Topic: Jill's gorra boss Worcester Combi! (aka the weather thread)

[AlphaDelta]

It definitely feels like autumn is well and truly here today, dark, wet and miserable. When I started WFH in March/April it was glorious, sitting in the garden most days etc.

[Slippers]

Absolutely hammering down and blowing a gale here.

It was like the middle of summer yesterday.

[rob1966]

Grey and wet but quite warm here. Dropped the car off for a caliper to get changed and walked a mile and a half home and it was a nice pleasant walk. Yesterday was foggy as anything early doors, got better later but I was stuck inside doing an online training course.

[liverbloke]

I actually got sunburn yesterday doing some local bird watching - did have the back of my neck facing the sun for over an hour though 

Now today I'm watching the rain through the window 

[Slippers]

It sounds like rocks are landing on our roof.
And it's gone dark.

[CraigDS]

Was that snow in Liverpool city centre?  Or just really really large but light drops of rain blowing around?!

[Son of Spion]

Was that snow in Liverpool city centre?  Or just really really large but light drops of rain blowing around?!

Looked like a heavy drizzle to me earlier on. It's 12 degrees C, so I can't imagine snowflakes making it to ground level with those sort of temperatures.

[Slippers]

Hammering down here,hope it washes all the seagull shit off the attic window.

[Statto Red]

Hate the first couple of weeks after the clocks go back, it's around 3.30pm but feels like it should be around 4.30pm.

[rob1966]

Hate the first couple of weeks after the clocks go back, it's around 3.30pm but feels like it should be around 4.30pm.

Yeah, your body knows its later than what the time says.

I actually didn't mind it this weekend, only because I was up at half 4 and started work at 6 yesterday, finished at 8 and was then back in at 6 this morning. That extra hours kip was well needed. I'll hate it during the week though

[bradders1011]

An old man's taking Polaroids
But all he catches
Is endless rain
Endless rain
Endless rain

[Statto Red]

Yeah, your body knows its later than what the time says.

I actually didn't mind it this weekend, only because I was up at half 4 and started work at 6 yesterday, finished at 8 and was then back in at 6 this morning. That extra hours kip was well needed. I'll hate it during the week though

Yep, weekend isn't too bad, but today feels like it's dragging along, just gone 2pm feels like it should be just gone 3pm.

[rob1966]

Yep, weekend isn't too bad, but today feels like it's dragging along, just gone 2pm feels like it should be just gone 3pm.

I'm off with the kids this week and I think I'd better make their dinners, then realise its only 11 o'clock. I hate it when it gets to this time and know it will be dark in 90 minutes.

At least its not pissing down today, got drowned yesterday picking some stuff up from my storage unit and the garage is flooding because the gulley is full of leaves from the overgrown tree outside - I fucking hate Tories and AMEY.

[Statto Red]

It's stormy out, but weirdly the wind is quite warm, rather than what you expect for this time of year.

[kesey]

Was that thunder I heard ?

[jillcwhomever]

I hope its a calmer when I cycle home.

[gerrardisgod]

Hailstones like golf balls here.

[jillcwhomever]

Hailstones like golf balls here.

Tell me about it! I was cycling at the time. 

[Slippers]

Freezing this morning but it looks like a spring day out there.

[Slippers]

I've been awake for half an hour and all I can hear is the sound of ice being scraped off windscreens.

[rob1966]

No ice, just a typical damp grey summers day in Manc.

[Statto Red]

Just seen someone out wearing a t-shirt & shorts, it's around 4C.

[Slippers]

No ice, just a typical damp grey summers day in Manc.

Dry and sunny now,not a cloud in the sky.

Still freezing but I prefer this to the mist and murk we normally have to put up with in December.

[Jono69]

Just seen someone out wearing a t-shirt & shorts, it's around 4C.

 I always wear just a T-Shirt as i very rarely feel the cold but not shorts at this time of year , but there was a few in Asda in shorts this morning

[rob1966]

I always wear just a T-Shirt as i very rarely feel the cold but not shorts at this time of year , but there was a few in Asda in shorts this morning

I've worn kecks about 50 times since March, the majority is at work of a weekend as we can't wear shorts in the trucks, but its full time shorts otherwise.

[liverbloke]

absolutely pissing down here

but just had a hot bowl of porridge with banana and some maple syrup on so not all that bad

[rob1966]

absolutely pissing down here

but just had a hot bowl of porridge with banana and some maple syrup on so not all that bad

Its Manchester, so no surprise its pissing down here too, bit of sleet mixed in to it.

