Highland Snow

A most beautiful Advent Sunday it has been with a maximum of 9.8C.

! It's a real possibility Bullseye as the greedy Grampians grab everything!

Trust you to get the wrong end of the stick Hairy Celt. Gulp, dont analyse that last sentence to closely or more misunderstandings may ensue!

Cookstown sausage rolls are still the best I have ever tasted - my mouth is watering just thinking about them Pomeroysnow.

Welcome from your Scottish cousins Pomeroysnow in "Tyrone among the bushes". You guys and especially the Sperrins in Co Londonderry should do VERY well next weekend, I will wish I were back living in Tobermore in the great Winters of my childhood there in the '60's!

Minimum last night +3.4C from yesterday's Maximum of 7.1C.

I prefer Finland personally gals: http://alk.tiehallinto.fi/alk/kelikamerat/kelikamerat_5.html

COMET ISON LIVES (UPDATED): Cancel the funeral. Comet ISON is back from the dead. Yesterday, Nov. 28th, Comet ISON flew through the sun's atmosphere and appeared to disintegrate before the cameras of several NASA and ESA spacecraft. This prompted reports of the comet's demise. Today, the comet has revived and is rapidly brightening. Click to view a SOHO coronagraph movie of the solar flyby Before the flyby, experts had made many predictions about what might happen to the comet, ranging from utter disintegration to glorious survival. No one predicted both. Karl Battams of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign says, "[colleague] Matthew Knight and I are ripping our hair out right now as we know that so many people in the public, the media and in science teams want to know what's happened. We'd love to know that too! Right now, here's our working hypothesis: "As comet ISON plunged towards to the Sun, it began to fall apart, losing not giant fragments but at least a lot of reasonably sized chunks. There's evidence of very large dust in the long thin tail we saw in the [sOHO coronagraph] images. Then, as ISON plunged through the corona, it continued to fall apart and vaporize, losing its coma and tail completely just like sungrazing Comet Lovejoy did in 2011. What emerged from the Sun was a small but perhaps somewhat coherent nucleus that has resumed emitting dust and gas for at least the time being." Battams emphasizes that it is too soon to tell how big the remnant nucleus is or how bright the resurgent comet will ultimately become. "We have a whole new set of unknowns, and this ridiculous, crazy, dynamic and unpredictable object continues to amaze, astound and confuse us to no end. We ask that you please be patient with us for a couple of days as we analyze the data and try to work out what is happening." Astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi has edited an HD video that compares views of ISON from both of SOHO's coronagraphs. "It seems the comet could become a naked eye object with several degrees of scattered tail by Dec 2nd or 3rd," he predicts. "It's not the comet of the century for sure, and fainter than the Lovejoy sungrazer in Dec. 2011, but an interesting imaging target is just a few nights away!"

Anemometers are a problem generally Ravelin. Even on my Davis Vantage Pro II with FARS the anemometer is at 2m height so I never refer to what it records as it is basically meaningless and we are surrounded by other houses and trees so even wind direction is problematic due to eddys and vortices. Wind is a function of height and free flow so unless you can achieve and define that don't fret. For precipitation and temperature/dew point it should be fine and of good quality as I suspect it will be German manufactured.

Minimum last night +4.1C with a heavy rain burst at 04.00-04.15 (max. rate at 04.07 was12.88mm/hr) giving 2.0mm. Chilly and sunny just now at +4.7C.

Not looking good for "the comet of the century": COMET ISON--UPDATE: New images from SOHO show something emerging from behind the sun. It could be a small fragment of Comet ISON's nucleus or perhaps a "headless comet"--a stream of debris marking the remains of the comet's disintegrated core. Watch the movie and stay tuned for updates.

Looking forward to temperature/dew points from Luncarty EDO.

For anyone interested in a simple weather station (Edodfc) check out Lidl available from Monday 2nd: http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/SID-9BCE2049-39BDA8B5/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=7804

And might I add EDO when you are bringing her Ritalin script along to Boots don't tell me that your friendly Kilted Thread Pharmacist hasn't warned you over several winters ...

Oh dear denial is setting in - a very bad sign indeed.

Minimum last night was +5.9C at 06.03. Maximum today 13.0C at 12.56. Currently 8.8C (-0.4C/hr).

I have been in the JFK - fifty years on Serious Discussion Thread all day and I am having my eyes opened on a subject I thought I knew well. I have a whole new area of study just opened up for me. I definitely will have to retire early.

Quite correct Lorenzo, I just have a very twisted nature when the Models and current weather aren't delivering!

Scrub my earlier report for today's Maximum of 7.8C as it is now 8.7C (+1.4C/hour) and I have had to re-expand my Temperatre Graph y-axis up to 10C!

Yes please!

Would an economic dust bowl following an Independence winter be an appropriate weather related comment Lorenzo, cough, cough, blush!

Maximum today a balmy 7.8C with 1.8mm of rain. Skies brightening now and currently 7.4C.

I'll not mention Royal Bank of Scotland then!

Here is the 670 page Document on Scottish Independence published this morning "Scotland's Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland": http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00439021.pdf Much as I despise Perfidious Albion I think there is strength in numbers especially in the dire economic crisis that stretches ahead further than the eye can see.

One for the Geographers - which ONE Textbook would you recommend for a Masterclass on the Computer Models. I have "The Atmosphere" 9th Ed. Lutgens and Tarbuck but it is 2004 and has no material on the Models or their interpretation. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Atmosphere-An-Introduction-Meteorology/dp/0131015672/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1385465052&sr=8-5&keywords=the+atmosphere+lutgens+and+tarbuck