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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Roma on January 07, 2016, 11:56:06 AM
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I am surprised no-one has started this topic yet. Maybe the weather is just too awful to mention. I think it started raining here on New Year's night and has not stopped since. Yesterday was not too bad. Less wind and lighter rain. Today it is back to a strong south easterly with heavy rain. The 'pond' in my brother's garden next door was down yesterday and is smaller again today. Several roads along the River Don were closed. I'm not sure if any are open yet. The road across the Don at Kintore floods most winters but this time two of the alternative routes are closed too making a longer journey for people who work at Dyce or Bridge of Don. At least there has not been the devastation caused by the River Dee though some houses have been flooded. I lost six panes of glass from the greenhouse around christmas time and a number of trees were blown down in the wood at the back of the house. After struggling tiptoeing through puddles with a leaky wellie I got a new pair on Tuesday.
I think I maybe should have put this in the moan thread.
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....................Maybe the weather is just too awful to mention.......................
It's some weeks now since I was able to do anything outside.
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It's very nearly some weeks since I was outside! :'(
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It's really lashing now and I have to go out and feed the ponies in a few minutes. I see the water is well up in my brother's garden again.
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All UK and Norwegian friends. You have so much rain because you have stolen it from us! ;)
Seriously. We are not so far from you (2-2,5 hour flight) and we are experiencing long-term drought. It started last winter (without any snow), continued throughout all warm season worsened by temperatures much higher than normal. Now is winter again and no snow again. With our sandy soils and type of climate snow is important to replenish soil water.
Smaller streams and ditches are completely dry since months.
Please, give some of this water back to us...
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You would be very welcome to take our rain Jacek.
Oddly enough this has been our best week of weather for a long time. Several days with at least some sun, yesterday being especially nice. Of course it is no use to me as l've been back at work this week! When I finally see the greenhouse in daylight again on Saturday I might even need to water.
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Think there should have been an ironic smile attached to that last comment Darren ;)
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Probably Shelagh :)
However - I was almost serious. I've a lot of South African bulbs and things like Ranunculus asiaticus which are in full growth and are quite thirsty on sunny, mild winter days.
I'm horrified by the reports of flooding in Aberdeen and surrounding area and hope the Aberdonian forumists are OK?
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The situation in Aberdeen and shire is worse than I ever remember - but I don't think any members are in danger. Inconvenienced probably, but not in danger or with their home flooded. I hope to goodness I'm correct on that.
It's dry today in the city. Last night at ten pm there was torrential rain ( - we've had rain for some days of course) and at half past midnight there was a couple of inches of snow in our street. Mostly melted overnight but nasty slush everywhere - what a horrible spell it's been so far this winter. Even when it's been mild it's been soggy.
But when you see reports of flooding, tornadoes, fires, and war - it all fades into perspective. Nt that that thought is cheering in any way.
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Are you getting better, Maggi? Ian wrote that you laid up with a bad cold several days ago.
Don't overwork yourself since you've just recovered ;)
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I'm better than I was, Tatsuo, thank you - lots of work to do though, so had long enough time off.
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Last week it was -20 - -27°C, and about 5cm snow. Now "only" -13°C, but its going to be colder again next week. I doubt that I will see any snowdrops until April this year. :( I don't worry very much over perennial plants, but I don't know how Helleborus buds will take these temperatures and I'm sure I will have some losses in young Rhododendrons and loss of flowering next spring.
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For once I'm not wittering about the wind and wet. We have just had the most glorious day, little wind and 'sunshine'. Ideal for a 4-mile coastal walk, doing a bird survey for the BTO.
I can see tonight's 'front' moving in from the south-east, but today will last in the memory for a while.
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For once I'm not wittering about the wind and wet. We have just had the most glorious day, little wind and 'sunshine'. Ideal for a 4-mile coastal walk, doing a bird survey for the BTO.
I can see tonight's 'front' moving in from the south-east, but today will last in the memory for a while.
