Category: Weather

A delicious pile of pancakes for the last day of a month that fluctuated between balmy (11.9 °C today) and freezing and had an average amount of sun and rain.
Admin1 is reading Death Descends on Saturn Villa by MRC Kasasian.

After Black Friday, white Saturday. Admin2 woke in the early morning to find white stuff blowing all over the place in the raging winds. We’ve had over 25mm of assorted precipitation (snow, sleet, rain, hail, graupel and diamond dust) today and the day is not over yet [update: total was 26.1mm, which is half all the rainfall we’ve had this monh]. And along with Arwen we have Omicron. Happy days.
Admin1 is reading Surgeons’ Hall by ES Thomson.

Admin1 snapped this lovely display from the library roof.
Admin1 is reading Dark Asylum by ES Thomson. Admin2 is reading Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson.

And here comes the cold weather. November has been quite gentle up to now.
Admin1 is reading A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry. Admin2 is reading The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee.

“Dear Leeds, we are your people” and various other uplifting messages strung across the cloudy sky above the shops.
Admin1, whose booster shot yesterday has plunged him into the morass of misery today, is reading The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee.

Got up in the wee hours and saw this lovely sky.
Admin1 is reading Nightshade by ES Thomson. Admin2 is reading Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov.

The sky was beautiful all day and filled with fireworks all night.
Happy Birthday Guida.
Admin1 is reading Murder at the Loch by Eric Brown,  a very old-fashioned murder mystery by a writer more known for his SF. Admin2 started reading A Knife in the Heart by Barbara Nadel but abandoned it because it was too educational and out of date about life, culture and politics in Istanbul.

A colourful cloud rocket taking off to celebrate Diwali.
Admin1 is reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley, in which a load of ghastly guests attend a wedding on a stormy Irish island. Unfortunately, only one gets murdered.
Admin2 is rereading Enigma by Robert Harris.

Shining through the trees.
Admin2 is reading The Watcher by Ross Anderson: eurgh! another Girl book! How common is this curiously reversible dementia in young women?

Warm rain from a Spanish plume, soon to be followed by an Arctic blast.
Admin1 is reading All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew. Admin2 is reading The Midnight Hour by Elly Griffiths.

Winter is coming. September was warm for September; better than August and had more rain per rainy day than any other month but less sunshine than average.
Admin2 is reading The Long Firm by Jake Arnott; fiction with real characters from the 1960s London crime scene with the final chapter from the POV of a social studies lecturer living in Chapeltown.

Yesterday the sun shone and the petrol station was crammed with cars. Today it is raining and the pumps are coned off.
Admin1 is reading The Reckoning by Rennie Airth. Admin2 is reading Cold Kill, also by Rennie Airth; a complete departure from the cosy peri-WW2 fictions, this is a horrible and unlikely story about gangs of ruthless assassins versus a lone plucky young actress.

We’ve had more sunshine so far this year (1,366.747kWh) than the whole of our two worst years, 2012 and 2016, and there are stll three gloomy months to go.
Admin2 is reading Telling Tales by Anne Cleeves which began very promisingly but turned into a standard whodunnit.

We had 16.2mm of rain today; 14.1 in one hour. Too bad we had already watered the plants.
Admin1 is reading The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. Admin2 is reading Earthly Remains by Donna Leon which is mostly about rowing so far. To be fair, the crimes in the two Donna Leon books are mainly environmental, and the detective who tries to solve them is a happily married family man who devotes his spare time to reading ancient Greek and Roman literature, which makes a change.

Admin2 is rereading Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson which is disturbingly Leeds-based.