Weatherfanman

Our boys, aged 1&3, have watched more CBeebies today than I can remember in a long time, purely because it's too hot in the garden for them. Even with the paddling pool placed at the bottom if the slide for maximum amusement, that get hot and cranky, and keep heading indoors to keep 'cool'. Mind you, it's 27c indoors. :-)

Well, here in N Oxfordshire, it's been the most persistently snowy if not necessarily the coldest spell since I moved S of the border in '96. we currently have about 15cm of level snow, which as said elsewhere would have been deeper if the ground beneath wasn't so darned wet . Temperatures for 8 days haven't exceeded 0.7 C, with subzero' s every night, and with snow falling on 4 days . we were lucky to be hot from the west on Sunday and from the East on Tuesday's event. I' d offer a good 7.5 out of 10, which would only have been bettered if it had cleared at night to sustain some harder frosts.

I can confirm that it isn't unheard of, as we honeymooned in Grindelwald, just down the valley for a fornight around the last week of July in 2006, and the snow got down to depressingly low levels then too. As for how often it may happen, then I'll leave that to the statisticians :-)

Delta X-Ray, I'm very jealous of your trip to St Kilda. Always something I've wanted to do, read the books, now I want the t-shirt. You were out there the same week as we were on Lewis, so I'll guess looking at the weather that you headed out there on the Tuesday.......or perhaps the Wednedsday, those were the 2 best days of the week as I remember. If you have any other pics of it, then I'd be delighted to see them! WFM

Heylo! Not long back from a fornight on the Isles of Skye and Lewis, blew a hoolie much of the time which was fine for keeping the midges at bay :-) Hope you enjoy! WFM

jan_08.xls jan_0903.xls Well, much colder than the previous January that's for sure. With my thermometer in the same loctaiona s 12 months previously, we managed 16 air frosts against 1 in '08, with the average temperature coming in alomst 5C lower than the preceeding January. Quite a contrast I'd say. I attach both months data for anyone's perusal!! WFM

A rather chilly Rannoch Moor, between Christmas and New Year!

I can remember said cold spell in December '95 clearly (twas my last winter in Scotland before moving down south), and remember freezing fog lasting all day, maxing at -9C and recording a minimum of -19C just to the west of Edinburgh, really quite exceptional, and all in the absence of any snow whatsoever......... WFM

Lovely! You know how to make a Scotsman homesick............

Oh well, in for a penny in for a pound I guess.......... A few vaguely weather relate ones, in as much as they have blue sky and clouds.........(tenuous I know!) and a few less directly correlated to the weather.....the animal ( not the cow!) is a marmot. Cheers, WFM.

Well, I don't know my fungi, but I know for sure I wouldn't want to be slicing this with my egg and bacon in the morning...........;-) Paul

Excellent shots there, completely different from anything I'd attempt to photograph! WFM

Hello all, Please enjoy the attached of a resort probably known more for it's winter sports reputation, but beautiful in the summer also........... Oh, and yes the weather was clearly better than it was here in the UK (just to keep it vaguely weather related!)

I'm not so sure that the criteria will have been met. I admit I'm not in the zone, too far north, but the stubborn presence of floating cloud has at times kept the overnight temps up too much to overly suppress the following maxes........see attached for N Oxfordshire. dec__07.xls WFM

Well it rained a heavy smidgeon around 7am, depositing 13mm in an hour or so here, still wet but without the intensity, temp currently 11.6C after an overnight 'low' of 11.5 :-)