Wednesday night we went to bed with severe weather warnings ringing in our ears. Now whilst it is true that on Thursday morning many folk to the north of the UK woke after a night of gales and wintery showers, in some places there was a good dump of snow, we in our small corner of England woke to a calm morning.
It had of course rained overnight and there had also a been blustery wind. The morning started dull but soon the sun came out to play. Great for Busters walkies but you could see that the wind had at long last striped the trees of their leaves…. even the Oak that is reluctant to let go was now a skeleton on the horizon.
The biggest change was the temperatures. Since Saturday they had been rather unseasonably warm but today they plummeted to 5c. Distinctly cold by the Lake…
Surprisingly the cold did little to discourage the morning rowers on the River Derwent….
But we cannot be smug at escaping yesterday storms as I guess by the time you read this we will be ‘enjoying’ our first covering of snow… well that is what we are told. Not that we can complain it is after all December
8th December
(C) David Oakes 2017
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Back in business! Great pictures! I see you’ve still got leaves on the trees – lucky you!
Here we’ve got naked twigs only, but we suddenly got a couple of days with temperatures of plus 5-6 C
(which removed the last traces of snow – at least where I live) Now I’m waiting on an early spring!
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It has been a see-saw autumn, high and low temperatures switching places. But this weeks winds have now stripped the leaves of all but a few Oak trees, some do hang onto their dry leaves till the new ones push them off in the spring.
Nice to see you back….and glad your ‘health’ didn’t suffer the stress 🙂
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