.......... Whilst here it' s rained in Biblical proportionsfor the whole of the day. I turned the light on at breakfast time in order to be able to read the paper and it's been on ever since. SRGC Maggi!
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"SRGC Maggi!" .....Stinking Rotten God-awful Climate as you said, David - or
Stormy Really Gruesome Conditions...... the list is endless. :'(
Good that Chris had a chance to enjoy a brief respite before the next onslaught, tho' !!
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Hi Leena happy new year, -13c doesn't sound too bad, but -20 - -27 sends a shiver down my spine. I was moaning the other day about a bit of frost, you get it a lot worse, but I guess you must be used to it.
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It's very nearly some weeks since I was outside! :'(
It's a bit strange that at this time of year we don't outside much here because of the extreme heat! At least this year we've had some respite and have been able to even risk planting out some recent acquisitions! 99% of gardening time seems to be spent watering!
I hope you are feeling better, Maggi,
cheers
fermi
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Hi Leena happy new year, -13c doesn't sound too bad, but -20 - -27 sends a shiver down my spine. I was moaning the other day about a bit of frost, you get it a lot worse, but I guess you must be used to it.
Happy new year to you, too. :)
No, I'm not used to this, if I could afford I would move someplace warmer for the winter, but I can't so I'll just have to live with this. I think in another life I've been living in a warmer climate. :) Though yesterday it seemed almost warm after -25 the previous day. Today it is now -16c.
The past two winters have been mild, now this winter is another extreme, and there is no hope for temperatures above zero in the forecast at least for the next month which they show. The worst part is that there are less gardening months in a year here, but I have some Hellebore seedlings growing now inside under lamps, and soon the seed exchange seeds arrive so that is great and gives something to do with plants. :)
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Yes the same here, it will give us something to do while we are waiting for the warmer weather to return ;D
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Frosty last night and cold but dry today. More sunshine today than for the previous two weeks combined. I think today was the first day since New Year's Day there was no water on the path to my brother's house.
Star sunbathing
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Super to see the sun today - glad the ponies still remembered what it was!
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He's really enjoying the warmth in that sun! A very light scattering of snow here overnight, which is most unusual and sunshine today. It has turned cold. Yesterday I was on North Uist and the ground and lochs were frozen all day. Hopefully the chill will kill off any pests that may be lurking and trigger a spectacular spring flowering and germinations!
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First snow of the season starting to fall here in my part of Lincolnshire.
Just got a fire going, getting it all warm and cosy for when Andrea and the twins get home ;D
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Been snowing here for a couple of hours. Just glad neither of us needs to leave the house this weekend and that it isn't a work day. I hate snow!
Our niece texted Susan to say how excited she was about the snow. Fine if you are 13 and either your school will be shut or you can leave the worry of getting you there to mum!
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My mommy used to tell me - "Don't go outside after you have just washed your hair or you'll catch your death of cold!" :o
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No BBQ'ing today
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Great photo, Arnold. Unfortunately we didn't get any snow at all from "Jonas". Everything seemed to be south of us. My daughter in NYC said people were having snowball fights in the middle of Madison Avenue - wish I had a photo.
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Jonas is over here in the uk making his presence felt, instead of snow it is really windy where I live and tomorrow it's going to throw it down.
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I heard it was already raining whales over your way John....
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It has been Darren three massive ones, it's a sad end for these majestic whales.
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Sad indeed John.
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Storm Gertrude has just passed over Aberdeen and now the skies are blue with some lovely lenticular clouds lit by the rising sun.
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A very beautiful and slightly erie effect, Ian. You can see how folk could believe in visitors from outer space when we see visions like this in our skies!
Don't relax just yet, Gertrude is giving us plenty more just now and it's coming your way!
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I spoke too soon about the storm being passed, that must have been the eye of the storm as heavy winds and rain are again battering the garden.
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Courage if you are in the storm.
