Polar Maritime

As difficult as it is to put the despair aside, seeing charts like these really are something. I have a feeling things are going to get worse, and the output certainly shows that before any major pattern change, at least we have lot's to keep an eye on for many different reasons! with the Lows swinging further South next week pulling cooler air in at times with it.

Wet and blustery here, rain has been heavy but has eased in the last hour.

A blustery morning here with an overnight max gust of 58mph so nothing out the norm here. Temp 3.7c Wind S/E 15mph Gusting 32mph.

Should be interesting later for us here around 2/3am, looks like your in a prime spot Blizz enjoy Tomorrow afternoon looks wild again for you to down there

Wind picking up a little here Gusting 42mph East a few mins ago, temp 3.5c.

There's some real characters live in Flash.

There is the chance of Snow over the spine of the country tomorrow afternoon.

Great video this from the 1st Feb. http://vimeo.com/85657307

They use the Magpie shaft to access natural caverns, if this was flooded to help the Lathkill's top catchment it would make things a little difficult for them, hence the delicacy of the subject..

Yes, it's nice to see the GFS showing sign's of something of a change to a weaker blocked Atlantic with the Jet pushing South over France instead of right over us! as ECM hinted from yesterday also, a lot more rain to come yet this week especially for the South again. At least we have interest of a wintry note.. the further South these Lows swing the better, but a would't get to hung up on every run as there will be lots of swings through-out the models.

CHANCE OF FLARES: NOAA forecasters estimate an 80% chance of M-flares and a 50% chance of X-flares on Feb. 4th. The source would be giant sunspot AR1967. http://www.spaceweather.com/

Part of the old mine has been opened back up in the last year, there is a handful of workers down there which goes well under Eyam, and until they hit the Spar there will be very little information available, Yes i can remember the link you posted and there were a few on there i knew, after working on the Estate looking after the Lathkill for some time i was well aware of this problem,and something that has been discussed many times over the years, but it seems the local Potholing guys see things in a different light..

Flash is actually 462m asl or 1518ft, Unless you want to live at Flash Bar stores which is 425m asl

Glebe Mine at Eyam Knoc, They are on the hunt for Spar, this mine has been shut and re-opened many times in the past and riddled with old Lead workings which as you say go unnoticed until a collapse happens. Which ls also one of the reasons the River Lathkill is drying up... Apart from the Acidic water eating the Limestone away on the porous river bed, but that's another story..

Top of Ben Nevis.

Yes Knoc, My brother who works a local mine had a lucky escape over Christmas when 60ft of shaft collapsed, if they had been working there would off been many deaths, but work continues.

Almost perfectly centered on the Earth facing side of the Sun Active Region AR1967 is wider than the planet Jupiter, AR1967 has a 'delta-class' magnetic field that harbors energy for strong eruptions and so far this region has produced six M-class solar flares in February. AR1968 just right above it is much smaller but has also been producing some M-class solar flares. There is a 50% forecast for an X-class solar flare over the next 24 hours. CREDIT; S.D.O

You should work for the METO Some nice signals from the ECM today, keep an eye on them tiny heights over the pole, and ridging starting to push up into Greenland, it's starting to cut-in in a good place to with the Jet already way South over the UK. We have got to start somewhere !

On Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Seeks Smoother Road to Reduce Wheel Damage. NASA engineers are looking for ways to reduce the wear and tear on the Mars rover Curiosity's wheels, which have accumulated an increasing number of dings and punctures over the last few months. Curiosity's handlers are driving the 1-ton rover more cautiously now and are checking the condition of its wheels frequently, NASA officials said. The rover team is also considering sending Curiosity over a 3-foot-tall (1 meter) sand dune soon to access a potentially smoother, less rocky route to its ultimate science destination, the foothills of the towering Mount Sharp. http://www.space.com/24491-mars-rover-curiosity-wheel-damage.html?cmpid=514648_20140131_17836074

Glencoe is looking fantastic, with some more massive dumping's to come this week to.

A dry cloudy morning here with blustery S/E winds. It's not looking to bad, should be mainly dry today here.. Temp 3.4c

BIG SUNSPOT, HIGH SOLAR ACTIVITY: Solar activity reached high levels yesterday with seven M-class solar flares and three CMEs. Almost all of the explosions were produced by monster sunspot AR1967. http://www.spaceweather.com/

After some swift research I found it was a Female Police Officer and she is fine, and as she continued signalling once afoot the lads deemed it as no need, and probably best to move on from that area of danger. But i agree i would of stopped out of concern.

Atlantic current changes could bring drier summers to the UK. Researchers forecast end of wet summers as surface and deep water circulation cools down and climate change takes hold. The UK's run of rain-drenched summers could be ended by a slow-down in major Atlantic currents which bring warm, wet air to Europe, according to research. The currents were known to have weakened since 2004 but the new work suggests the trend began in the 1990s and shows no sign of ending. However, the scientists said the changes to summer weather would take a decade or more to unfold. Professor Rowan Sutton, at the University of Reading and part of the research team, said: "Those of us that spend our summer holidays in Britain would welcome a move away from a recent succession of soggy summers. But this research certainly isn't a forecast for summer 2014, or any other year." He said the changes to UK climate would be in addition to the longer-term global warming trend driven by carbon emissions, which is most likely to bring an increase in heatwaves and extreme storms. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/20/gulf-stream-hot-summer-uk-climate-change