Winter Weather

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nasty storm overnight but no damage and no snow, unlike elsewhere in the UK. Nice sunny afternoon now.

[Graeme]

7" of snow overnight last night - looked wonderful today all stuck to the trees

[johnralphcarpenter]

Cold frosty mornings here the last few days. Happy New Year to all.

[Yann]

Tonight there's a hurricane, the area is battered with 78 miles winds.
That's the last data my greenhouse's station has delivered, the anemometer flown off.
How the wind blows in Scotland and UK?

[Maggi Young]

Here in Aberdeen in N.east Scotland it was very stormy  last night , with high winds and lots of rain - right now it is cold, rather damp and quite still.

[Steve Garvie]

Some gusts of wind got to 91mph in Central Scotland last night.
At 3am the neighbours' "wheelie bins" were behaving like marauding Daleks! 

[ArnoldT]

I'll tell you.

You always learn something here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek

[Hoy]

The strongest wind hit south of us last night (Friday). We had a rather calm weather yesterday but are expecting a new storm today, maybe hurricane. Warnings have been sent out for all the coast of southern Norway. It was +9.5C this morning but dropping a little. The wind is about 10m/s and due west, which is rare, but which means my rhodos will loose a lot of their foliage. Later today the wind is expected to reach 20m/s here and even more a bit north of us.

[Yann]

We still have strong winds this morning, 14°c at 10AM. It's a riviera winter.

[Steve Garvie]

Now it's snowing here!

[Chris Johnson]

Thursday night was hurricane force with winds of 110mph. We also had a huge electric storm overhead. Some damage to the greenhouse roof vents but otherwise o.k. We lost power for 20 hours.

Last night was also pretty rough with gusts over 80mph, and the next three days are similar. Not planning on going anywhere soon.

Chris

[Maggi Young]

Thursday night was hurricane force with winds of 110mph. We also had a huge electric storm overhead. Some damage to the greenhouse roof vents but otherwise o.k. We lost power for 20 hours.

Last night was also pretty rough with gusts over 80mph, and the next three days are similar. Not planning on going anywhere soon.

Chris

Good to know you are at least still earthbound, Chris, and with electricity!  Some ghastly winds around, especially for you on the smaller islands. 

Very cold here and wind getting rougher all the time.

[johnw]

Hoy - We had close to 50m/s in the great Hurricane a decade ago, the rhodos were fine.

johnw - -3c, sunny

[Matt T]

Power was restored to us at 1am last night after being down for 48 hours! Thankfully we have a multi-fuel stove so cooking and heating water for a brew as well as washing were all possible. Miraculously, our garden and cottage have escaped any losses or damage. A majority of houses on Benbecula have roof damage, one geodesic greenhouse has completely imploded, a friend found their shed scattered across the road, telegraph poles are down and several polytunnels have been flayed. Glad the power is back on now, but the weather is still quite rotten out there.

[Chris Johnson]

Good to hear you and Patrick are safe, Matt. I tried contacting you but hadn't realised you were without power for so long.

How we take electricity for granted. Trying to read surrounded by candles was a real strain on the eyes.

Chris