Spring Weather 2011

[David Nicholson]

So very sorry to hear about the terrible destruction that has been inflicted on Eastern and mid-America. We hope that all our alpine friends are safe - (Alan and Sherba would you please confirm?) - and that the dreadful weather quickly abates.

I'll second that.

[mark smyth]

I've had to water the garden and troughs twice this week. I was resisting but on Monday many plants were flat and trough plants had collapsed

[angie]

Mark my gardening is struggling as well now, I don't have much depth of soil. We are on broken rock here.  I can't remember Aberdeen being so dry in April before. We haven't had the high temperatures like down south but we have had mostly sunny days. As I am high up it also gets windy here which doesn't help.
Hope you get some rain soon, off course through the night would be perfect.

You need to remove your scarf now and go back to the sunny picture. , you look a bit cold 

Angie

[mark smyth]

Angie I meant to ask Fermi to take a new one but I forgot

[angie]

Wasn't Fermi and Will lovely. I bet they loved Ireland, I did 

Angie 

[mark smyth]

Definitely.

[Hoy]

Wasn't Fermi and Will lovely. I bet they loved Ireland, I did 

Angie 

I have never visited Ireland although Fiacha Fionn Ola mac Feredach, Rí na h'Éireann is my 44th great grandfather
I would love to visit the green island!

[alpines]

Wasn't Fermi and Will lovely.
Angie 

I thought it was Kate and Will.......or was that someone else the whole of America has been talking about today? They've spent all week over here showing everyone how to drink tea with their pinkie pointing outwards from the cup. Did anyone in England EVER see ANYONE drink tea like that?
Thanks for your concern folks. Sherba and I are fine although I had to cancel a doctor's appointment in Lexington yesterday because I would have been driving directly into the storm. No complaints from us though.....but our hearts do go out to those in Alabama who were hard hit yesterday.

[Lesley Cox]

The TV news pictures we've seen in recent days looked as bad as any earthquake and of course the loss of life has been shocking. It seems these worst events happen in areas where generally poorer people live, for some unfathomable reason. Like Christchurch here, the SW of the States will surely take years rather than weeks or months to resurrect. As for Haiti, can it ever be rebuilt and those poor people get their lives back?

[mark smyth]

On the news last night they told us in one recent 24 hour period the fire servive had 1000 calls about grass, gorse and forest fires

[Martinr]

The sun may be shining but there was ice on the windscreen of the car at 7 am today!

[mark smyth]

23c right now 

[David Nicholson]

A drop of much needed rain now.

[David Nicholson]

Followd by a tremendous flash and a clap of thunder-but only one-so far.

[mark smyth]

The rain that has fallen here in the last few days has been much. The Spanish plume returns tomorrow with record highs again