Weather? You call that weather?

[curiouswombat]

Okay, not usual for me to post twice in an hour or so, but boy have we got a bit of weather tonight! I have just been out to collect daughter-dear from her youth club thing she does on Fridays, and it is, to use the locally accepted technical term, blowing a hooley out there! It is currently Force 9 -10, and the Met. Office reckon it should reach Force 11 (Severe Storm, just 1 below hurricane) by about 4a.m. (just over 4 hours away.)

It is not so much 'blowing over bins' type weather as 'blowing off slates' (or possibly whole roofs,) type weather - first BIG storm of the winter. No boats sailing to the UK tonight! Wouldn't want to be out there tomorrow either!

And you know what? I will lie in bed and enjoy listening to it until I fall asleep - really good storms were one of the things I missed whilst I lived in a city, the wind got so broken up that you never really heard it or felt it. One of my abiding memories as a child is sleeping in our attic bedroom (no, not really that poor - my sister and I liked the attic - big floor space and interesting ceiling slopes!), and feeling the whole house gently swaying me to sleep in really big storms!

Comments

[opalescence.livejournal.com]

I adore big storms!

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

We've got some weather here today, too. This morning, I counted 4 roadside waterfalls on my commute road down to the freeway, when there is normally only one during the rains. Your plan for your evening sounds good; I think I'll knock off early and go emulate it.

[jerusha]

I like storms too. One of the problems about living in Colorado (depending on your perspective) is that we don't have weather. It's nice and sunny about 350 days out of the year.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

This is some new definition of 'problem' of which I was not previously aware.

[jerusha]

LOL...it's a problem if rainy days make you happy. :)