Winter Weather 2016

[Maggi Young]

Arn't they just copying America?

Well, yes, I think so  - but they have a "reason"- I  remember seeing a forecaster saying on TV when they started with  this naming lark that it was to try to get the UK audience to take  warnings of storms more seriously since they would  associate names with the  terrible storms we hear of  from the USA ......  wonder if that's working? 

After all, in a country where the trains can be stopped by the wrong sort of leaves on the line,  it's not very likely that folk will try to keep themselves safe just because a   weather front has a name, is it? 

[David Nicholson]

That'll be a good one for next time they go through the alphabet - Storm Barmy.

 

[johnstephen29]

They seem to be coming thick and fast this winter so far, as soon as one finishes another one starts. I've a box full of seeds waiting to be sowed and I'm raring to go but I darn't open the greenhouse up in this wind.

[Cfred72]

Same for me.
I let the roof vents of the closed greenhouse. This causes mold ...

[Neil]

Been rather fortunate on the South Coast just over one week of cold weather below 5C but only one night below freezing( it went to -1C), the rest temperatures have been above 10C during the day and nights at their lowest 5C.  Have avoided the majority of the storms it just gets a bit windy, which means I have not had to clean the windows on the house as much due to salt on them.  But the rain has been a lot more!

[David Nicholson]

It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November

[johnstephen29]

Not good that David, it all has to go somewhere, mostly down people's streets and into there houses unfortunately.

[Maggi Young]

It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November

 As little as that?  Feels like MUCH more here  ( even if it isn't - which I don't know!)

[Hoy]

It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November

Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights

[Maggi Young]

Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights

[astragalus]

And here we are with no snow, and very little rain at all.  The stream is low and the garden with no snow cover or rain will be a dust bowl soon.  Something seems to be very wrong with the distribution system world wide.

[Chris Johnson]

As little as that?  Feels like MUCH more here  ( even if it isn't - which I don't know!)

If you got what we sent over to you, your feelings are correct.

[David Nicholson]

Oh, just the days? Here it even rains on the nights

 

[Neil]

It rained on 28 days here in January, 23 in December and 27 in November

Going back on what I said about rain it was volume not days (and nights) November 13 days, December 18 days, January 16 days.  Adn just to rub it in, on some of those days it didn't rain it was sunny

[Maggi Young]

Storm Gertrude has just passed over Aberdeen and now the skies are blue with some lovely lenticular clouds lit by the rising sun.

These clouds are nacreous rather than lenticular .... and  here we  can read a bit more about them ...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/03/science.climatechange?CMP=share_btn_tw