Blame Brian

The wonderful Indian Summer weather of the last week or so finally came to an end last night. After grouting the tiles yesterday, I did my best to mow as much of the leaf covered grass as possible and finally with darkness approaching got out the 1965 John Deere and it's 10 watt headlights to mow the horse field outside the property and was joined by Farmer Müller doing the same on his adjacent field. Only difference his grass was collected for cow feed while mine was the weeds left over after the horse had been on it all week.

This morning Storm Brian had managed to shovel Arctic air from the North Pole all the way down here. Flash and sought the protection of the forest for our morning walk. The rest of the day was simply trying to stay warm around the sitting room fire.

Brian, as do all highs and lows that effect Germany, gets renamed by the Free University of Berlin and these names are used by all TV/Radio/newspaper media. Out of Brian we got "Elmar".

Anyone can adopt a weather event and the money goes to support the students facilities. Names go in alphabetical order each for highs and lows. In even years the highs get male names, the lows female and this then swaps in uneven years.

Storm Florenz (didn't know that was male!) is hiding near Iceland waiting to pounce and will be followed by Grisha and Herwart whenever they decide to develop. They are still awaiting someone to adopt the storm after these with the letter "I". So if you are an Ian, Ike or Irwin maybe even Igor, you can still book your name . X and Z are also still available but otherwise booked out for 2017 and 2018 looks pretty full too, at least for the boys who will be giving us the good weather then.