Heavy cloud

Posted on November 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clear sky, Grey cloud, Overcast, Rain, Sky, Sunshine, View, Weather, WindLeave a comment

It went really dark earlier on. Heavy dark grey clouds heading this way, overwhelming the sun. Later a golden ray of sunshine snuck underneath the layer as the sun started to set. The wind was blowing strongly for a few hours but this has now settled. If the sky clears it will get cold as the wind is blowing from the North East.

Why are we so bothered by weather here? Because its almost always changing. You can buy postcards that say if you can see the view wait half an hour and it will rain, and if you can’t see the view it’s already raining!

Blow wind

Posted on November 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colours, Leaves, November, Poem, Poetry, Roads, Water, Weather, Wind, WoodsLeave a comment

Make leaves fly

Scattered colours

Sky high

Fallen mounds

Of cold dry leaves

Kicked up and scattered

In November chills

Ice and water

Rain and gales

Scattered colours

Dancing swirls.

In the woods

Over hills,

Along the roads

Spreading far and wide.

Storm warning

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bay of biscay, Rain, Red sky, Sea, Sky, Storm warning, Waiting for the rain, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Storm warning. There is a storm in the bay of biscay heading our way. Expect a red sky in the morning and a swirl of rain edging up the country. Some flooding and fallen trees expected. Nice, just when I was hoping for late summer sun! The wind will blow and we shall have? Storms! I had such plans a seaside trip, gentle tides, a sea view, seagulls wheeling. But maybe next week it will be better….

Four faced

Posted on August 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breeze, Cool, Digital art, Drawing, Life, Poem, Poetry, Storm, Thinking, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Four winds blow

East, North and West

Don’t forget South.

Four faced breezes

softly and gently

Like a blown kiss

Warm southerly

Cold northerly

The winds blow from the East

And lands freeze

From the West and storms

They rage.

Howling

Moaning

Shouting

Weeping

Four faced

Strong but gentle

Creating an atmosphere!

Storm Francis

Posted on August 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blowing a gale, Gale force, Life, Rain, Storm, Trees, Water, Weather, Wet, Wind2 Comments

The storm has been winding round our house all day. Trees bending, wind moaning through the gap in our badly sealed kitchen window. Gusts over 50 miles an hour. The fence is collapsing, the hanging baskets are skittering about, too heavy to take down from their brackets. I will wait and see what damage results from the storm. Meanwhile its blowing across the whole country, an unusually low pressure system for this time of year is tearing at the leaves on the trees. There will be trees blown over, heavy seas, gusting winds. Not fit for man or dog! Torrential rain falling and flooding towns and villages. Not fun. X

Outside today

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Countryside, Drawing, Eccleshall, Life, Sketching, Soughing, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trees, Urban Sketchers, Wind, WindyLeave a comment

I went out with Urban sketchers today and was at an old farm near Eccleshall to draw. I took a few photos. I need to take good pictures of my drawings.

The day was grey, overcast with great rushes of wind that you could hear soughing through the trees. Starting far way you could hear it rushing and pushing the tree branches. Rooks were flying and calling in the air, scooting about and apparently enjoying it. We even saw a murmuration of Starlings flocking in the distance.

I sat on a white metal garden chair, strong but cold. I ended up folding up my scarf to stop my bum going numb with the cold. Within a few minutes I was shivering and then I got used to it although my hands started to go numb with the chill. Luckily there was hot tea available. It was very kind of the artists that live there to let a crowd of about twenty urban sketchers come round and draw everything from trees to stone dogs.

Storm “Dennis”

Posted on February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Britain, Environment, Finding space, Life, Rain, Storm Ciara, Storm Dennis, UK, Weather, Wind, WinterLeave a comment

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Storm Dennis has been tipped as possibly more damaging than storm Ciara last weekend. We have had some strong gusts of wind, bending the Eucalyptus sapling we have growing in the garden, it’s leaves acting like sails, catching the wind, and bending it almost in half. The Leylandii in the neighbours garden has been whipping about and it’s branches seperating as the winds buffet it. Sometimes great gusts of air force themselves between the tree and the privet hedge at the bottom of our garden.

We are waiting for the heavy rain that is forecast, an Amber and Yellow warning has been set for the whole country. Even planes have been cancelled fir the passengers safety.

Britain is not a large island (or islands) but its shocking to think that storms can encompass the whole of it. Whether the heating of the atmosphere could be causing it? I don’t know, but you do have to wonder?…

Storm Ciara

Posted on February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Flooding, Jet stream, Rain, Squally showers, Storm, Storm Ciara, Weather, WindLeave a comment

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I’m not going out so no exciting photos…. Its been blowing a gale and raining all last night and today although it seems to have calmed down a bit now. Winds over the north of Wales measured at 94 miles an hour. Flooding in Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire. Trees down, roads flooded. The main road round here is flooded to a depth of three or four feet with cars trapped in the water. The windspeeds over the whole of the UK have topped 80 miles an hour.

There are heavy seas around the coast with reports from Blackpool, Aberystwyth and Dover. Ferries have been cancelled and people who went to an international rugby game in Dublin are now stuck there. The jet stream across the Atlantic is very strong and fast at the moment and planes travelling from America to the UK have had their travelling time cut by about an hour. The fastest plane made the journey in just over four hours, with an air speed about 800 miles an hour. That made it the fastest sub sonic crossing of the Atlantic ever made!

The weather here is set to get colder. Oh what joy.

Noise

Posted on February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Boom, Grinding teeth, Life, Loud, Noise, Pub, Sound, Storm, THUD, Wind2 Comments

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Boom boom boom thud thud thud, boom boom, thud…. Endless noise from over the road. After a couple of months of quiet the local pub seems to have decided they can go back to their old ways. There is also a storm raging outside so the sound is competing with rain lashing against the windows and howling through the gap round the kitchen window (it’s double glazed but the seal around the opening is not good).

Thud thud thud thud, like a heart beating too fast. Bass beat, what must it do to their bodies, their ears. Deafness in their thirties or forties? Boom boo boom boom boo boom….. Stop it…. Thud… Oh the dreams of revenge I’ve had… Hopefully this is a one off…. Grr… Really.. Grrrr.. Rrr

The North Wind shall blow…

Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 64 Million Artists January challenge, Art, Drawing, Frame, Weather, Wind1 Comment

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The North Wind doth blow

and we shall have snow,

and what shall poor Robin do then?

Poor thing.

He’ll sit in a barn,

and keep himself warm,

and hide his head under his wing,

poor thing….

Image from my post on the 64 million artists January challenge, I cut out a shape of clouds and drew a face puffing out wind and used that to frame the view of our annamometer and weather station.

I’m enjoying doing the challenges, some require more ingenuity than others, but it’s making me think.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Wind

Heavy cloud

Blow wind

Storm warning

Four faced

Storm Francis

Outside today

Storm “Dennis”

Storm Ciara

Noise

The North Wind shall blow…