Weather early 2009

[Tony Willis]

Bit cold here. This is not a new species of crocus but a chrysanthus. Water has dripped from the greenhouse roof and frozen in its throat.  The Helleborus thibetanus has collapsed nightly and most days picks up but not today

[ichristie]

The snow here is now solid with minus 6c. the first picture is clearing the road, wind blowing snow made drifts up to 4 feet in places the other pictures are Eranthus guinea gold beside a stone and primula whitei just looking out, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[arillady]

Hi Paul nice to see your post. By the way there is a fire near Resedale so I hope Fermi is OK.
I heard and then rang a friend with a rose nursery at Coldstream near Melbourne.
His garden and house is fine but the neighbour across the road lost his house and John's potted roses are gone and his paddocks either side and behind are gone. Someone mowing at Yarra Glen started the Yarra Glen fire. Fancy mowing on a 40C+ with hot winds to 100kh.day.  Why the heck can't these people just read a book!
Pat

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks for your concern, Pat.
Our place was not in the path of the fire but the area ia devestated and some very depressing sights driving to work this morning. The fire has flared up again this afternoon but appears to be well away from Redesdale, so we think we'll be okay.
Any snow that can be sent to us would be much appreciated!
cheers
fermi

[ichristie]

Hi Fermi, great to hear from you that you are all o/k we saw the fires on TV very frightening and just a disaster for all who have lost everything. cheers and look after yourself, Ian the Christie kind.

[Carol Shaw]

-10C here right now and the promise is it will go up to the dizzy heights of -2C!

[Anthony Darby]

Zero Celsius here, but a couple of inches of fresh snow in Falkirk. It was -2^oC when I left Dunblane at 8.15 a.m.

[gote]

We got some snow for real. Should be enough for skiing. It tries fairly sucessfully to flatten my Rhododendrons
-2 to -10°C. This is nothing compared with the -21.5°C with next to no snow we had in December.
Göte

[Martin Baxendale]

Some serious panic buying going on in the supermarkets down here as people stock up for the snow storm that's supposed to develop tonight. No bread, no flour, no fruit, no veg, no spuds, no pasta. Luckily, still plenty of chocolate and wine.

[Maggi Young]

I trudged across to the shop earlier to get milk and dogfood ....clean forgot the chocolate , and a cheque I was meant to post! Oops!

[Carol Shaw]

I trudged across to the shop earlier to get milk and dogfood ....clean forgot the chocolate , and a cheque I was meant to post! Oops!

It's the cold addling the brain cells...

[David Nicholson]

It was pouring down when I got up this morning and it hasn't stopped all day/evening. Just back home from taking my son to the railway station and driving conditions are terrible. The local news showed flooding all over Devon and Cornwall. If this lot turns to snow as it proceeds North then some of you are in for some misery. Floods are not a problem for me being nearly 400 feet (122 meters) above sea level.

[mark smyth]

We had a big thaw today after a week or more frozen. No snow left in my area

[Martin Baxendale]

I really didn't believe it could be pouring rain one minute and turn into a snow blizzard the next, but that's what the weather forecast was for tonight and half an hour ago it did just that. Already an inch of snow on the road (not gritted because the county's running out) and about eight inches forecast. I'm not going to see the snowdrops here at all!   

[Anthony Darby]

Saturday 7th February was a glorious day. I took Heidi up the hill from our house, towards Dykedale farm, which is now a group of dwellings made from the old farm buildings. The views across to the Braes of Doune windfarm and Red Kite country are stunning. I had a Sigma 150mm macro lens on my camera. I took some more closer to home, and the last one is from behind the house, at the start of the track up the hill. The apex with the 'dish' and the one next to it are oor hoose.