We've had some beautiful evening skies last couple of nights, just like in your little picture Moley.

Indeed we have Jon. The last couple of days have seen some stunning sunsets. I'm now looking forward to the possible appearance of Comet Ison:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... vives.html

It's not the best of links, and I hope to find some better ones soon, but it's just a heads up for now.

Moley

Just a very quick update from me for now.

The weekend is not looking too bad for London and the South East with temperatures predicted to be around 8-10c, but from late Monday onwards it's looking a bit nippy, with possible snow showers as far south as the hills of Dartmoor and Exmoor.

Here is a Met Office response to some of the ridiculous front page headlines that the Daily Express in particular seems to revel in :

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013-10 ... n-decades/

The Express really should be ashamed for spreading this nonsense. It might be funny if it weren't for the fact that so many folk seem to believe it, and panic as a result.

Moley

I can now say with a good degree of confidence that this so called blast of 'Arctic Weather' during the week is nothing more than just a a brief spell of typical late November weather.

Here in London and The South East the temperatures will fall by a few degrees compared with recently. Daytime maximums may hover around 5-8c for a couple of days, and it won't feel particulary pleasant but there is absolutely no need to stock up on food and emergency supplies or fit snow chains to your car.

I really get annoyed by the scaremongering put out by some of the media who are more interested in viewing figures and sales than actually delivering facts.

Moley.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I REMEMBER THE SUMMER OF 1948 when the Olympic games was at Wembley was the hottest Summer and the coldest Winter heat wave after heat wave, I was delivering coal during the winter as the roads were so bad, that the horse and carts could not get out, no building was going on, and my dads lorries that were used to haul sand and ballast, were working for Hinchcliff coal merchants delivering the priority customers the elderly and frail around Paddington and Notting Hill.

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

I'm supposed to be driving up to Malvern and back next Wednesday. Not if it's going to be icy first thing I'm not.

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Lets be careful out there !

once when I was HGV driving was stuck up on Bowes Moor for 3 days, lucky enough I had booked my B&B by phone earlier, as it became packed with other drivers, sleeping in the lounge, rest room, and restaurant .

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

I am off to Finland on business on Wednesday for a couple of days.
I was concerned it might be cold there, but by the look of it, it's going to be similar temperatures to Hillingdon!