The Great British Weather

The sun came out for new bike day

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Nice shot of the tower there.

In Paris for the day?

Gare-du-Nord-wood

C'est bon, bruv.

#pourlavie

Cyclone Winstone is slamming 200mph winds into Fiji, the footage looks terrifying... Reportedly the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere...

Great Fijian weather thread >>>>>>

You heartless bastard...

Pedantic, not heartless ;)

200mph winds do sound petrifying. Presumably not much you can do to protect things from that?

I was, of course, teasing... 🙄😀

I can't imagine it, we get some pretty horrific storms here but nothing approaching that...

commute in to work a delight
the commute home against the wind a nightmare i dare say

Pedantic, not heartless ;)

Empire denier. It says 'British' weather, not 'weather in Britain'. :)

But yes, we can only hope that the storm really does pass between the two main islands.

I spent a year working in Suva in 2012, and we had a pretty big storm come over which was on a scale I had never seen before. Imagine the most/hardest rain you've ever seen, then multiply by 10, add into it the strongest wind you've ever experienced and multiply by 10. I've got some video on my phone, which just doesn't do it justice. And that wasn't a particularly big storm. This storm must be terrifying!

Snow in N7!

weather .... lots of it

Rather blowy out, meant to ride for longer but cut it short.

What the shit was that snow about?
So unexpectedly enjoyable. But it is April and I swear the sky was blue whilst it happened!
Love it.

More like hail down here.

I was in shorts.

Sometimes it snows in April.

What the fuck was today all about? Not a good day to work outside. I've been hot, cold, really cold, wet, dry, wet again, sweaty, dry again, snowed on, hailed on, hit with hard snow and soft hail, then repeat. I've had to swap layers every 20 minutes. Fuck off.

The German saying is "April, April, der weiß nicht, was er will."

This translates as 'April, April, it doesn't know what it wants.'

It only works in German because there's a rhyme in it.

You're welcome.

I was working outside as well, nearly fell off a roof because it became slippery after a flash snow storm. It was bone dry when I went up.

Das German weather und poetry thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Bitte Schön ;-)

We say from April showers spring forth May flowers

This is because we get alternations of strong sunlight and heavy rain/snow showers which is good for the gardens.

So in that sense April does know what it wants, it wants to kick start the growing season.