Wow, some really bright coloured echoes on the radar for NI atm, mainly rain now?
The icicles are starting to drop from the guttering etc, at my house tonight, some pretty dramatic crashing and smashing sounds. The pet cat doesn't like it, ears back and a twitching tail...
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Just been out for an explore with the Maglite - temperature is up at +1.5c(!!!) - warmest it has been for some significant time. All the icicles are slowly dripping away and dropping off, I can see clumps of snow dropping off the trees, bushes etc. Now it's past midnight and there is little or no traffic noise it makes for a really eeiry noise hearing all the cracks, crunches and crashes coming from all around. I suspect there will be quite a few curtain twitchers tonight looking outside as they can 'hear noises', however possibly not realising it's the thaw they can hear... Could be a real problem with black ice aswell - looking at the car it has one of those 'fluffy frosts' on it (almost a mini hoar frost), however the road outside our house (we live up an unadopted road) has had dirty snow / slush on it now for over a week, however, at first glance looked to have appeared to have melted, when I put my hand down on it has just turned to sheet ice. So, tomorrow morning round here could be messy. We have to go to the supermarket tomorrow to get supplies as my parents come over for 3 days on tuesday, think i'll be doing a check of what the roads / pavements are like before we get the car out... For us it has rain/sleet/snow (take your pick depending on forecast) coming through on the early hours of tuesday morning, looking at the +ve temps we have tonight, and it will only get warmer, I suspect it will be rain... Though, the cold isn't too far away and the BBC Countryfile weekly forecast has high pressure returning come thursday, with grey sky murk and freezing temperatures again. Will be interesting to see if its warm enough for long enough to actually melt all the snow...