With us, the wind blowing hard and the clouds are also threatening but it is 4 ° C, nothing to complain.
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We are lucky Fred the storm is coming from the west so Matt on the Western Isles gets the worst of the wind, the Cairngorms to the west of Aberdeen give us some shelter so while the winds are 100 miles per hour on the top of the mountains they are around 80mph on the East coast.
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It's been very windy and wet down here in Lincolnshire, not sure if it was still jonas or Gertrude that was to blame.
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Yet another pain in the backside storm, this one's called Henry.
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Yer telling me! >:(
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I had been down in Plymouth and Cawsand in Cornwall twice in the last month. Weather somewhat windy and wet. It was a chance to compare weather all the way up the M5/M6/M74..not a pleasant journey. The first thing I noticed in Devon were fields of Daffodils in flower and a definite longer day. It was light by about 07:45 and getting dark about 17:15.
Although wet it was still warm at 13°C. The difference going N. was notable. By the time we reached Stafford, the wind had a definite chill. My car decided to break down at this point so we had to continue the next day by breakdown recovery. We had to change vehicles at Lancaster, Tebay and Lockerbie. Each time we got out the clouds were heavier and it was colder. At Lockerbie it was miserable and we hit the snow all the way up to the Douglas turn-off.
Today we could hardly stand up for the wind strength and driving freezing rain. I had to get my car to the garage and walk back to the town, at times walking on the spot against the wind. Now at 21:40 it is relatively calm..the calm before the storm?
I would say that the weather up here on the west coast is fiercer than the Devon coast.
Returning up on the first trip cost me a wind screen as I hit a blizzard on the M74 lasting 50 miles. The road was down to one lane and I was stuck behind a huge artic. which was following the gritter lorry. The lorry was covering my windscreen with slush and grit thrown up from it's tyres. The result was that for 50 miles my wipers were grinding the grit into the glass. When I inspected it in daylight next day, it looked as if I had net curtains draped across it.
On a brighter note, when I got back from this trip, I had groups of dwarf Iris growing in the garden and the snowdrops are well and truly out.
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Doesn't sound good at all, Tom. Rather you than me, all that tearing around the countryside! Bad enough in the summer.
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don't you think naming the winter storms this year is a bit silly - its not like they are real major weather events? Bit of wind and rain............its winter
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don't you think naming the winter storms this year is a bit silly..............................
Yes, barmy.
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That'll be a good one for next time they go through the alphabet - Storm Barmy.
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Arn't they just copying America?
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Arn't they just copying America?
Well, yes, I think so - but they have a "reason"- I remember seeing a forecaster saying on TV when they started with this naming lark that it was to try to get the UK audience to take warnings of storms more seriously since they would associate names with the terrible storms we hear of from the USA ...... wonder if that's working?
After all, in a country where the trains can be stopped by the wrong sort of leaves on the line, it's not very likely that folk will try to keep themselves safe just because a weather front has a name, is it? :-\
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That'll be a good one for next time they go through the alphabet - Storm Barmy.
;D ;D ;D
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They seem to be coming thick and fast this winter so far, as soon as one finishes another one starts. I've a box full of seeds waiting to be sowed and I'm raring to go but I darn't open the greenhouse up in this wind.
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Same for me.
I let the roof vents of the closed greenhouse. This causes mold ...
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Been rather fortunate on the South Coast just over one week of cold weather below 5C but only one night below freezing( it went to -1C), the rest temperatures have been above 10C during the day and nights at their lowest 5C. Have avoided the majority of the storms it just gets a bit windy, which means I have not had to clean the windows on the house as much due to salt on them. But the rain has been a lot more!
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It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November
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Not good that David, it all has to go somewhere, mostly down people's streets and into there houses unfortunately.
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It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November
As little as that? Feels like MUCH more here ( even if it isn't - which I don't know!)
