Many happy returns El!       

Hope you have a great day     

Thanks Velvet

Northern lights/aurora borealis seen across the UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64782372
Even seen in Kent which is rare,

@El Loro posted:

Northern lights/aurora borealis seen across the UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64782372
Even seen in Kent which is rare,

Stunning colours El

@slimfern posted:

Stunning colours El

There's a chance that people may be able to see them this evening but that depends on being somewhere where there's not much cloud and not much light pollution

@El Loro posted:

There's a chance that people may be able to see them this evening but that depends on being somewhere where there's not much cloud and not much light pollution

Maybe if I were to be stood on the moors I might see them...
too many streetlights around here

@slimfern posted:

Maybe if I were to be stood on the moors I might see them...
too many streetlights around here

Far too much light pollution here to have any chance but it's very cloudy tonight

@El Loro posted:

Far too much light pollution here to have any chance but it's very cloudy tonight

Have you enjoyed your day El?

@El Loro posted:

Northern lights/aurora borealis seen across the UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64782372
Even seen in Kent which is rare,

stunning photos -would love to see the Northern lights thankyou EL

night EL-hope you had a lovely day slim velvet

Good morning everyone

A very cloudy day here with drizzle at times.

I hope everyone has a good day

@slimfern posted:

Have you enjoyed your day El?

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

night EL-hope you had a lovely day slim velvet

Thanks Slim and Ros, it was an enjoyable day

@El Loro posted:

Thanks Slim and Ros, it was an enjoyable day

That's good to hear El

Various clips (all very short) of the Northern Lights across the UK posted on Youtube but this one seems to be the best one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKMAvUmRBE

@El Loro posted:

Various clips (all very short) of the Northern Lights across the UK posted on Youtube but this one seems to be the best one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKMAvUmRBE

Another chance to see it on Monday 

Will binoculars help 

@slimfern posted:

Another chance to see it on Monday 

Will binoculars help 

I don't know if binoculars would make any difference in viewing the Northern Lights (and too much light pollution here)

@El Loro posted:

Thanks Slim and Ros, it was an enjoyable day

awww glad you had  a lovely /enjoyable day EL

night EL slim velvet

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

awww glad you had  a lovely /enjoyable day EL

Thanks Ros

Good morning everyone

A cloudy rainy day here.
No sign of that "Beast from The East" materialising here on the 7th. May get some snow in the early hours but turns to rain during the day.

I hope everyone has a good day

Beast from the East         

Weather madness, Daily Express     

Hope you're ticking over El     

Thanks Velvet, I'm ticking over the bank statements of the client I've started work on

A certain newspaper seems to have an obsession with "The Beast from the East"
It does seem that the temperature for much of March will be below average, and that some places will get snow but I don't think we are going to get a repeat of the 2018 one (highest snow total was 57 cm which was in Gloucestershire).

@El Loro posted:

Thanks Velvet, I'm ticking over the bank statements of the client I've started work on

A certain newspaper seems to have an obsession with "The Beast from the East"
It does seem that the temperature for much of March will be below average, and that some places will get snow but I don't think we are going to get a repeat of the 2018 one (highest snow total was 57 cm which was in Gloucestershire).

I very much doubt we'll get any snow

@slimfern posted:

I very much doubt we'll get any snow

I think it's the north and east more likely to get snow than the south and west

@El Loro posted:

I think it's the north and east more likely to get snow than the south and west

Same people get all the luck    

night EL slim velvet

Good morning everyone

Some sunny intervals here today,

I hope everyone has a good day

One of the rarer weather symbols on the metcheck weather forecast site:

= thundersnow

@El Loro posted:

One of the rarer weather symbols on the metcheck weather forecast site:

= thundersnow

They're making it up now El       

@El Loro posted:

One of the rarer weather symbols on the metcheck weather forecast site:

= thundersnow

@velvet donkey posted:

They're making it up now El       

I was going to say...I'd never witnessed thundersnow....so you could be right Velvet

Blizzard. It's a spade     

Hi Velvet and Slim
I found this BBC news clip of "thundersnow" on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mfDZxSN8w

@El Loro posted:

Hi Velvet and Slim
I found this BBC news clip of "thundersnow" on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mfDZxSN8w

...sounds like a 70's pop group

Abba were alright       

@velvet donkey posted:

Abba were alright       

Topical subject 

Here's a piece of music called "Thundersnow!" by Katie O'Hara LaBrie which was written last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDvQO5L_j0

Very classical piece of music for strings.

@El Loro posted:

Here's a piece of music called "Thundersnow!" by Katie O'Hara LaBrie which was written last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDvQO5L_j0

Very classical piece of music for strings.

It's quite a forceful piece El

@slimfern posted:

It's quite a forceful piece El

Intentionally, Slim, right at the beginning of the score is the instruction "Driving"

Not the first time a composer has used driving music to signify thunder, the obvious one being:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g65oWFMSoK0

Slim, "Chariots of Fire" is on BBC Four this evening at 20.00