Weather winter 2011-12

[Hans J]

the coldest place in Germany is in this time a little lake called FUNTENSEE in a high valley ...
they had - 37° this morning .brrrrrr...

Hans

[mark smyth]

-37 

N Ireland has missed out on the latest freezing temps. Frost on cars went very quickly. Yes the air temp was cold and the ground hard but the roads and paths had no ice

[WimB]

Hans, that's extreme . Last night temperatures here dropped to -12°C.

[Hans J]

Mark & Wim ,

yes - this is really a cold place !
They also had temperatures until - 50° 

a interesting point is that there grows Gentiana lutea and there lives also marmots

This place is only reachable by feet ...you have to walk from 600 m to 1600 m ( around 4 hours )

maybe in next years I will make a walk ( but only in summer )

Hans

[WimB]

Mark & Wim ,

yes - this is really a cold place !
They also had temperatures until - 50° 

a interesting point is that there grows Gentiana lutea and there lives also marmots

This place is only reachable by feet ...you have to walk from 600 m to 1600 m ( around 4 hours )

maybe in next years I will make a walk ( but only in summer )

Hans

Looking forward to some pics of the place....in summer 

[Stephenb]

It dropped under -40C in SE Norway yesterday, but -13C was the worst we had...much worse last winter...

[Stephenb]

To put this cold weather in perspective, a remarkable weather record has gone unnoticed. In the Svalbard settlement of Ny Ålesund which is close to 79 deg N, the previous 24 hour precipitation record was smashed the other day by a factor of 4 (four) and it all came as rain!

http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7975736

[Rob Potterton]

Has been snowing here in Lincolnshire for about 3 hours, very fine snow and an accumulation of only a couple of centimetres. Snow shovels and brushes on stand-by though and staff ready for an early start.

[Palustris]

No more Tunnel collapses one hopes then Rob.
2mm of slush here and now it is raining rather than snow. We have had temperatures low enough to trigger our outside boiler into firing. Usually that means lower than -8c.

[Maggi Young]

Having rained here all day, as night fell it seems to have stopped raining and now it is very cold. Frost swirls on glasshouse roof are very pretty. Remains to be seen whether we get any snow or not.

Good luck to polytunnels everywhere!

[Rob Potterton]

Midnight. Have been sat in the house waiting for the snow to stop which it has now although the strong winds keep whipping up mini whirlwinds of snow around the house. Ventured out to survey the nursery, RELIEF, tunnels virtually clear. The snow was so fine and dry it has blown off them. It has also resulted in it blowing through the netted sides and covered the plants with a thin dusting which should give them additional protection from the cold.

We can sleep easier now. 

[Gerry Webster]

Good to hear that all is well Rob. I hope it continues that way.

[Rob Potterton]

Thanks for all kindly remarks. 

Below is Ellie's snowgirl .... i made the mistake of calling it a snowman, to which she sharply replied "Its a girl, daddy".

Now have my two daughters and their grandma building an igloo in the back garden ....... if successful, photo to follow

[Leiomerus]

Hi,

A winter picture of my rock garden covered with some snow.
 

[Hoy]

Midnight. Have been sat in the house waiting for the snow to stop which it has now although the strong winds keep whipping up mini whirlwinds of snow around the house. Ventured out to survey the nursery, RELIEF, tunnels virtually clear. The snow was so fine and dry it has blown off them. It has also resulted in it blowing through the netted sides and covered the plants with a thin dusting which should give them additional protection from the cold.

We can sleep easier now. 

Me too. Assume "my plants" are safe

Thanks for all kindly remarks. 

Below is Ellie's snowgirl .... i made the mistake of calling it a snowman, to which she sharply replied "Its a girl, daddy".

Now have my two daughters and their grandma building an igloo in the back garden ....... if successful, photo to follow

I remember my daughters did the same every time we got some snow although the igloos never lasted long before they melted