Weather- January 2010

[Ragged Robin]

Blue sky today and sunny 

[David Nicholson]

Heavy snow for us tomorrow seemingly.

[Stone Rider]

I was away some days. I travelled 12 hours through the icy broken Moravian railways. Fortunately I am luckily back without frozen behind.  Rock garden is
nicely protected under snow polsters. See my photo from this day.

[mark smyth]

No marten prints, ZZ?

[cohan]

mix of sun and cloud this week--sunny now-with today and tomorrow the warmest at +9, +8, wed coldest at -5(normal daytime is -6)most days above or near freezing! what a contrast to december! dripping everywhere, and big sheets of ice sliding off the metal roof..still lots of snow on the ground though, hopefully it doesnt go, as there will be more cold to come ....

[Stone Rider]

No marten prints, ZZ?

Mark, I am not good in tracing animals in this kind of weather. This beast still have heaven under my roof, dancing foxtrot after midnight. I do not like some animals including the human ones. ZZ

[jomowi]

Some pics taken yesterday and today in the Aberdeen area.


River Dee covered in pack ice




Birds on an ice floe


Falls of Feugh (a tributary of the Dee 18 miles upstream at Banchory)

[ranunculus]

That is a magical picture of the falls, Brian.

[Anthony Darby]

The children went sledging yesterday afternoon with the Cathedral Youth Group in the Laighhills (Dunblane's golf course before 1923 and where the Dunblane Highland Games used to be until the meeting was abandoned in the 1980s as it always rained). On the way home James and Lucy (and Heidi) had some fun on the Hydro lawn.

[Paul T]

Not bored at all, David.  I have always thought a kip was a siesta style bit of a lie down, not a cup of tea.  As in "I'll have a bit of a kip this afternoon" meaning a short nap?

[annew]

Well, you'd need a cuppa when you woke up, wouldn't you?

[David Shaw]

The fleeces are off . It seems that we might have a mild thaw, for a few days at least, so I removed the fleeces this morning to give the plants some light and air.

[mark smyth]

Just heard today the river in my town and quite far out from the shores of Lough Neagh froze.

We continue to have above freezing temperatures with a biting east wind. The ground is rock hard and the troughs

[Paddy Tobin]

Big thaw here in south east Ireland and now we have floods. Barely got home about an hour ago.

Here's an article from today's Irish Times:

Two men escaped uninjured when the car they were driving along a frozen canal in Scotland plunged through the ice, it was revealed today.

Police said the men, aged 22 and 24, were driving on the Union Canal near Winchburgh, West Lothian, yesterday afternoon when the ice gave way beneath them.

They managed to escape from the Peugeot, which was discovered shortly afterwards by the emergency services.

Lothian and Borders Police said the men were later arrested and charged with reckless conduct. They will appear at Livingston Sheriff Court at a later date.

A police spokesman said the men had a lucky escape.

“While it goes without saying that the vast majority of people have the good sense not to take their vehicles on to frozen waterways, this incident serves as an example of the type of stupidity that the emergency services occasionally have to deal with,” he said.

“There is no doubt that these two individuals had a lucky escape, and had the canal been deeper there could very well have been a different outcome.”

[Sinchets]

Just heard on the weather forecast that 1000 people are homeless after floods in Albania.  The rain is heading our way, but should be turning to snow by Thursday. Meanwhle the first Crocus biflorus adamii are flowering here in the wild.