[Snail]

Vile.

[jillcwhomever]

Horrible, not much chance of cycling home now. 

[rob1966]

Horrible, not much chance of cycling home now. 

Pah, when I was a kid I cycled to and from school in 15 feet of snow, 10 miles each way, holes in my shoes, no gloves and uphill there and back.

[liverbloke]

Pah, when I was a kid I cycled to and from school in 15 feet of snow, 10 miles each way, holes in my shoes, no gloves and uphill there and back.

tish, when i was a lad we had to ride a bike with no tyres and no chain up a mountain and back down again with no brakes and all the time being beaten with a stick before we even had breakfast - which was a bowl full of dry oats with no milk and no spoon to eat it with

[24/7]

tish, when i was a lad we had to ride a bike with no tyres and no chain up a mountain and back down again with no brakes and all the time being beaten with a stick before we even had breakfast - which was a bowl full of dry oats with no milk and no spoon to eat it with

"Cardboard bowl....."

[Son of Spion]

Horrible, not much chance of cycling home now. 

I'm just back from Crewe and driving on the M62 and M6 was absolutely horrible.

I then got soaked just running from the car to the front door.

I don't envy anyone cycling in that today.

[Slippers]

It's been raining non stop since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 

[jillcwhomever]

I'm just back from Crewe and driving on the M62 and M6 was absolutely horrible.

I then got soaked just running from the car to the front door.

I don't envy anyone cycling in that today.

I ended up on the train both ways, with my bike. At least I got to cycle to the station, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I can't even begin to imagine what it was like driving in that weather, when I'm on the bike and its raining that hard, I find it hard enough to see. I was like you by the time I had walked home with the bike I was soaking. Horrible.

[jillcwhomever]

It's been raining non stop since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 

Winter has come.

[Slippers]

Winter has come.

Yep,just waiting for the Wet Walkers now.

[.adam]

Weather half decent here in South Manchester. Managed to play some tennis at lunch today and looks decent enough for next week too. I'd say it is unseasonably mild temperature-wise.

[Son of Spion]

I ended up on the train both ways, with my bike. At least I got to cycle to the station, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I can't even begin to imagine what it was like driving in that weather, when I'm on the bike and its raining that hard, I find it hard enough to see. I was like you by the time I had walked home with the bike I was soaking. Horrible.

Wise decision using the train when the weather is like that.

When I was an outreach care worker I got to jobs on a bike as I didn't drive then. I'd be doing up to 200 miles per week on the bike. Now that's really nice in the summer, but come winter and it was often absolutely horrible. The company I worked for had us wearing a proper white shirt and tie with trousers and proper shoes to do the job too. Ridiculous seeing as I was doing personal care for people who could not do anything for themselves at all. So even if I had a good Berghaus jacket with waterproof trousers over my work clothes, I'd end up soaked in sweat and with puddles in my shoes when I got to jobs or got back home in the rain. 

With the motorway driving you are dry, but it's just horrible for other reasons. The spray off HGVs and other cars makes it feel like you are driving through fog. It doesn't help when certain idiots insist on tailgating you either.

I've not long got back from Crosby. Just a bog standard grey December day there. At least there was no rain.

[jillcwhomever]

Wise decision using the train when the weather is like that.

When I was an outreach care worker I got to jobs on a bike as I didn't drive then. I'd be doing up to 200 miles per week on the bike. Now that's really nice in the summer, but come winter and it was often absolutely horrible. The company I worked for had us wearing a proper white shirt and tie with trousers and proper shoes to do the job too. Ridiculous seeing as I was doing personal care for people who could not do anything for themselves at all. So even if I had a good Berghaus jacket with waterproof trousers over my work clothes, I'd end up soaked in sweat and with puddles in my shoes when I got to jobs or got back home in the rain. 

With the motorway driving you are dry, but it's just horrible for other reasons. The spray off HGVs and other cars makes it feel like you are driving through fog. It doesn't help when certain idiots insist on tailgating you either.

I've not long got back from Crosby. Just a bog standard grey December day there. At least there was no rain.

What a nightmare. Strangely enough, I can put up with rain its the wind that I hate more than anything especially along the prom at times it feels like your are peddling and going nowhere. But more than anything its getting up at 6.15's that killing me at the moment. Only one more day though.