass at last. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[susbees]

Sunglasses away, thermals on. 4c max Driving rain, hail and a bitter wind.
Winter has arrived in sub-tropical Bury and no sign of the bees venturing out en mass at last. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Can you do better for next Tuesday please? Got a day in Manc....