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It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November
Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights ;)
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Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights ;)
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And here we are with no snow, and very little rain at all. The stream is low and the garden with no snow cover or rain will be a dust bowl soon. Something seems to be very wrong with the distribution system world wide.
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As little as that? Feels like MUCH more here ( even if it isn't - which I don't know!)
If you got what we sent over to you, your feelings are correct. ;)
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Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights ;)
;D ;D ;D
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It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November
Going back on what I said about rain it was volume not days (and nights) November 13 days, December 18 days, January 16 days. Adn just to rub it in, on some of those days it didn't rain it was sunny :)
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Storm Gertrude has just passed over Aberdeen and now the skies are blue with some lovely lenticular clouds lit by the rising sun.
These clouds are nacreous rather than lenticular .... and here we can read a bit more about them ...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/03/science.climatechange?CMP=share_btn_tw (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/03/science.climatechange?CMP=share_btn_tw)
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The jetstream (the driving force of all our weather in the northern hemisphere) has moved farther south for the first time this winter giving the north-west of the British Isles a welcome break. Not doing the south and south-west any favours though.
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You're telling me Chris!
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Today i would say there's a light breeze crossing at 76Mph the countryside.
I woke up twice this night as the glass of my coldframes took off even with stones on the frame.
Until now we only had a night with -4°c i definitely need to focus on tropical plants and stop alpines ones ;D
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Yann, I am researching cold water aquatic plants!
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Yann, I am researching cold water aquatic plants!
I can easily suggest you quite a few Maggi. ;)
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back from work, it's worst than this afternoon.
The cedar of the greenhouse fold under gust force, i didn't stay longer under glasses.
The forecast announced new gust wind for this night, i've enough of this weather.
How is it at my Flemish neighbours, same as here?
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I'm thoroughly sick of the site of Imogen, I wish she would go and annoy someone else.
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We have had storm after storm up here in Scotland with downpour after downpour.
For once, the latest storm (Imogen) has not come our way. Today was one of the nicest days of the winter: dry with some sun and no wind although rather chilly. Managed to spend 4 hours in the garden. No doubt the next storm will pay us a visit soon.
Bob
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We are also in the storm since last night. There just had an afternoon lull in rain and clouds but it blows again more ...
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Hi Bob the next one's going to be called jake so keep a look out.
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Here in California the weather has returned to disaster mode.
The high temperature yesterday was 76 F (24.5 C) :P This broke the old record for 8 February by 4 degrees F!
Absolutely no rain or snow insight. If something does not change soon we will be back in drought mode again, this being the 5th year in a row. We still need 15" (381mm) of precipitation to just have average precipitation for the season.
In addition, the warm days and nights are pushing all the plants out of dormancy very prematurely. We still have 2 months where we can have hard frost. Even cold hardy plants can be mowed down under these conditions. :'( :P
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it's a crazy winter Robert. Here it's now calm, my ears and nerves has returned to normal state :P
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Looks possible you will get some snow showers tonight Yann
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We're to get some of that this weekend if the forecast is to be believed David.
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Robert,
Yr tells you will get colder weather and some rain in a week's time!
http://www.yr.no/sted/USA/California/Placerville/langtidsvarsel.html (http://www.yr.no/sted/USA/California/Placerville/langtidsvarsel.html)
We will get some sun but colder weather the next few days. The sun is welcome but not (hard) frost.
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Gonna see that David ???
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it's a crazy winter Robert. Here it's now calm, my ears and nerves has returned to normal state :P
Yann,
How is your garden, greenhouse, and other plants? :o
We rarely get such wind!
From your comments it appears that there has been very little cold weather this winter. This seems very unusual - much like what we experienced last year here in California.
Robert,
Yr tells you will get colder weather and some rain in a week's time!
http://www.yr.no/sted/USA/California/Placerville/langtidsvarsel.html (http://www.yr.no/sted/USA/California/Placerville/langtidsvarsel.html)
We will get some sun but colder weather the next few days. The sun is welcome but not (hard) frost.
