[Lardman]

It's  - 9 °C but sunny this morning in our fair city.

I have bamboo to cut later today, guess I'm going to need the insulated work gloves!

You do appear to get more extremes there but not the months of constant grey gloom we get. Not sure which I prefer, but you can be assured I wouldn't be working outside in -9c  without insulated and heated gloves    That's hot chocolate and slippers by the fireside weather.

[Subversive_plot]

The crazy thing is, five days from now we are forecast to have a low of 11 °C and a high of 20 °C!  That will come with a long dose of rain (which we don't need ATM, as we had a 5-inch rainstorm early last week and a smaller one after that).

Added later: ATM, it has warmed to a tropical +1 °C, so it's safe enough for a little work outside. Long gone are my days of coping with work outdoors at - 9 °C or close to it!

The bamboo is something I need to do before the work week starts, we have a  tree company coming in, and the bamboo needs to be out of their way.

[wighty]

Dark and getting gloomier, never brightened up  all day.  We've noticed the neighbours trees are now really 'swaying'.

[Aunt Sally]

Lost an 8 ft section of my carport yesterday evening. 

[mumofstig]

Bad luck, it was awful wasn't it!! I had a few pots blown over, so soil and bulbs strewn all over the place, but no serious damage. I think the hedgerow saved us from the worst of it.
6C and sunny this morning, and despite MetO saying it is still windy, it's dead calm, thank goodness!

[Lardman]

It's not been good looking a the papers, roofers are going to be busy people. I heard a couple of bangs during the night but I can't see any damage this morning, the wind was across the valley I'm in rather than down it which is probably why. Alexa tells me It's 8c and I'm sitting here shivering with 4 layers on, and it's dark, grey and  miserable out there - but at least dry for now.

[snowdrops]

Very windy around teatime yesterday, heard a bang but couldn’t see anything, turns out the patio table had been blown over-heavy glass, thankfully still ok…phew.
Today breezy with sunshine & showers

[Subversive_plot]

Sorry to hear about everyone's rough weather and storm damage! 

Mrs. Sub_p says that she heard our next rain event is forecast to give us 6 to 10 inches of rain over 4 days. That is likely coming with our own storms  (cold air mass up against a warm air mass).

[Aunt Sally]

This was blown from the front of our house to the back of the back garden.  That was just the largest piece.

[Aunt Sally]

This balk of timber was blown over the remaining carport roof and landed exactly as you see it.  Six inches to the left and it would have demolished the greenhouse. 

[JayG]

Despite being well into the 'amber warning zone' for gale force winds, the maximum gust here yesterday was a fairly modest 53mph. - rainfall less than half an inch, so much luckier than many people elsewhere (including dear Aunt Sally, clearly.  )

I was going to try to do a bit in the garden today, but at 8C and very windy I might just wimp out and do some equally pressing jobs in the GH... 

[snowdrops]

This was blown from the front of our house to the back of the back garden.  That was just the largest piece.

Oh wow, good job you weren’t out in it!

[mumofstig]

It's 9C, grey, damp and miserable. The forecast shows more windy weather, but not so far....

[Lardman]

It's 9C, grey, damp and miserable. The forecast shows more windy weather, but not so far....

Only 6c here otherwise the same.  But at least it's not the 6-10" forecast for SP - that would probably leave have the country under water 

[Goosegirl]

Survived the storms thank goodness. Another one is forecast shortly. Oh BUM!