Weather- January 2010

[TC]

Carol, the weather girl on BBC said that there will be no change for at least 10 days.  My garden is hovering between -1/+1 degrees C with a minimal thaw by day and refreezing at night.  What was originally lying snow is now solid ice.  I found my old mountaineering ice-axe in the garage and had a go at clearing the pavement until I discovered that I was also digging up the asphalt - whoops !!

[Sinchets]

Our strange winter continues here. After record setting highs for New Year's Day (over+20C) we were between +7 and +9C on Saturday, with rain. This turned to snow overnight and it snowed all of Sunday- ah at last winter! It has been -4C all day and set to fall to -12C overnight - before reaching +12C on Thursday 

[angie]

Cliff enjoying your pictures and your humor, August Oh no.

Angie

[Ragged Robin]

Hi everyone, lovely to be back on line and viewing such beautiful snowy shots, thanks Cliff, Roma and the red moon from Norway, Steven....

Here we had rain and mildish weather over Christmas then on New Year's Eve a clear sky with millions of stars and a one day old New Moon looking amazing - it lit up our party with everyone from the road and villages nearby joining in - a great feeling of optimism and good vibes for 2010 - then the temperature fell to -10 degrees and snow has been falling ever since.  Cleaning the 55 steps to our chalet is perfect exercise after the festive fare but I'm still sneaking mince pies with a cup of hot tea to keep me going.   

Hope you've recovered from your dreadful ordeal Angie - unbelievable that you were not helped by the AA or police.

[mark smyth]

Met Office - "Coldest December in 25 years" and set to continue for another week at least.

On the local news today we were told Scottish road service is very low on road salt

[Maggi Young]

SRGC Honorary President Bette Ivey tells me that she is "iced in"..... pavements so treacherous she is staying put as a safety measure at there home in Cupar, Fife..... very sensible.... the more so since the Fife Council has run out of salt and grit!

[fleurbleue]

18 cm of snow today (inches 7.5) and a  cloud of birds around feeding dishes !   It has been a long time since we had had so much snow...  

[Gwenblack]

Inverness has also run out of gritting salt.   Help! Another ten days of freeze forecast with daytime temps at -8  Golly , you should see the icicles all around the house.... most decorative but drippy.

[Maggi Young]

Gwen, beware the chihuahua kebab! 

[cohan]

Anyone know when the freeze is going?

August 11th at 9.45am. 

similar to what i always say to people here--'don't worry, it should warm up by around june!'
of course, its not that far off, last year we had occasional snow and lingering patches in the shade(interspersed with some very nice warm weather, mid 20's) right through may

[David Shaw]

There is plenty of salt in Scotland, Mark, the government says so! Trouble is, it seems to be in the wrong place

[vivienr]

Returned home late last night to find fresh snow over a layer of ice so we could not get the car up the hill. Had to change into our boots in the middle of the  road and carry all the luggage up the drive. Forecast is for more of the same for the rest of the week which will take us to three weeks with snow on the ground. In previous years the council lorries have spread the grit wide so that it treats the pavement but this year they have only done the road surface (and only major road/bus routes) and no footpaths, even many in the town centre. It is far too slippy for anyone at all unsteady on their feet to leave their houses.

While in town today I saw that the ice rink (from Italy) was still there although it closed on saturday - they can't pack up because the ice won't melt

[mark smyth]

My mother has heard OAPs will get £25 for each week of the freeze

[Maggi Young]

It is snowing in Aberdeen and it looks like the sensible thing to do is pull the plug on tomorrow's SRGC Aberdeen Group meeting....... Roma was to be the Speaker but  is  beset by snow and ice in Kemnay and it is crazy to try to hold a meeting when at best one or two might make it to the venue!

We won't let her off, though.... we'll be asking Roma to speak another time!!

[angie]

More snow fell again tonight, as it was getting dark a little finch was sitting on the snow all fluffed up and looking sad,I waited till it was really dark to see if he flew away but no he was still sitting there, I couldn't leave him out there, don't know if he will survive the night but at least he will die in the warmth of my utility room.
We all think its tuff for us but what must it be like for all those little birds.

Robin nice to see you back, was a bit worried when I never saw any posts from you but Maggi told me you were on holiday and not ill.
Angie