Trond,
I hope that this weather forecast "pans-out". Our local California (Sacramento) weather service still has it dry through Wednesday of next week, with a hint that something might change after that.
Today, 9 February it was 78 F (25.5 C) another record high temperature for this date. Today's high broke the old record by 5 degrees F. Tomorrows record high temperature is also 78 F (set in 1985). Most likely this record will not be broken. It does appear that the weather will cool a little, but not much.
I am sure that I will have to turn on the irrigation before the next rain. Not much fun, as I will have to drain all the water lines again. :P
I bet that the sun is welcome and perhaps the longer sunlight hours too. Hopefully your garden is fairing well.
Very good news - I have two interviews with potential care-givers this coming week. I hope to be back out in the field soon. :) Warm weather or not the native plants are in action and I am very anxious to get out. I have also started a research project on the flora of the Lyon's Creek Drainage. A very, very exciting project for me, and hopefully I am the prefect person to do it. My first outing there was in 1960, I was 5 years old. Needless to say this is a great boost for me. :)
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back from work, it's worst than this afternoon.
The cedar of the greenhouse fold under gust force, i didn't stay longer under glasses.
The forecast announced new gust wind for this night, i've enough of this weather.
How is it at my Flemish neighbours, same as here?
All in all not much damage from the wind here, just a few tiles blown from the roof of the house, I hope to repair that this week-end. But the diluvial rains on Monday made us worry. The compacted soil of the farmland nearby could no longer absorb the huge quantities of rain, so that in the end part of the water runs off to the street and then enters the coutryard here ... We have been lucky, should the water level have raised one centimeter higher and so reached the top of that the black circular object on the second pic then the muddy water would have flowed into the rainwater tank making it look like coffee with milk for a month. As you can imagine, this has already happened a few times in previous years, but only when there was a heavy downpoor in summer and (second condition) when there was a potato field at the other side of the road. The extremely heavy harvesting machines however compact the soil so that it's water absorbtion capacities are reduced. Anyway ... planning to fix that this summer.
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Hello Baltic temperatures today with bright sunshine ski areas all very busy I post some pictures taken today about 0ne mile from here, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Wintry weather, Ian - but just super photos of beautiful Angus!
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Here's whats in store for us tonight, St. Valentine's eve..
Could be why there are more babies born in November!
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The Bulb Despot is a November baby! November 13th !! :D
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Much the same here, 20F presently dropping to 13F overnight. A low off the coast seems to be blocking the intense inland cold a bit. Went to 12F last night and will hold steady overnight. Tomorrow night they say down to 5F. Just hope they're right and not lower. Good snow cover and thankfully no frost in the ground. All but the Hamamelis quite dormant here, pray this cold blast doesn't slide over the top to Europe where things are so very advanced.
Some astounding low temperatures in Toronto last night.
johnw - very light snow and grey.
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Another drive around today the scenery was spectacular roads a bit tricky in some places we went to Balintore near Lintrathen and back to Kirrie magic.
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Hello the road we took goes near Ascreavie gardens so visited the house where the original Garden gate is this shows Rhodo sherriffe. Lilium sherriffe and Primula sherriffe a real special part of history I tried to buy this gate some time ago but no chance, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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In complete contrast to Ian's wintery scene here's the view from my back garden, it's almost Spring like.
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Beautiful cold winter weather at our cabin! -22C last night and -10 when we were out skiing.
View from our cabin - not a cloud!
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The ski track in the foreground. They use tracking machines everywhere :(
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Hello thank you all for your local views very interesting cheers Ian the Christie kind
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This was this morning as I watched the Gunners snatch a late win.
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The snow looks back at the end of night, winter is not over. It is often said here: "February is the shortest month, but also the hardest ..." ;)
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We paid for that loverly weather yesterday, last night we had a light sprinkling of snow then it froze. Around here the local council only grits the main roads and leaves the minor ones, so my route into work was interesting to say the least, I was gripping the steering wheel like a goodun. -3 tonight.
