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 :-)

Well, we managed a covering of snow last night between the hours of 8 and 9pm, which given that weve had 35mm of rain I'm surprised it managed to stick at all!!!

Well, it's gonna be cold tonight. last night at 6pm, my station was reading 1.9C, tonight we're already at -0.5 for the same time............been lovely and sunny all day after that -4C start. My guess is that it's gonna go lower tonight :-)

Certainly can't claim that anything tornadic happened, but whilst crop walking this lunchtime, came across a line of tree debris stretching a good 50-75 metres across one of my cutomers fields. Now one of these pieces of 'debris' I couldn't even lift from the ground and had travelled a good 20-30m from where it had been ripped off it's donor tree. Location was between Welford and Husbands Bosworth just next to the airfield there, where I'm sure not coincidentally, there was a caravan on it's side. Certainly some wicked winds as the front moved through!!! WFM

Ok well I can confirm it's raining and that the warnings of 90mm+ are quite possible..............managed only 11.6mm overnight, but in the hour following 7.30 am we've 13.7mm in the guage. You do the maths............ WFM

Funny how variable the rainfall distribution has been this June. We've missed most of the showery activity and got of very lightly with todays rain event as well so far....... January -87 February - 74 March - 43 April - 1.5 May - 167 June - 62mm so far.......... But based on what I've seen out and about on my travels, the lack of rainfall in April seems now a most distant memory! WFM

Well, been pleasantlt surprised by the amount of rain falling here today. i should think we must have caught as much rain as anywhere, having rained pretty well constantly from the early hours until after 1.30pm, giving us a grand total of 19.5mm so far............... WFM

Well, here's my stats............a remarkably consistent month from start to finish, nothing ridiculously hot or cold, but certainly well above average temperature wise, and well, we didn't quite manage the big fat zero in terms of precipitation................... apr_07.xls WFM

Almost glad to hear somebody has had less rain than here. Sat at 1.5mm so far..........looking forward to a top up of that on Sunday perhaps. WFM

Whilst I don't like to admit to myself, i cannot believe that something hasn't "given" over the last 12 months in terms of exhibiting AGW. Record after record seems to be broken, and it certainly isn't at the lower end of the temperature scale! It pains me to write this, as I approach my 32nd birthday, remembering what it was like in the early 80's as a child ( a raid into my parents old photograph's over the holidays didn't help the nostalgia), and admitting to myself that it's unlikley to be the same again, at least within my lifetime. I moved South from Edinburgh 10 years ago and wondered at the time at the lack of coldness in wintertime "down south", putting it down to geographical difference. Having just endured the first, never mind snow but also frost free festive period in my annual Christmas trip home to family, I almost feel conceded to the fact that 'something' is up. SF's theory of pressure belts moving North through time as the cold air pools become less, in my mind about hits the nail on the head. I just hope that it doesn't continue accelerating beyond what is currently predicted else our worries about looking at endless runs of snowbarren GFS runs will seem mightily trivial on a gobal scale. The problem as I see it is that we really don't know what the outcome will be WFM

I know totally geographically unrelated, but just found this link.............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Oa7cHnNsA&NR Very scary!!!! WFM