Feel like gambling?

Here's the latest from the Broad Green Met Office. This is not a good time to get your hopes up, or say to the family "Off the sofa etc, time we got some fresh air in our lungs. We're going down the Spinney."

Egg heading for your face...just mebbe Sat afternoon if you feel like gambling. Otherwise let them drowse on. 

weather today

BBC weatyher for Bedford today

East of England

Forecast Summary

• Today

  Rain or showers this morning, clearing away westwards but perhaps falling as wet snow for a time in some higher parts. A brisk easterly breeze giving an increasingly cold feel to the day.

• Tonight

  A cloudy night with cold east or northeast winds. A few showers, mainly rain or sleet in the southeast and near coasts but some wintry flurries further northwest. Icy patches.

You have been warned

Watch out for train travel on Thameslink over the next 24 hours due to predicted stormy conditions. Trouble in Cranfield has ventured out but will be getting an early train home this afternoon. 

A statement from First Capital Connect says: "As the storm will continue throughout the night, the lines have to be checked for damage on Tuesday morning before being released back to us to start running services again. There will be no trains on Tuesday in the hours of darkness and we'll resume service as soon as we are able.
"We advise passengers to check our website or contact our Twitter team (@FirstCC) before they travel and allow plenty of time for their journey. If you have booked advanced travel and are using our services to connect with other ones, we are passing all FCC tickets valid for travel on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday on any of these days.
"We are advising customers to try and get home early on Monday and wherever possible not to travel on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Services are likely to remain disrupted until the close of service on Christmas eve.
"We will continue to monitor the forecast and update our customers as the situation develops."

Read more:Bedfordshire News

Brrrrrrrr

 

6 pm: This white patch is heading for us...brrrrr

Chillier

From Twitter


Beds Weather Updates ‏@weatherwiseuk 7h

With a high of just 19C, today (Aug 13th) was the coolest day for exactly six weeks (Bedford).

Almost woolly weather...

33.5 Phew wot a scorcha

A blog reader send the following temperature reading through for Cranfield last Sunday adding: "We have an Oregon system in the back garden and I believe it to be accurate, its in a location where it gets free air flow but is not directly hit by the sun. So eat your heart out Heathrow!"

Eostra - Goddess of Spring

Hoping the Broad Green Weather Station ('Whether' it will snow or not) can come up with some decent isobars (not 'ice-o-bars') a bit of a warm front (warm back as well) and sunny spells (charms, incantations and invitations to Eostra also welcome) this week

More rain - so boring

More rain on the way in eastern England  - check the The Met Office
Spose it beats yesterday's fog

Is Cranfield going bats?

 

Thanks to a reader for this: "Spotted this Caped Crusader flying between Springfield Way and Lordsmead on Monday afternoon, 2pm. Its a sign that Spring is on its way but I wonder if he reads the weather forecasts?"

Staying chilly

Freezing - minus 3 degrees in Cranfield overnight. Plus fog to contend with. Hope everyone was  very safe and very legal

True grit

Brrrrr...getting cold again. Check out the BBC weather for Bedford it will be roughly the same in Cranfield.  CBC reported at 14.57 (that's nearly 3 PM in old money)the following:



Full gritting run tonight
Bedfordshire Highways will be salting tonight as temperatures are expected to drop to around -2. 
We are expecting long clear periods overnight with patchy mist and perhaps freezing fog forming around daybreak. Mist and fog slowly clearing most places during the morning.

Party in the park - weather forecast?

Last minute planning for Cranfield's massive Party in the Park. All getting very hectic.
We are all meteorologists now.