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You had gotten used to it driving up here. ;D But when the snow and ice are cold enough it is a bit more friction.
Very nice weather today also about 5F/-15C when we were out skiing.
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The RBGE ( Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh) horticultural journal Sibbaldia is now freely available.
See here :
http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib (http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib)
An article of interest from Sibbaldia 13 :
FORWARD PLANNING FOR SCOTTISH GARDENS IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Chris Smart, Alan Elliott
http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib/article/view/79/61 (http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib/article/view/79/61)
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The last weeks we have had some sun but also rain, hail and sleet. But the sun is still low in the sky so it doesn't bring much warmth yet.
Sun curve midwinter: (it is my horizon, 360o)
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Sun curve today 27 Feb.:
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Sun curve midsummer:
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It is not strange that I am looking forward to summer ;)
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Is it supposed to be Spring now? Sunday was a pleasant day. Frosty start on Monday. Dry and bright but a freezing cold wind. Yesterday was mild with little wind. I even saw a couple of honeybees on the snowdrops. Now it is SNOWING!!!!
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Down here in the banana belt of Wiltshire we had the worst hailstorm I've seen this side of the Alps this morning. Still a few residual pockets six hours later.
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Very blustery here, cold and frequent heavy showers with rain, hail and sleet.
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Heard that bad hailstorm hit northern France too.
It was super here in NE Scotland this morning - warm enough to take a cuppa out to the swing seat in the bright sun .... by lunchtime the sun had gone and the temperature was dropping fast - the snow began around 2pm. Not stopped yet......
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Wow! The Cyclamen look great under snow but I hope that all the other species which are in full growth won't be damaged. We also got a fresh snow layer/cold snap but nothing unusual for us :-\
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A huge gale blowing here with up to 50mm of rain, I'm afraid we're sending it your way along with yet another Nor'easter due at the weekend.
john - +8c
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The last couple of days have been cold, windless and blue skies. With this in mind we went to Logan Gardens today - a journey of 68 miles-only to find that it did not open until 15 March, despite being open every Sunday in February for the snowdrops. We had a walk around the outside admiring the snowdrops through the fence.
On the shore at Ardmore, we could see the Lake district mountains covered in snow. This gave us a visibility of 75 miles.
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Being able to have visibility for 75 miles doesn't happen very often - did that make up for Logan being closed, Tom?
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Cracking day in Cumbria today, the fells look stunning. A welcome bit of sunshine to bring on the plants for Kendal show![attachimg=1]
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Cracking day in Cumbria today, the fells look stunning. A welcome bit of sunshine to bring on the plants for Kendal show! (Attachment Link)
... and a cracking image. Is that a stacked panorama or a cropped wide-angle?
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Such a cracking photo it might even be Wensleydale ......... a wee Wallis and Gromit joke there, sorry! :-[
Super photo Dave. 8)
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... and a cracking image. Is that a stacked panorama or a cropped wide-angle?
cropped wide-angle. That's the backdrop for next weekends Kendal show!
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cropped wide-angle. That's the backdrop for next weekends Kendal show!
That would be THIS show :
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Such a cracking photo it might even be Wensleydale ......... a wee Wallis and Gromit joke there, sorry! :-[
Super photo Dave. 8)
Wensleydale likely looking just as good, Ingleborough in the Dales is white over still - I can see it from the kitchen window. As a Yorkshire man trapped in Lancashire it's a welcome view of culture & civilisation! 😂
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Wensleydale likely looking just as good, Ingleborough in the Dales is white over still - I can see it from the kitchen window. As a Yorkshire man trapped in Lancashire it's a welcome view of culture & civilisation! 😂
It's far better than being trapped in Devon! Lovely image by the way.
