Winter Weather

[Michael J Campbell]

Took a walk round town today and discovered the damage is much worse that I expected, whole rows of trees have been felled maybe up to 40 in a line beside the road, had trouble getting home by my usual route at the pathway was blocked in several places.Will take weeks to clean up the mess.

[Maggi Young]

Sounds bad, Michael - usually there's only one or two trees down in any one spot.  Can't imagine seeing whole rows felled in a storm.

[Robert]

I admire the resilience of all you out there. This seems to be a very difficult weather season for many of us.

It looks like we might be going back to our dry pattern here on the west coast of the USA. 

Generally 15 February is the end of our coldest weather. This season there has been no winter! Record heat and dry punctuated by brief periods of cold, rain, or snow. All of my seeds are started naturally outside, so germination this season has been poor for those that need cold, moist conditions to break dormancy.

Sometimes we get snow as late as April. We can have frost as late as 1 May. So who knows? 

[Martin Baxendale]

I will not need to water the crocuses for a while. The roof blew of the greenhouse at the height of the storm. They look a little windswept this morning!

I was thinking of you and your bulbs when the storm hit Lancashire with such ferocious force and was really hoping your glasshouse(s) would survive okay. Sorry to hear I was wrong and hope it's repairable and not too much damage done to the plants.

[Anthony Darby]

My goodness. The weather just seems to be getting worse. I was sent this clip about a storm surge in Newlyn, Cornwall. http://holidaysincornwall.com/news-strorm-surge-hits-newlyn-video/

[Hoy]

Been a bit windy here too but not like the isles southwest of here have experianced.

At the coast it is mild, no frost in February and barely any in January either. Farther north along the coast it has been and still is very dry, the driest winter for 100 years! They also have had several wildfires, unbelievable in winter.

In the mountains it has come a lot of snow though:

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10122351

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful sunny day here today-for a change-back to normal tomorrow.

[Matt T]

Almost like spring here on the Western Isles today..almost!

118 days of rain in the last 4 months and 18" of rain since December, so we're about due for some sun 

The hills of South Uist, from left to right: Hecla, Beinn Coradail and Beinn Mhor.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely picture Matt, one of these days I'll get up there.

[mark smyth]

Its only 2c outside today but its so warm hot! I'm running around like a blue a$$ fly picking snowdrops to photograph and then I'll be topping up the tan

[mark smyth]

Heat wave coming on Friday! Fingers crossed it reaches N Ireland and Scotland

[Neil]

Had our frost this winter this morning had to remember how to clear the car of ice 

[jandals]

"Yesterday was the first rain-free day in the UK for three months" according to the newsreader on Radio New Zealand this morning . Have you had a wet spell over there ? I hope the drought lasts longer than a day 

[Anthony Darby]

Our drought has lasted since Christmas. Even Cyclone Lusi appears to be giving us a body swerve! http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-184.92,-34.12,735

[Maggi Young]

We've been hoping that with the better weather - some of it beautifully warm and sunny here in Aberdeen in the last few days - that Spring may well be on the way in the UK - but  Robert  in Metcalfe, Ontario in Canada, USDA Zone 4, has just written elsewhere in the forum, they've got  " a metre of snow on the ground and last night a  low of -22C" so perhaps it's early enough yet to  get excited!