Dramatic scenery Ron. Thanks for sharing.
Since late October much of the UK weather has been influenced by a blocking anticyclone. So we’ve had relatively dry conditions and light winds, mostly sub 10 miles/hour, great for cycling providing it’s not drizzling. However, a downside is a persistent oppressive blanket of cloud or ‘anticyclonic gloom’. Some places recorded zero minutes of sunshine for the whole of the first week of November. Not great for solar or wind power generation. I note the Germans have a one word for this situation, ‘Dunkelflaute’.
A dramatic change in the weather is forecast for Saturday with a cyclone hurtling in from the west.
Here in S Gloucestershire north of Bristol we caught an icy Arctic blast yesterday with snow showers and this morning a frost but cleared to a gorgeous sunny day, light WNW wind, 5 degrees feeling like 2 moderated by the sunshine.. An exercise ride delayed start until 11am to reduce risk of encountering slippery patches and headed north for a short 16mile round trip via Berkeley in the Severn Vale.
1. Looking North West coming in to the hamlet of Hill. The East bank of the R Severn is about 2.5 miles away. The low line of dark high ground in the far distance is the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire on the other side of the River. Some of yesterday’s dusting of snow still lying in a forest clearing on the far left.
2. Library and cottages in Hill, and behind the cottages the hill in Hill.
3. Looking South East the midday sun over the Water Meadows below Berkeley Castle (they were designed to be flooded as another means of defence) and in the centre far distance the Cotswold edge around Nibley and Wotton under Edge.
4. Between Lower Stone and Rockhampton heading south, homeward bound.
