Storm Katie came steaming up the SW Approaches and into the English Channel last night.
Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent, took a battering with a gust of 105mph being recorded on the Isle of Wight, and just a few miles south of London 62mph winds were logged.
We have a conifer at the bottom of the back garden which grew from a Christmas tree planted by previous occupiers in the 1960s, and is now well over 50ft tall.
I understand that they have a lifespan of about forty years so it's living on borrowed time. In high winds I just look the other way.
On the other hand, if it flexes with the wind, there might not be too much to worry about.
Just before 0800 we had fairly heavy snow for about twenty minutes but it didn't settle.
I took the visiting Labradog out shortly after and it was bitingly cold. (The weather, not the dog)
Nothing that a hot shower and a mug of tea couldn't put right.
I suppose this sort of weather was on the cards given that we switched to British Summer Time yesterday.
Oh, well...