Weather.... late 2009

[johnw]

A skid of snow fell overnight.  Up too late watching Blackadder's Christmas Carol.

johnw

Meri Kweznuz John!

Thank-you Anthony.   A wonderful programme to get into the Kweznuz spirits.

johnw

[Lori S.]

A skid of snow fell overnight. 

What an apt description! 

I just couldn't cope with the kinds of winter temperatures you Canadians get. After weeks of never ending rain (only three dry days since mid October)...

I don't think I could cope with weeks of rain!  While the winter temps and length of winter are definitely trying, at least the Canadian prairies get a lot of sunshine.   It's all what one is used to, I guess!

[cohan]

as lori said, albertans would start to complain very loudly if we had even one week of rain, nevermind weeks or months!
not that we dont complain about snow and cold talking (and complaining) about the weather is a national pastime... funniest to me are those that complain about both summer heat and winter cold; my suggestion is that they should move into a(n indoor) shopping mall....

john, luckily we havent had your winds--the drifts would be up to the roof..

[johnw]

those that complain about both summer heat and winter cold; my suggestion is that they should move into a(n indoor) shopping mall....

That would be me. I only operate hapilly between 62 and 67F, the more fog the better.

Alas I also detest shopping malls, I'd rather crawl into a coldframe.  

johnw

[cohan]

i think i need your secrets for coldframe construction, if you are able to keep it between 62-67F

[Paddy Tobin]

Lori, Cohan,

What are your amounts of daylight like?  Daylength?

Here is a chart of our sunrise and sunset for the coming days: You will see that for today we will have 7hours, 33minutes and 54 seconds of sunshine - that should be qualified to say the sun will be above the horizon for that time though it may not actually shine on us.

Paddy

Length of day   Solar noon
Date   Sunrise   Sunset   This day   Difference   Time   Altitude   Distance
(106 km)
12 Dec 2009   08:32   16:06   7h 33m 54s   − 1m 08s   12:19   13.5°   147.288
13 Dec 2009   08:33   16:06   7h 32m 52s   − 1m 01s   12:19   13.5°   147.273
14 Dec 2009   08:34   16:06   7h 31m 57s   − 54s   12:20   13.4°   147.258
15 Dec 2009   08:35   16:06   7h 31m 09s   − 47s   12:20   13.3°   147.244
16 Dec 2009   08:35   16:06   7h 30m 28s   − 40s   12:21   13.3°   147.230
17 Dec 2009   08:36   16:06   7h 29m 54s   − 33s   12:21   13.3°   147.217
18 Dec 2009   08:37   16:06   7h 29m 28s   − 26s   12:22   13.2°   147.204


For an interesting item on the winter solstice see: www.newgrange.com/  where you can see details of a prehistoric monument here in Ireland, constructed to mark the winter solstice.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for that Link Paddy. Newgrange is high on my "places to visit before I get too old" List.

[Gwenblack]

Compliments of the Season to all you weather watchers.   Here on the Black Isle the world is white.We have filigree frost on the ferns, twinkles on the twigs, rime on the rhododendrons, glitter on the grass, hoarfrost on the hedges but the Heucheras are looking very pretty in their winter decor

[Sinchets]

Our weather forecast was correct for the first time this week, we now have 5cm of snow  

[Maggi Young]

Compliments of the Season to all you weather watchers.   Here on the Black Isle the world is white.We have filigree frost on the ferns, twinkles on the twigs, rime on the rhododendrons, glitter on the grass, hoarfrost on the hedges but the Heucheras are looking very pretty in their winter decor

 Ah, Gwen, it is a delight to me that the cold weather is not cramping your alliterative skills  

[maggiepie]

Paddy, I was surprised to see you get an hour less sun than we do here.
I'm on the other side of Canada to Lori and Cohan and sun has been pretty scarce lately.
December 12

# Sunrise:  7:57
# Sunset: 16:32

[Martinr]

Helen, time to get your globe/atlas out. The Atlantic, and the Gulf Stream gives us a climate a lot milder than our latitude says we deserve. The South of England is at about the same latitude as Sept Iles on the St Lawrence & the North of Scotland is at about the same as Churchill in Hudson's Bay

[Paddy Tobin]

Paddy, I was surprised to see you get an hour less sun than we do here.
I'm on the other side of Canada to Lori and Cohan and sun has been pretty scarce lately.
December 12

# Sunrise:  7:57
# Sunset: 16:32

Helen,

You are obviously further south than we are here. Looking at a map of Canada, I see that you are not too far away from Newfoundland. There are very strong historic connections between my area of Ireland and Newfoundland and, listening to a television programme recorded in Newfoundland recently, it was remarkable and amazing how the accent of people in Newfoundland was so very close to the accent of this region here.

Paddy

[Gwenblack]

Maggi..... I am impressed by any gal who can use 5 syllable words so early in the morning and how about this for a glacial glamour girl in glad rags? She is one of our garden birch trees due east of the house so when we look at her we are pointing in your direction I think

[maggiepie]

Martin, my map reading abilities are woeful, I am not sure if this is due to the fact I spent most of my life in Australia and Canada is back to front!!
I am also directionally dyslexic

Paddy,

My other half tells me Newfoundland is @300-350 miles north east of us as the crow flies. I would love to visit there one day before I get too old and decrepit.
The Shipping News is a movie filmed there in 2000, the cinematography is awesome, you might enjoy it if you get the opportunity.
It's interesting to hear that the Newfie accent is very much like your region.
Do Irish accents differ much from place to place?
I spent 8 months in the north of England in 1980 and was amazed at the different dialects from town to town.