You don’t have to apologise, I totally understand your anger about newspapers making stuff up and everyone taking as gospel truth, it makes my blood boil too, you’re damn right that someone needs to do something about media bollocks, my 80 year old father in law gets obsessed with bbc news in particular and gets himself in a right state when bad weather is forecast, he doesn’t even go out or anything, he gets rankled by things so easily and it’s because he reads the Mail and watches bbc, none of the things effect him directly but he still gets het up so easily!

You’re right, I thought it was the beast from the east but maybe that because it’s used so much by the news, apparently we’ve got another one coming to the U.K., it’s going to be a very interesting year for weather watchers I fear

Honestly I’ve seen two tornadoes in the U.K. in my life, one was when we had the ‘beast from the east’ snow storm in 2011/ 2012 (I think?) and there was a a snow tornado on the hills where I lived then which was quite impressive to watch, just a few metres wide white funnel of snow which flattened all the grass and knocked some coping stones off a wall,

Then in 2018 me and my wife watched a funnel cloud form and touch ground over Pendle and move over the side of the hill for about 10 minutes before dissipating, that one had little mini tornadoes whirling around it,

Of course both of those were nothing like the scary bastards they get in the US, I really feel for people that have to live in tornado alley and keep one eye on the sky and an ear open for sirens, we are so lucky in the U.K. that we don’t really have threats like that

Edit: broke up the post into paragraphs so it wouldn’t just be one long post!

Hi Monica, what did you make of the recent IAFW piece on controlled burning as a landscape management tool? I’ve got a particular interest in this as I’m currently writing about controlled burning for heather management here in the U.K. and the latest research that Andreas Heinemeyer and his team from York University has done

I just realised this lol! I was in a hurry and messed up

Lovely shot, lovely part of the world, I’ve crossposted this to r/Forestofbowland hope you don’t mind!

Hope you have a good Christmas!

It’s true, I live on the r/Forestofbowland there do be witches here, also if you know how you can walk into the ancient wild wood