Thunderbolts and lightning!

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1886, Drawing, Dream, Electricity, Exciting, lighter, Sketching, Thunder, Weather42 Comments

What is your favorite type of weather?

No thunderstorms in my sketch, just heavy rain. I have memories of several ⛈ thunderstorms though.

Years ago I dreamt of meeting some friends in a thunderstorm, a few days later we cycled over to visit our friends. We suddenly saw them coming towards us, we met up, pleased that we had got together. Then it started raining.. Hard! We ended up sheltering under a bus shelter while it thundered and lightning struck all around us.

Another incident was visiting a friend and a storm started a couple of miles away. We sat and watched it move across the sky while drinking red wine. As it passed over a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.

Finally during a particularly vicious night time storm I stood on our back doorstep trying to catch an image of lightning on my camera phone. I did, but I can’t find it on my phone to show you so I’ve posted this drawing instead. X

Three new?

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumnal, Fine Art, Life, Painting, reference, Umbrella, Weather4 Comments

Enjoyed starting a few paintings today at the Orme Art Group after turning up with no reference photos, I forget to take my phone and it has some flower photos I was going to use! Thanks to a lady called Steph for letting me borrow her pictures.

These are only daubed in… I will go over them and add details later. I started one little canvas but I didn’t want to muddy the colours so I started another picture, then another. I’m hoping these all have a feeling of atmosphere. I want them to look misty and damp.

Farewell feathery frost

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, feathery, Frost, frosty, Ice, Icy, Memory, Snow, Time, Weather, Window, windscreen3 Comments

I just found this photo and remembered the morning I sat in my car and saw these spectacular frosty fronds inside the windscreen. I think it was when the heater in the car was broken. It was a few years ago. I don’t think we have had such a cold spell in a few years. Yes it gets cold, but not this cold. It’s due to get cold again this weekend, a few snow showers, maybe some rain.

I remember when I was a child having frosts like this on the inside of our bedroom windows, Jack Frost really did visit in those days. We even had snow in June one year. We had been on the train and when the sky turned orange grey and the snow fell. But that was fifty years ago. Times change.

Wet!

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Lamb, Lion, Low pressure, March winds, Rain, Sleep, Storm, Tuxedo cat, Weather, Wind5 Comments

There is a saying ‘in like a lamb, out like a lion’ (and vice versa) when it comes to March weather. We also talk about March winds.

After a very dry February, March has turned wild. It started quietly, but as the month has progressed the rain and wind has blown in over the Atlantic, causing low pressure systems to scud over us with record levels of rain falling.

Last night the wind was howling, one of the cats ran in, his coat glistening with rain. He looked like an otter that was just out of a river! He slept under the cover of my chair, like it was a little cave to keep warm in. He knows when to stay warm despite seemingly loving the awful weather.

What I learned recently?

Posted on March 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad weather, British, crystals, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1870, Snow, trapped air, Volume, Weather7 Comments

What is the last thing you learned?

I always wondered where all the water was when snow melts. There can be so much snow, but the sun comes out and there are no huge puddles. So where does it go to?

I was watching a TV show called QI, a comedy quiz show that comes up with ‘quite interesting’ facts. I’d never realised that snow is mainly air, I wrote about it a few days ago, and I learnt it from the show. Snow is crystaline and so its spiky structure traps air. So ten centimetres of snow only leaves about one centimetre of water. That’s why there aren’t huge floods after even very heavy snow fall. Rain is much more damaging and with climate change we are getting a months worth of rain in a few hours nowadays.

Yes I’m British and yes I talk about the weather a lot. Its what we do.

Snow coming…

Posted on March 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Arron Burden photographer, Derbyshire, Free photo, Monochrome, North, Snow, South South, Staffordshire, unsplash, WeatherLeave a comment

Beautiful photo by Aaron Burden from unsplash. I don’t normally use other people’s pictures but this is free to use on the Internet.

We have had snow warnings, for Thursday night and for Friday. We have had a lot of snow across the country over the last couple of days, but in the South and the North of the UK. But a low pressure zone is travelling up from the South, and an Arctic blast of cold air is coming from the North. The wet air from the south is due to turn into snow somewhere over the Midlands and Northern England (Staffordshire and Derbyshire). Lower levels are due to be 10 to 20 centimetres, but higher ground might get 40 centimeters. Not sure how much that is in inches but it sounds a lot? I think 12 centimeters is 4.7 inches? So today we got the shopping done. Made sense rather than getting caught out tomorrow or Friday.

Little pool

Posted on February 21, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dam, Landscape, Pond, Pool, Rode hall, Snowdrops, Spring, View, Water, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

Snowdrops surround the dam at the end of the pond at Rode Hall on the snowdrop walk at the weekend. Some of the daffodils are already up and we saw cyclamen and Helibores too. Spring is just round the corner and unseasonably warm weather has reached us from the south. Tomorrow we are expecting colder, more normal temperatures with possible snow showers. It’s no wonder the birds and insects get confused at this time of year.

Out on a limb

Posted on February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged branch, Growing, Life, limb, Musing, Nature, Thoughts, Time, Tree, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Growing out and up… A long limb of a tree scrambles to escape the shade of its companions. Thinks, I’m not going to be hidden by all your leaves. Give me light and I will grow into a tree in my own right. I don’t need holding up, I will sway in the wind with the best of them! What’s a bit of tension and torsion to a limb like me? I’m only slightly cracked, that split in my bark will soon heal over, I’m not weeping sap. Oi! Don’t you bring that chainsaw near me! I will survive!

Red sky through the trees

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Daylight, dry sunshine, Hue, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Red, Sky, Tree, WeatherLeave a comment

Red sky this morning

Weather warning?

But the sky turned blue

A lovely hue

The sun shone

No one cried

The wind just dried

The washing

No rain came

Which was the same

As yesterday

Except that was grey

So red sky

Was a weather lie!

Cloudscape

Posted on February 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cloud layer, Clouds, Flight, Mackerel sky, Plane, Rain, Sky, spectacular, Sunset, Weather2 Comments

A mackerel sky over Stoke today. A plane had flown through it leaving a slice of blue sky through the blue and white. These clouds usually happen when a weather front passes over the land I think I remember. To me it looked like a huge swans wing was covering the city. The low sun sparkled off sections of it, but as the sun started to set the cloud got darker and moved further over us, the feathery sections moving Eastward away from the sunset.The forecast is for possible rain showers and strong winds tomorrow

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