06:17, 18th Sept, South-East Scotland, looking - erm - South-East.
Only seems a few weeks since it was getting light at 3am - something shifted while I wasn't paying attention. This is actually a fine morning, after a very wet night, but the forecast is a bit wild - winds and more rain. Looks nice, though?
Photograph by permission of Contesse Foy, 2018.
I do enjoy a dramatic morning sky. There really ought to be rhymes for pink and purple skies.
ReplyDeleteGood idea - maybe we should commission some.
DeleteRed sky at night is the shepherd's pie;
Lilac in the morning, just stay in bed.
Nah - needs a lot of work.
No doubt be snowing soon...
ReplyDeleteWas a bit blustery today, but less interesting than the early sky suggested. Now tomorrow we're in for gales and a lot of rain, according to the BBC. Mind you, what do they know? I have thought of sending them a new piece of seaweed for the meteorology section - the old one seems to have lost its powers.
DeleteMaybe (aha!) - maybe the red sky warning is for two days later? No-one thought of that.
The BBC cancelled its contract with the met office a while ago and since then the accuracy of its forecasts has been very patchy. I just go to the met office directly now.
DeleteStorm Ali is blowing up nicely here now.
I just checked out the Met Office website, and have now bookmarked it - anything helps - thanks for this thought. Slightly perturbed to see that today the website is offering specific local forecasts for the Singapore GP, the Royal County of Berkshire Show and the St. David's Walk - all of which were last week. It occurs to me that it's a crafty way of improving accuracy, forecasting events which have already happened, but a more likely explanation is that both the employees now concentrate on staring at the sky, and the website manager only comes in on Thursdays (he drives for Amazon Logistics the rest of the week).
DeleteI also use Metcheck, which I used to think was pretty good, though it has become a bit wild recently.
Enjoy your storm - batten down the hatches. I usually quite enjoy bad weather when I'm staying at someone else's house, when I don't have to worry about the slates coming off, or the water getting into the roof timbers - though a flood would still be an issue, obviously.
'Rain before 7 - fine before 11' , my dad use to say !
ReplyDeleteExcellent - I'd like to adopt that, if your dad wouldn't mind!
DeleteAmazing colours.
ReplyDeleteThese skies are weird - and fleeting. This wasn't like the start of a day of dramatic weather. Ten minutes after this it was just a boring grey morning.
DeleteQuite lovely.
ReplyDeleteHi Michael - always an attractive perk of these parts. When I was a kid in t'Industrial North of England, we used to get spectacular sunsets on the Mersey, but that was mostly because of the smoke and the pollution in those days. Nowadays I believe they get trout in the Mersey, which would never have been allowed in the 1960s.
DeleteFunny you should mention the Mersey, I just learned from my English sister in law that when her mum passed, the ferry (of famous mention from the pop song) stopped just long enough for her to put her mum's ashes into the river. Apparently that's a fairly common thing.
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