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Whatever the weather the plants usually catch up with the seasons. Something to look forward to. I see Monty has a new friend. Perhaps Nigel won,t look as bored now.
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Technically not weather but a nice clear cold night has allowed me to spot this from the fell behind the house. Not bad for as far south as Lancashire![attachimg=1][attachimg=2]
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STUNNING, Dave!
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Shocking day here today, not a mention of it on the 6PM news (if London had been graced with half an inch of slush it would have been first item) and nor was it graced with a storm name. The wind came up during the night and from the North which is rare for us with heavy rain. But the real gale started in the early hours and it's still blowing now and earlier today a wind speed of 91mph was recorded on Berry Head on the Brixham side of Tor Bay. Of course it was bin day today and all the street's bins were put out last night, by 7AM this morning all of them were at the bottom of the road with rubbish strewn all over the road and the gardens.
Tor Bay itself looked as busy as the M25 on a bad day with a large number of ships of all sizes seeking shelter. Still, fish and chips were good at lunch time.
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It's been bad here as well David, it started raining heavily last night and most of the day. The farm where I work was partly flooded baca use the drains could not cope with all the water and all the fields were saturated.
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Sorry to hear about your weather down south.
Hugo taking in today's lovely afternoon sun and I was working in the garden without a jacket.
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Someone is shining laser lights from the west in s. yorks.
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Do you live in South Yorkshire Ian? I lived in and around Doncaster for thirty years.
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Hello John, yes I do (well someone has to) ;D The scenery is a bit boring but the wildlife is second to none. We have southern species reaching their northern limits and northern species reaching their southern limits. Add to this we are in the rain shadow of the pennines but we also have the largest raised bog in the country (it also happens to be the largest inland SSSI in the country). Who could ask for more.
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Beautiful sunny day here in Clydebank. Emma (our rescue dog) loves to pose beside the flowers.
Got lots of gardening done today - whoopee!!!!!
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The sunshine brings out the shine on sweet Emma as well as the flowers!
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This was a good day for Emma - she is like me and hates the rain. A great wee dog in the garden - sticks to the paving and never sets a paw on the borders so we get along great.
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Good for Emma! Since we lost Lily the "twins" are getting naughty without her calming influence - it used to be that in winter, with snow on the ground or hard frost, they were allowed to cross borders, then in growing season they would stick to the paths. Without Lily giving her good advice the Small Whites are returning to their natural hooligan instincts and are liable to halleyracket all over the place. Ian gets particularly annoyed with the backward leg scraping and roars a good deal. I'm sure before we rehomed them they had no idea about a garden with borders and flowers so it's not possible to be angry with them - especially when they are having such fun. It's just one of the many ways we miss Miss Lily.
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It's so hard when you loose your dog - our Lucy was 14 when "her time came". She came from the SSPCA at Milton and when we were able to face the world we took her bits and bobs to the home and Emma was there - she was so sweet and only 8 weeks ago so we took her home with us. She has been a very quick learner - not quite Lucy - but she has her own qualities!!
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Ah yes, Sheilagh's Brush is set to slam eastern Newfoundland tonight. Right on schedule but doubt it will slow down the ale consumption in St. John's on this St. Patrick's Day.
john
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Not sure where to put this but I expect weather is ok as it was a clear sky. Close up of the moon taken through a combination of my phone and telescope.
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Not sure where to put this
In a new topic named Lunatic weather ???
Very impressive picture though with "simple" remedies :o
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Yeah. Like it, nice one. Lol.
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Close up of the moon taken through a combination of my phone and telescope.
Wow!
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That's great. Anyone see the meteor this morning, of course I didn't?
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That's great. Anyone see the meteor this morning, of course I didn't?
Was it the Gloucester variety?
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Was it the Gloucester variety?
I'm too young to know :D
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Aye right. ;D
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Was it the Gloucester variety?
Still a handful of the Gloster Meteor jets still in flying order in the UK - so there's still time, David!!