Polar Maritime

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

Thanks Firfly, As you say with the best snow cover in the Highlands for 20yrs we should be in for a good season.

I tried not to laugh... All due respect for the work they do.

A much calmer morning here, with the odd sunny spell and light winds, going to make the most of it later ! Temp 3.4c Look at this beast coming.

Wind starting to pick up here, still dry with odd sunny spell but clouds thickening and getting darker. An interesting afternoon coming up.. showers will spread in during the afternoon. Showers will be wintry at times, particularly over the summits, and possibly heavy with a risk of localised hail and lightning. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecasts/peak-district#?tab=mountainWeather Temp 1.9c Dp 0.3c Wind Chill 0.0c N/E 12mph Gusting 32mph

INCOMING CME, CHANCE OF STORMS: Big sunspot AR1967 is crackling with solar flares and hurling CMEs into space. The biggest CME so far was propelled away from the sun on Jan. 30th by an M6-class explosion in the sunspot's magnetic canopy. It is expected to reach Earth on Feb. 2nd: http://www.spaceweather.com/

27.2mm so far today, giving a total of 204.6mm this year

All snow gone, Foggy Temp 0.8c.

Light wet snow falling here, temp 0c Looks to be a bad accident on A515 with road shut off.

Persistent Moderate snow here now.

Still showers here of mainly light snow, but sometimes turning moderate for short periods of time. Temp 0.3c Dp -0.3c

50 p flakes falling heavy now, around 4cm covering with no green left in sight, It actually feels and looks like Winter ! Temp 0.3c Dp -0.4c Wind Chill -1.2c N/E 4mph

Slight covering here with snow showers on and off.

Temp -0.2c, Dp -1.3c, Wind Chill -0.3c S/E 7mph. No snow overnight here as yet..

Grey skys and light showers here at Bakwell where im working, feeling cooler today, theres a chance of wintry showers later this afternoon onwards, we shall see..

OLD SUNSPOT RETURNS, SOLAR ACTIVTITY INCREASES: Crackling with solar flares, a large sunspot is emerging over the sun's southeactive limb. It appears to be AR1944, returning after a two-week trip around the farside of the sun.http://www.spaceweather.com/

Moderate rain here, Temp 3.8c N/W 12mph

Snow has now fallen 5 times here, with one fall lasting overnight.

And that chart CS posted is just out of the foreseeable in imo, let's see where we end up after this deep low has swung through during the weekend, the weather is not written on the wall by no means that far out. Im not hunting for Cold and im not expecting a deep freeze any time soon, just being realistic. anything can happen 6/7 days out, this is standard stuff ! be it summer or Winter.

Exactly rjbw, after reading all the winters over posts this morning i was amazed, the weather will do what it wants no matter what the models show and there is plenty of time left for a change in the Northern Hemisphere, and with Feb being the month were the Atlantic traditionaly runs out of steam theres plenty to play for, lots of interest in the models in the coming days with yet more stormy weather on the way, but nothing mild in the reliable timeframe, lots of snow for the Highlands and maybe some wintry surprises for the Midlands North over the next week... Nothing boring thats for sure.