Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[Johnz]

7.5 earthquake in New Zealand last night. Didn't feel much up here in the north but parts of the South Island don't look too good. Some towns cut off and communications still down. Hope everyone is ok down there.

[Shush]

Its been on the news over here Johnz. Hope its not too bad.

[Johnz]

Its been on the news over here Johnz. Hope its not too bad.

Thanks Shush. Luckily the number of casualties appears to be low but the damage to infra-structure is quite substantial. They've already had over 50 aftershocks and this will go on for a few weeks at least. It will hit the tourism industry hard. It's their biggest earner down there and our summer season will start in just a couple of weeks. We're kinda used to earthquakes here but 7.5 is pretty sizeable even for New Zealand.

[purplehaze]

Blizzards

[Master Ray]

Utterly FOUL, all day!  Dark skies, freezing cold and a hard nasty wind driving heavy rain horizontal.  And it hasn't let up since this morning, not one bit. Nasty day!

[Rusco]

OK! Today it's the the day the temperatures will drop again deep down to minus:

Now -11 Celsius, and in between 4:00 PM and 9:00 PM it goes to -16 Celsius. Next Thu apparently going over -20 or so. On next weekend the estimations are snow so it means the temperatures will raise back again near to zero for some time.

Now if everything goes alright we'll have minus for three months and everything's ok.

[Rusco]

Alright, it dropped down. At morning when I woke up and went to work it was -20 indeed. During midday while working I received a photo from our security cam (due to birds flying near the zone of the camera) and it shows also the temperature in photos. I saw it was still -20. Actually at morning, temperature often will cool more for couple of hours because of sunrise. I can't explain the reason for it.

But, oh what a beautiful shiny day. Few minutes ago I went to check a well that leads to a gutter and if the electric pump works ok beneath in the drainage. And then, at a same time I heard a "strix aluco", an owl, singing/shouting up in a tree. Wow!  What an exciting moment.

[Pol]

First flurry of snow in probably over a year, only about a inch as per normal everything goes a lot slower, train and buses running late and traffic moving slowly. Thankfully it won't last or the country would grind to a halt.

[Master Ray]

Mild snowfall tonight, but not enough to stick.

[Red]

Had a snow flurry this morning for about 20 minutes

Just hope everyone, my mother included, on the East Coast escapes the threat of flooding that is forecast with the high tide tonight

[purplehaze]

We had to dig u out this morning to get the door fully open ,the kids climed  the fence, to get to school on time as I were taking too  long digging the gate open  ,we do live : up in the mountains though alston cumbria is the highest market town in Britain  so it shouldn't come as a surprise

[Coolea]

Its a beautiful 20 degrees in Morrocco. Id glady trade it right now for a sweaty, adrenalin fuelled NMA gig.

[Rusco]

Our dear friend Strix Aluco (tawny owl) heard nearby:



...no wolves this time...

[Image loaned from Wikipedia, 23.1.2017]

[Master Ray]

Bloody hell, it's cold out there tonight.  I mean, proper COLD, and that same cold is filtering into my antiquated flat (where I can only afford to heat one room, the living room obviously) so I think I'm sleeping on the sofa tonight... aw, at least I have a very comfy sofa!   

[Sheena]

Aye, it's a bit parky