Winter Weather

[TC]

It has been a beautiful sunny two days on the Clyde coast with the snow only on the hills.  I don't think we have had a lower temperature than -2°C although the wind has been cold.  The picture was taken yesterday looking towards the Holy Loch from Gourock.

[GordonT]

Well.... it has been the snowiest winter here since we settled in Nova Scotia 5 years ago. As soon as the latest snowfall stops, I have to go out and remove the huge drifts covering the lee side of the greenhouse. The latest report has another 50 cm forecast to arrive on Sunday- accompanied by high winds. The projected snowload on top of what is already out there has me concerned for the structure. Our 1.5 meter tall Picea omorika 'Bruns' has vanished under the blanket of white.
As it is, I use the front end loader on our tractor to keep a few driveways open, and now I'm starting to wonder where I am going to put all this snow. There has been little time to breathe between each storm. Officially tired of winter!!!

[johnw]

This picture just arrived from a friend in southern Ontario.  No it is not a babbling brook, that is Niagara Falls!  For a sense of scale that is a massive viewing platform in the bottom fore and the black dot to its right possibly a person.  He said they hit close to -10F last night which will surely will have kiboshed the peach crop.  The record low temps in eastern North America and US midwest are astounding - -7c in Tallahassee, Florida  last night, -17c in Philadelphia, Memphis and NYC. Even 1c in Orlando this morn and -15c as far south as Richmond, Virginia.

Just hope that bubble of frigidity doesn't head this way.

johnw - A balmy -2c

[Maggi Young]

Amazing picture -  I'm put in mind of those folks who "wild  ski " down icy mountain tops  - they could try a frozen Niagara Falls - or  maybe we could try going over on a tin-tray - more exciting than the average chance of sledging!

[Matt T]

Amazing picture -  I'm put in mind of those folks who "wild  ski " down icy mountain tops  - they could try a frozen Niagara Falls - or  maybe we could try going over on a tin-tray - more exciting than the average chance of sledging!

OK. Will you be going first to check its safe? Or shall I? 

[johnw]

Maggi and I have agreed to go first but in a very large cake tin .............

[Matt T]

OK. Will I eat the cake first? 

[Maggi Young]

Don't be daft  Matt - this is John and I  here- the cake is LOOOONNNGGG gone!

[Leena]

It has been also in the news here how cold the winter is in North America this year.
Over here it's second mild winter in a row, now it is raining and snow is melting fast, and the weather forecast  promises warmer March than usually, and early spring.

[brianw]

I noticed today that the wild plum in the hedge is opening it's first flowers in my hedge, in the balmy Thames valley

[Hoy]

Very nice winter weather on the east side of the mountains when we drove home yesterday but nasty on the west side with fog, sleet and little visibility. Better here at the coast and the spring is in the air. No flowering plums though although I have wild plums in my hedge!

[Anthony Darby]

It has been a beautiful sunny two days on the Clyde coast with the snow only on the hills.  I don't think we have had a lower temperature than -2°C although the wind has been cold.  The picture was taken yesterday looking towards the Holy Loch from Gourock.

Ferry to Dunoon Tom? One of my colleagues is heading there next week for a couple of weeks "at home".

[TC]

If he is going by car then he should travel by Western Ferries whose pier is about 1 mile south of Gourock at McInroys point.  From here to hunter's Quay is about 20 minutes on the Ro-Ro ferry.  Most of the day it operates 3 services an hour....10 past. 30 past and 10 to the hour.  If possible, buy the tickets in advance from one of the shops in Gourock....I 

[TC]

I must have hit send by accident!!  Continuing,...... from a Londis shop in Gourock.
Advance tickets are about half the price of those purchased on-board.
I think it is about £21 for car, driver and passenger return, in advance, and nearly twice this for tickets purchased aboard.
A Google search under Western Ferries may give shops which sell the reduced price tickets.

[johnstephen29]

I was hoping to get a few jobs done in the greenhouse today, the sun is out and it would be a great day for gardening except it's blowing a gale straight off the North sea