Weather winter 2010/2011

[Olga Bondareva]

We have got icy rain today. Rain fallen at -3 C. Everything is frozen in a thick layer of ice. We cleaned our car from ice for a 40 minutes in the morning. 

[mark smyth]

we get that sometimes and it leaves the paths and roads like a bottle

[ArnoldT]

Looks like our turn is coming.  Predicted 18 to 24 inches of snow this evening.

[Paddy Tobin]

Arnold,

Our news programme reported, this evening, on blizzards in the north east USA - as it effected flights from Ireland to the USA.

It certainly looked like you were having a rough time of it.

Paddyh

[Maggi Young]

Looks like our turn is coming.  Predicted 18 to 24 inches of snow this evening.

Dear me, that's a LOT of snow..... good luck, Arnold.


Haven't heard whether John W has been washed away yet.... and the New Zealanders in Christchurch have been hit by another earthquake..... not much of a fun festive season weather wise, is it?

[ArnoldT]

John W. will get it later today.  Storm coming up from the south.

[Paul T]

A tropical Cyclone impacted (thankfully only category 1) on Christmas morning on the north coast of Queensland, Aus, having rain effects all the way down the QLD coast and into NSW.  Up to 600mm in a day in places.  Not a fun Christmas there either.

[johnw]

John W. will get it later today.  Storm coming up from the south.

ArnoldT & Maggi   - I should have posted this here rather than on the Hyacinthoides thread.

"Maggi -  Hope your forecast is wrong, this must be somewhat of a record for Aberdeen eh? Mist on & off all evening and this morning here, +4c and expecting a very strong Nor'easter with 30+ mm of rain. Temp. here to go to +8c.  Much of the east coast of North America has received snow in quantity, even south to N. Carolina.  Central New Brunswick may get snow, hopefully Helen will not have to dig out.   The worst of these storms has been the terrible beach erosion around the Gulf of St. Lawrence."

johnw - Drizzling now so we may miss the snow entirely.  +4c

[cohan]

we've had a couple of our warmest days in ages---they actually had weather forecasts with these funny symbols in front of the numbers: '+' where the '-' normally goes....
something like +4 yesterday and above again today, then it will go down again a bit...
no real impact on the snowpack on the ground here in the trees...

[cohan]

We have got icy rain today. Rain fallen at -3 C. Everything is frozen in a thick layer of ice. We cleaned our car from ice for a 40 minutes in the morning. 

freezing rain is only good for pictures! we had a few forecasts for it in the last few weeks, and luckily got none!

[Hoy]

Olga has freezing rain, some have torrential rain, some have blizzards - here we have nice but cold weather, the coldest December for 110 years! However the sun shines and it is almost no wind and later today we are driving home after Xmas!
This is the weather forecast for today:
-19°C

[Tony Willis]

Good job the thaw has set in and it is now +1c during daylight hours as the heating system has just broken down. We can get an engineer on Thursday afternoon so we will just have to huddle together. Thank goodness it did not happen when it was cold!

[Maren]

Oh Tony, I'm so sorry to hear this. And it's a disgrace that you have to wait that long for an engineer to come, sorry, should have posted this under Rants & Raves.

I hope you keep warm enough in the meantime and that your area isn't prone to power cuts.

[David Nicholson]

Good job the thaw has set in and it is now +1c during daylight hours as the heating system has just broken down. We can get an engineer on Thursday afternoon so we will just have to huddle together.

Hope Mrs W isn't too shocked

[Tony Willis]

Good job the thaw has set in and it is now +1c during daylight hours as the heating system has just broken down. We can get an engineer on Thursday afternoon so we will just have to huddle together.

Hope Mrs W isn't too shocked

Mrs W was queuing in the snow at the sales at 7.30am when I discovered it. We are hardy souls from a generation which used to have a candle in the outside toilet when we were young to keep the cistern thawed but not us. I mentioned the huddle idea and was told where I could put my cold feet!

Maren they have to look after the old and ill first which is right,looking on the bright side it will save a bit on the gas bill.