To Whom It May Concern re; Weather.

[curiouswombat]

To Whom It May Concern re; Weather.

Severe Storm Force 11 once every 2 or 3 years can be quite exciting. But for the 3rd...4th...5th time in one winter? It is getting boring now.



Yes - we have force 11 again, gusts of 80mph+, things blowing around in the garden, in the street, and so on. Boat and flights cancelled, trees down, roads flooded...

Hard to remember that beautiful day on Monday, now.

Comments

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Are you still there?
I was thinking of you last night as we watched the news.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yep - all still hanging on. We are remarkably resilient, really!

There are tree down, but nothing too serious.

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

We are fighting with floods here, so it's great to have a dry day finally.
Good luck with the storm.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I wondered if the weather was hitting you too. Are you OK yourselves? We survived the storm, and the next one isn't expected until... oh... tomorrow.

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm ok, and it's getting better in in general. It stopped raining yesterday and we are not supposed to have big amounts of rain in the following days.

[lindi.livejournal.com]

Stay safe. We have been lucky here in Aberdeen, some high wind and rain, some of Scotland has snow, but down South is awful :(

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad they you haven't been battling with the wind and the waves in the way we have. I hope you continue to have a calm winter!

[lindi.livejournal.com]

Thank you x

[frivol.livejournal.com]

Trust you are safe and secure. So terrible to read the news from the UK right now. Stay safe.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We are pretty resilient - the island gets a lot of winter storms, and we can cope. But it is slowly wearing us down; literally in some places as sea walls have given way.

It will be good to get to spring. A quiet spring, we hope.

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Stay safe!

This winter is freaky in Europe. We've had only one week of real snow and frost so far, for the rest, it's spring. It's really upside down.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is totally freaky. We've had a dusting of snow on the hills, but otherwise it has stayed above freezing and just rained, rained, and blown a gale, or worse, almost every week since the middle of November.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

It's just getting silly now. Lambing is still a month away but I'm begining to think the unthinkable that this might not have eased up even by then.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have seen pictures of farmers with their pregnant ewes basically on an island - it is not going to be a good lambing season for them.

We are just praying we do not get a repeat of last year's March snowfall; the final toll was 'over 10% of the island's sheep lost' - about 15,000. Yes - the sheep do outnumber people by about 2:1!

I really do hope that you have dry weather and drier land by the start of lambing.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, things do look to be calming down next week.

That's a dreadful tally of lost sheep and a terrible blow to your farmers. Fingers crossed for a better spring everywhere this year.