Friday, March 02, 2018

White stuff


So here we were in our little corner of the UK thinking it was a bit nippy but wondering where all the snow was, and was it really that bad elsewhere? Then at about 3pm yesterday, right on cue (the weather forecast is remarkably accurate nowadays), it started snowing - properly. So we no longer feel left out. Plenty of snow now, and cold enough I think. Let's try not to get carried away though when talking about the “beast from the east”, it might “feel like” -13C, or whatever is being quoted at the moment in places, but back in 1982 (I think it was) the mercury told us it was actually -21C in these here parts. I can't help thinking “feels like” temperatures are just one more weapon in the newsroom hyperbole armoury now.



This is quite a cool (in more ways than one) picture my daughter took at 1:30am last night, no flash or fancy metering involved. We were both struck by how light it was. There was certainly no moon beaming down. But there was a vaguely orange wash over everything. Another sign of the times – light pollution reflecting back off all the snow.

A brief cast around for a suitably apt track to play for this snow event drew a blank really. I've settled for something by Danny White (Geddit? Groan), and with artistic licence let's just imagine the light pollution I referred to was the moon beaming down.





2 comments:

drew said...

Man, that is so good. Thanks Darcy.

It's funny a few weeks ago the roads around here were closed, the schools were off for three days but didn't make the national news but certainly loads of coverage this week but rather less than the spike in temp in the Arctic which has caused this and should be worrying people.

Darcy said...

B side is equally wonderful. Danny made some great reocords

re Arctic temp - agree, but the man in America says it's no problem so that's ok (puts head in hands).