Weather.... late 2009

[jomowi]

Measured our tap water temperature last evening 4C, straight from the main supply, no wonder it hurts to drink it.


Brian Wilson

[Sinchets]

Sunny here today and 20C outside in the garden, with only a little slow left on north facing slopes. Our nearest mountain- about 15km away and visible from my window as I type has lost much of its snowcap. I stands just over 1500m.a.s.l. and normally has snow from November to March. I guess there won't be much skiing up there this winter- well unless...

[angie]

Nine o'clock in the evening, -10C outside and snowing, again. There are certainly going to be some empty holes next year.

Had a good look out in the garden today I think I to will have a lot of empty spaces for next year . Can anyone remember it been so cold and frosty this time of year in Aberdeen.
Angie

[johnw]

A friend phoned her dad today in Kishorn on the west coast of Scotland and he said it had been down to -16c and had been very cold for more than a week.  Kishorn is damn near Inverewe.  Is that possible? He grows some very tender plants there.

johnw

[cohan]

wow, simon 20C!
today's high here is -20C, below average, but nothing shocking, we've seen colder new year's eves..

[Michael J Campbell]

 Partial eclipse of the moon tonight @19-22 the first time on New years eve since 1600

[David Shaw]

John, -16 and prolonged freezing on the west coast is unusual (correction, used to be unusual) but does happen. I expect that Inverewe will have taken some hits like the rest of us but, I hope, not too many.
Michael, we have a total eclipse of the moon, or maybe it is just the snow clouds!
Did you note that this is a 'blue' moon?

[Michael J Campbell]

Here is a better pic.

[Maggi Young]

Great pix, Michael....


and here's a link to a song about a blue moon..... one of my favourites!

[Sinchets]

-20C I gues not a good night to be out lighting fireworks- shoud be about +9C here by midnight- my warmest New Year's Eve in a long time!

[Anthony Darby]

It was -11^oC on our car thermometer when we left our friends' house less than an hour ago. Lovely full moon. Just catching up on emails

[cohan]

-20C I gues not a good night to be out lighting fireworks- shoud be about +9C here by midnight- my warmest New Year's Eve in a long time!

even in my city days of going out lots, i was never too fond of doing so on new year's eve--tended to find the revellers a bit much...lol
we were off work today, and apart from going into the bush on the acreage for firewood (oh yeah, we also had to go out this morning to put a heater in the pumphouse and replace a bulb in the heat lamp as the mechanical water pump had frozen, as it does a time or two a winter when a bulb goes out, or the wind is fierce from the wrong side), not going anywhere today, a quiet evening at home with pizza and bubbly juice and i'd be afraid to set off firecrackers with so many spruce around!
overnight (its still light now) will be lower than -20--supposed to be around -25 with windchill of -37! but i remember colder winters with below -30 often when i lived in edmonton; they have an outdoor celebration in the city hall square, but i never went...lol

we havent seen +9 in some time!